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How to Build a Sky opens at @sitesantafe October 16, 2026.

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This fall at SITE SANTA FE

🟠Larry Bell: Improvisations
October 16–January 11

🟣Sayre Gomez: Closed Forever
October 16–January 11

🔵Sara Genn: How to Build a Sky
October 16–February 14

✨Free admission always✨

Artist talks, Member events, FREE public tours, and more through the end of the year
To learn more, visit sitesantafe.org →

Design by Shannon McLean

#SITESANTAFE by @saragenn

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Special shout out to Sara Genn @saragenn for her SITE Santa Fe @sitesantafe mural, "Ladder to the Sky," being listed in Hyperallergic's @hyperallergic "10 Public Artworks to See Across the US This Fall" 🌟

Sara Genn's mural is presented in conjunction with her first solo institutional exhibition, "How To Build A Sky," at SITE Santa Fe. On view October 16, 2026 through February 14, 2027.

#saragenn #sitesantafe taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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In the darkness
Stars would talk to us
Tuck us in and comb our hair

Nights were never long enough
In the morning there is only us
Would the stars please explain why they stayed so far away?

You are sparkling
But you are just broken light
I wonder what you'd have to say if you could read and write?
When will your bright pinholes give me more than just winks and dust?

So, lay quietly
Weep into your pillow
Dazzling in your spacious nothingness
Happy to play second fiddle, terrified by your own beguile
I won't wait for the requiem, Hyperion

(Just one of a million love letters)

1. David, Jamie and Sara in Dad's studio overlooking Crescent Beach, BC, 1973

2. Hyperion, 2026
79.5 x 169.5 inches, installed
Acrylic on canvas in artist's frames
Photo by @bradtrone
@sitesantafe

3. Robert Genn (b. 1936, Canada)
Sara on the Far Shore, 1988
24 x 30 inches
Acrylic on canvas

4. California State Route 111
From Palm Springs to the Salton Sea

5. Approaching Bombay Beach, California

6. Todd Webb (b. 1905, USA)
Georgia O'Keeffe photographing the Chama Valley, New Mexico, 1961
7 15/16 x 10 inches
Gelatin silver print
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM

7. Peter at Georgia's house, Abiquiu, NM taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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"We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination." (John Berger, Bento's Sketchbook)

How to Build a Sky opens this Friday, October 16, 2026
From 5-8pm
At @sitesantafe
1606 Paseo De Peralta
Santa Fe, NM
Exhibition continues until February 14, 2027

Curated by Louis Grachos
Curatorial text by Taylor Walsh
SITE SANTA FE Exhibitions Department:
Brent Mitchell, Director of Exhibitions and Registrar
Colin Zaug, Lead Preparator
Sabrina Griffith, Associate Registrar and Lighting Specialist @ubiquitress
Brandee Caoba, Curator @brandeecaoba
Samantha Manion-Chavez, Curatorial Assistant @smc_colcha_bordadora
Installation Photography by Brad Trone @bradtrone taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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Not long now until How to Build a Sky officially opens at @sitesantafe. Thankyou to the indomitable Sabrina Griffith @ubiquitress for her preparation, installation and lighting, assisted by her expert team @maraclaudette , @justnhooge , @jhooge2 , @dongoor and @callyourlocaldesigner . What thoughtful care and joyful attention Mara, Justin, John, Randall and Shannon. Thank you for your hard work and tenderness.

"Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection." (Agnes Martin)

Sara Genn: How to Build a Sky
Curated by Louis Grachos
Opening at @sitesantafe
October 16, 2026 5-8pm
SITE SANTA FE
1606 Paseo De Peralta
Santa Fe NM
Cover image: @bradtrone taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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Fall Exhibitions at SITE SANTA FE 🍁

Sara Genn: How to Build a Sky
October 16, 2026–February 14, 2027
at SITE SANTA FE

Sara Genn’s latest multi-panel paintings of geometric abstraction demonstrate her ability to find endless variation in subtle distinctions of color, shape, and texture. In the courtyard of Wallerstein Family Terrace, a newly commissioned mural—the artist’s first—features crisp lines that are made entirely by hand with an approach that Genn calls “a defiant softness.”

Sara Genn (b. 1972) @saragenn is a Canadian-born visual artist who works between Brooklyn, NY and Palm Springs, CA. Mentored by her father, a plein-air landscape painter, Genn’s work focuses on the nuances of how color is perceived and organized. She also references principles of her Japanese heritage through the aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and NYLON Japan, and can be found in public collections such as the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has been painting and exhibiting continuously since 1991.

✨Join us for the Opening Celebration!✨
🪩Friday Oct 16, 5–8 PM @sitesantafe
🎟️FREE, no tickets required

📷 1 @bradtrone, 2 Lance Gerber, 3 Louis Grachos

#SITESANTAFE #SaraGenn by @saragenn

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Saturday, October 17, 2026 3-4pm
Tickets here: www.sitesantafe.org
@sitesantafe taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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When asked about Art's purpose, American record producer Rick Rubin replied that it was to say, "this is how I see it." I interpret this as confirmation of my own decades-deep investigation into seeing - and making things to be looked at and felt. To expand upon Rubin's remark, "This is how I FEEL it."

1. Bugaboos, Purcell Range, Canada
2. Studio, Palm Springs
3. Ladder to the Sky @sitesantafe (mural detail)
4. The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, 1831 made by layering traditional natural indigo with newly imported Prussian Blue @hokusai_museum
5. Layering Prussian Blue and ultramarine
6. Wandering Star (studio)
7. Lady friend (studio)
8. Mural detail (@sitesantafe)
9. Dad and me at Lake McArthur, Yoho National Park, Canada
10. Winning the cosmic lottery with Alan Lightman (photo by @willfujiomatsuda )
11. Rothko Chapel (photo by Adam Wiseman/Corbis for Aeon) @adamwisemanphoto @aeonmag
12. Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times (Matsuo Basho), Palm Springs
13. Studio
14. Tyto Alba (Western Barn Owl) drinking from the neighbour's puddle
15. Sheila Hicks' Nowhere to Go @ngvmelbourne, 2024 (photo by Sean Fennessey) @hastingshicks
16. Wandering Star, 2026 (photo by Lance Gerber @lance.gerber )

How to Build a Sky opens at @sitesantafe on October 16, 2026 from 5-8pm. taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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@rowlandbroughton 📷
How to Build a Sky opens @sitesantafe October 16, 2026 taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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🩵 @sallykovler 📷 @sitesantafe taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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🍁Fall 2026 Exhibitions at SITE SANTA FE🍂

Kinda chic to open three stunning exhibitions at the same time

SAVE THE DATE
Friday, October 16
5–8 PM
@sitesantafe

🟠 Larry Bell: Improvisations
New Mexico-based Light and Space legend Larry Bell presents work spanning 40 years including new work for SITE SANTA FE
Curated by Rachel Zebro

🟣 Sayre Gomez: Closed Forever
Photorealistic paintings and sculptures of semi-fictional urbanscapes from LA-based Gomez that blur the distinction between real and fantasy
Curated by Brandee Caoba

🔵 Sara Genn: How to Build a Sky
The first solo museum exhibition for this color field artist whose presentation will extend outdoors to a commissioned mural (her first)
Curated by Louis Grachos

📷Larry Bell, Pacific Red II, 2017, Photo by Matthew Millman; Sayre Gomez, 2 Spirits, Photo by Jeff McLane, Courtesy of the Artist and David Kordansky Gallery; Sara Genn, Cave of the Heart, 2026, photo by Lance Gerber.

#SITESANTAFE by @saragenn

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@takingthehighrd 📷
@sitesantafe taken in SITE SANTA FE by @saragenn

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