Sarah Parker ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Sarah Parker lives North of Questa, NM and is a Special Education teacher, artist, printmaker and collector and creator of audio stories for radio. Her piece represents a creative introspective journey into home, family, community, COVID and us as individuals – how we “see” one another and the world around us. Sarah asks the intriguing question: “What if you could see me from the inside? What if my larynx….and my guts were outside of my body?….” Her cube visually explores a response.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Robbie Steinbach ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Robbie Steinbach is a printmaker, photographer, and book artist living in Taos, NM. Her piece explores freedom in the context of our time: “freedom from illness, divisive politics, irrefutable evidence of climate change, even…at least temporarily, from our homes.” Her audio reflection adds storied personal experiences of liberation, freedom and metaphor in local exploration of Nature.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Ricky Pass ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Ricky Pass is an abstract and experimental artist living in Taos, NM. Her piece took her on a personal journey through her own experiences of home, family, houses and memories. “This was a piece that knew where it wanted to go” she says. The outcome is a collaged assemblage with a focus on “safety and warmth.” Her audio reflection shares parts of this journey, explores two poignant words and provides a descriptive tour of her work.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Ruby Sofrae ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Ruby Sofrae is “a woman who works with her hands and seeks to never see a separation between Art and Life; she lives in Questa. Her unique piece, “I am: Home” is accompanied by a poem:
We’re never truly lost if we are always home.
We’re never truly cold to others if we carry our own flame.
We’re never truly afraid if we feel that we are safe.
We’re never truly sick if we remember ourselves well.
Find images, a short annimation and audio reflection HERE.
Mary Hanrahan ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Mary Hanrahan is a designer and artist living in Taos; her heart homeland is Ireland, where she holds dual citizenship. Her piece reflects her life-long interest in the subject of home and cancellation of a much anticipated trip to Ireland, due to pandemic restrictions. She reflects “My world both shrank and expanded…the box encapsulated my process of….getting ‘tiny’ again and relying on my imagination….” Her cube is a carefully crafted diorama that artfully weaves these strands together.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
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.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
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.”
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
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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