Olga de Amaral, Pozo Azul 6, 2012, Bellas Artes, Sante Fe, NM

Olga de Amaral (Colombian, b.1942), a Columbian artist who has been showing with Bellas Artes for over 27 years, will be presenting yet another luminous series of sculptural textile constructions. De Amaral is widely celebrated for her large-scale, three-dimensional tapestries, inspired by artisanal Latin American fiber arts, ornate colonial architecture, and mathematics. In Pozo Azul 6 (2012), the artist has woven fibers pigmented in deep blues and then generously coated in gold leaf to resemble a natural pool of water. The use of gold leaf in her work alludes to an interest in Pre-Colombian art history, and also provides her works with a luxurious luster that distinguishes de Amaral from other textile artists.

William Fares, Untitled (AMS III), 2013, Skot Foreman Fine Art, New York, NY

The exhibition Getting to Nothing (Llegar a Nada): The Self-Referential Drawings of William Fares at Skot Foreman Fine Art in Mexico, brings together a series of abstract works on paper by artist William Fares (American, b.1942) that denote the complexities of non-representational art. Fares aims to simplify the process of interpretation by encouraging viewers to understand his pieces in terms of the physicality of the work, rather than the cultural meaning. The artist’s geometric compositions are intentionally self-referential; they are confined to the boundaries of the canvas’s surface, and to the viewer’s optical perception.