Pie Projects

Beginning in the early 1960s, Signe Stuart’s professional career has now spanned more than sixty-five years. Her approach to art making has always relied on experimentation and rule breaking. Using the materials and form of painting, she breaks away from the standard rectangle and concepts of framing. For the artist, a sheet of paper is a metaphorical slice of time and space, a context in which to construct ideas about the connections and intersections of consciousness with matter and energy. @signestuart.studio 💡Signe Stuart’s ‘Fold 3,’ is on view in our alcove gallery until June 6! © Signe Stuart, ‘Fold 3,’ 2017, acrylic and graphite on folded, mulberry paper, 23 x 41 in. folded, 23 x 57 in. unfolded #pieprojects #signestuart #minimalistart

‘Govinda Sah Azad: Meditations’ is on view through June 6. © Govinda Sah ‘Azad,’ ‘Essence of Love,’ 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 35 x 35 in. #pieprojects #govindasahazad #nepaleseartist

ARTIST + WRITERS IN CONVERSATION 🗣️ In collaboration with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival (@sfinternationallitfest ), join us at the gallery for a talk between artist Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan ) with poet Rick Barot (@rickbarot1 ) and author Laura Paskus (@laurapaskus ) about the unique ways in which art, nature, and poetry intersect. 🗓️ Thursday, May 14 ⏰ 5 - 6pm 📍Pie Projects, 924B Shoofly Street, Santa Fe, NM *This event is free admission with open seating, no rsvp required. #pieprojects #jillobryan #rickbarot #laurapaskus #SFILF2026

This weekend celebrated the opening of ‘a new breath,’ Jill O’Bryan’s (@jillobryan ) first solo exhibition at Pie Projects Contemporary Art. Among the selected works are pieces from the ‘Lotus Drawings’ series, in which each petal is drawn within the cadence of nam-myoho-renge-kyo — the mantra of 13th-century Nichiren Buddhism — a chant that affirms the fundamental interconnectedness of all life. The finished works are not so much images of a flower as quiet records of breath, sound, and attention moving through the body over time. ‘Jill O’Bryan | a new breath,’ on view through June 6. 🪷 © Jill O’Bryan, ‘Breath Circle #9 (Lotus Blossom),’ 2025, pastel on Bhutan Mitsumata paper, 62 x 60.5 in. #pieprojects #jillobryan #workonpaper

More than six decades into his career, Light and Space pioneer Larry Bell (@larrybellstudio ) continues to experiment with his practice. His recent TRIOLITH series is a play on scale and new coating techniques. © Larry Bell, ‘TRIOLITH (Spa/Sunflower/Dusk),’ 2023, laminated glass coated with inconel, SIO, and Titanium, Spa Rectangle 12 x 12 in., Dusk/Sunflower Triangle 12 x 16 in. each #pieprojects #larrybell #lightandspace

Coming Soon to the Garden Gallery Govinda Sah ‘Azad’: Meditations Transcending traditional cloudscapes, London-based Nepalese artist Govinda Sah ‘Azad’s (@govinda_azad ) paintings capture the essence of the emptying mind. He achieves abstract canvases evocative of sublime imagery with opalescent tones and at times, streaks of smoke breathed onto the canvas like brushstrokes. Opening May 2 | 4 - 6pm Image: © Govinda Sah ‘Azad’, ‘Above,’ 2021, oil on canvas, 63 x 71 in. #pieprojects #govindasahazad #nepaleseartist

“I am not comfortable unless I am properly lost.”- Sam Scott Images: 1.© Sam Scott, ‘Prayer for the African Elephant,’ 1986, oil and wood on canvas, 66 x 80 in. 2. © Sam Scott, ‘Deconstructed (I),’ 2022, watercolor on paper, 18 x 14 in. (framed) #pieprojects #samscottartist #abstractexpression

Happy Earth Day 🌎 Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan ) gets about as close as you can- lying on the New Mexican desert floor and rubbing its surface directly onto paper for her desert frottage series. Images: 1. © Jill O’Bryan, frottage drawing- photo: Alison Sirico. 2. © Jill O’Bryan, ‘Ground Painting,’ 2025, ink stick and oil on canvas, 120 x 72 in. 3. Jill O’Bryan, installation view, Texas State Galleries, museum at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. #pieprojects #jillobryan

In 2011, Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan ) discovered Tonglen breathing, a Buddhist practice of compassion—breathing in another’s pain, transforming it in the heart, then breathing out love. From this practice emerged her ‘breath circles,’ a series that draws on the tradition of ensō, the Zen circle rendered in a single, uninhibited gesture symbolizing enlightenment, emptiness, and infinity. On featherweight Bhutan Mitsumata paper, each graphite mark follows the duration of a single inhale and exhale, repeated thousands of times. What begins as a gesture becomes an accumulation. Working with two halves of a piece of paper, O’Bryan allows the marks to pass through the surface: the upper sheet erodes as the drawings transfer onto the sheet beneath, revealing the shadow half of the circle. Sewn together with gold-leafed thread,the two halves resolve into a single circle, revealing wholeness out of absence. Each work is titled by its final breath count: a record of time, endurance, and attention. ➰Opening May 2nd, ‘Jill O’Bryan | a new breath’ Image: ©Jill O’Bryan, ‘Breath Circle #10’, graphite, Mitsumata paper, gold leaf thread, gold leaf, cholla blossom petals, 16 x 16 in. #pieprojects #jillobryan #breathdrawings #workonpaper

Known for incorporating collected and found materials in the collage making process, Dana Newmann says that making these recycled compositions is as much ‘a meditation as a reverie.’ → Explore other creations by Dana Newmann on our website. Link in bio. © Dana Newmann, “Moroccan Window VII,” 1995, mixed media, 32 x 26.5 in. #pieprojects #dananewmannartist #assemblageart

ARTIST IN CONVERSATION | APRIL 11 Join us from 4 - 5 pm Saturday, April 11 for a conversation between artist Sam Scott (@sam_scott_artist ) and the gallery’s co-founders. #pieprojects #samscottartist

Known for his abstract hard-edge painting, Oli Sihvonen (1921-1991) spent his career analyzing the interplay between color, shapes, and surface. Towards the end of his career, he noted that his objective had always been to convey motion in two-dimension. 🔘❌➕⭕️ Image: © Oli Sihvonen, “Untitled,” 1980s, gouache on paper, paper: 14 x 9.25 inches. #pieprojects #olisihvonen #opart