Trend Magazine
Cynthia Canyon, Publisher
P.O. Box 1951
Santa Fe, New Mexico
87504

Phone: 505-988-5007

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— mission —

For more than eleven years, TREND magazine has explored New Mexico’s unique influence on art, design, and architecture. Through well written articles and engaging photography, each issue spotlights a broad spectrum of extraordinary artists, their creations, and the unique, cutting edge products and services that enhance readers’ knowledge of the creative forces behind the trends.

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Doing What You Love and Buying What You Love

I choose to live near and work in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Taos because I love it! 

I love the independent business owners who are striving to bring the very best choices in unique art and design. I love the artists, musicians, architects, and craftspeople who dig deep into their souls to reflect creativity and innovation. I love the weather, even when it is raining and snowing. I know you are reading this magazine because you have some connection to these places. With the time I am given, I strive to bring you in-depth focus on these special places I call home, adding to your knowledge of what’s available to enhance your own journey.

It’s time to support the communities you love so they can prosper and continue to bring you unparalleled choices in the best imaginable. Buy what you love—be it artwork, design services, or personal accessories. Help invest in these communities so we can grow and thrive. Please tell our advertisers when you visit that you were inspired to do so by ­Trend, as it will help us continue to bring you this excellent magazine. I hope you enjoy our expansion into lifestyle. Trend has always been about the meeting point of art and design; we have added a section to keep you up to date on what’s happening in local fashion too.

Thank you for your appreciation of this magazine.

Cynthia Canyon
Publisher

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Art in Hard Times

A lot of tragedy accompanied the making of this issue, by chance—deaths and personal endings too fresh to enumerate. The country where I was born suffered a triple disaster—the third in the last year to imperil a source of energy on which we desperately depend. As publisher Cynthia Canyon said when we started planning this issue, these are hard times; people worldwide are struggling to navigate what feels like The End, even though it’s really a new beginning. It seemed more important than ever, in our annual art issue, to look at what relevance art has in this contemporary (post-contemporary?) landscape, what artists are doing that matters.

Not all art is beautiful, as Theaterwork founder David Olson notes (p. 30), but we turn to it nonetheless to offer solace, depth, respite from the verbal world that berates us within and without. That may be because, as Wes Pulkka discovered while talking with four very different artists (p. 134), artists share a commitment to venturing past received knowledge, conventional wisdom, even common sense to uncover a truth that—paradoxically, for being original—touches on the universally human. Artists do not really advance knowledge; instead they devote all their energy to investigating what most of us work hard to ignore: What are we here for? 

We sent art writer Kathryn Davis on a nebulous mission to discover what artists have to teach us about how to live (p. 126). Rejecting the fantastic Modernist cliché about the “inspired” artist, Davis suffered a case of writer’s block that proved to be inspiration itself: What artists teach us, she found, is that the work isn’t about waiting for a gift to arrive, but resolving to hear an inner voice even when it goes silent—because hearing it has become what matters. If you have ever suffered terribly, you know how human it is to latch on to that barely audible voice, or else lose all hope.

There is in us that eject button that, when the material world falls apart, intuitively reaches for something beyond. Artists feed the possibility not only of glimpsing it, but of getting there by way of the material world itself. The “inspired” artist may be a marketing gimmick, but inspiration undoubtedly completes the work of art in the viewer—as we were thrilled to find when treated to an art collection (p. 52) that demonstrates how appreciating art can itself be a creative statement about what matters.    

Whether architects, artists, chefs, even scientists, the work of creativity is really the only way out of the material mess we’re in. It also turns out to be the reason for our annual art issue: to trumpet more than the latest breakthrough in manipulating Stuff. Pay attention to what moves you in the realm of beauty, and together we can, at the least, apply the balm of hope on universal suffering.

Keiko Ohnuma
Editor

Keiko Ohnuma has worked in publishing for nearly three decades, most recently as an art critic, food writer, and columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin. She started her career at the magazines Sierra and Hippocrates in 1980s, then switched into daily reporting at the Oakland Tribune in the '90s. After a decade of "Polynesian paralysis" in Hawaii, where she earned an MFA in ceramics, she gave up a life of cruise control to seek wider opportunities in the wild West. She lives in Corrales with her husband and two very spoiled terriers, and still enjoys writing for a variety of publications. 

— contributors —

Robert Reck is an internationally recognized architectural and interior-design photographer whose work is distinguished by amasterful use of light and a passion for design found in nature and the built environment. He has been traveling for Capella Hotels for the past two years and is a staff photographer for Architectural Digest. He was the lead photographer for the book Santa Fe Style and the exclusive photographer for The Small Adobe House, Facing Southwest, and Stone Design for the Home.

Photographer Peter Ogilvie studied art and architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began making documentary films. Filmmaking led to still photography, both fine-art and commercial. Pursuing his career in advertising, fashion, and photography, he has lived in San Francisco, Milan, Paris, New York, and now New Mexico. He has traveled the world on assignment and won numerous advertising and graphic awards for his work.

Kate Russell is a nationally recognized photographer based in Santa Fe. Known for her ability to create evocative images and elevate simplicity, Russell’s sensitivity to light and the moment can be seen in her photos. Her work has appeared in numerous local and national publications, including The New York Times, Western Interiors, Santa Fean Magazine, and the books Old World Interiors by David Naylor and Designers Here and There by Michele Keith. Kate’s work with a traveling circus and the arts brought her to the world of photography, and they continue to provide inspiration for projects both near and far.

Gussie Fauntleroy began her writing career in 1986, covering the cow town of Magdalena for a newspaper in south-central New Mexico. Since then she has written about hundreds of artists for magazines both local and national, among other subjects. Fauntleroy is also the author of three books on visual artists. She has lived in Santa Fe for about 25 years but would love to have attended one of Randall Davey’s dinner parties.

Arts writer, critic, and sculptor Wesley Pulkka, PhD., moved from Boulder to Albuquerque’s East Mountains in 1992 to restore an old cabin. Since 1993 he’s written columns, features, profiles, and reviews for the Albuquerque Journal, Architectural Digest, Altitude Magazine, Ministry and Liturgy, The Collector’s Guide, and other publications. His art has been shown at the UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum, Baltimore Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Harwood Art Center, Harwood Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and other arts institutions.

Kathryn M Davis is an art historian who specializes in modern and contemporary American art. She works as an arts writer, editor, curator, and educator and is owner/president of ArtBeat Associates, an independent organization for cultural tourism. Davis has two decades of experience in the field of modern and contemporary art, and is currently writing art criticism for several national publications, as well as teaching art history at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She holds an MA in the Art of the Americas from the University of New Mexico.

— staff —

PUBLISHER
Cynthia Marie Canyon

EDITOR
Keiko Ohnuma

ART DIRECTOR
Janine Lehmann

COPY CHIEF
Rena Distasio

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Janine Lehmann
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SALES MANAGER
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REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR
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NEW MEXICO DISTRIBUTION
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ACCOUNTING
Danna Cooper

SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER
Nicole Cooper

PRINTING
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WEB DESIGN
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