2014 Cody Brothers “Special Delivery on The Santa Fe Trail”
"Special Delivery on the Santa Fe Trail" Poster 24" x 32"
Cody is a New Mexican photographer and owner/operator of Visions Photo Lab in Santa Fe, NM.
Growing up in the Four Corners region, Cody’s most memorable childhood experiences were exploring the land. His photographic journey began as an adolescent when his grandfather gave him a Canon AE-1 after returning home to Farmington, NM from a voyage overseas.
His early artistic influences centered mostly around painters like Da Vinci, Dali, Delacroix, and Picasso, however, he was inspired at a very young age to embark on adventures to many of the iconic locations in the National Parks of the West because of the black and white photographs of Adams, Gilpin, Strand and Weston.
Cody has observed and documented the magnificent beauty of these places as well as the significant impact of man made change that has occurred over the decades.
2017 Dick Evans "Dark Forms with Red Sky"
"Dark Forms with Red Sky" Poster 24" x 32"
Born in the Land of Enchantment, Evans grew up in a rural farming community in the panhandle of Texas, where he had no exposure at all to art until he started college. While in college, though, he was required to take drawing and design courses (as part of his curriculum as an architecture major). He soon realized architecture was not right for him but art was.
He then switched to an advertising art program at Texas Tech, where he then realized he was more interested in Fine Arts. So he then transferred again—to the art program at the University of Utah, where he obtained a BFA in Drawing and Painting and went on to obtain an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture.
After college, he began a university teaching career, being granted tenure at just 29. Uneasy about settling into one area so early in life he resigned within the month and set out on his own with his wife and two children, establishing studios in Northern New Mexico in which he produced sculpture and ceramics.
After a year he realized how much he missed teaching and returned to the university scene. He spent a year teaching at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Then he spent three years teaching art at the University of New Mexico. In 1975 he married for the second time. This time to sculptor Susan Stamm Evans, with whom he is still married. Then in 1975 he took a position teaching art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Evans progressed through the professorial ranks to tenure, full professorship and also a two-year stint as Associate Dean of the School of Fine Arts.
In 1987 the Evans’ decided to leave academia and devote themselves full-time to their art. In 1990 they returned to New Mexico, moving to Santa Fe, where they built a house with two studios.
2011 Melinda Hall "A Brief History"
"A Brief History" Poster 22" x 28"
Hall, a longtime Santa Fean, continues to merge imagery and text in her whimsical paintings of dogs, cats, automobiles, and other objects.
“My style evolved in the struggle of push and pull between artist and canvas, in the space of my own private, quirky little battleground of observation, interpretation, intention, and application,” she once wrote. “What has resulted is a visual journal, a commentary on many universal subjects.”
And as she also said, “In my paintings the subject matter revolves around simple yet fundamental aspects of life, home, pets, travels, observations of everyday objects and events.”
2019 Ramona Sakiestewa "Blue Raven"
"Blue Raven" Poster 24" x 32"
Sakiestewa, born in 1948, is a contemporary Native American artist renowned for her tapestries, works-on-paper, and for her public art/architectural installations. In the late 1960s, she traveled to New York City to study at the School of Visual Arts, then returned to the Southwest, where she took a job as an arts administrator at Santa Fe’s Museum of New Mexico.
Largely self-taught as a weaver, Sakiestewa uses prehistoric Pueblo techniques from the American Southwest. In 1994 she was invited to join the architectural design team for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Mall Museum, Washington, D.C. In 2009 she closed her Santa Fe weaving studio to further develop her works-on-paper and painting and architectural projects.
2018 Ed Sandoval "Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta"
"Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta" Poster 24" x 32" | Signed Lithograph Print
Ed Sandoval’s paintings illustrate a deep reverence for the New Mexico of his boyhood, when life was slow and peaceful. Born in the rural mountain village of Nambe, he preserves that way of life, bringing his memories of the “old ones” into landscapes filled with bold colors and rustic serenity. Sagebrush, chamisa and majestic cottonwoods grow alongside weathered adobe haciendas and churches. Ed’s signature image, “El Viejito” (little old man), walks alone or with a companion down a dusty, winding pathway. To Ed, New Mexico is an ever-changing symphony of color and light, and he captures its moods and movement with a feeling of impressionism and expressionism.
2022 Kevin Red Star "Wine, Chili & Grapes"
"Wine, Chili, Grapes" Poster 24" x 32"
"Indian culture has in the past been ignored to a great extent. It is for me . . . a rich source of creative expression. An intertwining of my Indian culture with contemporary art expression has given me a greater insight concerning my art." - Kevin Red Star
Kevin Red Star s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow (Absaroke) culture through the eyes of a thoroughly contemporary consciousness. Red Star grew up on the Crow reservation in southern Montana, a member of a highly creative family. Chosen to be in the first group of students at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late sixties, the school provided him with a learning environment of tribal traditions, world art history, and current trends. Red Star and his fellow students mined their ancient customs for content and then created exciting new forms to provide current relevance. Along with other members of his graduating class, Red Star continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.
2021 Dan Namingha "New Mexico Summer Moon"
"New Mexico Summer Moon" Poster 24"x 32" | Lithograph 24" x 29"
Dan Namingha has been a professional artist for more than 40 years, drawing deeply on his Hopi heritage. His work explores the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds and often incorporates traditional Hopi symbols. From a young age, drawing and painting were natural forms of expression for him, helping him convey his connection to his culture and surroundings.
Namingha believes that social, political, and spiritual evolution is continuous, and that humanity must carefully navigate the future to sustain both cultural and technological diversity. He views this balance as essential to harmonizing opposing forces and supporting the universal communal spirit.
His art is featured in major collections, including the Museum of Northern Arizona, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Sundance Institute, the Wheelwright Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Heard Museum, and notable international collections such as the British Royal Collection.
1993 Lea Bradovich "Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta"
"Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta" Poster 24" x 28"
A self-described “portrait wonk,” Bradovich is a bit of a magical realist, a graduate of the University of Minnesota (BFA in painting), Parson’s School of Design, the Pratt Institute (MFA in painting), and the Studio Escalier in Argenton Chateau, France.
As she once said, if delight is sufficient reason to proceed, she will proceed. And so she has. Continuing to produce playful, Renaissance-style figurative and portrait paintings that are often playful as they are allegorical.
1997 Ford Ruthling "Santa Fe Wine & Chile !Fiesta!"
"Santa Fe Wine & Chile !Fiesta!" Poster 22" x 34" | Signed Lithograph
A Santa Fe native, Ruthling was born in the original St. Vincent Hospital (now the site of the Drury Hotel) in 1933, and passed away in 2015 after a long and varied career in watercolor, tin, wood, clay, iron and paper. His oil paintings of Pueblo Indian pottery were featured on a series of U.S. postage stamps in 1977, and as he liked to say, “Some artists do one thing only, but I like to explore all the possibilities.”
He studied art at The University of New Mexico (under Randall Davey), later enlisted in the Air Force and in 1993 was named a Santa Fe Living Treasure. As he once told a reporter from The New Mexican: “If I can create something for myself — and it’s liked by the public and sells — great. An artist’s first responsibility is to themselves, but hopefully in expressing themselves they will connect to other minds.”