I confess, I often mess up and break things. Sometimes I pretend it’s intentional—an aesthetic or conceptual choice—but it’s almost always an accident and I usually feel bad about it. But wholeness is precarious and no fun.
The goal of my artistic practice is nurturing spaces where no one has to be whole, where there is no need to justify your existence or have your shit together. Where you can be intimate like a dog, with co-presence and gesture alone. So I make little treasures, gifts, and offerings… and rituals that fail. Inspired by home, loneliness, hybridity, and misunderstanding, my socially engaged projects, performances, paintings, and assemblages are invitations into dreamy and emotionally demanding spaces, surreal portals to hold each other from afar.
Come through. It’s odd, but it’s nice.
P A I N T I N G
Mijita in Dreamland, 2020 (Acrylic on canvas 22″x26″) 
dermatillomania, 2022 Acrylic and glitter on canvas 4’x5′ 
communion / reunion, 2022 Acrylic and glitter on stretched canvas 4’x3′ 
the death of a seer Acrylic and glitter on canvas 6.25’x4′ 
Moirai, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 2’x5′ 
all far, huh? (Santa Fe to Albuquerque) Acrylic on canvas 24″x36″ 
Acrylic on canvas 24″x36″ 
Acrylic on canvas 24″x36″ 
Coatlicue comes to me in a dream, 2018 Acrylic on canvas and twine 30″x18″ 
see beyond, 2021 Acrylic on canvas panels 20″x38″ 
Manifesting Abundance, 2019 (Acrylic and glitter on canvas 16″x12″) 
purity (it’s ok), 2022 Acrylic and glitter on canvas panels, white candles, silver milagros, cotton thread 18″x35″x4″ 
Acrylic on canvas 24″x36″ 
Acrylic and glitter on canvas 10″x8″ $150 
P H O T O & P E R F O R M A N C E D O C U M E N T A T I O N
*See programs for video performance documentation
Pearl Kodak print 12″x18″ $50 
My friend, La Llorona, 2017 (Archival pigment print) 7″x5″x1″ $45 
Llorona chingona (2017) Archival pigment print 
Self-portrait with snakes (after Graciela Iturbide), 2018 (Archival pigment print) 7″x5″ $45 
soft one, 2017 (Performance documentation) 
Birth of Tortilla Baby (2017) Archival pigment print Each photo 6.5″x5″ – $50 
She carries her cross (2017) Archival pigment print – sizing variable Each photo 12″x10″ – $150 Each photo 10″x8″ – $120 Each photo 5″x7″ – $90 Each photo 4″x6″ – $50 
A S S E M B L A G E & C O L L A G E
Mixed media triptych – framed 6″x13″ $200 
Dear Diary, 2017 (Diary page piñata) 
Goatheads, 2022 Reclaimed fabric, recycled stuffing, cotton thread Sizes variable 
Sleeplessness, 2016 (Mixed media triptych) 
Party Pelts 3, 2018 (Popped balloons on foam) 26″x20″x4″ $120 – SOLD 
New santos, 2019 (Mixed media assemblage diptych) 11″x8 10×5 $250 SOLD 
No words for me, 2017 (Thesaurus pages and hair on wood) 
Weed of the West, 2017 (Hair and plastic crown in book) 
Te amo, 2017 (Plastic, moss, and glass on paper) 10″x10″x1.5″ $45 
D E S I G N
rica maestas 