Confetti
Sandra Jo Hackbarth (Martinez)
Artist in Residence, 223 Canyon Road, Santa Fe
Co-founder of Martinez Studio 1994-2024
With a wink of joyful irreverence, mixed media artist, Sandra Jo Hackbarth’s latest body of work begs to be taken off the wall and given a good shake.
Offered as interactive assemblage, shadowbox framed works on paper are loaded with confetti cut from past works; text, printed imagery and bits of painted, knotted, cut string. Vinyl decals of her images on the front of the glass throw shadows that move with the light.
The work is changed by every toss.
Linked to her questioning “high” and “low” art, Sandra Jo has enjoyed a much awarded, decades long collaboration in weaving design as the co-founder of Martinez Studio with Wenceslao Martinez. The weavings remain functional. Art you can wipe your feet on.
The gallery on Canyon Road, Santa Fe is hung with finished works as well as many in process. The artist actively works on tables running down the middle of the space showing work in its most vulnerable stages, hanging from clothespins on string.
Her favorite books to read and to work on line shelves at the ready. Happy to share, she loves to encourage humans to make things. It can be such a potent place - a sanctuary.
My you find yours.
Sandra Jo Hackbarth
