About Tia x Chatter
Tia Collection is a global art collection with a mission to support artists and institutions through its acquisitions and lending programs. In 2023, Tia Collection partnered with Chatter to continue the CCA’s mission in the Muñoz-Waxman Gallery space. Tia x Chatter provides a backdrop of loaned artworks from the collection for Chatter’s Santa Fe programming. Exhibitions are curated by Tia staff on a bi-monthly, rotating basis. Tia Collection also supports other visual arts programming in partnership with Chatter including a mural commissioning project.
What’s On Now
The Space Between Two Movements
Tia x Chatter is delighted to present The Space Between Two Movements, an exhibition that celebrates the transformative journey from the cold stillness of winter to the vibrant warmth of spring. This gathering of nine renowned artists embodies diverse perspectives that converge in their shared celebration of movement, color, and abstraction. The forms and texture of sculptural work by Diana Al-Hadid and Leilah Babirye evoke snow and ice melting into water, a poetic nod to the thawing of winter. Marina Adams’ vibrant palette bridges the seasons: spring’s purples and yellows meet the meet the rich blues and reds of winter in a luminous center of periwinkle. James Pinkney Havard’s abstract shapes capture the reawakening of life—mimicking the forms of flowers, insects, worms, and birds—as the frost retreats and sunlight returns. Esteban Cabeza de Baca incorporates cochineal in a striking celebration of human connection with organic material and the earth’s breath as it awakens from winter’s slumber. Lynn Umlauf captures the blossoming vitality of spring in an organically shaped painting with a warm palette reminiscent of radiant sunsets and blooming life. The abstract and textural work of Shirley Goldfarb and Lee Bul balance cool and warm tones, evoking snow melting into blossoms and the interplay of winter’s remnants with spring’s arrival. Judit Reigl could be interpreted to portray a river’s gradual thaw, an emblem of life reawakening as winter releases its grip. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the rhythms of nature and the interconnectedness of life and art, offering a powerful celebration of regrowth, movement, and the enduring beauty of change.
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 13, 5-7 pm
Closing Reception: Thursday, April 24, 5-7 pm
Tia x Chatter Mural
The Tia x Chatter Mural Project presents temporary murals by contemporary women BIPOC artists who activate space and community. Chatter is excited to unveil Apache, Dine’, Pueblo Frequencies, the second Tia x Chatter mural. Created by Farmington-born Dine’ artist and telecommunications attorney Darrah Blackwater, Apache, Dine’, Pueblo Frequencies will be on display until June 2025.
Past Exhibitions:
Tia x Chatter | Native Identity: Reflection in the Figure
Tia x Chatter Mural Project: Generous
Tia x Chatter | Illumination: A Collective Vision of Contemporary Photography
Tia x Chatter | Wild NM: A Vivarium Satellite Show
Tia x Chatter: Field of Vision
Tia x Chatter: I Say With My Full Essence
Tia x Chatter: The B/W Show
Tia x Chatter: Bless This Land