¡Colores!; Curator Andrew Connors, Scott Greene, Fremont Ellis

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · January 26, 2019

From prehistory to the present, New Mexico has long possessed cultures of adornment. Albuquerque Museum’s curator of art, Andrew Connors (curator, Albuquerque Museum), shares how jewelry-making in New Mexico has always been about innovation. “The jewelers in New Mexico are some of the best in the United States and the wonderful thing is that they have been for at least three thousand years.” In his provocative paintings, Bernalillo’s Scott Greene holds up a mirror to our society. "There's a lot of artists that will try to eliminate the human element in their landscapes. I kind of go the other way; I'm painting everything people do or throw away and human activity as part of the landscape." Arriving in 1919, painter Fremont Ellis fell deeply in love with Santa Fe, New Mexico. A member of Los Cincos Pintores, his lifelong passion for painting was matched by the beauty he found in the land. “I think ultimately he was really concerned with painting something that would give other people a perception of something they’d experienced directly but hadn’t seen in that way.” “Painting, painting, painting, that was his life.”