TAO Member Directory – Taos Artist Organization

Sharon Hamilton

Since moving to Taos in 2012, Sharon has embraced Western themes in all her art. Her Taos Creatures are fabricated from gourds, vintage tin toys, and her imagination. Her Creatures are based on local wildlife, and each one is accompanied by its’ own gouache painting. Her work is represented in Las Comadres Gallery in the John Dunn Shops in…

Karen Hamilton

Karen’s life as an artist began at birth During her time of Interior Design for Ethan Allen she realized designing and fabricating jewelry was where she’d rather be. She spent ten years at the Riverbend Art Center in Dayton, 0hio, taking classes in enameling, metal, smithing, lapidary and pottery. Karen works with Silver, Copper, and…

Robert Perez, Jr.

Robert Perez, Jr., born and raised in New York City, knew from the time he was a child of five that he wanted to be an artist. The streets of New York City were his first school, for there he felt compelled to draw and to paint the faces, scenes, and cityscapes he observed. A…

Lake Albrecht

Lake Albrecht’s (LA) work is inspired by the 19th-century Impressionism movement and other geniuses of modernity. LA’s love of the modern French masters and the southwest landscape has inspired the use of movement, pattern, and textures in her work. In the late 80s and early 90s, LA was represented by Carson-Shapiro Art Gallery and McGrath…

Jacqueline Mallegni

Jacqueline is a papermaker and paper artist. Her art practice with paper and sculpture has varied from light fixtures to stone carving and three-dimensional fiber sculpture. “Making and the merging of art and life has guided me to develop a relationship with materials that captures my imagination. My work attempts to translate the inspiration that…

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Nancy Grabowski

As a contemporary artist and painter, I feel very blessed to be living in the beautiful land of Taos, New Mexico. An avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast, the ambience of this area stimulates my creativity. Some days I find it hard to believe that I grew up in New Jersey, 15 minutes outside of New…

Sylvia Luftig

I like the small mundane things in life. Common objects that become extraordinary. Tools, toys, fast food, household utensils, souvenirs. A souvenir is a memento of a time and place, so surely, all things we chose to surround ourselves with are souvenirs. I like the irreverence of putting them on pedestals, thus making them icons.…

Bruce Katlin

Bruce Katlin Combines his love and passion for intense activity and various art mediums to make a living and live a life fulfilled. The great outdoors is his ‘church’ and the flora and fauna is the choir. Bruce paints while trail running and hiking (often at the same time) in the wide and beautiful canvas of New Mexico.…

Tom Quinn Kumpf

As an award-winning photographer, writer, poet, and author, I have worked in just about every corner of the profession. For over fifty years, my main focus has been Photojournalism, Documentary, Stock, and Portrait photography, but always with an eye looking for that fine-art image. My work has appeared in publications, newspapers, magazines, and exhibitions throughout…

Debrah Dubay

Debrah Dubay is an emerging Taos artist, returning to her fine arts roots. A published designer and master gardener, Dubay’s new works reflect a powerful marriage of botanical abstractions and macro imagery, pushing the boundaries of color and form in painting, photography, and drawing. 818K Paseo del Pueblo NorteTaos, NM 87571 Email: d.r.dubay@outlook.com

Gail Russell

A painter and printmaker, she studied at Albright Knox School of Fine Art, Pratt Institute, and The School of Visual Arts. In 1968, she received her first camera and has never put it down. She studied independently with photo surrealist Jerry Uelsmann and was the first artist in residence at Apeiron Photographic Workshop, Millerton, NY…

Jan Bachman

I have a love for the layers of landscape. I am excited to explore new places but those that are familiar elicit stronger feelings. I like to paint where I’ve been. Since 1998, I have promoted the work of several artists in galleries and other venues and have published a number of books as Devenish…

Susanne Pinkham

I starting working with glass in the 1970’s. I made many stained glass windows and hanging pieces. In this time frame I graduated from UNM with a degree in Nursing and worked for many years as a nurse. In the 1980’s I started fusing glass and that has been the direction of my work for…

Live Johnson

Born of Mexican parents in California, Olivia (Or ‘Live’, as she likes to be called) rejoices in her cultural heritage. She has 5 siblings and her mother, who at 90 years old still enjoys being the matriarch! As a youngster, her family took many vacations to Tlaquepaque, Mexico where her father was born. The colorful…

Dorothy Romo-Manning

As an avid hiker and lover of nature I am constantly in awe and thoroughly amazed by the dynamic beauty and chaos of these beautiful settings that surround us in our own Taos backyards. Over the years I have learned to slow down, stop, fully appreciating our mountains, waters, and sky, seeing the exquisite detail…

Debbie Schulze

I fell into the quilting/fabric world quite by accident. In 2012, a friend shared with me that she was making a quilt. I asked her, “What do you mean, making a quilt?” She took me to her house, and that….was that. I’m so far down that rabbit hole, and I have no desire to get…

Mark Asmus

My degree reads BS Metallurgical Engineering, the practical choice. I probably should have given the visual arts a try right from the git-go since I’ve been a doodler all my life – finger paints, crayons, pencil, etc. In any case, I worked in the steel industry for thirty-six years, retiring in 2001. In preparation for…

Patricia Keeler

I am a fine artist who works in several mediums but predominately in pastel and silk painting. In my pastel paintings I primarily explore the themes coming from my soul, and imagination dovetailed with ethnic myths, my dreams, my travels and life experience. Through these processes I consider myself a visionary artist. My pastel painting…

Krysteen Waszak

Krysteen Waszak is a dedicated plein air painter. Her oils are exuberant, full of vibrant, lively color, energy and a touch of whimsy. A unique process where she builds layers, creates dimension and flow with her design skills, all the while painting quickly and confidently to allow the story of the painting to emerge organically.…

Erica Wendel-Oglesby

I am an artist drawn to all things Nature: plants, animals, landscapes and New Mexico weather. This is especially evident in my mosaics and photography! What I truly enjoy is crafting, by hand, birds, flowers and plants using clay and colorful glazes. My fortunate location in a wildlife corridor allows me to capture bobcats at…

Lydia Johnston

“Seduced by color, I juxtapose one hue against another, layer after layer, until suddenly the piece sings.” My inspiration comes from the natural beauty that surrounds me in northern New Mexico. The patterns and nuanced gradations of color that are found in nature inform my work. The yellows and oranges of lichens high up in…

Lynn FitzGerald

Lynn FitzGerald earned a BFA Degree in Ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute – working with Ken Ferguson and an MFA Degree in Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Minnesota – working with Warren MacKenzie. After Graduate School, she taught at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, at Louisville School of Art in…

Scotty Mitchell

My art springs from my love of the natural world, looking with wonder at its rhythms and flow, shapes responding to one another, colors blaring one moment and singing softly the next.I give my love and attention and nature answers back. I’m looking to convey the land’s spirit, its numinosity, how I perceive it and what…

Bill Baron

A Brief Bio of Bill Baron Bill was born in Chicago. He graduated the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in the Industrial Design curriculum. While teaching Industrial Design at North Carolina State University and University of Illinois he started a business career in product design, invention and marketing. Billʼs first major show of his art was…

Jeanine Borree

I am a lifelong student of art, changing my expression as I change personally and as I change location. Raised in the free museums and galleries of Los Angeles, I studied as young teen at Otis Art Institute. As a young child, my favorite artists were Bonnard and Vuilliard and are still beloved. Today my artistic goals…

David Douglas

I have been taking photographs since 1967. With my camera, I circumnavigated the world, lived in Ethiopia where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Since moving to New Mexico from New York in 1988, I have dedicated myself to capturing New Mexico’s spirit and unmatched beauty. With a passion for telling the story of…