PAPNM members Diane Stoffel and Katy Korkos, who manage Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, announce the opening of the exhibit “Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits,” September 18-October 18. 

Please come see the show which includes self-portraits by PAPNM members: Wendy Ahlm, Phyllis Gunderson, Marcia Williams, Lee Ann Costello, Rachel Pearson, Diane Stoffel, and Katy Korkos. Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite self-portrait. People’s Choice Awards will be presented at the closing reception at 2:00-3:30pm on Saturday, October 18 at Step Up Gallery, 2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos. 

     

Step Up Gallery Managers

Here’s a link to the September 19th edition of Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo Magazine: 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/exhibition-at-los-alamos-gallery-exhorts-artists-to-look-within/article_25fca914-b33d-4837-afac-e47195bb4f57.html

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Step Up Gallery manager Diane Stoffel conceived of Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits as a way to inspire artists to gaze within during an era of stress-intensifying overstimulation.

“It goes along with the political climate right now, because I wanted people to look at themselves and discover their own courage,” she says. “I think it’s necessary for us to put the brakes on what’s going on politically and find our own morals, find our own strengths, and eventually find the courage to do something about it, to speak out. I was thinking of reality TV and how people are sort of voyeurs, and that’s how they entertain themselves. I don’t know how much introspection goes on anymore.”

Stoffel didn’t seek to showcase works specifically by female artists, but it certainly worked out that way: Only three of the 51 featured artists are men. As a result, Projection and Confession serves as a glimpse into a collective New Mexico female psyche, reflected not just in standard portraits but in fiber arts and even a gargoyle head. Stoffel aims to offer a different slate of exhibitions each summer; this is the first featuring self-portraits."