The 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Once Within a Time is an ambitious, citywide exhibition placing works by local, national, and international artists in dialogue with a cast of regional “figures of interest” to probe the power of storytelling.
Fresh from a Roswell residency, gallery artist Guillermo Galindo debuts Atomic Saints/Historic Tricksters, 2025 at SITE Santa Fe — a retelling of Picasso's Guernica built from charred wood salvaged after the 2024 New Mexico wildfires.
Guillermo Galindo’s exhibition and performance at SITE Santa Fe is featured in The New York Times.
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From The New York Times, by Patricia Leigh Brown:
When Guillermo Galindo was an artist-in-residence in Roswell — yes, the U.F.O. Roswell — he collected charred wood from a wildfire threatening the region. He also gathered bleached animal bones, helped by a local cowboy with an eye for carcasses.
Galindo woke up one day and said he “saw Guernica,” imagining Picasso’s 1937 antiwar master work as an intricate mobile of scorched branches and bones suspended from the ceiling. (A companion “Guernica” wall mural features a panorama of 33 famous New Mexicans — from Estebanico, an enslaved North African who became an early explorer of North America — to Tom Ford.)
