Both Mabel Dodge Luhan and I arrived in New Mexico with similar cavalier assumptions and an absence of prior research before buying land and building homes. There was a great deal neither of us considered or understood about the place. But the thing is, we thought we knew.
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Guy Cross: What We Do For Love
Guy started “THE Magazine” because he had a mother who took him around to all the galleries and museums in New York City when he was growing up and he came to appreciate art and artists. He wanted to create a place where they would be objectively reviewed…
Why Aren’t My Paintings Pretty For God’s Sake?
There is a real story to tell–about where I was as an artist before I came to Truchas and after Truchas. It is a story of fences and horses and grasses and how they changed me.
So You Think Artists Are Lazy?
I didn’t paint for 26 years after college, where I was a painting and drawing major and a printmaking minor. Coming back to painting took a tremendous commitment and no small amount of effort.
Transitions and the Place Between
A birthing was taking place and my paintings reflected all of it—the growth, the pain and the confusion.
An Uncomfortable But Compelling Push-Pull
That first visit to Truchas changed my art forever. Something about it pushed me into full-blown abstraction. I went home to Utah and painted my first abstract show titled, Soul Fire: A Journey Home
New Mexico Isn’t for Sissies
This is one of my first Truchas paintings. I was quite happy with it. But when a local artist said it looked like wallpaper, I had my first glimpse of raising the bar.