One + One = One
Collaborative work in Placitas by Rebecca Nolda and P.K. Williams
“Eclectic Echoes” By Rebecca Nolda and P.K. Williams in Placitas. Photo by Clarke Condé.
Simply named Collaboration, the new show at the Placitas Community Library features the work “Eclectic Echoes” as a collaboration between painters, Rebecca Nolda and P.K. Williams. Now, unless you live in Placitas, odds are you may have missed their local library. It’s also likely that if you are an art fan in Albuquerque, you may have failed to consider the place among your must-see list of art venues. Let me dissuade you of that notion. Discount Placitas and their Community Library at your own peril. I am constantly surprised at what I find there.
“Eclectic Echoes” is part of an ongoing series called One+One=One between these two prolific local painters started three years ago in which the two choose a palette and canvas size and then work independently towards the eventual goal of unification. Individually, both painters work in distinctive styles, only matching the two after each has been completed.
The process is not an uncommon creative exercise, but the result in “Eclectic Echoes” is exceptional. The whole is truly greater than its parts. Isn’t that what we all hope for in collaboration?
“Eclectic Echoes”
By Rebecca Nolda and P.K. Williams
Placitas Community Library
Through July 14