Steve Phillips: The Playground, Opens Sept 18, runs through Oct 3rd

This September, Wolf Martinez Gallery presents a solo exhibition for Steve Phillips, a contemporary artist, who's work merges impressionism and surrealism. His solo exhibition at Wolf Martinez Gallery, The Playground, opens on Saturday, Sept 18th from 4-7 pm. Phillips utilizes memory, fantasy, experiences, and dreams to capture the psychological universe of childhood from a past era. Phillips employs his imagery throughout his collection The Playground, to address how ordinary objects were transformed into fantasy characters, and used as a portal into an imaginary world. The exhibition approaches the subject of childhood from Phillip's perspective. The Playgrounds imagery is embedded with stories that are amusing, engaging, and reminiscent. The imagery engages the viewers' imagination of a child's physical place in the world, in a time before technology ruled. For example, in The Playground series, boxes are given new life in a child's imagination. Wolf Martinez Gallery Curator Manuel Martinez hopes that the show will provide a portal for viewers into the imaginary world of a child, helping onlookers recall the beautiful strangeness of youth.

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🌈 Thank you Belen 🌈

The Belen, NM Rainbow Art Walk was a great success. We are grateful to our Belen Jente for all of the support and love that they gave to us this past Saturday. There was a great turn out and we really enjoyed collaborating with the Gaze Gallery. Outside of our building was delicious Italian ice by Flamingo Steve's Italian Ice. There were many vendors around Becker Avenue along with the awesome Grid Gallery, Studio 508, Belen Art League and Bug Lights Museum. We will be participating in more events here in the Belen Arts District. Thank you to all who came out to support us, we are very grateful.