Tierra Mar Gallery
Tierra Mar Gallery 225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 372-7087 info@tierramargallery.com www.tierramargallery.com
Tierra Mar Gallery represents inspired contemporary art covering many progressive and original mediums. Existing in the third largest art market in the United States, with more than 80 galleries alone on the one-mile expanse of Canyon Road, requires some real innovation to entice the thousands of visitors each year to come in and purchase from your gallery. The owners of Tierra Mar comb the country looking for artists creating in unique styles and mediums that are different than much of the art in Santa Fe. “We represent artists from the Southwest, but also the east and west coasts that curate well together, and give the viewer a real show of textures and colors that each geographic area has informed the artists process with,” says gallery director Brenda Renner.
Texture is a strong theme in the gallery. Painters like Sue Averell, Mario
Jung, Sylvia Martinez and Ulrich Gleiter work in heavy layers of oil or acrylic paint that create a three-dimensional effect in their paintings and is sculptural in appearance. Fine art wood carver Keoni Carlson uses fire, sharpened steel, inks and collected objects to create vessels inspired by stories and myths of the West and Southwest. A new artist to their roster, Stephanie Paige, burnishes and polishes layers of marble plaster to create her ocean themed abstracts on wood panels.
“The Canyon Road Gallery Association sponsors several events during the year including spring and fall art festivals and the famous Farolito Walk on Christmas Eve. Tierra Mar participates in these events with live demonstrations by our artists,” says Renner. The gallery is also showcasing their artists in two gallery group shows this year; Summertide running July 8 through July 18, and the other show to run in September.