Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, a friendly, local art gallery here in Santa Fe. No one in the art gallery industry has a more artistic space and if you’ll give us a chance, we’ll show you why. We strive to present high quality and creative work for our visitors. We display various forms of art in our gallery: sculptures, paintings, furnishings, and jewelry. Our pieces cover numerous art styles and are created by a multitude of local and international artists. 

At Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, we nurture and support our artists, foster their art, and promote and sell their works. We provide time for our clients to focus fully on their art, while we handle the day to day art gallery life of their pieces. When touring our gallery, whether as an artist or visitor, we’ll deliver a quiet and warm environment, so you feel relaxed as you browse our many exhibits. If you’re looking to buy a piece, our customer service will be just as warm and friendly, so your entire experience is pleasurable.

When you give us a call you will be directly connected with our owners, Michael and Kristi Sugarman, so you can expect immediate attention to your inquiry.

We offer a wide array of art at our art gallery from carefully selected artists including various painters, jewelers, sculptors and furnishings. We have art pieces from artists all over the world, and we also do your best to support local artists in the Santa Fe area. Please stop by our art gallery today.

Our primary focus for our painters, jewelers, sculptors is on contemporary art.  We strive to present high-quality and creative work for our visitors. Our artists are local and international, making for a truly encompassing art experience. Please stop by our art gallery today.

Our art gallery is located just a skip from the plaza downtown.  Our art gallery features the jewelry designs of Michael Sugarman and Christie Frantz. We are dedicated to presenting unique pieces from local and abroad artists.

Our ary gallery is located at:

Sugarman Peterson Gallery 

130 West Palace Avenue

Santa Fe, NM 87501

Please be sure to stop by our art gallery today!

Contemporary art is the art of today, mainly referring to art that was produced from the 1950’s to today. According to Wikipedia: “Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, multicultural,  technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 1900’s. Contemporary art can be eclectic ad diverse, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a larger cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, community,  family and nationality.”  

Contemporary art takes many forms and different styles have come and gone since the 1950’s. Our art gallery presents many forms of contemporary art. Wikipedia lists the following style of contemporary art broken down by decade:

Contemporary art in the 1950s

• Abstract Expressionism

• American Figurative Expressionism

• American scene painting

• Antipodeans

• Bay Area Figurative Movement

• COBRA (avant-garde movement)

• Color Field

• Generación de la Ruptura

• Gutai group

• Lenticular prints

• Les Plasticiens

• Lyrical Abstraction (Abstract lyrique)

• Modern traditional Balinese painting

• New York Figurative Expressionism

• New York School

• Serial art

• Situationist International

• Soviet Nonconformist Art

• Red Shirt School of Photography

• Tachisme

• Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

• Washington Color School

Contemporary art in the 1960s

• Abstract expressionism

• Abstract Imagists

• American Figurative Expressionism

• Art & Language

• Bay Area Figurative Movement

• BMPT

• Chicago Imagists

• Chicano art movement

• Color field

• Computer art

• Conceptual art

• Fluxus

• Happenings

• Hard-edge painting

• Lenticular prints

• Kinetic art

• Light and Space

• Lyrical Abstraction (American version)

• Minimalism

• Mono-ha

• Neo-Dada

• New York School

• Nouveau Réalisme

• Op Art

• Performance art

• Plop Art

• Pop Art

• Postminimalism

• Post-painterly Abstraction

• Psychedelic art

• Soft sculpture

• Systems art

• Video art

• Zero

Contemporary art in the 1970s

• Arte Povera

• Ascii Art

• Bad Painting

• Body art

• Artist's book

• COUM Transmissions

• Environmental art

• Feminist art

• Froissage

• Holography

• Installation art

• Land Art

• Lowbrow (art movement)

• Mail art

• Papunya Tula

• Photorealism

• Postminimalism

• Process Art

• Robotic art

• Saint Soleil School

• Video art

• Funk art

• Pattern and Decoration

• Warli painting revival

• Wildstyle

Contemporary art in the 1980s

• NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

• Appropriation art

• Culture jamming

• Demoscene

• Electronic art

• Environmental art

• Figuration Libre

• Fractal art

• Graffiti Art

• Late Modernism

• Live art

• Neue Slowenische Kunst

• Postmodern art

• Neo-conceptual art

• Neo-expressionism

• Neo-pop

• Sound art

• Transavantgarde

• Transgressive art

• Vancouver School

• Video installation

• Institutional Critique

• Western and Central Desert art

Contemporary art at 1990s

• Art intervention

• Body art

• Bio art

• Cyberarts

• Cynical Realism

• Digital Art

• Hyperrealism

• Indigenouism

• Information art

• Internet art

• Massurrealism

• Maximalism

• New Leipzig School

• New media art

• New European Painting

• Relational art

• Software art

• Toyism

• Tactical media

• Taring Padi

• Verdadism

• Western and Central Desert art

• Young British Artists

Contemporary art 2000s

• Altermodern

• Classical Realism

• Cynical realism

• Excessivism

• idea art

• Kitsch movement

• Post-contemporary

• Metamodernism

• Pseudorealism

• Remodernism

• Renewable energy sculpture

• Street art

• Stuckism

• Superflat

• Superstroke

• Urban art

• Videogame art

• VJ art

• Virtual art

2010s

• Postinternet

• Art Résilience

Please be sure to visit our art gallery today to see our latest displays of contemporary art.

Feel free to reach out to our art gallery at any time with any questions you may have on our art gallery or any of our specific questions about any of our art pieces. We are here to help. You can reach us by phone at (505) 438-2958 or by email at sugarmangallery@gmail.com.

Gallery on Palace is just a skip from the plaza downtown, featuring the jewelry designs of Michael Sugarman and Christie Frantz. Our art gallery is dedicated to presenting unique pieces from local and abroad artists. Stop by today!