Dirk DeBruycker, born in Ghent, Belgium, currently spends time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nicaragua. The fifth of six children, DeBruycker is represented throughout the United states and in Belgium at his brother's gallery. He has extensive training in lithography, including an M.A. from the St, Louis Institute of Fine Arts in Ghent, and postgraduate work at the Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico. DeBruycker travels frequently with his wife and daughter, and states that his surroundings, such as Santa Fe and Granada, Nicaragua, strongly impact the nature of his non-objective paintings, which reflect inner states.
Recent exhibitions include Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, Chiaroscuro, Santa Fe, NM, and Scott White Contemporary Art, LaJolla, CA.

Robert Kelly, a native Santa Fean, has been residing in New York City for the past 20 years. He has been represented by Linda Durham Contemporary Art in Santa Fe since 1987. With over 30 one person shows to date throughout America and Europe, his work continues to explore a metaphysic of mark making and painting on a variety of richly constructed surfaces. Combining influences of the Bauhaus from Van Doesburg to Mondrian, with those of Schwitters and Klee, Kelly weds hints of the historical with the contemporary. His play of edges, angles and cuts amidst otherwise random marks, creates a tension and an intuitive logic to the placement of line and form.
Recent exhibitions include.. Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, and Doug Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ricardo Mazal Born in Mexico City in 1950 Mazal moved to Barcelona Spain in 1986, and since 1990 has lived and worked in New York City, as well as Santa Fe New Mexico.
Mazal’s work explores the process of visual perception as it takes form in the human consciousness. His paintings depict the passage of time, not by illustrating events but by leaving their residue to dissipate in space like a still photograph of a speeding object blurred to abstraction.
Ricardo is the recipient of many awards including a Jackson Pollack Foundation grant. A major retrospective of his paintings was held at the MARCO Museum, Monterrey Mexico, 2000. An additional major retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, 2006. The 10 photographs published by Santa Fe Editions were included in 'Palenque- The Red Queen' exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum, 2006.

Gustavo Rivera 'There exists more than a constancy of healthy contradiction in the inventions of Gustavo Rivera. His irregular geometric figures, his lyric content, his planes of primary colors contrasting with grays, his graffiti and the titles of each work constitute the qualities of a game controlled by the rules of entertainment. His references to common places and to an untroubled childhood world give him a perspective of understanding, truly valuable in the context of good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Paintings that not only promise the sabotage of an asphyxiating life without humor, but also the opportunity for fantasy and a moral way of acting. An extension of our qualities Rivera represents in his work the primary human quality, generous in good feelings and capable of error.' ....Guillermo Santamarina
Rivera, a native of Mexico currently resides in San Francisco, California where he is represented by Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Sam Scott is "one of America's most articulate lyrical painters of nature," according to Jim Edwards, and, in the words of William Peterson, "Quite possibly, he is New Mexico's greatest practicing landscape artist." Both art experts are quoted in Sam Scott: Drawings Watercolors and Oil paintings (Fresco Fine Art Publications 2003).
Collections: Albuquerque Museum, Capitol Art Collection NM, Denver Museum, Musée de Digne, France, IBM, Hyatt, AT&T, Dore Ashton. Retrospective: Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1997.
Represented by: Wiford Gallery, Santa Fe, Parks Gallery, Taos, Robischon Gallery, Denver.

Raphaëlle Goethals Born in Brussels, Belgium and partially raised in the south of France, Ms. Goethals moved to the United States in 1980 to further her art education at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Her work has been widely exhibited in United States and Europe, and has been featured in numerous international art fairs including Art Cologne, The Armory Fair, and Art Chicago.
Recent gallery shows include Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Fay Gold Gallery and Fassbender Gallery. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in the United States and Europe including: Geffen Records and Gramercy Pictures (Los Angeles), the Stephen A. Wynn Collection (Las Vegas), Hewlett Packard (San Francisco), the Paul Allen Collection (Portland), the Daum Museum (St Louis) and the Herstand collection in Miami.
She lives and works in Tesuque, New Mexico.

Erika Blumenfeld Raised in the Boston area, Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971) is an internationally exhibiting artist with a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1994 Blumenfeld moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she has worked since. In 1998 she developed a process to reduce photography to its most essential ingredients: light and light-sensitive material. Without the use of a traditional camera, she exposes photographic paper to sun and moonlight so that a perfect gradation of light appears across the surface of the film or paper. The resulting images are recordings of light—minimalistic documentations of light present at the exact moment the exposure was taken.Blumenfeld's recent “Light Recording” installations have been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas; the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston, Texas; the Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm, Mainz, Germany; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon; the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been featured in Art In America, ARTnews, Arté Contemporary, and Camera Arts magazines, and is included in The Polaroid Book published by Taschen. She has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Land Rheinland-Pfalz Kultusministerium in Germany, and the Polaroid Corporation. Blumenfeld was also Ballroom Marfa's inaugural artist-in-residence, and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop in New York.Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and The Polaroid Collection.

Johnnie Winona Ross In 1999 Johnnie Winona Ross returned to New Mexico after living in Maine for a number of years. There, he exhibited his paradoxical- sensually rich/austere paintings in NYC, Boston, and Washington DC, Johnnie received numerous grants and fellowships including Cite International Des Arts in Paris, and Roswell Artist in Residence.
Now living in Northern New Mexico, “finally reuniting his heart to his physical being”, his paintings have achieved “work that has a glowing meditative presence”...”he creates paintings that reveal the austerity and subtlety of desert landscape reduced to its experience rather than depiction.” ......”a mystical aura and natural formal beauty are embedded in the stretched linen...”
In the past few years he was awarded a Gottlieb Foundation grant, residencies at Villa Montalvo and Roswell. Besides completing a series of original digital prints with SantaFe Editions, Johnnie also finished 3 editions of lithographs at Tamarind Institute.
Recent solo shows include: Stephen Haller Gallery, NYC; Elins/Eagles-Smith Gallery, SanFrancisco; James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe; and Barry Whistler Galley, Dallas. Johnnie has upcoming shows in NYC, LA, Berlin, and Albuquerque.

Joe Novak “… Novak's interests are firmly rooted in abstraction and in an exploration of color and light. Using graduated hues that seem to float on the surface, Novak shapes moody, meditative environments. Many of his large acrylics on canvas evoke Rothko's paintings, with their luminosity and softness… Most effective were the big, monochromatic canvases, so finely worked that they resembled black-and-white photographs capturing nuances of light. The expressiveness of these paintings moved the viewer, sometimes with nothing more than a faint shadow, a cosmic blast of purple, or a wispy smokelike tendril of yellow.“ Dottie Indyke, Art News, February 2005 ( reviewing October, 2004 solo exhibition at EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM )

Paul Shapiro “I feel that this work is beyond the verbal and exists in a realm that is beyond art history, culture, etc. It seems to be related to a deep meditative state that is outside our normal experience as though I am peeking behind the fabric of consensual reality and having entered into a visual metaphor where the physical building blocks of many realities exist waiting to be interacted with thus creating subject and object. That is why I think that there is a connection with my work and quantum physics. Of course my work is a metaphor of this and not an actual depiction of something that can't be depicted anyway because it is outside of the realm of the usual senses."

James Andrew Westwater was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1962. At the age of four he saw Jackson Pollock’s paintings for the first time, at the Rio de Janeiro apartment of Pollock’s niece. The next day, when his parents weren’t looking, he crayoned his entire bedroom with abstract scribbles. Just as he could swim before he could walk, and speak Portuguese before he could speak English, Westwater was at first more interested in form and color than narrative content. Later, still not quite trusting the obvious, he chose Manchester, England instead of London for art school, and film, TV, and graphic design for his undergraduate studies. After a decade of moving back and forth between Los Angeles, London, and Portugal, and doing a number of things in tandem with his art, from carpentry to art directing, Westwater finally settled in Santa Fe in 1994. In 1996, writing for Art in America, Aline Brandauer described one of Westwater's exhibitions as, "...like walking into a combination of an old-fashioned science museum and a funky county art fair.” Adding, "Exulting in the free play of his recycled signifiers, Westwater reminds us that smart art can also be fun art.” And in 2004, for the June/July issue of Art in America, Sarah King wrote, "Engaging metaphors for psychological struggles as well as plays on visual perceptions, these works subtly exploit the tension between impulse and reason at the core of Westwater’s work."

Although he has a tendency to resist established modes of art dissemination, in the past favoring eBay and TV Guide (when working at NBC), enough of Westwater’s work has found its way out of his Santa Fe and Los Angeles studios to be exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the US, Europe, and Japan, especially over the last decade. Westwater’s paintings and objects are held in numerous private and public collections. His favorites are Marcy and William Shatner, in Los Angeles; Pélé, in Brazil; Komar and Melamid in New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.

Gail Rieke is a nationally recognized collage/ assemblage artist, she shows her work at her home studio/gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also exhibits by invitation in museums, art centers and galleries.
Gail received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from University of Florida at Gainesville. Gail has been the recipient of several awards: among them the Western States Art Federation Grant in 1977.
Gail has taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida; the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture and teach classes and workshops. Recent venues include the San Francisco Center for the Book, Vero Beach Center for the Arts in Florida , Segal Studio in Montreal, and a traveling workshop in rural Japan.
In the year 2000, Gail and her husband, Zachariah had a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM. The show was entitled Gail & Zachariah Rieke: Found Objects In An Open World.
"Gail Rieke orchestrates some of the most sensitive collage works being done today. Their uniqueness has to do with the exquisite internal harmonies she discovers among these natural and man-made materials, and the way she balances the very specific nature of each piece with its potential for poetic meaning..." William Peterson, editor of Artspace Magazine.

Sally Anderson "I work somewhere between painting and sculpture. My paintings have taken form and sit on the wall as objects, or leave the walls altogether to occupy their own place.   Subject matter does not concern me, and my work is not derivative unless by accident. Each piece is a journey and flows from 35 years of gathering and experimentation with color, texture and form". Born Rockford IL.   Ed: Beloit College, BA in Art; Univ. of Wisconsin; Instituto de Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.   Solo exhibition: Roswell Art Museum.   Selected group exhibitions: Albuquerque Museum; Beloit College Art Museum; Carnegie Institute Museum; El Paso Museum; International Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Phoenix Art Museum. Publications: Abstract Art: The New Mexico Artist Series (Albuquerque NM: Fresco, 2003); New Mexico Millennium Collection II (Santa Fe NM: NMMC, 2001). Current residence, Albuquerque NM.

Seth Anderson "My work has always been about drawing from the subconscious, daydreaming and essentially escaping from reality. It focuses on gesture and movement as well as the weight and feel of the piece. The style in which I have worked longest is minutely detailed, intricate and often whimsical, but in the field paintings my goal is to create more expansive areas of color. I want these works to reflect the practice of drawing.   I relate it to the creation of a novel - the working manuscripts with handwritten edits, the slips of paper with random thoughts to be worked into later drafts". Born 1972, Washington DC.   Ed: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, BBA; Fellow, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.   Selected exhibitions/collections: Contemporary Art Society of   NM; Collection of the Capital Arts Foundation NM.   Selected reviews/ publications:   ARTnews, Feb 2003:131;   Abstract Art: The New Mexico Artist Series (Albuquerque NM: Fresco, 2003); New Mexico Millennium Collection II (Santa Fe NM: NMMC, 2001). Current residence, Santa Fe NM.