Craig Varjabedian's photographs, made over the nearly
three decades that he has lived and worked in New Mexico, range over
all the image-making forms--landscape, portrait, and still life--to
offer a remarkably complete, varied and original portrait of New
Mexico. Fittingly, the photographs celebrate the hundred years of New
Mexico’s statehood begun in 1912. Our show coincides with the debut of
his newest book Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Varjabedian's work has been collected by a number of museums, and he has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the McCune Charitable Foundation. A few years ago the prestigious Meadows Museum in Dallas presented a one-person show of his photography. Born in Canada in 1957, he lives in Santa Fe. “I feel that land and people form relationships, and when I take a photograph, I’m forming a relationship, both with the subject of my picture (be it tree, cloud, building, or person) and the environment around the subject,” explains Varjabedian. “Nowadays, when I photograph I feel I’m creating an homage to the West, its land, and its people. The light and sky are spectacular, but the people who live here also affirm the strength, endurance, and magic of this place.” |
Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait $50.00 + $12.00 shipping. Elegant 11 x 11 inch coffee table book; 90 plates, autographed. |