Caitlin Legere

Currently living and working in Taos, New Mexico, multi media artist and graphic designer Caitlin Legere has been following her folly in the southwest for four years - getting to know the flora and fauna and the varied motions of clouds around a mountain peak. The forms and colors, lands and lines, infuse her work with the unique flavor of the high desert.

In comparison to the artistic style of her more industrial-influenced New York-state-based work, the jagged horizon, vivid colors, juxtaposed and extreme land forms of northern New Mexico have expanded her visual vocabulary so that, she feels, nearly any line drawn can be representative rather than abstract. Although much of her work is modern and poetic in subject matter and style, she also has a great fondness for the skills of biological illustration, the academic root which sustains her feral departure in style in her more colorist, or poetic, works.

Being described as a dreamer in her teens once made her worried and defensive. Today, she has come to realize that without, in fact, being a dreamer, her art would not be possible. It is that quality in her which imparts the hope and joy found in her work to which viewers so whole-heartedly respond.