“...it is the ability of line to convey movement that is vital to all his art.”

—The Santa Fean Magazine, August 1991

“New Mexico landscape painter Aturo Antonio Chavez is an artist of great skill creating some fo the most compelling images of the American Southwest...One look at on of Aturo’s landscape paintings and it is immediately apparent to the viewer that this relationship of artist to landscape is a long-lived love match”

—Tradicion Revista, Fall 2001

Arturo Chávez was born in Embudo, near Taos, New Mexico and was raised in both Los Alamos and Chimayó, New Mexico. This culturally rich area with its geographically striking landscapes sparked a deep and abiding devotion for painting in Arturo from an early age. He painted throughout his childhood and teen years, but didn’t turn his full attention to his artwork until the late 1970s. In 1983 he made the decision to pursue painting as his fulltime career.

Arturo’s style is his own, but he acknowledges strong influence from several mentors:Irby Brown, Wilson Hurley, Mie Shu Ou, and Arthur Sussman. Arturo has enjoyed international recognition, having previously exhibited in the US Embassy in Moscow and currently in the US Embassies in both Croatia and Guyana.Among his list of clients are many corporate and private collectors, such as the Madi Museum in Budapest Hungary, Fuji Electric in Japan, Sandia BMW in Albuquerque, and the Bernalillo County Court House, to name a few.

Arturo resides and paints in Placitas, New Mexico with his wife Jennifer and son, Benjamin. He is represented by Dartmouth Street Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Altermann Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Saks Gallery, Denver Colorado.

Arturo Chavez
achavez87@comcast.net
www.ArturoChavez.com