Library Articles
Art as a Universal Language, Part 12: Visual Thinking
Pablo Picasso – Guernica Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.-Pablo Picasso Art is important...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 11: How Art Transforms Humanity
Raphaelle Goethals – Currents I Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential…creativity is the power to act.-Ai Weiwei Some of the greatest...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 10: Artists’ Point of View
Walter Robinson, Souvenir, 1996, polychromed wood, 68 x 18 x 4″ Although isolation is the right response in our current environment, social distancing can have an effect on our mental health....
Art as a Universal Language, Part 9: Art Can Make You Happy
Judy Chicago, Resolutions, 2000, counted cross-stitch and embroidery on cotton, 37 x 25.5″ As we find refuge in our homes, we realize “home” means much more than physical shelter—it is our...
May 17 – June 10, 2019 | Fausto Fernandez: Progression Through Colors
Fausto Fernandez has been crossing literal and metaphorical boundaries his entire life. Fernandez grew up between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. He earned his art degree from...
“Karen Yank and Agnes Martin” in the Albuquerque Journal
We received a great review for this exhibition. In the October 7, 2018 edition of the Albuquerque Journal, Wesley Pulkka writes “For Yank the iconic show emblemizes the end of the beginning of...
September 7 – October 1, 2018 | Natalie Christensen: Altering Perspective
September 7 – October 1, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, September 7, 5-7pm Turner Carroll is thrilled to present the first gallery exhibition in Santa Fe, of Natalie Christensen’s...
May 18 – June 6, 2018 | Jamie Brunson & Walter Robinson: Coded Language
May 18-June 6 2018 Opening Reception Friday, May 18, 5-7pm Walter Robinson and Jamie Brunson are two extraordinary artists from the San Francisco Bay area who have recently relocated to Santa...
March 16 – April 4, 2018 | Hung Liu: Women Who Work (In Conjunction with Liu’s Exhibition at National Museum of Women in the Arts)
March 16- April 4, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, March 16, 5-7pm Hung Liu is well known throughout the United States, Europe, and China, for her heart-wrenching imagery of laborers. Liu was trained...
Karen Yank Monumental Sculpture Installation at CNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dedication Ceremony October 10, 2017 3:00-3:30 p.m. West of Student Resource Center (SRC) Lecture & Reception (Comments by Art Historians Tonya Turner Carroll and Wesley Pulkka) October 10, 2017...
Jamie Brunson Interview in Articiple
Jamie Brunson Interview in Articiple July 17 2017 “Painter and mixed-media artist Jamie Brunson is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lived and worked for many years. Jamie...
Nina Tichava Borrowed Landscapes Project
BORROWED LANDSCAPES I’m not exactly sure when I decided to be an abstract painter. There was a transition in art school that developed organically from working with the human figure; I began pushing...
Nina Tichava and Jamie Brunson in Santa Fe Arts Journal: Finding Quiet in Abstraction 23 August 2017
Nina Tichava and Jamie Brunson in Santa Fe Arts Journal Turner Carroll Gallery highlights recent work by two New Mexico-based abstract artists in its show “Nina Tichava and Jamie Brunson: NEW New...
Georges Mazilu: A Survey of Paintings
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Jamie Brunson and Nina Tichava | New New Mexico Abstraction
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Hung Liu – American Dream
hungLiuAmericanDreamJuly2017-new Turner Carroll Gallery Hung Liu American Dream Exhibition features Hung Liu’s most recent paintings. These paintings are based on the Dust-Bowl era photography...
Drew Tal – Silent Worlds
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The Morris Graves Museum | Raphaelle Goethals: Tales of the Land
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Art as a Universal Language, Part 8: Deconstructing the paintings of Romanian Artist Georges Mazilu
Georges Mazilu, La femme jardin Georges Mazilu is one of the first artists we represented at Turner Carroll in the early 1990s, after being introduced to his paintings by fellow Romanian artist...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 7: Why We Should All Be Feminists (Hung Liu, Jamie Brunson, Nina Tichava)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her “We Should All Be Feminists” TED Talk, asserts that every human being has the responsibility to call him- or herself a feminist. She points out that when...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 5: Color as Communication
ROY G BIV ROY G BIV Before there was a written language, color was the universal language of mankind. Prehistoric humans used color to describe every aspect of their lives. Red= blood; orange= fire;
Art as a Universal Language, Part 4: Canary in a Coal Mine
Scott Greene, “FUBAR”, 2007 Antonello da Messina, “Crucifixion”, 1475 National Gallery, London There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past....
Art as a Universal Language, Part 3: How Art Unites World Religions
In Art as a Universal Language, Parts 1 and 2, I address some of the universal visual symbolism artists have used since the beginning of human civilization. Certain symbols have become...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 2: Artist as Historical Storyteller
As I pointed out in Part 1 of this series (Art as a Universal Language, Part 1: Why Understanding Visual Art is Essential), engaging with visual art of different cultures helps us understand our...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 1: Why Understanding Visual Art is Essential
As the owner of Turner Carroll Gallery, I spend a lot of time talking and writing about artwork by the phenomenal artists I represent. Lately, I’ve been consumed by the destruction of some of...
Santa Fe New Mexican-Pasatiempo | Art in Review: “Wanxin Zhang: Warriors of Soul”
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A Conversation with Hung Liu
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