Wolves

 

Wolves is an installation piece comprised of life-size, cut out, oil paintings on yupo paper, collaged directly onto the gallery wall using temporary adhesive. Size variable — approx 7 ft x 10 ft. (This iteration shown at Harwood Art Center in Practice//Portal, 2025.)

Reviving the Desert Sunset

 

Reviving the Desert Sunset is a temporary mural commissioned by SOMOS Abq 2020. It’s composed solely of charcoal and lime wash.

Deep Rooted

Deep Rooted is a temporary site-specific art installation commissioned by SOMOS Abq 2019. The piece involved the creation and destruction of a 10 foot circular sand painting of flowers native to New Mexico. Through colorful depictions of local plants, nature is reintroduced into the paved environment of Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza. The work is then offered up to the unpredictable impulses of both weather and human actions. Deep Rooted invites viewers to reflect on the beauty and value of native plants as well as the resilience and potential fragility of our natural environment.

Divinely Human: the Three Graces

A contemporary re-imagining of the Three Graces from ancient Greece, these three Albuquerque Goddesses each stand 8 feet tall. Built of wood, fabric, panel, and paint, the Goddesses are inspired by living local woman. These seemingly ordinary women are presented as powerful and heroic, inviting us to see magic, dignity, and inherent value in the people around us. Each woman represented has chosen what specific power her Goddess embodies. The Goddesses of Inner Strength, Passion, and Authenticity ask us where and how we would like to welcome these qualities into our lives. Their garments have multiple pockets where we are invited to place personal handwritten wishes and intentions. LED candles may also be lit in place of, or along with, a wish. As the sun goes down and the number of candles increase, the piece glows with the light of our participation. This project celebrates the manifest and potential power of all women and invites us to participate in acts of recognition, respect, and reverence while also bringing a sense of wonder and magical possibility into our own lives.

Divinely Human was commissioned by SOMOS ABQ 2018 Fellowship. Over 350 anonymous wishes were collected by the Goddesses at SOMOS 2018.

La Joya 2017

La Joya 2017 is a mural installation created in collaboration with Reyes Padilla for the Harwood Art Center. The mural is composed of 6 constructed and painted columns installed to the building’s facade. 4 center columns are 4 x 22 feet; 2 end columns are 1.5 x 22 feet.

Peoplescape: A View of Albuquerque

Peoplescape: a View of Albuquerque is an 8 ft high dynamic art installation that integrated community members, local landscape, and crowd-sourced text about Albuquerque into a participatory work that evolved throughout the project’s public 5 hour duration at SOMOS ABQ 2017. The installation began as a bold abstracted Albuquerque landscape painted onto a 10 foot long wall of plexiglass with multiple areas of transparency remaining. Over the course of the event, people were invited to write notes and collage their writing into the artwork. Expressive portraits of people in the crowd were drawn and painted onto the piece throughout the event resulting in a lush, evolving, visual experience that was informed and directed by real-time interactions with the people of Albuquerque. The final version of the piece was completed in the studio, bringing together a multi-layered, fluid portrait of Albuquerque herself.

This project was commissioned by SOMOS ABQ, 2017.

Idiomatic

Idiomatic is an art installation composed of 40 charcoal portrait drawings, stitched with pink thread, sandwiched between plexiglass, and hung from a wooden spiral suspended from the gallery ceiling. Participants sat while each portrait was drawn from life.