CB and Kacie // collborations

Based in New Mexico, CB Bryan and Kacie Erin Smith create a variety of artworks and happenings exploring homes, place and community. Building on a series of art-focused bike tours and camping trips together, they share stories of the sentimental and the absurd.

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a little art-trek, quite a haul for the weekend from Albuquerque to Joshua Tree!

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Mobile Gravy for Arts Unexpected public art festival, Albuquerque, NM, April 29, 2016.

Mobile Gravy is an ongoing collaborative performance. It puts on the facade of a food truck offering plates, sides, and elixirs. Viewers order one of each from our menu and are served a customized artwork combining painting and silkscreen. This project calls on our genuine love of food and farming, vintage kitchen wares and the hand-made. At the same time, we revel in facilitating humorous encounters and conversation, highlighting both harmony and absurdity related to commerce, mobility and sustainability.

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Plates

- chilequiles and quelitas

- buffalo burger on rye

- spaghetti western

Sides 

- piñon pitch posole

- gravy

- The Answer

Elixirs

- sunrise elixir - 

- juniper jug

- moon milk

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blast from the past, all the way from July of 2015! 

kacie and i put our bikes on the rail runner (NM’s commuter train) and rode from abq to santa fe and then continued on bike to Abiquiu, NM. 

We brought waay too much stuff and hit a huge patch of muddy/floody road, took a couple rides from funny men in trucks (why oh why!) and saw some of the most beautiful sunsets. Great weather and great land!

here’s to perhaps another ride in 2016!

xo

cb

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sunday sandia shadow play

felt so special and good to hang around the chollas and desert cottontails as the sunset cast our shadows onto our mobile theater!

we didn’t go far off trail so hikers and runners circulated for a little while -- probably wondering what we were doing! the thought of sharing all of this is exciting and being in places that I love make all actions just a little bit more meaningful.

xo

cb

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making videos with Harriet Fawcett, 24 August 2015, San Rafael Swell, UT

photo by Kacie

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Wilderness Studio 2015

The zine ‘just for you my dear desert’ was printed in conjunction with our group installation of the same name, documenting aspects of Wilderness Studio, a 12-person journey throughout the Chihuahuan Desert. After traveling from New Mexico down to the southern border of Texas, we created in exhibition which “hinted at the sublime nature of that desert and exploring a certain vastness within ourselves. Limited by what we could carry on our backs, many mountains, valleys, caves, cacti, vermillion tanagers, The Rio Grande, hot springs, and the Milky Way provided abundant inspiration.” 

John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque. May/June 2015.

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A blog for the Land Arts program in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico.

CB and Kacie’s entries on the Gila River

http://unmlandarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/song-of-river.html

http://unmlandarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/song-of-river.html

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Yellow Cake, Black Coal and Green Machines: responses to extraction site in Dinetah, CB Bryan, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Kacie Erin Smith, mixed media installation including audio, photographs, pine shelf, cornmeal, churro wool, juniper

The project is the artists’ response to a four-day journey throughout the Navajo Nation looking at extraction sites. Guided by Diné activists Anna Rondon, Malcolm Benally, Larry Emerson and Etta Arviso, the artists were exposed to abandoned uranium mines, the Peabody Coal Mine, and numerous fracking pads near Chaco Canyon.

Exhibited in John Sommers Gallery (December 2015) and CFA Downtown (March 2016)

related links:

http://nbcs.healthyvoices.org/

https://www.youtube.com/user/mbenallyBW

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One Sandy Wash Troupe in Cebolla Canyon and Valle Vidal, NM

CB Bryan, Eleanora Jaroszynska, and Kacie Erin Smith

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Mobile Gravy, Big Bend State Park, Far West Texas, October 2015

A surprise food truck in the cargo van for participants of Land Arts of the American West. Colorful concoctions, which we had spent several days painting and stenciling in a nearby arroyo, were taped to our 'customers’ bowls of edible breakfast - granola and yogurt. In the back of the van, customers could read up on wildlife, geology and water in the Southwest in the Henel Reading Room.

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plates

- spaghetti

- fish taco

- toast

sides

- fried egg

- sushi

- gravy

elixirs

- chicory root shots

- boysenberry ginger

- wheatgress