Robbi Firestone: The Long Horizon: Exclusively at Gallery 215

203 Fine Art is pleased to present at Gallery 215 (215 Ranchitos Road) 
Robbi Firestone: The Long Horizon, an exhibition of paintings, pastels and watercolors inspired by the intertwining of Firestone’s life in Northern New Mexico with her ancestral connection to the land. 

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cornelia Veronica Trujillo was born in Santa Fe. She fell in love with a merchant from St. Louis and had the courage to leave everything she had ever known to follow her heart east along the Santa Fe Trail into an unknown life. She never returned. The memory faded. The land remained. 

Generations later, Robbi Firestone came to New Mexico chasing a different kind of love. A love for the light itself. The same light, the same dust, sage and impossible sky that stopped Georgia O’Keeffe in her tracks in 1929 and kept Agnes Martin in Taos until she drew her last breath. 

Upon arriving in Santa Fe in 2010, Firestone set up her studio and began to paint.  

For fifteen years she painted that light, season after season, always feeling an inexplicable pull toward this land, this sky, this particular quality of afternoon that makes everything in New Mexico look slightly more real than anywhere else on earth. 

Firestone only recently discovered that her great-great-grandmother Cornelia was born and raised in Santa Fe County. The light that has fed her paintings for fifteen years is the same light that once fell on her ancestor’s face. The once inexplicable pull is now definable. It is lineage, and it was in her bones all along. 

On July 18, 2026, Robbi Firestone opens The Long Horizon, a solo exhibition at Gallery 215 in Taos, a painstakingly restored 1850 adobe hacienda. It is the same Spanish Colonial world that Cornelia Veronica Trujillo was born into. The same thick adobe walls, flagstone floors, and quality of light falling through the windows. Thirty paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, from small jewels of light to large-scale gestural canvases, will be installed throughout the rooms of the hacienda.  

In her newest body of work, Firestone ponders Cornelia's journey. She contemplates this journey topographically, in abstracted line, from an aerial view: the boulders, the passages, the treacherous stretch of ground Cornelia must have crossed, and Firestone’s own journey laid over hers. These paintings trace a story about blood, bones and the landscapes that live in us long before we arrive in them; a story about women who had the courage to follow what called them, whether it be a man, a horizon, or a light they could not explain.  

Robbi Firestone: The Long Horizon opens on Saturday, July 18th at Gallery 215, and runs through September 6th. We welcome you to attend the Opening Garden Party on July 18th, from 3 to 7pm. For the remainder of the exhibition, kindly make a viewing appointment by emailing art@203fineart.com