Albuquerque Photographers Gallery

When you are in the Albuquerque area I recommend you plan at least four visits to the Old Town area.  Two for the larger museums, and two for the smaller museums and shops (make sure you stop into one of the restaurants to eat!).  Everytime we went we found something new.  Lori had this one gallery she wanted to see, so we plug it into the GPS – find the address and then go look for a place to park.  In walking to the planned gallery we see a sign for the Albuquerque Photographers Gallery and decide to stop in.  Now Lori has an eye for photography - she doesn’t make any money at it but our trailer is full of her work.  For me photography rates as my forth best art form (ice carving, sculptures, paintings, photography).  I think it is fourth because it requires the least physical labor, especially now that dark rooms have gone the way of the dodo bird.  The Albuquerque Photographers Gallery worked hard on pushing their art form up the scale a bit!

The Gallery is the only cooperative art gallery in New Mexico dedicated solely to exhibiting and promoting contemporary fine art photography by local artists. The gallery features unique images capturing the beauty and mystery of the Southwest and beyond.

 The gallery was founded in 2003 by award-winning photographer, Marilyn Hunter to provide a quality venue for local photographers to exhibit and sell their work and to create a nurturing and challenging environment where photographers can meet and discuss their work. The Albuquerque Photographers’ Gallery is also deeply committed to advancing the public's understanding and appreciation of photography as art the gallery is always staffed, usually by one of the photographers associated with the gallery. The photographers are all familiar with each other’s work and knowledgeable of the processes. The gallery operates as a co-op with ten member photographers.  Visitors may view and purchase iconic fine art images — infused aluminum, canvas, & traditional paper prints — representing a wide variety of styles and themes, including New Mexico and the American Southwest.  Now I’m going to put a little shameless commerce plug in here.  I live full-time in my RV.  There is little room for art (never mind the cost associated with it! Monet? No Way!).  I was very impressed with the infused aluminum photographs.  They are small and very light weight.  The process also seems to create a three-dimensional effect on most of them.  At the Albuquerque gallery they were going for $45.  

Not what I would consider an unreasonable amount for the quality and durability (they don’t need frames).  Soemthing to consider if you have a small space you want to decorate in your rig.  Of course you can still get that Jackson Pollack for the house!