2025 Rick young "Rio Grande Rythm"
"Rio Grande Rythm" Poster 24"x 28"
Rick Young headed west after earning an art degree from Miami University in Ohio. Initially focused on the high country, Rick’s attention shifted to the expansive mesas and canyons of the Southwest after he and his wife built a log cabin in southern Colorado. He has long found his artistic inspiration in the land and peoples of the Southwest. Rick celebrates this region through colorful, rhythmic paintings.
Now retired from a teaching career, Rick paints full-time from his home in Castle Rock, CO. A longtime advocate for our national parks, Rick completed artist residencies at Mesa Verde National Park (2019) and at Capitol Reef National Park (2021). Rick’s landscapes highlight the beauty and inspiration to be found on our public lands.
Rick is represented by Acosta Strong Fine Art on Canyon Road in Santa Fe and by Mirada Fine Art Gallery in Denver.
2024 Evelyne Boren "La Cieneguilla Morada in the Fall"
"La Cieneguilla Morada in the Fall" Poster 24"x 26"
Evelyne Boren (a native of Munich, Germany) enjoys worldwide recognition for her impressionistic art interpretations of life, people and scenes of the Southwest, Mexico and Europe in watercolor and oil paintings. Evelyne’s life reads like an adventure story—from the time she attended school in Switzerland and England, to her move to the United States in 1958 and her stunt work in movies.
Before beginning her full-time professional career as an artist, Evelyne had an aquatic career that included underwater stunt doubling in the James Bond films “Thunderball” and “You Only Live Twice”.
She was the first woman in the world to swim with a killer whale in the movie “Namu the Killer Whale”. She appeared on the television programs “What’s My Line” and “To Tell The Truth”, where no one guessed her profession. She also appeared frequently in the television series “Sea Hunt”, “Aquanauts” and “Flipper” where she helped train the star dolphin.
From these adventures she turned to painting in 1962, while on location filming in the Bahamas. The breathtaking color and beauty of the islands stirred a deep desire within Evelyne to express her feelings on canvas, so she began to paint. Her enthu-siasm, drive and discipline have resulted in a very successful art career. Evelyne has studied with several important artists, but has developed a style that is strictly her own.
In 1990, in Roussillon, France she entered a competition for paintings that used only burnt sienna, raw sienna and yellow ochre pigments that are mined locally. The only foreigner, she won first prize over forty other French artists. In 1997, Evelyne had the honor of having one of her paintings selected for the official Santa Fe Opera Poster. She has more then 4,000 original paintings in private and corporate collections around the world.
Evelyne maintains a permanent studio in Santa Fe, New México and in San Pancho, México.
2023 Robert Striffolino “RIPPLE PLAY"
2023 Robert Striffolino Poster - size 24"x 32"
Robert Striffolino was born in New York in 1950 and was raised on Long Island. Although from his childhood he could draw spontaneously with extraordinary skill, he never took a formal art class, feeling that his drawings were so personal he could allow no one—not even teachers—to interfere with his art.
“The affinity I have always felt toward Nature continues to fuel my creative drive. Painting continues to intrigue and impassion me providing new ways to stretch and grow. For this I am grateful. It has been a constant companion and certainly my major mode of expression throughout the years.” Robert S.
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.