Open at Gallery Hózhó at Albuquerque’s Hotel Chaco, “Duet” reveals those connections between the pair in a new group of retablos or devotional paintings.
The Albuquerque-based Telles is known for painting traditional retablos, while Santa Clara Pueblo’s Garcia is known for graphic novel-inspired imagery on ceramic tiles.
Gallery curator Suzanne Fricke says the show marks the first time in her 30 years of working as an art historian that she has seen a collaboration between a Hispanic and a Native artist in New Mexico.