Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard

In paintings made collaboratively by the artist couple, poetic and deeply resonant messages on human connection to celestial bodies, landscape, and one another come to the forefront. A shared vision punctuated by their individual aesthetic sensibilities shines. Desert landscapes in heavy bloom have an optimistic aura, where the palette and human-centric tenderness of Howard and hauntingly atemporal spirals of Cabeza de Baca break the figure plane, reminding viewers of each of our roles in time’s unrelenting narrative.