Untitled
Harold Joe Waldrum
Created : n.d.
Donated : 1993
Medium : Lithograph
Dimensions: 19 1/2 inx19 1/2 in
Located: 3rd Floor,South Main Hallway
Many of the early modernist painters and photographers, like Georgia O’Keeffe and Paul Strand, were seduced by the earth-formed churches, particularly of northern New Mexico, and transformed them into series of abstractions. Waldrum’s church series alludes to the timeless seduction of these earth-formed structures of New Mexico. For Waldrum, the feeling of immanence has been communally symbolized in the small adobe churches in the remote Hispanic villages of northern New Mexico. His abstractions of these sacred spaces are attempts to recapture this feeling of immanence, which he feels is quietly disappearing.
Waldrum’s work is included in the following permanent collections: the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Texas International Airlines, Houston; and the Anschutz Collection, Denver.
