Aleya Hoerlein - On her show, The Realm of Possibilities

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Aleya Hoerlein is a painter based in Taos, New Mexico. She was raised in Fairfield, Iowa by a creative family in a spiritual community that practiced transcendence. In college at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, she painted both figure and landscape but her attention kept going to the shadows behind the figure or the sky beyond the landscape. She shifted her focus to abstract painting that is grounded by both reference to nature and transcendence. Aleya’s paintings have appeared in publications such as Southwest Contemporary, New American Paintings, I Like Your Work, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, and have been on view in group shows at The Taos Center for the Arts’ Stables Gallery, G2 Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Site:Brooklyn Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and The National Arts Club in New York, NY. Her paintings are held in private collections in New York, California, Tennessee, Washington, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Hoerlein is exhibiting her first solo exhibition, "The Realm of Possibilities" in TCA's Encore Gallery from October 13th - November 26th, 2023. The exhibition is free and open to the public. She is a co-founding member of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC), a collective of artists from Northern New Mexico that collaborates with local museums and galleries to highlight contemporary art, while honoring the rich history of the arts in New Mexico and beyond.

Website

https://aleyahoerlein.com