Gregory Lomayesva is an internationally recognized painter, sculptor and mixed-media artist who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Drawing from a rich palette of personal experience that includes his Hopi and Hispanic heritage, a wry look at American popular culture, and a keenly evolving aeshetic sensibility that combines abstract imagery with razor-sharp observations, Lomayesva's work is at the cutting edge of American contemporary fine art.

A painter since his mid-teens, Lomayesva's road to artistry began when he combined his formidable woodworking skills with the classical imagery of his Hopi heritage into fusion artifacts that rapidly developed a strong collector base and wide acclaim. Beginning with the masks and dolls that are staples of his historical folk-craft tradition, Lomayesva quickly built a recognizable visual lexicon all his own that he was eventually able to bring to large-scale works of wood, bronze, and steel.

Expanding his output to include large-scale painting, Lomayesva began dipping into the contemporary zeitgeist of sampling and appropriation and took his audiences along on a journey to understand the totality of his influences, from Hopi imagery to popular culture icons to the works of the Renaissance Masters. Exploring the painting styles of the past, he began appropriating classical images from art history, scanning images from art books, then finding a section to explore further in his own work. Using an innovative photo-emulsion process, Lomayesva would capture the projection of the chosen image on canvass, then begin the process of layering meaning into his canvasses by juxtaposing these lush silver-gelatin images with rich abstract brush strokes, silk-screened pop culture logos, and Hopi iconography from his own rich visual vocabularly. In the process, Lomayesva created hundreds of canvasses works of exquisite beauty, thoughfulness and emotion, inviting audiences to view an inclusive art history built on indigenous ideas and iconography, popular imagery, and the established history of European classicism.

Still a young artist at the age of 35, Lomayesva's career accelerates with greater novelty and brilliance with every new idea and medium he tackles. His painting subject matter and style are still evolving and he's developed a track record for developing a brand-new style of painting for every show. Soon after landing representation with a prestigious Santa Fe contemporary art gallery in 2002, Lomayesva treated his audience to three successive shows that were inadvertently a thematic trilogy of love, confusion and loss. The first of these featured large-scale paintings of figurative erotic images rendered in muted greys, light blue, and blacks. The middle show featured paintings of airports and crowds, with a brighter palette that was nevertheless muddy and almost out-of-focus, reflecting an internal yearning for connection in environments that rarely allow for them. Finally, the last show in the series featured canvasses painted jet-black with geometrically perfect houses on fire, signifying both dissolution and renewal. Each group of paintings was completely different from the last and each other, yet each offered a sense of symmetry and completion to the viewer and were widely acclaimed.

In addition to his fine art paintings, Lomayesva has produced two complete albums of electronic pop music on his label Drip Records, produced several short films, and recently "cloned" an out-of-production music vocal compression circuit board from the the 1950s for his own use and for sale as a limited edition functional art piece to electronic music composers. With his developing skills in music, video, film, electronics, and other New Media, Lomayesva produced his first environment at Studio Site in December, and has more installation projects planned for the future.

Today, Lomayesva boasts a body of work that includes thousands of canvasses, woodcraft artifacts, and other ephemera, a collector-base that stretches from the US, Europe, and Asia, and representation in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Scottsdale, and Santa Fe. Within, you will find a chronological development of his work up to the present, with announcements of upcoming shows, projects, and conceptual works, as well as contact information for this talented and accessible artist.