Philip Vigil - TouchArt May 2009 Artist of the Moment

TouchArt Artist of the Moment May 2009


Phillip Vigil
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Philip Vigil - TouchArt May 2009 Artist of the Moment

Went to Phillip Vigil's exhibition at the BellaDonna Condo Exhibition Site last night at 111 Santa Fe Avenue in Santa Fe's Historic South Capitol neighborhood and were glad we did. The drive through the rain down Old Santa Fe Trail was a magnificent display of light and shadow with the sun setting among magnificent clouds in the west shooting rays through the raindrops to create a spectacular double full rainbow over the Sangre de Cristos Mountains in the east.

Phillip Vigil's art is superb. The evening light pouring into the second floor gallery showed off his unique palette and technique. Displayed throughout the upper floor tacked to white walls with simple push pins, Vigil's bold pastels on paper are a treat to those who hunger for something new and powerful from young ndn artists.

Phillip Vigil paints his contemporary pictographs punctuated with provocative text while listening to jazz in his bedroom studio on his Rez in Dulce, Arizona on the Mescalero Apache Nation. Vigil's is inluenced as much by my old late friend Jean Michel Basquiat and our friend and Phillip's mentor Gronk as by the 4 generations of artists in his Mescalero and Jemez families and his great-grandfather Vigil who was the last traditional chief of the Mescalero.

At the opening of his exhibition, Phillip wore a tee-shirt with a graphic design by Basquiat and spends summers with his mother's people at the very traditional Jemez Pueblo. Fresh and original, Phillip Vigil is an artist to watch.

Local Santa Fe realtor Malissa Kuhlberg has a passion for art and mentoring young talent and she and business partner Joshua Maes created a new and promising venue for seeing new and interesting work by up and coming artists in this elegantly updated 1920's compound just blocks from the New Mexico State Capitol.

Catch this exhibit of Phillip Vigil's Art through the end of May by appointment. It's well worth the visit.

Contact Phillip Vigil or Maissa Kuhlberg and Joshua Maes on Facebook

Hosts:
Malissa Kullberg & Joshua Maes
Location:
The Bella Donna Condominiums
Street:
111 East Santa Fe Ave. (Between Don Gaspar and West Booth on north side of street just up from corner of Don Gaspar. Up outside staircase in front of streetside building in front of complex.)
City/Town:
Santa Fe, NM
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Phone:
505-231-7598
Email:
mailto:mkullberg@prusantafe.com