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Item Ships From: New Mexico
Mad Mauve
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Spode Blue Italian with Lime, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Spode Blue Italian with Lime, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Green Beaned
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sunrise Over Lone Pine, limited edition photograph, signed, archival ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sunrise Over Lone Pine, limited edition photograph, signed, archival ink "The Eastern Sierra Nevada has always been a major inspiration for me - and a reason why I started photographing the landscapes of the Desert Southwest. Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills and specifically the town of Lone Pine was one of the first areas I spent time exploring when I first arrived in California (30+ years ago). The sight and majesty of Lone Pine Peak and Mount Whitney...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Kindness of Strangers, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment
By Richard Tuschman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Kindness of Strangers, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment “Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz is a novella told in staged photographs. It portrays an episode in th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bone Clamp, Vice Grip
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"The Beauty of the Uncommon Tools" is from Tony Chirinos' project entitled, "The Precipice", - also released as a book project by Gnomic Book in 2021 - which serves as a photographic...
Category

2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Yankauer Suction Tube
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"The Beauty of the Uncommon Tools" is from Tony Chirinos' project entitled, "The Precipice", - also released as a book project by Gnomic Book in 2021 - which serves as a photographic...
Category

2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Kauai, Subtle and Select", Abstract, Architecture, Flora, Pink, Print, 2019
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Kauai, Subtle and Select” is an 8 x 10 inch unique abstract inkjet print represented on 16.5 x 11.5 inch Awagami Washi paper and is part of her “Pieces and Pictur...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Digital, Color

Nishiki 3
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silk, Archival Ink, Sumi Ink

Spine
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes" On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Quarantine #51 (Day #65)
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual j...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Quarantine #38 (Day #46)
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual j...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Arrow Motel, Highway 84, Espanola, New Mexico, March 23, 1982
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Vanishing Vernacular series. Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

8 Minutes at Glacier Point
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores these landscapes and the marks left on them by man. His images, like O'Sullivan's, have a human context - whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Working mostly in the desert Southwest...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Inkjet

Current, abstract painting by Glenn Green, red, black, blue, yellow on canvas
By Glenn A. Green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Current, abstract painting by Glenn Green, red, black, blue, yellow on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Llech y Dribedd, Wales
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category

1990s New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Spode Buttercup with Beans, limited edition, archival ink, signed and numbered
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Spode Buttercup with Beans, limited edition, archival ink, signed and numbered Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing the...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Volkmann Retractor, Sharp-pointed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"The Beauty of the Uncommon Tools" is from Tony Chirinos' project entitled, "The Precipice", - also released as a book project by Gnomic Book in 2021 - which serves as a photographic...
Category

2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Kia Tupato Mokopuna (Be Vigilant Granddaughter), acrylic on canvas, Maori art
By June Northcroft Grant
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This painting is about the protectors I envisage for my Mokopuna (Granddaughter) Kimiora. The owl or morepork is a guardian for my family and the owl is depicted by the “Ruru” in a c...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled (W.O.F 15-1)
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Works of Fire When I look into the night sky I am awestruck by the darkness that is the universe. As the sparse light of the stars descends, I am entangled in a state of wonder, sea...
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

To the Flow 2
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
practiced since childhood. I take a line from one character, and when that brushstroke is made it tells me where the next one should be placed. This method of working is untraditional. I have found that the details and individual lines of a character are beautiful by themselves. I may use the individual brushstrokes that form a written word, Japanese letters...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

Helsinki, Finland (Ducks On Floating Ice)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category

1970s Minimalist New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Zion No. 59
By Edward Bateman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For those of us who live in the West, mountains are more than just landmarks; they dene a sense of home. We have memories associated with our mountains; those we grew up surrounded by; remembering the rst time we saw one, and the people we visited them with. This gave us all a larger sense of where we locate home. During our recent pandemic, home shrunk to the walls that surrounded us. Real experiences became mediated through computers and the Internet – but something felt lost: a living connection with things bigger than ourselves. But we kept our memories – waiting to be triggered by a photograph or reminder of the mountains that could bring back that sense of the sublime. Mountains and nature have long been places of peace and refuge. There are few emotions about places for which adequate single words exist. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the word sublime arose to describe the feelings that the natural world can evoke in us. At home, on my kitchen table, I have been trying to capture something of that sublime in bits of plastic. Using geographical data from the Internet, I used my 3D printer to make the memories of those mountains tangible. With a small fog machine, I create atmospheres and clouds. Sunlight through a window illuminates some, while others were lit with a variety of sources including ber optic lights used for microscopy. For me, these images evoke the place I call home; and remind me that it is our memories that make a place special. At Home in the West was created as a companion to Yosemite: Seeking Sublime, which premiered at photo-eye Gallery in November 2020. In December of that year, work from that series was invited to the Art of Staying at Home; Artists in the Time of Corona exhibition at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, where I was the only U.S. artist from eight countries included. Additional works from that series will soon be exhibited at the Krakow Triennial in Poland and at the Earth Photo...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lake Blanche No. 4
By Edward Bateman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For those of us who live in the West, mountains are more than just landmarks; they dene a sense of home. We have memories associated with our mountains; those we grew up surrounded by; remembering the rst time we saw one, and the people we visited them with. This gave us all a larger sense of where we locate home. During our recent pandemic, home shrunk to the walls that surrounded us. Real experiences became mediated through computers and the Internet – but something felt lost: a living connection with things bigger than ourselves. But we kept our memories – waiting to be triggered by a photograph or reminder of the mountains that could bring back that sense of the sublime. Mountains and nature have long been places of peace and refuge. There are few emotions about places for which adequate single words exist. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the word sublime arose to describe the feelings that the natural world can evoke in us. At home, on my kitchen table, I have been trying to capture something of that sublime in bits of plastic. Using geographical data from the Internet, I used my 3D printer to make the memories of those mountains tangible. With a small fog machine, I create atmospheres and clouds. Sunlight through a window illuminates some, while others were lit with a variety of sources including ber optic lights used for microscopy. For me, these images evoke the place I call home; and remind me that it is our memories that make a place special. At Home in the West was created as a companion to Yosemite: Seeking Sublime, which premiered at photo-eye Gallery in November 2020. In December of that year, work from that series was invited to the Art of Staying at Home; Artists in the Time of Corona exhibition at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, where I was the only U.S. artist from eight countries included. Additional works from that series will soon be exhibited at the Krakow Triennial in Poland and at the Earth Photo...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

With the Pack
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are rela...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Opening Act
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
14 x 14 inches, Edition of 20, $750 20 x 20 inches, Edition of 20, $1200 30 x 30 inches, Edition of 10, $2300 Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled #4 (Suburban Bus)
By Alejandro Cartagena
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Almost daily between 1993 and 2004, Alejandro Cartagena would commute on a suburban bus from Monterrey to the suburban city of Juarez and back. Working at his family’s restaurant, he...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Deep Delight
By Molly McCall
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In Home Movies McCall employs the cinematic qualities of found vintage photographs to construct narratives exploring the passage of time, transition, transformation, and loss. Each s...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Varnish, Oil, Silver Gelatin

Landscape #41
By Vanessa Marsh
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sometimes there is a hazy, almost tropical light that falls over the Bay Area. The moisture in the air falls on the landscape and makes it appear as a series of two-dimensional plane...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Ink

Untitled (W.O.F 15-41)
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Works of Fire When I look into the night sky I am awestruck by the darkness that is the universe. As the sparse light of the stars descends, I am entangled in a state of wonder, sea...
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Its Only Natural
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
14 x 14 inches, Edition of 20, $750 20 x 20 inches, Edition of 20, $1200 30 x 30 inches, Edition of 10, $2300 Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The conundrum
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
photo-eye Gallery is very excited to share new work from represented artist Maggie Taylor. After completing her prodigious series of illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Through the Loo...
Category

2010s Assemblage New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Canyon Road, by John Hogan, lithograph, edition, black, white, Santa Fe
By John Hogan (American)
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Canyon Road, by John Hogan, lithograph, edition, black, white, Santa Fe hand pulled lithograph edition signed and numbered by the artist unframed 30 x 44 paper size John Hogan A gr...
Category

1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tree of Life, Mesquite, Full Moon Rising, Bahrain
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled #108
By Vanessa Marsh
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vanessa Marsh is an American artist living and working in California. Her series The Sun Beneath the Sky reflects upon the nature of light, atmosphere, geology and time. Layers of pa...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Photogram

Line of Trees, Biei, Hokkaido, Japan
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Revenge of the Plates
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled #10 (Suburban Bus)
By Alejandro Cartagena
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Almost daily between 1993 and 2004, Alejandro Cartagena would commute on a suburban bus from Monterrey to the suburban city of Juarez and back. Working at his family’s restaurant, he...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Odessa, Ukraine, 2004
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environm...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

SUO SARUMAWASHI, photo-eye EDITIONS portfolio
By Hiroshi Watanabe
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photo-eye editions is pleased to announce our second publication, Suo Sarumawashi by Hiroshi Watanabe. Sarumawashi, "monkey dancing," has been in existence for over a thousand years ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Two Suns
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Highway 90, Van Horn, Texas; March 24, 2006
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In “American Motel Signs” Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful dynamic, advertisements inviting weary traveler to park their car and pack it in for the...
Category

20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Running Heart, gold, bronze, sculpture, valentine, heart, runner, love, racer
By Glenn Green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Running Heart, gold, bronze, sculpture, valentine, heart, runner, love, racer Bronze Running Heart sculpture gold patina wood base open edition, number stamped on foot
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Resin

Cicada
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Wonderful
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition of 15 Other Editions: 15 x 15" Edition of 15- $3,200 22 x 22" Edition of 10- $5,000 36 x 36" Edition of 9- $9,000 After completing her prodigious series of illustrations fo...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cypress Creek, November 19, 2000, 7:32AM, Wimberley, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
28 x 50" 8-ply mat for an additional $203.00 - Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Pentre Ifan, Wales
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category

1990s New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Accidents Will Happen
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
14 x 14 inches, Edition of 20, $750 20 x 20 inches, Edition of 20, $1200 30 x 30 inches, Edition of 10, $2300 Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Library of Prayer Books, Ladakh, India
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and spirituality. Appropriately, her subject matter is often in spiritual c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

L-17
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Painting has always been a part of my life. Over the course of many years I explored various styles of painting. I found that the more I let go and gave into simply the act of pain...
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stilbon (Three)
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Stilbon Stilbon in the ancient Greek religion, is the sky god of Hermaon, the planet Mercury, and one of the Astra Planeta. The word, Stilbon, means sh...
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Stilbon (One)
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Stilbon Stilbon in the ancient Greek religion, is the sky god of Hermaon, the planet Mercury, and one of the Astra Planeta. The word, Stilbon, means sh...
Category

2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled #21 (Suburban Bus)
By Alejandro Cartagena
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Almost daily between 1993 and 2004, Alejandro Cartagena would commute on a suburban bus from Monterrey to the suburban city of Juarez and back. Working at his family’s restaurant, he...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Aram Black Orchid with Berries, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aram Black Orchid with Berries, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Plains Indian Medallion, bronze, Nambe, Allan Houser, small life-time casting
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Plains Indian Medallion, bronze, Nambe, Allan Houser, small life-time casting Allan Houser (Haozous), Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1992. Allan Houser's father Sam, was part of the small band of Apaches who traveled with Geronimo and surrendered in southern Arizona in 1886. Allan's parents were imprisoned with that group in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He was the first child to be born in freedom to those Apaches and a fluent speaker of the Chiricahua language. Allan Houser is an important artist in that he is of the culture he depicts in his artwork. Allan's parents would tell stories and sing songs recalling the experiences on the war path. This bronze edition is a life-time casting. Our gallery represented Allan Houser from 1974 until his passing in 1994 and were investors and provided quality control in the foundry process. Allan Houser's work is many international collections including the Georges Pomidou Centre, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Dahlem Museum among others. Allan’s first bronze sculptures were started in the late 1960’s and were cast at Nambe Foundry. At the time the foundry was producing both Nambeware and was doing some sculptural foundry work. There was a fire at Nambe and they lost many of the molds for sculpture as well as their records. We acquired these works directly from Allan Houser. Allan Houser (Haozous), Chiricahua Apache (1914-1994) Selected Collections Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France * “They’re Coming”, bronze Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany Japanese Royal Collection, Tokyo, Japan “The Eagle”, black marble commissioned by President William J. Clinton United States Mission to the United Nations, New York City, NY *"Offering of the Sacred Pipe”, monumental bronze by Allan Houser © 1979 Presented to the United States Mission to the United Nations as a symbol of World Peace honoring the native people of all tribes in these United States of America on February 27, 1985 by the families of Allan and Anna Marie Houser, George and Thelma Green and Glenn and Sandy Green in New York City. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC * Portrait of Geronimo, bronze National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. * “Buffalo Dance Relief”, Indiana limestone National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. *Sacred Rain Arrow, (Originally dedicated at the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, US Senate Building) “Goat”, “To The Great Spirit” - dedicated in 1994 at the Vice President’s Residence in Washington, D.C.. Ceremony officiated by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tipper Gore. Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma City, Ok * “As Long As the Waters Flow”, bronze Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK *Sacred Rain Arrow, bronze Fort Sill, Oklahoma *”Chiricahua Apache Family”, bronze Donated and dedicated to Allan Houser’s parents Sam and Blossom Haozous by Allan Houser and Glenn and Sandy Green The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona *Earth Song, marble donated by Glenn and Sandy Green   The Clinton Presidential Library, Arkansas * “May We Have Peace”, bronze The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas *"Offering to the Great Spirit", bronze The British Royal Collection, London, England *Princess Anne received "Proud Mother", bronze in Santa Fe Allan Houser’s father Sam Haozous, surrendered at the age of 14 with Geronimo and his band of Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache people in 1886 in Southern Arizona. This was the last active war party in the United States. This group of Apache people was imprisoned for 27 years starting in Fort Marion, Florida and finally living in captivity in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Allan Houser was born in 1914. His artwork is an ongoing testimony to Native life in America – its beauty, strength and poignancy. Allan Houser is from the culture and portrayed his people in an insightful and authentic way. Because of the era in which he lived, he had a rare understanding of American Indian life. Allan was the first child born after the Chiricahua Apaches were released from 27 years of captivity. Allan grew up speaking the Chiricahua dialect. Allan heard his father’s stories of being on the warpath with Geronimo and almost nightly heard his parents singing traditional Apache music. Allan’s father knew all of Geronimo’s medicine songs. Allan had an early inclination to be artistic. He was exposed to many Apache ceremonial art forms: music, musical instruments, special dress, beadwork, body painting and dynamic dance that are integral aspects of his culture. His neighbors were members of many different tribes who lived in Oklahoma. Allan eagerly gained information about them and their cultures. Allan gathered this information and mentally stored images until he brought them back to life, years later, as a mature artist. Allan Houser was represented by Glenn Green Galleries (formerly known as The Gallery Wall, Inc.) from 1973 until his death in 1994. The gallery served as agents, advocates, and investors during this time. In 1973 the Greens responded enthusiastically to the abstraction and creativity in Houser’s work. They were impressed, not only with his versatility and talent but with the number of mediums he employed. His subject matter was portrayed in styles ranging from realism, stylized form to abstraction. With encouragement from the Greens, Houser at the age of 61, retired from his post as the head of the sculpture department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1975 to begin working full-time creating his art. The next 20-year period was an exciting time for Allan, the gallery, and for the Green family. He created a large body of sculpture in stone, wood and bronze. For many years Glenn Green Galleries co-sponsored many editions of his bronzes and acted as quality control for the bronze sculptures according to Houser’s wishes. As both agents and gallery representatives, the Greens promoted and sold his art in their galleries in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They had bi-annual exhibits in their galleries to feature Houser’s newest work and sponsored and arranged international museum shows in America, Europe and Asia. They travelled for these events including a trip to Carrara, Italy to the famed quarries of Michelangelo and together co-financed and arranged the purchase of 20 tons of marble. A watershed event for Allan Houser’s career occurred in the early 1980’s when Glenn Green Galleries arranged with the US Information Agency a touring exhibit of his sculpture through Europe. This series of exhibits drew record attendance for these museums and exposed Houser’s work to an enthusiastic art audience. This resulted in changing the perception of contemporary Native art in the United States where Houser and Glenn Green Galleries initially faced resistance from institutions who wanted to categorize him in a regional way. The credits from the European exhibits helped open doors and minds of the mainstream art community in the United States and beyond. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii was a supporter of Allan Houser’s artwork. We worked with Senator Inouye on many occasions hosting events at our gallery and in Washington D.C in support of the formation of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. and other causes supporting Native Americans. Allan Houser is shown below presenting his sculpture “Swift Messenger” to Senator Inouye in Washington, D.C.. This sculpture was eventually given to the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian’s permanent collection. It is now currently on loan and on display in the Oval Office. President Biden’s selection of artwork continues our gallery’s and Allan’s connection to the White House from our time working with Allan Houser from 1974 until his passing in 1994. “It was important for President Biden to walk into an Oval that looked like America and started to show the landscape of who he is going to be as president,” Ashley Williams...
Category

1970s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Bronze

Tatum, New Mexico, August 22, 2014
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In American Motel Signs Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful dynamic, advertisements inviting weary traveler to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Furnished
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Wanderer
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates what she calls “dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects.” To make her intricate compositions, Taylor collages a variety of images using digital technology. She begins with small pastel drawings to use as backgrounds, then scans each additional element into the computer and combines them using Photoshop, arranging figures much in the same way she creates still lifes in the studio. Finding inspiration in 19th-century photographs, taxidermy specimens, mounted insects, vintage toys, sea shells, feathers, and other artifacts she finds at flea markets, online auctions, and in her own backyard, Taylor creates surreal pigmented digital prints that call to mind tintype photographs...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Arrowhead and Bullet from Campsite Used by Hunters for Centuries, 11/25/89
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson...
Category

1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Inkjet

Aromati Del Gazia
By Susannah Hays
Located in Sante Fe, NM
SUSANNAH HAYS approaches her photographic practice as a philosopher experiences poetic material renderings of our phenomenological world. Investigating tangible objects, each of her ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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