Patina Gallery’s Street Side 2010 opening and show to benefit Santa Fe International Folk Art Market

Thursday, June 10, 2010
Posted by: Folk Art Market

To launch their StreetSide 2010 exhibit, Santa Fe’s Patina Gallery is holding an opening reception that’s also a fundraiser for the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.

The reception, one of the International Folk Arts Week events, will begin at 5pm on Thursday July 8th, to coincide with the Market’s opening event on the Plaza.

The StreetSide exhibit features travel-themed folk art from the collections of Peggy Gaustad and Stuart Ashman, Barbara and John Berkenfield, Julie Payne and Steve Luckman, and Maureen Russell. All the collectors will be attending the reception.

In addition, a percentage of all gallery sales at Patina from June 1 through July 30 will be donated to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market (be sure to mention the Market when you purchase).

Or you can support the Market by making an online purchase before August 1.

Julie Payne, who with Steve Luckman is contributing two pieces to the show including an ornately painted Pakistani truck, explains her love of folk art: ‘It is more visceral. In some places where there is great folk art, there is also great poverty and so artists must use the limited things that are available to them, to express their ideas. There is such an authenticity to the work.’

More information about the collectors’ and their work on show is available in the Patina Gallery press release here.

Patina Gallery, founded over 10 years ago by artists Allison and Ivan Barnett, exhibits more than 100 leading American and European artists working in clay, fiber, wood and studio jewelry. Patina is a World Sponsor of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.

> You can learn more about the full schedule of Folk Arts Week events here.