Unsettling Extractions
2024
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
NCECA 2024 exhibition curated by Lauren Sandler at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
Viñetas de Aguas
2023
The hidden histories of how water shaped Taos are not plainly visible to a casual observer. Throughout the indigenous and colonial settlements of the Taos valley water has been at the center of development. Viñetas de Aguas, is a project that reveals the hidden histories as video projection vignettes throughout the Downtown area. Incorporating local community members and expert historical input from local partners, small snippets of media will activate the historic district. Lighting up the night and displaying these histories telling the story of water and the people of Taos. Small videos may be hidden on a sidewalk break, a broken piece of stucco, or the wall of a building, unveiling historical images, maps, and the landscapes concealed by time.
Acequia Madre
2022
Acequia Madre is a 2 channel video installation composed of Adobe Bricks and video projections. The work looks at the history of water and water access in the Santa Fe area, overlaid with images of earth, clay and water interacting and wiping away the maps. The work looks at the history of access to water, and the geological and meteorological processes of entropy over the surface of land constantly altering our waterways which must be maintained like an acequia canal.
Form and Relation
2021 – 2022
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
This exhibition showcases the versatility of ceramics and the many forms it takes through the hands of six Indigenous artists from various regions within what is now the United States.
Material Issues
2020 – 2021
Utah MOCA, Salt Lake City, UT
A Group Exhibition. The objects in this exhibition address a broad spectrum of issues from the environment, to racism, to feminism, illustrating the versatility of the materials and processes employed to question, confront, and spark dialogue.
Evaporation
2019
Evaporation is a clay mural composed of a graphic representation of all endangered and threatened species along the Rio Grande river. Using sharp graphic stencils, clay and earth pigments collected along the Rio Grande valley, painted onto the wall depicting the expanse of the river and silhouettes of endangered species. In total, over 150 species of crustaceans, mollusks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and plants are represented. The areas of the river painted with turquoise pigment are areas of the river that are seasonally dry that used to flow year round now considered critical habitat. By using mud, the work evokes the cracking dry habitat the wet river cuts through and the fragility of its inhabitants to water shortage, climate change and pollution.
Past Exhibitions
Arrivals 2022
February 25 – 28, 2022
Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group exhibition
The show spotlights artists who challenge and shape the fields of contemporary craft, design and art.
Description Block
Bigger Than This Room
April 29 – July 30, 2022
Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibition
An exhibition of art and ephemera that reframes the picture, embedding monuments within larger cultural vistas.
Ball Snake Ball
July 27 – September 8, 2018
Art Space, New Haven, CT
Group exhibition
Ball Snake Ball presents objects and installations by a group of emerging and mid-career artists, based in cities and small towns across the U.S., who use clay to confront issues of environmental justice specific to their communities.
The Ecozoic Era: Plant|Seed|Soil
April 29 – August 5, 2016
The State Capital Building, Santa Fe, NM
Group exhibition
A curated group exhibition of contemporary art that illuminates our connection to the earth as living beings – through what nurtures us: plants, seeds, soil
Currents New Media Festival
June 10 – June 26, 2016
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Group exhibition
A curated group exhibition of contemporary art that illuminates our connection to the earth as living beings – through what nurtures us: plants, seeds, soil
The Paseo Project
2019
Taos, NM
The Acequia Aquí project attempts to give voice to the acequias, the history and the culture that have supported the valley’s living and breathing web, while also exploring opportunities for new community engagement, education, and generational involvement. With Acequia Aquí we explore a vital public utility through the imagination, resourcefulness, and inspiration of local artists, writers, and acequieros.
Interference
2015
CFA Downtown Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Group exhibition
A group exhibition of MFA Candidates at the University of New Mexico in Experimental Art and Technology
Dis/continuity
October 5 – November 7, 2015
Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
Solo exhibition
MFA Thesis Exhibition for Ruben Olguin, 2015 MFA Candidate. Looks at the history and impacts of colonialism on the traditional practices and resources of the indigenous populations of Northern New Mexico.