July 1984

The Long View

The Pueblo Alegre Mall in Taos, site of the old Safeway and now home for several shops and restaurants, is a wonderful place for viewing art. It has high ceilings, long vistas to large clean walls, smooth indirect lighting, and a quiet, museum atmosphere. It was an ideal setting for Charles Adams to exhibit his “Other Measures” invitational show last month, which featured Ellen Altman, Frances Buschke, Catherine Correa, Sabra Moore, Allen Greedy, Robert Kabak, Hester Simpson and Michio Takayama.

Kabak’s River Gorge benefits most from the place, It was a treat to be able to stand more than 50 feet away and view the dense, tintinnabulating groupings of colored triangles that composed his pattern landscape. On the other hand, there were neat little closets for Greedy’s wall constuctions, Essential Realities, centered about those graceful old bent wood folding chairs, the ones with the leather seats. Also noteworthy were Simpson’s pleasing and bright Bird Series, pictographic flyers winging through crosses, over a heavily worked field of pastel color

(All Taos reviews by Stephen Parks.}