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Where Light Becomes Memory

Some landscapes are remembered not for what they looked like, but for how they made us feel.

In Glory and Glimmer, Jerry Nabors invites us into that space between memory and imagination. Layers of luminous whites, soft blues, deep charcoals, and quiet flashes of gold settle across the canvas like changing light at the close of day—never fixed, always shifting.

Rather than defining a place, Nabors captures an atmosphere. Forms emerge and dissolve, horizons appear only to fade away, allowing each viewer to discover something uniquely their own within the composition.

It is a style shaped by decades of observation and an artist’s belief that creativity is found in every experience. That lifetime of looking reveals itself through rich texture, confident movement, and a remarkable sense of restraint.

Works like these reward time. The longer you spend with them, the more they unfold—offering new moments of color, depth, and quiet reflection with every visit.

Discover Glory, Glimmer, and more of Jerry Nabors’ contemporary abstractions at Victory Contemporary while they remain available.

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Where Light Comes to Rest

Not every color announces itself.

Some arrive like the first cool breeze after a warm afternoon—quiet, restorative, and impossible to forget.

Mark Yearwood’s newest arrival, New Day, unfolds in layers of luminous whites, deep cobalt blues, and subtle passages of light that seem to emerge from within the canvas itself. Rich texture and delicate movement invite the eye to wander, revealing new relationships with every return. It is less a landscape than an atmosphere—a place where light becomes something you can almost feel.

Suspended above, Rick Brunner’s Squint, crafted from walnut, rosewood, pine, and blue pigment, echoes that same quiet rhythm. Precision gives way to poetry as warm hardwoods, measured geometry, and vibrant blue accents create a sculptural composition that feels both architectural and organic.

Together, the two works form a conversation between paint and wood, gesture and structure, stillness and movement. One seems to breathe. The other seems to listen. Each allows the other a little more room to speak.

The most memorable collections are often built this way—not around matching objects, but around works that deepen one another through contrast, balance, and shared sensibility.

As summer light continues to shift through the gallery, pairings like this remind us that color is not simply something we see. It is something we experience.

Some works stand beautifully on their own.

The right pairing can transform an entire room.

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Where Light Comes to Rest

Not every color announces itself.

Some arrive like the first cool breeze after a warm afternoon—quiet, restorative, and impossible to forget.

Mark Yearwood’s newest arrival, New Day, unfolds in layers of luminous whites, deep cobalt blues, and subtle passages of light that seem to emerge from within the canvas itself. Rich texture and delicate movement invite the eye to wander, revealing new relationships with every return. It is less a landscape than an atmosphere—a place where light becomes something you can almost feel.

Suspended above, Rick Brunner’s Squint, crafted from walnut, rosewood, pine, and blue pigment, echoes that same quiet rhythm. Precision gives way to poetry as warm hardwoods, measured geometry, and vibrant blue accents create a sculptural composition that feels both architectural and organic.

Together, the two works form a conversation between paint and wood, gesture and structure, stillness and movement. One seems to breathe. The other seems to listen. Each allows the other a little more room to speak.

The most memorable collections are often built this way—not around matching objects, but around works that deepen one another through contrast, balance, and shared sensibility.

As summer light continues to shift through the gallery, pairings like this remind us that color is not simply something we see. It is something we experience.

Some works stand beautifully on their own.

The right pairing can transform an entire room.

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Where the Landscape Meets the Spirit

Summer has a way of softening the edges of the world.

The canyon walls glow a little longer beneath the evening sun. Shadows deepen into quiet places of reflection. The landscape becomes more than scenery—it becomes memory, emotion, and presence.

In Desert Canyon and Lady of Sorrows, Tal Walton invites us into that space where the physical and the spiritual meet. One painting reaches outward across the vastness of the Southwest, capturing the rhythm of mesas, light, and open sky. The other turns inward, offering a deeply personal meditation through layered color, symbolic form, and quiet reverence.

Though different in subject, the two works speak the same language. Walton paints not only what is seen, but what is felt. His compositions ask us to slow down, to linger, and to discover that beauty often reveals itself in stillness.

There is a remarkable versatility in his work—moving effortlessly between sweeping landscapes and contemplative symbolism while maintaining the same unmistakable sense of balance and grace.

As summer settles across the Southwest, these paintings remind us that color has the power to do more than illuminate a canvas. It can shape a mood, preserve a memory, and transform the atmosphere of an entire room.

Some works capture a place.

Others capture a feeling.

Tal Walton’s paintings have a way of offering both.

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What Remains

Some colors fade with time.

Others carry memory.

Poteet Victory’s Remembering the Trail has found its home, joining a growing list of works that have left the gallery in recent weeks. At first glance, the painting is luminous—fields of golden yellow interrupted by bands of deep blue and intricate beadwork. Yet beneath its warmth lies something more enduring: a quiet act of remembrance.

Like many of Poteet’s most powerful works, Remembering the Trail speaks through restraint. The composition does not recount history directly. Instead, it evokes it through color, pattern, and presence, allowing memory to emerge in its own way. The result is a work that feels both contemporary and deeply rooted in cultural experience.

There is a reason these paintings continue to resonate with collectors. Poteet has a rare ability to transform history into something living—creating works that are visually striking while carrying layers of meaning that reveal themselves over time.

As Remembering the Trail begins its next chapter, it serves as another reminder that Poteet’s work rarely remains on the wall for long. The paintings that speak most clearly tend to find where they belong.

For those who have been considering adding a Poteet Victory work to their collection, now is an especially meaningful time to visit. With several recent sales, the remaining pieces continue to tell stories that are as relevant today as they are timeless.

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Carried Forward

Some colors brighten a room.

Others carry a history.

This week, three significant works by Poteet Victory found their homes, each connected by a thread that runs far deeper than paint alone.

Trail Blanket XL III and Trail Blanket V transform fields of yellow and red into quiet acts of remembrance. Inspired by the blankets associated with the Trail of Tears, the works distill a painful chapter of American history into color, pattern, and symbol. Their simplicity invites reflection. Their meaning lingers long after the first glance.

Joining them is one of the most significant works to leave the gallery this year: Poteet’s study for the center panel of his monumental Trail of Tears mural project. Created as part of one of the largest oil painting projects ever undertaken in the United States, the study carries the weight of memory, ancestry, and historical truth. It stands not only as a work of art, but as a testament to storytelling, resilience, and the responsibility of remembering.

Together, these works remind us that color is never merely decorative. It can preserve history. It can honor those who came before us. It can carry stories across generations.

As these three paintings begin new chapters, they leave behind a reminder of what makes Poteet Victory’s work so compelling. Beneath the beauty of the surface is something enduring—a connection to heritage, identity, and the stories that continue to shape us.

Some works find a home because they are beautiful.

Others because they are important.

Poteet’s paintings have a way of being both.

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Light Through the Water

Some colors announce themselves.

Others glow.

Bill Hawk’s Victoria Lily sculptures seem to hold summer light within them. Cast in glass and traced with delicate branching forms, each piece feels suspended somewhere between water and sky, structure and transparency. Turquoise shimmers like a cool river beneath the sun, while ruby reds catch the eye with the warmth of blooming desert color.

There is a remarkable sense of balance in these works. From a distance, they read as elegant circles and flowing patterns. Step closer, and an intricate world emerges—veins, currents, and textures that seem borrowed from nature itself. Like lily pads drifting across still water or sunlight filtering through leaves, they reveal something new with every change of light.

Hawk has a gift for transforming glass into something unexpectedly organic. What could feel rigid becomes fluid. What appears delicate proves enduring. The result is sculpture that brings both energy and calm into a space at the same time.

Summer in Santa Fe is a season of luminous color, and few works capture that feeling more beautifully than these.

Like the season itself, their beauty is constantly changing with the light.

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Where the River Runs Through

Some colors do not simply decorate a season.

They define it.

In Abundant Life, Poteet Victory gathers the colors of summer into a single powerful composition—sun-warmed orange, deep turquoise, rich crimson, and flowing blue. Together they create a rhythm that feels both ancient and immediate, rooted in symbol yet alive with movement.

At the heart of the painting, water pours forward in a steady stream. It becomes more than a visual element; it becomes a reminder. In the high desert, abundance is never taken for granted. It is carried by rain clouds, river currents, growing fields, and the enduring connection between people and the land.

Victory’s work has always balanced strength with simplicity. Geometric forms, cultural symbolism, and bold color are woven together into a composition that feels ceremonial without becoming distant. The longer you spend with it, the more the painting reveals—a celebration of renewal, balance, and the quiet prosperity that comes from living in harmony with the world around us.

Summer has a way of making everything feel more vivid.

Some artists capture the season.

Others capture the life within it.

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The Deep End of Blue

Summer is often spoken of in warm colors—gold, red, and sunlit earth.

But there is another color that belongs to the season as well.

Blue.

The deep blue of distant mountains after a summer storm. The blue of twilight settling over adobe walls. The blue that arrives when the heat of the day finally begins to soften and the landscape exhales.

This striking vignette brings that feeling to life through the work of two remarkable artists. In Native Structure and The Winged Serpent, Poteet Victory explores form, movement, and memory through fields of luminous cobalt, allowing shape and symbol to emerge from color itself. Between them stands Rick Brunner’s Sentinel, a sculpture crafted from sycamore, purple heart, oak, mahogany, and inlay—its vertical presence acting as both anchor and bridge.

Together, the three works create a conversation between strength and stillness, geometry and gesture, earth and sky. Each piece stands confidently on its own, yet when experienced together they become something larger—a composition that transforms the space around it.

The color blue has a way of drawing us in. It asks us to slow down, look longer, and discover what reveals itself beneath the surface.

Some collections are assembled.

Others seem destined to find one another.

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Cottonwood Green

There are colors that belong to a season.

And then there are colors that belong to a place.

In Aspen Shimmer, Vonnie Brenno Cameron captures that unmistakable green of a high-desert summer—the moment sunlight filters through a stand of aspens and every leaf seems to carry a light of its own. The canopy flickers between gold and emerald, while cool shadows gather beneath, creating a rhythm that feels both alive and effortless.

There is movement everywhere in this painting, yet nothing feels hurried. The trees rise with quiet confidence, their pale trunks anchoring a composition filled with color, air, and light.

Cameron has long possessed a remarkable sensitivity to the landscape, not simply painting what is seen, but what is felt. Here, the season reveals itself not through grand gestures, but through the simple pleasure of standing beneath a grove of trees on a warm afternoon and looking up.

Some paintings bring nature indoors.

Others bring you back to it.