Past Exhibitions

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Afton Love

September 15 - October 21, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 5:30-7 pm
with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Afton Love’s practice develops out of an intimate interaction with her geographic surroundings, and engages the profound yet subtle geologic changes that occur to a landscape through time. Her practice encompasses multiple media, including drawing, casting, and photography. Her meticulous, detailed drawings record places where she has walked and wandered, and focus on revealed erosion and rock formations.
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Parallax: A RAiR Connection

July 7 - September 2, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday July 20, 5-7 pm
Marshall and Winston Gallery

Since its inception in 1967, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program has provided more than 200 artists with the Gift of Time. Yet its influence extends far beyond its immediate grant recipients. The spouses, partners and family members who accompany grant recipients to Roswell have also benefitted from RAiR and its generous artistic community. Several partners of RAiR artists have been provided with their own studios, for instance, while others have recognized the year-long grant as an opportunity to create new work. While these artists may not always receive as much public attention as grant recipients, their creative practices are equally diverse and merit consideration. On view this summer, Parallax: A RAiR Connection Exhibition explores some of the program’s extended artistic connections by featuring the work of three artists: Emi Ozawa, Justin Richel and Maja Ruznic. Each artist is the partner of a current or former RAiR, and has an equally accomplished artistic practice. From painting to sculpture, wall installations to drawing, these three artists have highly distinct aesthetics, but all have been inspired by the Gift of Time.

Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth & Peter Hurd, A Retrospective

June 16 - September 16, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday June 15, 5-7pm
Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry and Spring River Galleries

Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd are two of southeastern New Mexico’s most significant and beloved artists. Born and raised in Roswell, Hurd studied art with renowned illustrator N.C. Wyeth during the 1920s in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In 1929, Hurd married N.C.’s eldest daughter, fellow artist Henriette, and the two eventually settled west of Roswell in San Patricio. Hurd became renowned for his luminous egg tempera landscapes and portraits capturing the arid beauty of southeast New Mexico, while Wyeth focused on still life and portraiture, creating paintings that showcased her technical skills as a painter as well as her poetic sensibilities. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Louise Deroualle

May 12 - June 24, 2018
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 11, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Gallery

Louise Deroualle uses ceramic materials to create formal abstractions that reveal different physical, experiential and emotional facets of herself. Her work is influenced by the cultural experiences to which she has been exposed—from her upbringing in Brazil to her studies and residence in the United States—and the way those interactions build her identity. She subverts the traditional order of layering glazes over slips and utilizes the fluidity of the glaze layer underneath as a symbol of her inner world of emotions as well as her cultural identity. Read more

Peter Hurd on Paper

February 24 - August 12, 2018
Horgan and Graphics Gallery

Peter Hurd is renowned for his luminous egg tempera paintings, but his works on paper form another important and substantial body of work. Over the course of his career, Hurd produced finished watercolor paintings, numerous studies in preparation for larger works, and informal sketches of landscapes and people. Some of his earliest surviving watercolors date from the 1920s, and beginning in the 1930s he created pen and ink wash studies for lithographs, as well as charcoal cartoons for murals. Read more

Staff Favorites

April 14 - May 13, 2018
Spring River Gallery

Visitors to the Roswell Museum and Art Center all have their favorite works in the collection. Whether it’s Ram’s Skull with Brown Leaves by Georgia O’ Keeffe, the rare Naskapi coat in the Aston Collection of the American West, or the vintage equipment in the Goddard workshop, we all have objects that we love to visit again and again. Have you ever wondered, however, which pieces the staff like the most? As the people who get to work with this collection every day, which treasures from the vaults do we especially enjoy, and why? Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Julie Alpert

March 17 - April 29, 2018
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 16, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Julie Alpert modifies and arranges craft materials and found-objects in temporary room-size compositions that become frozen records of her private performance. After it is completed, she documents and de-installs it until, as she describes it, “nothing remains but the photographs and a pile of broken and tattered materials, like the sad detritus of an epic celebration the night before.” She also makes drawings and sculptural works on paper that help her discover new forms and color combinations for future installations. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Conor Fagan

January 20 - March 4, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Current Roswell Artist-in-Residence Conor Fagan paints imaginary landscapes in a naturalistic style, creating invented worlds and environments that appear fantastical yet realistic. Drawing on his history as a realist in all its forms and techniques, he creates images that suggest a place, thing or ecosystem, but have no real identity. Often painted in bright colors and featuring abstract forms reminiscent of bubbles, hills and other objects, Read more.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Rachel Grobstein

November 18, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 5:30-7 pm
with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Rachel Grobstein’s labor-intensive process of miniature painting and sculpture is intended to create intimacy and slow down the act of seeing by representing objects that are commonly overlooked. She often installs her work directly onto the wall with pins, creating a subtle architecture of shadows and playfully referencing natural specimens. Recent work takes the form of visual inventories, suggesting the pathos of creating order from fragments of endless lists. Read more.

Pennsylvania Impressionists

November 10, 2017 - May 31, 2018

Founders Gallery

Drawn from the Michener’s permanent collection, this selection highlights fifteen works by some of Pennsylvania’s most renowned Impressionist painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including John Folinsbee, Edward W. Redfield, Fern Coppedge, and more. From springtime meadows to the snow-covered river scenes, this exhibition has a landscape for every season. Since these works rarely travel to the western United States, visitors will have an unusual opportunity to explore regional painting traditions from another part of the country. Read more

RAiR at 50

October 6, 2017 - April 6, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 5-7 pm
Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry, Russell Vernon Hunter, and Spring River Galleries

In celebration of RAiR’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition invites alumni of the program to share their recent art with the Roswell community. With more than 170 participants submitting new work, this show will occupy most of the Museum’s galleries, emphasizing the grant’s impressive scope. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about RAiR’s many recipients while discovering how their work has continued to evolve since their time with the program. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Shanti Grumbine

July 29-September 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Shanti Grumbine is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist. For the past six years, she has been transforming appropriated print media through paper cutting, collage, sculpture and printmaking with a focus on how value systems are created and maintained. By removing, fracturing and scrambling text and image from journalistic sources and advertising, she makes space for what has been censored or lost in the translation of experience into words.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Andrea Jespersen

July 29-September 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

An embroidery ring morphs into large geometric heavy steel shapes. A wet human-sized photographic print is draped into a sculptural sphere. The intricate work of artist Andrea Jespersen resists any quick singular categorization. She astutely works with a multitude of materials, techniques and mediums that act as support for her ideas. Read more.

50 Years of RAiR:

Works from the
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program

May 27, 2017 - February 12 2018
Horgan and Graphics Galleries

For fifty years, the Roswell Artist-in-Residency Program has empowered artists by enabling them to focus exclusively on their creative practices. Established in 1967 by oil businessman, philanthropist and artist Donald B. Anderson, the RAiR grant offers its recipients "the gift of time" by providing the housing, studio space, and income that gives artists and personal and financial freedom to concentrate on their own art for a year. Read more

Collecting Roswell: The Donors of RMAC

March 17-September 10, 2017

Entry Gallery

The collections of the Roswell Museum and Art Center are renowned for their quality and diversity, but the donors who have shared these works with the community also deserve recognition. In anticipation of RMAC's 80th anniversary in October, this exhibit celebrates some of the major donors who have contributed to the formation of the Museum's core holdings, and features selections from the Southwest art collection, the Robert H. Goddard Collection, and the Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence

Claudia Bitran: Titanic-A Deep Emotion

February 10-March 26, 2017

Marshall and Winston Gallery

For two years Claudia Bitran, New York-based artist and filmmaker, has been remaking James Cameron's Titanic (1997) with practically no budget. She has already shot three-quarters of the film, using recycled materials from her immediate surroundings, and collaborating with over 400 artists, actors and a variety of communities in public spaces in twelve different cities across the United States. Read more

Power: New Works by David Emitt Adams

January 13 - May 28, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 5-7 pm
Spring River Gallery

Based in Arizona, photographer David Emitt Adams explores the sense of place through his use of tintype, an early form of photography developed in the 19th century. Rather than use conventional paper, Adams prints his images on cans, scrap metal, and other detritus found in the landscapes he photographs, blurring the distinction between image and object. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence

Beverly Acha: Mutualities

December

16, 2016-January 29, 2017

Marshall and Winston Gallery

Beverly Acha's paintings encompass technology, science, nature, the cosmos, and human experience: "My paintings arise from a desire to connect with my own physicality. When I paint, I connect to a non-verbal, sensory understanding of my experience. The materiality of paint, surfaces I prepare, and haptic memories feed my process....I aim for the materiality of my work and its forms to activate the viewer's senses and to engage their awareness of nature, space, time, and scale." Read more

Roderick Mead: Looking Between the Lines

December 3, 2016-February 12, 2017
Horgan and Graphics Galleries

This exhibit showcases prints and paintings by innovative Carlsbad artist Roderick Mead (19001-1971), a recent bequest from the Marilyn T. Joyce Trust. Originally from New Jersey, Mead reached his artistic maturity in 1930s Paris while working at avant-garde printmaking workshop Atelier 17. After returning to the United States in 1939, Mead eventually settled with his family in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he continued to produce paintings and prints. RMAC is excited to have this generous bequest from the Marilyn T. Joyce Trust, and is eager to share it with visitors. Read more

Bravo/Grande: Zeke Pena

October 28, 2016-March 5, 2017

Entry Gallery

Bravo/Grande is an interdisciplinary exhibit that examines the relationship between regional communities and the Rio Grande River through site-responsive art projects. Through community engagement and collaboration, the project studies generational and binational trends in access, use and perception by documenting oral and written stories from the community. Bravo/Grande also explores the effects of immigration policy, increased militarization, and U.S./Mexico relations on these trends. Read more

Duty, Honor, Art:
The New Mexico Military Institute Collection

September 20, 2016-July 2, 2017 (extended)
Hunter Gallery

Founded in 1891, the New Mexico Military Institute is one of Roswell’s oldest and most significant educational institutions, representing the only state-supported military high school and two-year college in the western United States. NMMI also has its own notable collection of art and historical objects, encompassing works created by both faculty and alumni, prominent southwestern artists such as Laura Gilpin and Kenneth Miller Adams, and international artists. Read more

The Art of the Book

September 9 - December 31, 2016
Spring River Gallery

When we think of a book, chances are we imagine an object containing written text, but it is also a versatile and often personal art form. The Art of the Book explores the diverse world of contemporary book arts in New Mexico, and features work from around the state. From traditional codices to handmade dresses and freestanding sculpture, the pieces on view in this eclectic exhibit celebrate the book as both form and idea.

Billy Schenck's West: A Retrospective

April 1-September 18, 2016
Hunter Gallery

Channeling the bright colors and ironic undertones of such Pop artists as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, the paintings and serigraphs of Billy Schenck incorporate film stills, pulp novel covers, and other media in order to simultaneously celebrate and critique iconic western imagery. Drawn from the artist’s personal collection, this retrospective examines Schenck’s ongoing artistic interaction with the American West.
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Currents: New Media New Mexico

May 24-August 14, 2016
Spring River Gallery

Currents is an annual festival of new media art that occurs in Santa Fe each June. New Media New Mexico continues the collaboration that Currents initiated with the RMAC in 2015. This year’s selection features sculptural installations, videos, phone apps, and interactive pieces that relate to both the Museum’s collection and Roswell itself, addressing topics as varied as Native American culture and the infamous UFO incident of 1947. Read more

Fresh Air: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction

May 24 - July 24, 2016

When we consider abstract art, we tend to imagine nonrepresentational works, but abstraction applies to all art. Abstractions, after all, are ideas, and what are works of art themselves but ideas, and distinctly human interpretations of the world around us? This exhibit explores the concept of abstraction in the 20th century through an eclectic grouping of photographs, prints, and even scientific blueprints, underscoring the depth and variety of the RMAC’s works on paper collection. Read more

New Mexico Vernacular: Architectural Portraits by Robert Christensen

January 29-May 29, 2016

Belen-based photographer Robert Christensen has been capturing New Mexico’s vernacular architecture for more than four decades, seeking out the coffee houses, gas stations, and other structures that motorists often pass, but seldom stop to consider more closely. For him, these unassuming buildings resonate with meaning, becoming rich repositories for personal and regional histories. Read more

Signe Stuart: Fifteen

October 2, 2015 - March 20, 2016
Hunter Gallery

For more than five decades, Signe Stuart has explored the interconnectedness of materiality and immateriality through her art. Whether she is creating abstract paintings, works on paper, mixed media constructions, or installations, Stuart’s work originates from the patterns and textures of this world, but her subjects are intangible in nature, dealing with essences rather than the appearance of things. Read more

Guitars from Club Muse

August 22 – January 17, 2016
Spring River Gallery

From the acoustic rhythms of folk music to the electric anthems of stadium rock, the guitar has an uncanny ability to accommodate creativity and personal expression. In addition to its sonic contributions, the guitar has played an important role in visual art for centuries, from its appearances in seventeenth-century genre scenes to Picasso’s cubist paintings. In the case of artist Roger Sweet, however, guitars not only inspire art, but become the art itself. Read more

William Masterson's Untitled Work

What’s in a name, or in this case, the lack of one? Titles can provide important information about a work of art, whether it’s the identity of a sitter for a portrait, the name of a painting’s location, or a mood or feeling that the artist wishes to evoke. Yet the absence of a name, the decision to call a work Untitled, can be equally suggestive. In some cases, the original name has been lost over time, but in other instances, the absence of a name is a deliberate choice made by the artist, encouraging viewers to seek out their own interpretations. Read more

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Nicholas Frederick

“I use ordinary materials that have a certain humanity about them in order, hopefully, to explore my tenuous, uncertain, mysterious, and sometimes absurd relationship to my surroundings, seen and unseen. I am interested in both a humble physicality and a transcendence of the quotidian. I have a mystic vision of the universe that is just beyond reason, and it is in this zone that I believe my work best functions. I want to express the spiritual with the hands of a sheetrock installer.” Read more

Tamarind: Teaming Up

March 22, 2015

As one of the most prominent active lithography workshops in the United States today, Tamarind Institute, located at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, has been innovating lithography for over five decades by embracing a collaborative approach to printmaking. In addition to training new master printers, Tamarind invites world-renowned artists to team up with its printers and work on projects that explore the expressive possibilities of lithography. Read more

Past Exhibitions

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Afton Love

September 15 - October 21, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Parallax: A RAiR Connection

July 7 - September 2, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday July 20, 5-7 pm Marshall and Winston Gallery

Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth & Peter Hurd, A Retrospective

June 16 - September 16, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday June 15, 5-7pm Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry and Spring River Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Louise Deroualle

May 12 - June 24, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Gallery

Peter Hurd on Paper

February 24 - August 12, 2018 Horgan and Graphics Gallery

Staff Favorites

April 14 - May 13, 2018 Spring River Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Julie Alpert

March 17 - April 29, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Conor Fagan

January 20 - March 4, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Rachel Grobstein

November 18, 2017 - January 7, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Pennsylvania Impressionists

November 10, 2017 - May 31, 2018

Founders Gallery

RAiR at 50

October 6, 2017 - April 6, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 5-7 pm Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry, Russell Vernon Hunter, and Spring River Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Shanti Grumbine

July 29-September 10, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Dorothy Peterson: Painting New Mexico

June 9-September 17, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, June 9, 5-7 pm Spring River Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Andrea Jespersen

July 29-September 10, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

50 Years of RAiR:

Works from the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program

May 27, 2017 - February 12 2018 Horgan and Graphics Galleries

Collecting Roswell: The Donors of RMAC

March 17-September 10, 2017

Entry Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Ben Woodeson

June 3-July 16, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, June 2, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm Marshall and Winston Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Jeff Kreuger: Failure is an Option

April 8 - May 21, 2017 Marshall and Winston Gallery

Consistent Variety: The Art of Silkscreen

February 24-May 14, 2017 Marshall and Winston Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence

Claudia Bitran: Titanic-A Deep Emotion

February 10-March 26, 2017

Marshall and Winston Gallery

Power: New Works by David Emitt Adams

January 13 - May 28, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 5-7 pm Spring River Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence

Beverly Acha: Mutualities

December

16, 2016-January 29, 2017

Marshall and Winston Gallery

Roderick Mead: Looking Between the Lines

December 3, 2016-February 12, 2017 Horgan and Graphics Galleries

Art & Environment

2013 - August 2017 Patricia Gaylord Anderson Gallery

Bravo/Grande: Zeke Pena

October 28, 2016-March 5, 2017

Entry Gallery

Duty, Honor, Art: The New Mexico Military Institute Collection

September 20, 2016-July 2, 2017 (extended) Hunter Gallery

The Art of the Book

September 9 - December 31, 2016 Spring River Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Shannon Rankin

October 14-December 4, 2016 Marshall and Winston Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Cate White

July 29-October 2, 2016 Marshall Winston Gallery

Beyond American Indian Modernism July 1 - October 18, 2016 Entry Gallery

Billy Schenck's West: A Retrospective

April 1-September 18, 2016 Hunter Gallery

Currents: New Media New Mexico

May 24-August 14, 2016 Spring River Gallery

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Luis Sahagun

May 6-July 24, 2016 Marshall and Winston Gallery

Fresh Air: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction

May 24 - July 24, 2016

Native Abstraction: Howard Cook's Study of Native American Practice and Ritual

March 11 - June 19, 2016

Roswell Artist-in-Residence: Kenny Rivero

September 15 - October 21, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 5:30-7 pm
with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

July 7 - September 2, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday July 20, 5-7 pm
Marshall and Winston Gallery

June 16 - September 16, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday June 15, 5-7pm
Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry and Spring River Galleries

May 12 - June 24, 2018
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 11, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Gallery

February 24 - August 12, 2018
Horgan and Graphics Gallery

April 14 - May 13, 2018
Spring River Gallery

March 17 - April 29, 2018
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 16, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

January 20 - March 4, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

November 18, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 5:30-7 pm
with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

October 6, 2017 - April 6, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 5-7 pm
Patricia Gaylord Anderson, Entry, Russell Vernon Hunter, and Spring River Galleries

July 29-September 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

June 9-September 17, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, June 9, 5-7 pm
Spring River Gallery

July 29-September 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 28, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Works from the
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program

May 27, 2017 - February 12 2018
Horgan and Graphics Galleries

June 3-July 16, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, June 2, 5:30-7 pm with artist's lecture at 5:30 pm
Marshall and Winston Galleries

Roswell Artist-in-Residence
Jeff Kreuger: Failure is an Option

April 8 - May 21, 2017
Marshall and Winston Gallery

February 24-May 14, 2017
Marshall and Winston Galleries

January 13 - May 28, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 5-7 pm
Spring River Gallery

December 3, 2016-February 12, 2017
Horgan and Graphics Galleries

2013 - August 2017
Patricia Gaylord Anderson Gallery

Duty, Honor, Art:
The New Mexico Military Institute Collection

September 20, 2016-July 2, 2017 (extended)
Hunter Gallery

September 9 - December 31, 2016
Spring River Gallery

October 14-December 4, 2016
Marshall and Winston Gallery

July 29-October 2, 2016
Marshall Winston Gallery

Beyond American Indian Modernism
July 1 - October 18, 2016
Entry Gallery

April 1-September 18, 2016
Hunter Gallery

May 24-August 14, 2016
Spring River Gallery

May 6-July 24, 2016
Marshall and Winston Gallery

October 2, 2015 - March 20, 2016
Hunter Gallery

January 15 - February 28, 2016
Marshall and Winston Gallery

November 6, 2015 - February 1, 2016
Horgan and Graphics Galleries

August 22 – January 17, 2016
Spring River Gallery