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December 1st, 2011

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Reverb Sculpture Show at The Tan

November 30th, 2011

A group gallery exhibit at The Tan, featuring the sculptural work of local artists. Reverb references an acoustical phenomenon in which parallel surfaces produce sound waves that encounter each other head on, at directly opposing angles. These waves either cancel each other out in a flattening effect or merge to form mega waves.

This acoustic structure has been used as an entry point for this exhibit. Artists have created sculptures that address, respond, and build on one another in mappable trajectories throughout the gallery space. These connections have been generated through materials, form, and spatial relationship, and challenge the viewers to trace the resonating dialogue between sculptures.

Artists Featured: Chuck Cook, Brandon Eagan, Brittney Herpolsheimer, Crystal Kralian, Cortez Lovato, Jodi McCauley, Norma Ortega, Sara Rivera, Rob Rix, Eso Robinson

Show runs through December 19th with open hours Fridays and Satudays

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13 Hour Jenny Live AND In-Person

November 25th, 2011

13 Hour Jenny is Live and Streaming Now:

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13 Hour Jenny

November 25th, 2011

On Black Friday, November 25, 2011, Jenny Hipscher will attempt to fling herself out of an itchy basket of gloom and fears into a bigger basket of unknown outcomes in a 13 hour interactive performance of sorts at the Tan Gallery in Albuquerque. Inspired by the Occupy movement (among other things), Jenny has been wondering about the space and time she occupies and what occupies her time and space and if you’re wondering about that too and also if you’d like to occupy her time and share a space and maybe feather dust an alternate universe for a minute or two…Sign up for a time slot at: http://thetan.andrewtlyman.com/jenny/

As “spectators,” you can come and go as you please, but if you sign up, you have to keep your appointment! ***OVERLAPS ARE A POSSIBILITY, so even if all the time slots seem to be filled, they’re not! Sign up for any amount of time (1 minute, 2 hours) and bring and/or do ANYTHING. “Punch in” at your time slot and use your time however you want…or just bring yourself and see what happens.

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ABQZine Fest

September 29th, 2011

I’m in the paper. Come support, rant, and rave with the first ever: ABQZineFest this weekend: September 30 – October 2. NaDA will be there Saturday with 2 new zines! Bands! No.2, and a short collection by Paul Skenazy. There will be workshops, events, and a thrilling Zine Olympics. So c’mon Albuquerque, I know you won’t all be up in the balloons.

Alibi Article on the ZineFest

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The Retirn of Hairy Three-Legged Egg Things

September 6th, 2011

Ages ago I posted the above on an old site that I ran. I called it the Hairy Three-Legged Lopsided Egg-Looking Thing or HTLLELT. It was simply a terrible drawing by one of our friends that we had discovered in an old pad of newsprint. It was supposed to be a sketch for a sculpture that they intended to make out of cooked pasta, hot glue, and tinfoil (I was confused as well). Anyway, it cracked us up so I posted it it. Nothing much. However, years later I got this e-mail out of the blue:

Hello, my name is XXXXX XXXXXXXX. i was wondering whether or not this drawing of a htllelt actually depicts a real creature. above all of the absurdities of my inquiring about something that seems so easily made to be an obvious joke, i will tell you why i even bothered writing this message. Four years ago in Fairhaven MA, three 15 year old boys were playing down near the water surrounding fort phoenix, when a black, and hairy basketball shaped creature, actually emerged out of the tall grass on three very long, stick-like black legs, and came running right for them. Before entering the water this creature paused and screamed at them in a most highly disturbing wrech, and then continued for the water. I researched this for them a little bit and the only things that come even close are an ancient mythical bird creature called the Yatagarasu, said to roam streams and waters in japan. I was just wondering, because two of the kids in the story ive just told you happen to be good friends of mine, who revere the “Thing” themselves with great authenticity. The thing they said was most creepy about it, was the way that it angled itself before diving into the water. It shot upwards and forwards in two straight lines, and never resurfaced. so i just wanted to know, Is this Drawing, of something real? or was it just a drawing.

I responded to inform this person that I, regrettably, had no information and that it was just a dumb drawing. I never heard back after that. I have no information about this person, and obviously can’t attest to their credibility or possible motivation in relating this story, but it certainly intrigued me nonetheless.

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Flyers From Another Planet

September 1st, 2011

The Tan needs you!

Flyers From Another Planet

Flyers From Another Planet, will ask hundreds of artists (and good plain folk) from all over existence to create original and visionary flyers for shows, events, bands, and lost dogs that don’t exist.

The gallery space of The Tan will be filled with 9″ diameter utility poles floor to (11ft) ceiling. The poles will get covered in flyers and guests will wander the weird forest marveling at the many world(s) that could be.
And we want YOU! Send us a flyer from your dreams: bands from an alien world, the party you’ve always wanted to throw, the community announcement from Hell. . . There are absolutely NO restrictions on form, content, or materials. Make the coolest flyer you’ve never seen!

If you would like to submit a flyer, please do. Mail flyers to:
the Tan
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM 87104

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Announcing: the Tan

September 1st, 2011

What’s Normal these days? Announcing the Tan! Taking up the same amount of space that used to be considered Normal (that used to be called a Donkey). 1415 4th St. SW down across from Barelas Coffee House (or McDonalds if that’s more your speed). A block North of Ceasar Chavez.

The Tan is my new gallery space/book front that is now alive and kicking. Check the site for upcoming shows and events.

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Due Return Set to Set Sail

May 10th, 2011

The Meow Wolf Due Return is just about ready to set sail this week. The long awaited opening will be the Friday, June 13th at 5 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM. This is one of the most impressive installations I’ve ever seen and I am honored to have been involved (in however small a capacity). We’ve been building, wiring, gluing, painting, hauling, and sawing for almost two months now. Come explore another world right here on our own. Show will be up through July 10.

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Fun-A-Day Roundup

February 17th, 2011

For those who weren’t there, the opening was a smash. We were pretty much packed to the gills till midnight. I suppose that’s what you get when you have 31 artists included in a show. 31 artists with roughly 31 pieces each, so over 900 pieces of art in that space. It was a glowing evening of good-vibes and vibrant colors.

If you’d like to see more of the show check out Bethany DeLahunt’s photos here: You Are So Great. Bethany was also a participant in the show (she did the Failed Calendar which did well to cheer up those who were down on themselves from not getting their shit together).

A Full list of participants (in absolutely no order) is as follows so they can google themselves and have this (at least) show up: Ali Pate, Lauren Kostelnick. Andrew Lyman, Sarah Skenazy, Martha McGinnis, Ben Wood, Bradford Erickson, Bethany DeLahunt. David Cudney, Avery Kapala, Eva Avenue. Liza Bley. Andy Keane, Reina Patrick, Janice Kostelnick, Maggie Siebert, Robin McClannahan, Seth Matlick, Shantal DuBois, Alex Martin, Sofia Eleftheriou, Stacey Heim, John Abbott, Ivy Anna Costello, Stephanie Galloway, Eli Wentzel-Fisher, Justine Maldonado, Jenny Hipscher, Rich Kaplan, Chris Molla, and Jessica Hayden.

Thanks everyone. Hope to see you and more next year.

Bethany DeLahunt’s Photos from the Opening

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