UU Santa Fe hosts various art installations by local artists; these change tri-monthly. You will find our featured artist(s) on this page​. Art on Barcelona is facilitated and curated by Virginia Asman.

Art on Barcelona


January/February/March 2025
RECEPTION: Sunday, January 12, 3-5 pm
Born in Oklahoma, I am third generation in a family of artists, illustrators and collectors. My tastes were influenced by my grandfather—an early pioneer of color photograph—and by my mom who filled the house where I grew up with Picasso prints, Wolf Kahn pastels and work by other contemporary masters.

I got serious about painting only in mid-life, getting into juried shows with the Northern Vermont Artists Association, the Vermont Watercolor Society, and hanging work at the Vermont Fine Arts Gallery in Stowe. I mostly work plein air and moved to Santa Fe in 2014 to take advantage of the many sunny days to head outdoors and set up an easel. Often I strap the rig to the back of my motorbike to explore the byways less visited by automobile, in search of perfect vistas.

I work from my home and am associated with the Rio Grande National Heritage Area society of artists (recently juried into their "Culture & Creators" show at Los Luceros). Ten percent of all sales will support Art on Barcelona and an additional twenty percent will go to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe.  To see more work or request a commission, please visit www.santafelandscapes.com.—Gary Kowalski