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Item Ships From: Santa Fe
Adrift #04
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #1
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Reticent Crown
By David Trautrimas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Wake of the Bind – 2016
We often speak of old, neglected buildings in anthropomorphic terms as having “good bones”. As such, the specter of death already haunts the languag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
When the Place You Know Isn
t the Place You Know
By David Trautrimas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Wake of the Bind – 2016
We often speak of old, neglected buildings in anthropomorphic terms as having “good bones”. As such, the specter of death already haunts the languag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Morning Sun
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Our Little Dancing Girl, Evelyn, Age 9
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tall Tales
Located in Santa Fe, NM
hand-finished cast urethan resin 12/20
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melissa Zink
Born 1932
Kansas City, Missouri
Died 2009 (aged 76–77)
Taos, New Mexico
Nationality American
Occupation(s) Artist, Sculptor
Melissa Zink (1932-2009) was an American artist. An active member of the Taos, New Mexico art scene, she blended storytelling with sculpture, and described the enchantment of books and the imaginary worlds they evoked as the focus of her work.[1] Critics lauded her as a "late bloomer" because she only began to exhibit and sell her multi-media works of ceramics, cast bronze, and collage, when she was in her forties.[2] She became known for her "three-dimensional stories" and "dream-like dioramas" in clay, interior scenes that blend whimsy with surrealism.[2][1] Later she cast large bronze statues of human figures embossed with texts drawn from dictionaries and illuminated manuscripts.[2] In 2001 she won a Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of New Mexico.[3] In 2021, one of her works featured in a special exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art entitled, "Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwich," which featured a group of artists in the 1970s and 1980s who together launched a movement described as "new Western art" or "Southwest pop".[4]
Education and career
Melissa Zink was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended the Emma Willard School, Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago, and the Kansas City Art Institute.[5] She later admitted that her professors' efforts to push her and her peers towards abstract expressionism during the 1950s deterred her from pursuing a career in art.[2] Instead she worked for many years by designing picture frames and operating an embroidery and craft shop while continuing to paint and experiment with various media in her free time.[6] In her forties, she married Nelson Zink, who encouraged her to pursue her artistic ambitions.
The owner of the Parks Gallery in Taos, which represented her for many years, described her works as aiming to replicate through multi-media art the "book experience, that altered state of consciousness we enter when engrossed in a book."[7] Though known primarily for her clay dioramas and bronze figural sculptures, in later years she also created multi-media, collage wall hangings that incorporated fabrics and painted elements.[1]
In 2000 Zink represented New Mexico at an exhibit of women artists called "From the States" held at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts.[1] In 2006 the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos staged an exhibition on her work.[8] In 2009, following her death, the Taos Art Museum and Fechin House staged a memorial exhibition entitled, "Melissa Zink: Her Singular World."[9]
She featured among leading women artists in the book Exposures: Women & Their Art by Betty Ann...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Resin
$3,000
Tempest
By Ken Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past several years of my life have been colored by change, both positive and adverse: a new partner; a new child; loved ones that have fallen ill at an early age; friends and fam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
Niagara 1949
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Measuring, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Richard Tuschman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Measuring, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
“Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz is a novella told in staged photographs. It portrays an episode in the life of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Glengoyne 116, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glengoyne 116, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Bough
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clouds Touch Stone
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Six Pears
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,700
Oval BA
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
2015 STORMS Release
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times bea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm Approaching Silo
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
New 2015 Storms Release
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 120, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 120, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 393, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 393, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 101, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 101, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Redly
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,500
The Macallan 333, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 333, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rosy
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,500
Glenlivet 122, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbed
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glenlivet 122, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbed
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & concer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hadrian
s Wall, Northumberland, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wastwater from Whinn Rigg, Cumbria, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rain Curtian
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times beautifully surreal, pow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cumbria, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Landspout
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times beautifully surreal, pow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Funnel–Cornfield, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Funnel–Cornfield, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prom Gown #1
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rite of Passage
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might addr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Daybreakers
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vineyard Blush
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marwari: Indigenous Spirits
In my eyes horses represent that which is beautiful and sacred in nature. In particular, the noble Marwari horses from India have captured my attentio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ring of Fire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dreaming in Reverse
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Impossible Intentions
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone of the Renaissance period painted breathtaking frescoes in which light created dramatic effects. Artists, such as these masters, inspired me to create photomontages that highlight the aesthetic power of light. Following recent travels in Italy, I was awed by the metaphysical nature of Tuscan light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Glow Sticks no. 2
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
File Tabs no. 1
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bear
s Claw, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered , archival ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monument Valley, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Monument Valley, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink. The 14x20 in. and 20x30 in. editions are one collective edition of 40.
Dobrowner presents landscapes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pathways
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...
Category
2010s Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Yarn, Wood, Wax
$10,800
Zebra #1, Los Angeles, CA
By Brad Wilson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the start, there was something immensely challenging and inspiring about working with animals. Up to that point, I had spent my career photographing subjects I largely controlle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rope Out, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rope Out, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Excavation V
By Martha Rea Baker
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Red white beige khaki orange brown rust maroon black
Martha Rea Baker’s technique of choice is driven by her selection of mediums. She has successfully moved between the unique pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Bars
Located in Santa Fe, NM
mixed media on panel
In his current body of work, Tim uses large gestural drawings to create energetic abstractions. The layered process of his pieces creates a rich textured surfac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Love Echoes
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...
Category
2010s Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Yarn, Wood, Wax
$10,800
Antique Dog Lithograph, Taste of Alfred De Dreux, France circa 1870 Wolfhound E
By Alfred de Dreux
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Portrait
Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux
Wolfhound E
France, circa 1870
Lithography
25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches
Six lithographs of dog portraits....
Category
1870s Romantic Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Landlocked (Recreation)", Abstract Landscape Mixed Media Print, 2025
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Landlocked (Recreation)” is a 16.25 x 10.875 inch unique mixed media abstracted landscape print represented on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper utilizing both print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Bamboo Paper, Monoprint, Archival Ink, Digital Pigment
Monochromatic
Located in Santa Fe, NM
mixed media on panel
framed in maple frame
black white gray
In his current body of work, Tim uses large gestural drawings to create energetic abstractions. The layered process of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
"Portrait of Zola" by Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan), oil on cardboard
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Portrait of Zola"
Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Oil on cardboard, signed
4 7/8 x 3 7/8 (16 1/2 x 15 3/8 frame) inches
Emin Abbasov is classically ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Shows about Nature / Small Point 2", Contemporary, Landscape, Print, 2018
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Show’s about Nature / Small Point 2” is a unique 7.75 x 7.25 inch inkjet print represented on 11 x 11 inch Red River Polar Matte photo paper. Two depictions of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Color, Digital, Paper, Digital Pigment
Sister to the Sun
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Ceramic
Golden Apples 46
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand Built and glazed ceramic. Free standing, two pieces (sphere and stand).
My interest in clay as an artistic medium began in 1984. Like most beginners in the medium, I focused ...
Category
2010s Abstract Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Ceramic
"Portrait of The Sage" by Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan), oil on cardboard
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Portrait of The Sage"
Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Oil on cardboard, signed
4 7/8 x 3 1/2 (16 x 14 1/2 frame) inches
Emin Abbasov is classically ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Ghost Ranch Encantado 1
By Elaine Holien
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Yellow Feather
Located in Santa Fe, NM
still life from Santa Fe artist Rush Cole
BIO
Rush Cole grew up loving the richness of Life! As she matured, she expressed her delight at being in this world by drawing and painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
Sombrero
Located in Santa Fe, NM
still life from Santa Fe artist Rush Cole
BIO
Rush Cole grew up loving the richness of Life! As she matured, she expressed her delight at being in this world by drawing and painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
Ghost Ranch 8
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be experienced and has led to a deeper understanding of what my expression in paint is all about. Painting traditional realism with good design as an important element was where I began.
Now, the evolution of my painting process has brought me to a point in which the subject, the texture of the oil medium and the physical application of the brushstrokes have become profoundly intertwined. All are so necessary to the finished work that if one were to be taken away the work would be left incomplete.
My hope is that the synthesis of the subject, design, expressive brush strokes and the texture of the paint come together to create a work of art in which the viewer experiences all of these elements at once in a powerful statement on canvas.
“New Mexico is a land of earthy colors and textures. Rocks, dirt, twiggy plants, reds and ochres against blue grays, dry, wet, cold, hot, mostly hard and rough create a movement in visual and tactile rhythms that surround me. There are times when I am standing in the New Mexico landscape on a warm day when I want to lay down and embrace it. I can’t help but be madly in love with the textures of everything around me. I am drawn to the irresistible forces that seem to bring me closer to the earth. The more I experience these textural qualities of the land, the more I am compelled to use them to express what I want to say. “
Martha was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California.
At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Students League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis.
She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Antique Dog Lithograph, Taste of Alfred De Dreux, France ca. 1870 Mastiff C
By Alfred de Dreux
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Portrait
Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux
Mastiff C
France, circa 1870
Lithography
25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches
Six lithographs of dog portraits.
...
Category
1870s Romantic Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Drawing of Putti in the Clouds by Jean-Jacques le Barbier l
Ainé (1738-1826)
By Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Drawing of Putti in the Clouds
Jean-Jacques le Barbier l'Ainé (France, 1738-1826)
Black pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower left "Le Barbier L'ainé 1816"
10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches ...
Category
1810s Academic Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Enlightened
By Cynthia Young
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Purple, dark green, peach, cream, blue.
Sky, clouds, landscape, nature, weather.
50 x 50" oil on canvas
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Threading Horizons 16
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...
Category
2010s Santa Fe - Art
Materials
Yarn, Wood, Wax
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