Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
Please call gallery director Regina Held to arrange a private gallery tour, make a purchase, or ask any questions.
I am particularly drawn to art that tells the story of a place - whether a literal, representational landscape or a piece that brings in elements to represent the place in a more abstract way.
I love how art can bring people together, telling each other about our homes - where we are from - is such an important way to build community. One of the most powerful ways that I have experienced this is through sketching on location. Several years ago, I traveled to China and Vietnam. I spent many hours sketching in public. I found it such a beautiful way to connect with people around me, despite the language barrier. Children would watch me draw, and their parents would come over to see what I was doing and would exclaim and point between the page and the view before us.
My current work is an exploration into the 19th century photographic techniques of cyanotype and multi-color gum bichromate. These techniques precede non-silver photography and create rich, complex images through many layers of repeated emulsion application, exposure, and rinsing.
Central New Mexican landscapes, shot from the perspective of highways and rural roads, city and countryside, offer the opportunity to consider our place in the vastness. Mountains and clouds, roads and fencerows, sunrises and sunsets, are presented here in small portraits to honor both the ordinary presence and remarkable beauty of the scenery.
I have really enjoyed my recent forays into cyanotype and multi-color gum bichromate. I can present my beloved NM landscapes with the rich, full color it deserves! Sunsets are flamboyant, and it’s a pleasure to present them as such. I recognize that my use of color is not strictly photo-accurate, but I’m trying to share what it feels like to move through this landscape. This recent work is a direct result of my daily commute through central New Mexico. It’s influenced by both the routine of the mundane—the daily grind, traffic, schedules, as well as the astonishing landscape and sometimes tricky weather. The mountains in this area were formed 10 million years ago, they care not for the traffic, the spring winds, nor the awe-struck silly artist shooting through the windshield. And yet! I am compelled to continue shooting and sharing.