Martha Shepp ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Martha Shepp is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and director/producer of innovative and interdisciplinary shows and performances. Having lived many places, she now resides north of Questa, NM. Her piece is a personal exploration and representation of experiences and insights of home created from her collection of found materials that manifest in an assemblage sculpture. Her audio reflection, spoken quietly and intimately as if to a close friend, provides a tour of her piece and her thinking behind it.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Malia Reeves ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Malia Reeves is originally from Taos and “feels lucky” to again call it home. She created her cube in partnership with the Field Institute of Taos, where she works with youth in the warmer seasons and as a ski patroller at Taos Ski Valley in winter. Throughout every season, she is an artist. For her personally and in her work with children, home extends far beyond the four walls of houses and property boundaries into the communities and ecologies of the surrounding mountains and also encompasses the universal truth of change. She chose to represent these ideas with an evergreen Fir Tree.
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Lee Lee and Thatcher Gray ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artists
Lee Lee and Thatcher Gray are a mother and son artist team now living in Blue Hill Falls Maine, but with roots in Denver, CO and Taos, NM. Their diverse artworks “weave visual arts practices into community-based frameworks of eco-cultural preservation and wild land restoration.” They are currently exploring ties between Acadia and Haiti, contextualized in colonial history. Their cube reflects this focus via the metaphor of the nest and eggs as well as the materiality of the box itself.
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Kaitlin Bryson ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Kaitlin Bryson is an ecological artist concerned with environmental and social justice. Originally from Nevada, she received her MFA from UNM and is now assistant of the UCLA ArtSci Center. Her piece is an assemblage of symbolic items that affirm for her that “Home is a place of belonging and containing.”
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Joy Purcell ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Joy Purcell is a long time resident of Taos and is multimedia artist who loves to experiment. Her piece features one such experiment – beautifully colorful and richly textural handmade paper, which she has collaged and folded into her cube as a sculptural book, “The bubbles represent the quarantine space I’m in at the moment.”
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Joshlyn Medina ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Joshlyn Medina is a resident of Questa and student at Questa Junior Senior High School. Her piece explores HOME through a visual exploration of the elements of her life and herself. In her work she gives symbolic meaning to the interior and exterior and uses the different sides to represent different aspects of her and her life. She gives a descriptive and thorough tour of her cube and reflects on her life in her audio contribution.
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Jennifer Vialpando ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Jennifer Vialpando is a life-long resident of Questa, a National Board-Certified Art teacher and has taught with the Questa Independent School District for 20 years. Her cube, transformed into a functional hanging light, is about being home during the pandemic, seeing the “Light at the end of the tunnel,” the breakthroughs experienced by people in lockdown, confined at home with family and true growth.
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Jaydyn Cintas ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Jaydyn Cintas is a resident of Questa and student at Questa Junior Senior High School. The focus of her piece is family. Using symbols depicted in paint with short accompanying descriptions, her cube describes her love, appreciation and need for her family.
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Gill McCombs ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Gill McCombs is a former academic librarian with a new love for creating visually; originally from England she now lives in Ranchos de Taos. Her piece explores the contradiction of pandemic life in Northern NM: “you can live a life of comfort and ease, surrounded by nature’s bounty and beauty, almost forgetting you are in a pandemic, until you try to go outside and engage in all the rites and rituals of normal daily life…the home, for all its softness, is in fact a sterile prison.”
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Geneviève de Vellis ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Geneviève de Vellis is a long time Taos resident and has been creating art since as long as she can remember. For her much of “Home” has been about her children who have just left home and reflecting on this “has brought me to a place of wonderment about what the present and future will be about.”
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