Tamarind Presents ‘fast forward: four for the future’

“fast for­ward: four for the future” opens Fri­day, Jan. 21 at Tamarind Institute.

“fast for­ward: four for the future” opens Fri­day, Jan. 21, at Tamarind Insti­tute. An open­ing recep­tion, free and open to the pub­lic, will be held 5–7 p.m. in the Tamarind Gallery. The exhibit will fea­tures works by Anna Hep­ler, Fay Ku, Mark Licari and Ethan Mur­row. Recent Tamarind lith­o­graphs by all four artists will be dis­played along­side works pro­duced in their own stu­dios. The exhibit con­tin­ues through March 4.

“For the past year we have been cel­e­brat­ing Tamarind’s 50th anniver­sary and look­ing back at all that has been accom­plished. With the new year and a new build­ing, it is time to move for­ward. We have an excit­ing exhi­bi­tion sched­ule for our beau­ti­ful new gallery space, the June Wayne Gallery,” Gallery Direc­tor Arif Khan said.

Hep­ler, from Port­land, Maine, cre­ates prints, draw­ings and three-dimensional instal­la­tions focused on her inter­est in pat­terns found in nature. She is cur­rently par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Pro­gram. fast for­ward marks the first pub­lic view­ing of her lat­est lith­o­graphs pro­duced at Tamarind, along with three-dimensional paper pieces from her “Inflat­a­bles” series.

Ku, from Brook­lyn, N.Y., draws on her per­sonal and cul­tural his­tory, cre­at­ing large scale draw­ings and paint­ings on paper that jux­ta­pose a del­i­cate touch with nar­ra­tive insight. Her char­ac­ters explore the flu­id­ity of iden­tity – sex­ual, cul­tural, per­sonal and polit­i­cal – and the ambi­gu­ity in rela­tion­ships. Exam­ples of her graphite/watercolors will be shown with the two lith­o­graphs she pro­duced at Tamarind in 2009.

Licari, from Los Ange­les, Calif., works with water­color, acrylic paint, print­mak­ing and wall draw­ings, explor­ing land­scapes and inte­ri­ors pop­u­lated by ani­mal, botan­i­cal and every­day objects that form eccen­tric vari­a­tions on the famil­iar nat­ural world. Licari will pro­duce a site-specific wall draw­ing in Tamarind’s June Wayne gallery to com­ple­ment the three lith­o­graphs he pro­duced at Tamarind in 2008.

Mur­row, from Boston, Mass., does large-scale, real­is­tic draw­ings and video/film that blur the line between fact and fic­tion and explore the del­i­cate bal­ance between suc­cess and fail­ure. In addi­tion to his three Tamarind lith­o­graphs, Murrow’s short film “Dust,” selected for the New York Film Fes­ti­val, will be shown.

Tamarind Insti­tute, a divi­sion of the Col­lege of Fine Arts at UNM, is a non­profit cen­ter for fine art lith­o­g­ra­phy that trains mas­ter print­ers and houses a pro­fes­sional col­lab­o­ra­tive stu­dio for artists. Founded in 1960 in Los Ange­les, Tamarind played a sig­nif­i­cant role in reviv­ing the art of lith­o­g­ra­phy in the United States and con­tin­ues to pro­vide pro­fes­sional train­ing and artis­tic oppor­tu­ni­ties. Call (505) 277‑3901 or e-mail tamarind@unm.edu.

Media Con­tact: Shelly Smith (505) 277‑3792; e-mail: sjsmith@unm.edu