Lapis Room

Thrilled to announce the upcoming solo show by Adam Bustamante. 🌋

Neon Trinity
Opens Thursday, June 4
5-8pm at Lapis Room

Adam’s current work maintains many traditions from his time as a realist painter; the awareness of effective texture and opacity as well as subtle shifts in temperature and distinctive layering to convey the turning of form and transformation of plains and surfaces. However, these considerations are now juxtaposed with explosions of fluorescent color, unorthodox paint application, foreign items wedged into the paint, as well as fragmentation and disintegration of his subjects. Moments of realism, impressionism, surrealism, modernism, and even a little vandalism are often interlaced in a single portrait.

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Lapis Room now open Wednesday–Sunday from 11AM–7PM.

Mondays + Tuesdays are a little more mysterious around here — catch us by chance or by appointment.

Still a place to wander, linger, and fall in love with art, just slightly updated hours. 🤍

Come get lost in the found object work of TCH! 👽

Open today until 6pm!

Sneak peek 👀 .arthouse

🪑 At The Blue Wall
🪑 This Friday
🪑 Curated by

Can’t wait to see you all this Friday!
Flyby Provisions 201 Coal Ave / 5-9pm
Lapis Room, 303 Romero St S107 / open until 8pm!

This is the day! 💛

Let’s celebrate this Totally Cute Homeboy! TCH!

Thomas Christopher Haag was born in Wichita, Kansas into family as vast as the sea. He took chemistry and math classes for some reason at the University of Kansas and then dropped out and started hitchhiking. He has lived in southern Mexico, Switzerland, India, Spain, the Pacific Northwest and the great American Southwest. For the past 20 years, he has been ridiculously involved and desperately in love with the New Mexico art scene, living and working in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos. When heʼs had to work, heʼs been a commercial diver, propman, art director, low-volume smuggler, curator and gallery owner. He also once worked for eleven days in a dog food factory where they made Kibblesʼ n Bits, but he prefers to paint. An avid muralist, both commissioned and not, he has painted buildings in Oaxaca, Barcelona, Venice, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Varanasi, Bangkok, Rangoon, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Oakland and many other places, under the names “Detach” “Stove”, and “El Pituitario”. He has exhibited with the likes of Shepard Fairey, Chaz Bojorquez, Swoon, Gaia, Slinkachu, Henry Chalfant, Mark Jenkins, Chris Stain, and Chip Thomas.

Using “reclaimed” house paint taken from chemical disposal facilities, found wood, and discarded books, he constructs multi-layered, collaged paintings and assemblages which reference ancient cultures and spiritual traditions, but with just a hint of smart-ass. Homages to criminal saints, a bodhisattva telling a fart joke, events of divine banality and cosmic significance, stripped of pretense or stuffed with it. Either way, it is all holy s**t.