As the heat of summer lays its absurd spell all over town, smoke the moon presents Ten Gallon Hat: a group show of work by Zac Brenner, Brooke Denton, Sam Hawley, Paulina Ho and Oskar Peterson. These 5 New Mexico based artists will present work in smoke the moon’s casita gallery that is both playful and resolved, each piece an invitation to descend into a surreal universe. Ten Gallon Hat opens Friday, June 28th, 2024 and is on view through Sunday, August 4th, 2024. Please join us for an opening reception on June 28th from 6 - 8pm.

The works in this show embody summer’s spirit: they appear drenched in color and humming with a rambunctious, collective vigor. Each painting in this show pens its own language; a constellation of style, reference and symbology that fuses the known and the unknown to create a new space. Animals become dear friends, faces melt into and out of paintings from life, and a tone of revelry precedes all. Each artist in Ten Gallon Hat is working through a relationship to the high desert; inside jokes kicking up dust, filling their hats to the brim and catching a new angle like mica in a stream. There is a profound sweetness to the way these artists are working, and the works emerge united by a devotion to small moments.