The Creative Spark: A Tradition of Contemporary Visions arrives at Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe in 2026. Co-curated by Natalie Featherston and Anthony Waichulis, this special exhibition explores the living relationship between tradition and innovation, celebrating artists who engage historical forms, genres, and techniques not as fixed boundaries, but as foundations for contemporary invention.
Opening November 20, 2026, The Creative Spark invites viewers to consider how the past continues to ignite fresh visual languages, new meanings, and unmistakably contemporary visions.
The exhibition arrives at a moment when both the validity of the tool and the role of tradition in contemporary art are receiving renewed attention. Across a wide range of practices, artists continue to draw from classical forms, historical genres, and long-standing technical disciplines not as acts of nostalgia, but as means of expanding what contemporary representation can do. In this spirit, The Creative Spark highlights artists who draw upon inherited visual languages while transforming them through distinctly personal, present-day sensibilities.
Rather than presenting tradition and innovation as opposing forces, the exhibition emphasizes their interdependence. Tradition is approached not as a static inheritance, but as a living framework—one that artists continue to reinterpret, challenge, and renew. The works brought together for this exhibition demonstrate how continuity in form can accommodate radical shifts in meaning, and how historical awareness can become a catalyst for contemporary invention.
Featured artists include Natalie Featherston, Anthony Waichulis, Silvia Davis, David Baird, David Michael Bowers, Jacob A. Pfeiffer, Fatima Ronquillo, Julie Beck, Megan Read, June Stratton, Diego Glazer, Scott Conary, Mark R. Pugh, Mary Carroll, Alisa Shea, Rodney O’Dell Davis, Maxwell Miller, Michael Carson, Sharon Moody, Brian O’Neill, Anthony Adcock, Patrick Kramer, Anna Wypych, and Vincent Xeus.
Opening Reception: November 20, 2026
Location: Meyer Gallery, Santa Fe
More information will be available through Meyer Gallery.
