Studios Available!

Check out our Studios page for more information. We currently have 4 studios available, 2 downtown and 2 on Central. These studios go fast, so get in while you can! If you mention you saw this post, you will get 1/2 off your first month’s rent!

June First Friday: June 4, 2010, 6-10pm

Denise Kunz is our featured artist for the month of June. This will be our last 1st Friday until September or October. Hope to see you here!

I See London I See France by Denise Kunz

First Friday; May 7th, 6-10pm

Detail from on of Brian Vallo's paintings

May’s featured artist is Brian Vallo and the opening reception is tomorrow evening. This will be our first opening in the “Chroma Underground” space downstairs. It’s shaping up quite well and we hope to see everyone here tomorrow night!

Downsizing hits Chroma

April is our anniversary month, which means it is also the month we renew our lease. We had to make a tough decision this month and decided it would be best to give up some of our space. We are moving all operations into the downstairs studios space and giving up the upstairs gallery and performance space. We will also keep our studios on Central. While we were bummed about having to do it, we have come to the realization that the traditional gallery space just doesn’t make enough money to pay for itself. It was difficult to keep emotions from coming into the equation, but in the end it is purely a business decision.

Chroma Studios is still here, we still have our studio spaces and we will still have a small gallery space downstairs as well. We will move it all downstairs by the beginning of May, so our May and June 1st Friday openings will be in the new, smaller gallery. After June we will not participate in the 1st Friday events every month. At the beginning of May we will also go back to being open by appointment only. In time the website will be set up for direct sales, there will be some sort of shopping cart set up so you can buy art online. We will still hold open studios events two times a year.

All April events, ie Downtown Artscrawl (tonight!) and Intimate concerts (April 17th, 22nd and 23rd), will still happen. Much thanks goes out to everyone who has supported Chroma Studios and to our amazing community of artists who have been so supportive in our decision. We love you all!

By the way, thanks to whoever put our name in for the Alibi’s “Best of Burque”, we were named the “Best artist community” this year!

April First Friday: Two Years of Chroma Studios!

The featured artist this month is Chroma Studio’s own Paula Manning Lewis, owner/proprietor. Paula will be showing us new work featuring a twist on artistic harmony. This collection of work includes artistically painted guitars, allowing art & music to collide.

Some other features for the evening will be:

Studios downstairs will be open and artists will be here to answer questions and share their work spaces.

Albuquerque SLAM Poets will be here offering their art of the spoken word. Join Carlos Contreras, Kenn Rodriguez, Hakim Bellamy and friends for their thought provoking & always entertaining poetry.

Various musicians will bring us musical entertainment throughout the evening. Wayne Shrubsall will perform his banjo music. Danny Clayburn will entertain us with his talents of playing the bottleneck slide. John Simmons, the “Human Jukebox” will invite us into his world of musical storytelling. This is only a short list of what is materializing in the performance space for this coming First Friday event.

A new twist on poetry, Elevator Haikus with Zack and Té, will be going on throughout the evening. Ride the elevator to the downstairs studios and hear a haiku!

Our kids art studio (for kids of all ages) will be open and chock full of supplies for art making!

There will be a scavenger hunt with prizes!

This will be an evening full of entertainment for all; visually, musically & generally all encompassing good times. We hope to see you here.

Herb Goldman Video

Herb Goldman is exclusively represented by Chroma Studios Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gearing up for April Anniversary Celebration!

April marks Chroma Studios 2nd year in business and our first year downtown! Hard to believe it’s already been 2 years, but time does fly when you are having fun. This month we are gearing up for the big show with some improvements to the gallery and studios. Aaron just tore down a wall in the gallery to open up the space and make it flow better. Pictures are posted below. We are also tearing up carpet and painting floors, something we’ve talked about doing since we first moved into the building. Downstairs in the studio hallways, we’ve already done some painting and hung more art. April also means open studios for our First Friday opening event. You will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and see where the art is made. I will post more information about the Anniversary show as the date draws near, lots of fun activities planned, should be exciting!

Aaron working on opening up the gallery space!

looking from the other direction

March Events!

March is here and spring is in the air! This month’s featured artist is Caroline C. Blaker, painter and web designer extraordinaire! This month we are becoming even MORE kid friendly with the addition of a kid’s art studio, a NEW area in the gallery with art supplies and musical instruments for your kids to play and make fun things while you enjoy the show.

March Events:

Friday, March 5th, 6-10pm: First Friday Art Opening; Featured artist Caroline C. Blaker will be showing her recent Pixelation paintings on latex, and her new digital deviation, Twitterscapes:                                                    Paintings with Twitter. The show will likely feature realtime user-generated Twitterscapes, as well as Pixelation paintings of all sizes and Twitterscapes in print.

Friday, March 26th, 7:30pm: Storytelling with Susi Wolf. Silk Stockings – a Celebration of Women Through Storytelling. Since March is Women’s History Month, we are celebrating women                                                        through an ancient tradition – storytelling. Come enjoy multicultural tales of women and the feminine experience throughout the ages. Hear clever woman stories,                                                        strong woman parables, she-roe tales and more. It’s time to celebrate the wonder and mystique of those who wear Silk Stockings!

Tuesday, March 30th, 7:30pm: AMP Concert featuring Walter Strauss & Mamadou Sidibe. When American guitarist Walter Strauss and Malian kamal’ngoni master Mamadou Sidibe engage                                                   in a musical interplay of finger-style guitar and West African hunter’s harp, the result is a deep, soulful music that is simultaneously ancient and fresh. These two                                                           unique musicians from distant origins create an intoxicating blend of music in which they gracefully complement each other through intertwining melodic grooves                                                       and spirited improvisation. To hear these two musicians from far flung places collaborate is to to take in two souls, listening and greeting one another in a universal                                                       language—seamlessly interweaving two continents and two bright musical sensibilities.

Coming up in April: Chroma Studios 2nd Anniversary show! First Friday in April we will have the downstairs studios open, plus lots of live music and poetry throughout the building, activities for kids of all ages, door prizes and lots of fun!

Would you like to get 10% off ALL purchases, and 2 FREE Intimate Concert tickets? Become a Chroma Studios member today! $35 yearly membership for individuals, $50 for businesses (Businesses also get a mention in our monthly newsletter and a link on our website).

Make sure to stop by Chroma Studios this month, we would love to see you!

New at Chroma Studios: Weekly Specials!

This week’s special you ask? 10% off on all jewelry! Every week we will have a new special, you never know what it might be, free concert tickets, a free Chroma membership, discounts on art, etc. You get the idea! Of course, started this month, hugs are always FREE!! So, stop in, get your free hug, check out some amazing New Mexican art, and take something awesome home with you! We would like you to think of Chroma as the “friendly gallery”, where community comes first!

Looking for a Unique Valentine’s Gift?

This month being the “Peace and Love” show at Chroma, we have lots of wonderful Valentine gifts! From lots of lovely jewelry, to many wonderful paintings and several sweet mosaics, we have great gifts starting as low as $15! Here is just a sampling of our love items!

An Entire Room Full of Jewelry!!

Romance, 10 x 10" mosaic frame by Susanne Baca, $95

"Secret Crush", 6 x 6" painting by Cari Pier, $125

3 Talismen, 4 x 4" mixed media paintings by Cari Pier, $75 each

Small Heart w/ 2 Fridas(top), mosaic by Susanne Baca, $40 & Broken Hearts Bear Beauty, mosaic by Anna Lear, $150