I am a multi-faceted artist working in utilizing pastels, oils, charcoal and other mediums. I was born in Espanola, which is located in Northern New Mexico and I have been painting most of my life. Having lived all over the Southwest, my artwork has been heavily influenced by the rich and diverse cultures of the Hispanic and Native American people who reside there.

The vast majority of my work is based off of my everyday life experiences, observations, and visualizations of my surroundings. The way everyday life affects me is the medium I put into my work.

Andrew Montoya (b 1982) is a Native of Santa Fe NM. He has been producing traditional Spanish Art since the age of 12. He has always worked in the traditional methods from the Spanish colonial period, and has evolved to a style of his own. He has won numerous awards including the Artsbishop award at Spanish Market and the Ann Veder award for new design also at Spanish Market. He has art in numerous private and public collections. He has participated with other Northern NM artists for the annual DIa De Los Muetos Show in Espanola NM for the past 5 years. He works with youth including his nieces to promote and carry on traditions of Spanish Colonial Art.

Vincent Campos of El Rito, New Mexico has been practicing the tradition of retablo making for over eighteen years. While Vincent keeps to traditional methods of retablo production, his depictions of Santos do not. He creates Images in a fun and whimsical way, focusing on their expressions to relate traditional devotions. His humorous depictions and use of bright natural pigments found in Northern New Mexico have grown in popularity among surrounding communities.

Contemporary/Traditional Hispanic silversmith, Shane Casias is known for his creative interpretations of traditional motifs of skulls, crosses, sacred hearts and iconic southwest imagery. Almost entirely self-taught, he started at the young age of 18 years. Shane has drawn on the teachings of some of the finest area artists. He builds his pieces in the heaviest gauge materials possible for wearable weight and comfort. Working primarily in sterling silver, Shane's jewelry is the finest quality you can find and sometimes inset with precious and semi-precious stones using opals, turquoise, garnets, rubies, sapphires, peridot and diamonds. Shane has now worked with numerous celebrities and world-famous musicians that are attracted to his work. Shane was the recipient of numerous awards best in show Heard Museum 2016 signature artist of the year. His work is shown in fine galleries and museums throughout the country.

Zia pendant

Silver with Turquoise

$375

I grew up in Northern New Mexico. I have Always have been passionate about art. My art mediums range from acrylics to watercolor, and ballpoint pen artwork.

The land, the skies, my Hispanic heritage, along with the mixture of cultures I grew up with inspire me.

“I Love New Mexico, New Mexico is my home”

Nico Salazar is an illustrator, muralist, and designer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Nico has been drawing since he was a small child and grew up between Santa Fe,NM Oxnard, CA, & Pearl Harbor, Hawaii due to his father’s service in the US Navy. These three locations heavily shaped Nico’s style showcasing a synergy of cute & dangerous imagery that blends influences of manga, street culture, comic books, 90s nostalgia, and New Mexican culture.

He received his BFA in Painting from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2014 and shortly after joined up with artist collective Meow Wolf to produce his wildly popular mural-room installation Hidden Capsule in Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return. Nico went on to form his product line Future Fantasy Delight in 2015 and is currently working on his Spring/Summer collections.

Nico enjoys gazing at the Tokyo Skyline, collecting luxury paint markers, being around palm trees and practicing his psychic powers.

Birth, upstate New York, 1971. Drawing. Cycling. New Mexico, 1979. Heavy Metal. Skateboarding. Punk rock. Hip-hop. First job: McDonald’s. Scotland, England, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, USSR. Honors graduate, 1989. Thailand. Architecture student at University of New Mexico. Dishwashing jobs. Raves. Lorelei. Stop eating meat. First tattoo. Think Skateboards, SF, 1993. Dharma. Angi. London, 1998. Adult bookstore employee. Computer animation job. Start tattooing. First tattoo shop job: East Side Inc, NYC, 1999. Newskool Tattoo, San Jose. The Skullz Press founded, 2000. Everlasting Tattoo. Track bikes. Brooke and Leia. Tattoo 13, Oakland, 2002. Plum Village, France. Stay Gold Tattoo founded, Albuquerque. REBEL8 founded, 2003. Manifestations book. Australia. Eternal book. Megan. El Salvador. Amsterdam, 2008. Skullz Press store, SF, 2009. Los Angeles, 2013. Boulder, 2014. Lauren. Motorcycling. San Diego, 2020. Right here. Right now.