Robbi Firestone: The Long Horizon: Exclusively at Gallery 215

203 Fine Art is pleased to present Robbi Firestone: The Long Horizon, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Saturday, July 18, at Gallery 215 in Taos, featuring nearly thirty paintings and works on paper in oil, acrylic, and watercolor.

 

Working between Santa Fe and New York, Firestone has developed a distinct painterly language in which horizon, atmosphere, and light are distilled into expansive fields of color. Utilizing a spatial ambiguity, her works do not describe the landscape so much as reconstruct its sensorial and emotional conditions. Suspended between abstraction and place, they register shifts of weather, luminosity, and depth through layered pigment, calibrated tonal relationships, and an exacting command of surface.

 

Developed for more than three decades, Firestone’s practice is marked by rigorous attention to material structure and chromatic orchestration. As a result, her works invite prolonged looking, not as a retreat from the world, but as a mode of heightened perception.

 

Although Firestone’s work has long been shaped by the visual and atmospheric environment of Northern New Mexico, The Long Horizon is also inspired by a recent discovery of familial history. Through genealogical research, the artist uncovered that her great-great-grandmother, Cornelia Veronica Trujillo, was born into a long line of New Mexicans in Santa Fe County, before becoming the first to leave the state in the 1800’s for St. Louis along the Santa Fe Trail. This lineage inflects Firestone’s work with a historic memory, reframing her engagement with New Mexico as both formal and ancestral.

 

At Gallery 215, this same history remains at the forefront within a restored nineteenth-century adobe residence in downtown Taos. Installed throughout the rooms of the hacienda, the exhibition places Firestone’s work in dialogue with an architectural setting shaped by the same foundation that informs the artist’s personal process.  With an emphasis on experiencing contemporary art within a lived environment, Firestone’s paintings become synchronistic with Gallery 215’s mission.

 

This exhibition marks a significant moment in Firestone’s career and reflects 203 Fine Art’s ongoing commitment to artists whose practices are expanding the language of contemporary painting.

 

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