Raïssa Venables: In the Guest House
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
June 9-August 12, 2007

Raïssa Venables creates surreal, digitally composed images of uninhabited spaces. Through her large-scale images of everyday places she provokes a visceral interpretation of the ordinary. She illustrates that as we mark the environment it marks us. Without showing any people, Venables shows us their traces. more...

Entering New Mexico:
Walt Wiggins and Peter Hurd
Graphics Gallery, through March 11, 2007

In the 1940s local photographer Walt Wiggins returned to his native New Mexico to capture the meaning of family and the vanishing way of life in his own backyard—rodeos, roundups, and the vitality of small town rural America. This came after establishing himself in the national publishing and photographic markets, and as a photojournalist and combat newsreel cameraman during World War II. more...

John DePuy: The Ground of Being
Spring River Gallery, through April 29, 2007

John DePuy lives in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, and has been a resident since 1951 of various other places in the deep west and high plateaus of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. He paints the transcendent spirit of these landscapes, the paint taking root on the canvas, carving and gouging and coaxing into shapes and colors the mysteries and sacred spaces of the Southwest. This exhibition includes works loaned by the artist and examples from the Roswell Museum and Art Center’s Permanent Collection. more...

DeAnn Melton: Masters and Lovers
Donald B. Anderson Gallery and Marshall and Winston Gallery
January 27-April 29, 2007

Tucson artist DeAnn Melton’s multi-year sojourn into the studio and personal spaces of some of the Southwest’s most prominent artists is both revealing and memorial. The majority of her subjects have been artists, collectors, museum curators, or directors—people with a high regard for and connection to the visual arts, hence the title of this exhibition: Masters and Lovers. more...

The Defining Decades: RMAC at 70
March 17, 2007 - November 30, 2007

This exhibition is a journey through the past seven decades of the Museum’s history, beginning with its inception in 1937.
Punctuated by notable works from the permanent collection, this exhibition provides anecdotal information about the Museum’s mission, its grassroots beginnings, its amazing growth, and its unique accomplishments. more...