EXHIBITION EL ZAGUÁN
Navigational Wonder: Transforming Noise into Beauty
Works by Sarah Stark, Liza Hale Doyle, and Jack Stark Dudzik
Historic Santa Fe Foundation (HSFF) will host the exhibition Navigational Wonder: Transforming Noise into Beauty with works by HSFF’s El Zaguán resident artists Sarah Stark and Jack Stark Dudzik, and Liza Hale Doyle. The opening date is September 4, 2020 in HSFF's El Zaguán's sala located at 545 Canyon Road, Suite 2, Santa Fe, NM. The exhibition will continue through September 25, 2020.
The artists are eager to share their work with you in a safe manner! Please call or text 505-470-3210 or email sarahstark@outlook.com to reserve your COVID-safe viewing spot for Friday evening, September 4th or Saturday, September 5th. We will be sharing with up to 4 people at a time with masks throughout the evening and next day. As well, we will take reservations through the month of September for evenings and weekends. The exhibition is open and will be online at historicsantafe.org soon.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
“Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.” -- C. S. Lewis
Navigational Wonder is a collaborative installation of wood sculpture, painting, and verse. It includes invitations to explore in the mind—to remember, for example, what it feels like to walk barefooted in sand. The installation reminds us of the choices we experience every day in a new time. The setting is now: September 2020. There is chaos all around, and more to come, but we have the abiding invitation to navigate with wonder and to transform the noise into beauty.
Sarah Stark’s words intersperse the figures and paintings, and help the viewer navigate the room. Short narratives tell a story of each vehicle, vantage point or tool, and instructions serve as gentle reminders that the journey—no matter what its challenges—is ours to embrace.
Liza Hale Doyle’s paintings surround the space with vibrant simplicity, clarity, color, sensuality and potential—all those things that we hope to experience from time to time. The paintings are acrylic on canvas and wood.
Jack Stark Dudzik has conceived of and built a variety of vehicles and vantage points to depict the navigational choices we make each day. The architectural works are constructed of wooden popsicle sticks and a glue gun.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
We Are a Family,
Mother, Daughter and Son
And We Have Come Together to Create Wonder in These Times…
Sarah Stark is interested in the many ways humans thrive in difficult circumstances. Paramount in her mind is the profound and complicated human relationship to the natural world. Her novel, Out There (Leafstorm, 2014), was selected as the INDIEFAB Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction Book of the Year, 2014, as well as a Top Book by Publisher’s Weekly. In 2018, she wrote and illustrated a graphic memoir (A Story We All Know), and she is currently working on a new novel entitled Twenty Years of Noise and One Quiet Path. Sarah lives as a writer-in-residence at El Zaguán with her son, Jack. She teaches English and creative writing at Santa Fe Preparatory School.
Liza Hale Doyle creates in a playful visual language inspired by nature, color, fantasy and eccentric characters. Central to her creative process is the blending of observation with imagination to draw bridges between reality and surreality, realms she believes share deep and meaningful bonds. Her artistic methods span many disciplines including illustration, printmaking, painting, visual design, and costume design. This collection of paintings is a bold and graphic synthesis of these practices and inspirations. The canvases have served as both tools of navigation and maps of her path through a time of uncertainty and change. Liza was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently a student of illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York and plans to graduate in 2022.
Jack Stark Dudzik is a lifelong artist. He draws and paints and sculpts using a variety of materials. He is inspired by trees, rocks, rushing water, bicycles, buildings and classic cars, among many other things. He is a 5th grader at Acequia Madre Elementary School and looks forward to playing on his soccer team again.
Questions about the exhibition or setting up and appointment, call or text 505-470-3210 or email sarahstark@outlook.com or email Melanie at HSFF, melanie@historicsantafe.org.