Wildflower Gallery
Come visit the WildFlower Gallery – a rotating collection of seasonal artist collections from Taos and abroad.
Viewing hours are by appointment and during events, email us if you would like to confirm a viewing time in advance.
WILDFLOWER PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS
Kristin Anchors
CUT AND PASTE THE BODY
ARTIST STATEMENT
Since time immemorial humans have sought and invented innumerable ways to heal and make sense of our ailments.
‘Cut and Paste the Body’ began as a way to self-soothe — a response to the intensity of medical training. On paper torn from the back of childhood drawing pads, I worked on the floor, with scissors and glue, to recycle obsolete textbooks into something new.
As such, this project is first a meditative practice and creative outlet for myself. Physician heal thyself, and all.
It is an opportunity to remember the narratives I have received, reflect on the human experience, and integrate them into visual poetry that can be interpreted as the viewer chooses. It is also an appeal for a greater integration of the healing arts back into medicine. It is an acknowledgement of the innate and ancient wisdom in each and every one of us. It is a call to restore harmony within ourselves, with each-other, and with our planet.
In composing my visions, I hope to recall what brought me here. The belief in the wholeness of ourselves and that health is not produced but made present. That medicine is an art as much as a science. And that it belongs to nature.
ARTIST BIO
Kristin Anchors is a visual artist and emergency medicine doctor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her current studio practice includes dissecting the textbooks she accumulated in training to develop hand cut collages which aim to heal the fractured relationship between body and mind, human and the more-than-human world.
Her mature sense of wonder manifests in every piece, which are both playful and meaningful. With keen attention to detail she seamlessly weaves found imagery to tell stories informed by her unique and uninhibited access to life and death.
Anchors has had a life-long creative practice without formal training in Art. She studied Life Sciences and Philosophy at Arizona State University prior to completing medical school at the University of Arizona. She received specialty training in Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospital.
WILDFLOWER PLAYHOUSE
The Wildflower Playhouse and Art Gallery is dedicated to fostering community through the arts. It provides a space for artists to connect, for free spirits to explore, and for all to learn and grow. Founded in 2019 by Jim Avery, the Playhouse features an 80-seat proscenium stage, complete with studio-quality sound and advanced lighting. Jim envisioned a performance arts venue that would serve the Taos community, offering a beautiful, intimate space where art and creativity are celebrated. The Wildflower Playhouse is a place for all who seek to shine under its lights.
IN THE HALLWAY
Nicole Thibodeau
Water:
Forgiveness and Resilience
I listen to the birds, the water flowing over rocks. I stare at the water looking for my focus.
Mixing color, I create options for shadows, reflections, leaves, and sky.
Then I paint. Brush sliding over white board. What color is the sky reflected? What color is the root submerged in water? How do these leaves glow with their green light? I apply white highlights as reflections at last– shimmering.
I am, in many ways, treading water. I am catching my breath between one song and the next. Hardship lying behind me– the brush of a paddle against rapids keeps me afloat, aloft, ready for the next venture.
Artist Bio:
As the daughter of a painter and an actor (Karen Thibodeau), creativity was intertwined with early life for Nicole Thibodeau. She painted her way through a BA in Studio Art (Bethany College) and a MFA (Fort Hays State University). Further studies took her to the Art Students League (New York), Studio Art Centers International (Italy), and Lacoste School of the Arts (France). Currently, she lives in Taos, New Mexico where she paints outside and meets up with fellow artists in the Taos Artisan's Guild.
(All works are from this summer and completed in one sitting en plein air.)
