Linda Durham Contemporary Art at 1101 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico is pleased to announce our inaugural autumn 2008 exhibitions: Stacey Neff / Mikrokosmos and Richard Hogan / New Paintings.Both shows will open with a public reception for the artists on Friday, September 19 and run through October 18.

Stacey Neff is an innovative glass sculptor. Her forms range from those one might encounter in deep space to those one might find under a powerful microscope. Star seeds. Undulating organic forms. Her works hang and climb and drip. “Is that really glass?”one might ask--since the translucence or opacity tend to fool the eye into thinking clay or bronze or even wood. One opalescent work in this show  “Valentine for Stephen Hawking” curls in on itself, like the smooth middle section of a boa constrictor. Neff wrote to Hawking, whom she admires (of course) and eventually began a short but intriguing correspondence with his staff and eventually with him.
 
Stacey Neff was born in New Jersey and raised in California. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. She is the recipient of a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Her work can be found in numerous corporate, public and private collections. Currently a major Star Seed sculpture is on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Richard Hogan is a nationally recognized and internationally collected painter. He has exhibited with LDCA for thirty years. These new works advance his decades-long exploration of the subtle and profound issues of color and geometry. In these ongoing, meticulous and unique interpretations of the relationships of abstract shapes, Hogan delivers clarity and elegance to western contemporary abstraction. This recent body of work concentrates on broken forms in dense color, on rich and painterly grounds. New York critic, Jonathan Goodman, states:  “…the content of Hogan’s work is more lyrical than theoretically Minimalist.
The poetic presence of the works is compelling.”

Richard Hogan was born in Ohio in 1941. He paints in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he has lived since he was in high school. He is widely traveled and widely read. His works echo the results of the travel and reading.  Linda Durham writes: “ With attention, one can see in Richard Hogan’s paintings subtle and implied references to Eastern Orthodox icons, Asian calligraphy, ancient cave paintings and pictographs, Egyptian images and even 1960’s graffiti---all reduced and nuanced and presented with a kind of attention to everything that still, after all these years, astonishes me.”  Mr. Hogan has been represented by this
gallery since 1978.