2009: The year of the creative elixirs

Come out, come out, wherever you are!
By the start of the new year you will have consumed enough cookies, champagne, and chile to last you through the winter cold. But have you really tasted enough of the creative elixir?? If you want to get '09 jumping off right, The Harwood is just the place for you - we're ringing in the New Year with three great gallery exhibits:

Friday Jan 2nd from 6 - 8 pm (in conjunction with First Friday ArtsCrawl)
San Francisco based artists Mati Rose McDonough and Hugh D'Andrade bring you "The Monster Under the Bed;"
Local artistSan Pedro de Burque brings you "Sticks and Stones;"
West Mesa High School returns with two galleries worth of artwork for their annual student show.

Want to know a bit more? We think you should...
(1a) Hugh D'Andrade is famously indiscriminate about the uses of his art. It has appeared on book covers, magazine spreads, rock posters, Burning Man paraphernalia, board games, as well as the occasional t-shirt and skateboard. His greatest ambition in life is to project his mental images into the minds of innocent people everywhere. Hugh often steals ideas and color combinations from his wife and fellow artist, Mati McDonough. Their Mission District (San Francisco) home is a frequent gathering spot for artists, dissidents, free-thinkers and revolutionary zealots of all stripes.

(1b) Mati Rose McDonough is an adult who paints like a child. It has taken her 32 years, 2 schools, and approximately 486 paintings to get to this point. Mati is inspired by beauty, truth, lies, urban animals perched up in trees, bits of eavesdropped conversation, young imaginations, faded signs, the ocean, patchwork quilts, ornate iron work, ice cream carts and stories of longing. She admires artists Maira Kalman, Beatriz Milhazes, Margaret Kilgallen, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, the Clayton Brothers, Japanese pop artists, Sienese Painters, and Mexican Retablo artists.

(2) san pedro de burque lives in albuquerque, nm under the orange bridge of the sky, on the black asphalt of the earth's skin, near the wooden shed with a broken bench. he drives a station wagon. artist statement: all things i stated, created, believed, are paradox, contradiction, lie and truth. mixed media.

(3) West Mesa High is a magnet school for Technology and the Contemporary Arts. Click here to view their photos from last year's exhibition.

To learn more about The Harwood's galleries & diverse programming visit us online, visit in person: 1114 7th Street NW, Albuquerque, or call: 505-242-6367.