Carol Chamberland is an artist and outdoor enthusiast who finds inspiration in our colorful local history and wild New Mexico landscapes. She holds a BFA from Arizona State University and two Masters degrees in Art from San Francisco State University. Having lived in Albuquerque during the early 1970s, she was happy to return here permanently in 2004.

Her recent paintings depict actual New Mexico backcountry locations, though much artistic license is taken with color effects and compositions. Nature is her Muse, with its dramatic volcanic flows and windswept erosions, all vivid reminders of a violent geologic history of submersion and uplift. The ever-changing expanse of southwestern skies are an integral part of these gouache and pencil compositions. Ms. Chamberland’s recent works have been exhibited in a variety of New Mexico venues, including the State Fair, the Placitas Artist Series, Art Gallery 66 in Bernalillo, Taos Center for the Arts and the Art Center at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.

Beyond her formal training, travel has been a large part of her education, with visits to popular and lesser-known destinations around the world marking high points in her life. When not painting, she serves as a docent at the Albuquerque Museum and as a rock art recorder with local archaeologists. Nevertheless, she is happiest when outdoors with pack and camera, discovering yet another nook or cranny in the vast wilderness that is called New Mexico.

Matted prints and blank greeting cards are available.
Prints are $30 and cards come 5 to a pack, priced at $15.95.

The best portraits have an inner quality that allows the viewer to experience the true nature and essence of what is being portrayed.  It matters not if the portrait is realistic or  abstract.  The acts of portraying and of being portrayed combine to form a special relationship that, with thoughtfulness and nourishment, enables a portrait to come to life. 

Kay studied portraiture with Ray Lopez-Aleman (former student of George Grosz. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Martin’s College in Lacey, Washington, followed by an MBA from Boston University. She pursued further studies at Heidelberg Univerity and the University of New Mexico.

She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists and the City of Albuquerque Arts Board. 

Having grown up in the art community of Zuni Pueblo, Silvester has been surrounded by art all his life.  He says, “By age five or six, you’d find me in a corner painting, drawing, or making sculpture.  I dabbled in everything from sculpture to jewelry.” He won a youth division award from the Heard Museum when he was only nine.  The museum then bought the award-winning doll scene Silvester had created.

Helen Hardin’s work was an inspiration to the young Silvester. 
Presently Silvester concentrates on paintings and sculpture, using a mixture of metallic powder and acrylic paint on Masonite board. Using a techniques of splatter, sponging and stenciling, he may apply as many as seven layers in a square inch.  One large painting may take up to three months to make.

His images are contemporary and abstract but the general content derives from Silvester’s experiences growing up in Zuni.  Initiated into a katsina clan as a youth, he “likes to make work that gives you a feeling of what I experienced, because to me it was and still is a very powerful thing.”  His recent “War God” series uses symbols close to the Zuni People.  While respecting the privacy of Zuni beliefs, he has tried to show the essence of the symbolism. “Sobe is my Indian Name.  I use it when I am doing pieces that are small.”

Recipient of the 2007 Malcolm and Connie Goodman Fellowship at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian