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34th Floor, 2007
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Agency #1, 2019$ 800.00
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Bad Thoughts Come and Go, 2005$ 700.00
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Cry, Die or Just Make Pies, 2013$ 850.00
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Emma Sulkowicz #1, 2017$ 650.00
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Everything Has Changed, 2007$ 650.00
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Graces, Nalgonas, Marias, 2023
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I'm the Wilderness, I'm the White Noise, 2016$ 850.00
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I'm Your Green Honeycreeper, Baby, 2015$ 2,500.00
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Jane Marches #1, 2020$ 3,000.00
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Jane Marches #2, 2021
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Jiggle, Jiggle, Jiggle, 2012$ 700.00
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Just a Small Bite, 2004Sold
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Lee's Dream, 2009$ 800.00
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Malcriada, 2001$ 650.00
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Marching Across Your Lawn, The Grass is On Fire, 2020$ 2,500.00
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My Hair Story: From Brunette to Gray, 2024$ 18.49
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One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, 2015$ 2,500.00
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Peck not Prick, 2014$ 2,500.00
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Personages, 2011$ 700.00
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Phyllis & Aristotle, 2001$ 750.00
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Real Animal, 2008$ 800.00
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Real, Live, Broken, 2006$ 750.00
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Somewhere Between the Beauty and the Buzz, 2017$ 2,000.00
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Steady as She Goes, 2007
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Swallow the Love, Spit Out The Seed, 2004$ 700.00
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The Good Body, 2010$ 1,000.00
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The Waiting, 2005$ 700.00
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Time Will Do The Talking, 2018$ 850.00
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Twelve Angry Women, 2018$ 1,000.00
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Wasn’t I Always a Friend To You, 2007
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What You Whispered, Should Be Screamed, 2018$ 2,500.00
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You Need Another Lover, Like You Need a Hole in Your Head, 2004$ 600.00
The cornerstone of Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's artwork is the female experience within a patriarchal society. As a woman, daily navigation of our world is a precarious tight-rope walk. The use of portraiture to discuss gender-based burdens personalizes the political. Intricate drawings are created by meticulous stitching of human hair. The dichotomy of human hair, depending upon context, can be engaging or off-putting: long, luxurious hair is sexy, but a hair in one’s soup is unappealing. Meza-DesPlas seduces the viewer with elegant, sensual marks of hair in tandem with a persistent advocation for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Through on-site drawing installations and watercolor paintings, Meza-DesPlas evokes intellectual and visceral responses to socio-cultural burdens endured by women; these burdens and their subsequent impact on contemporary culture are interpreted through a global lens. Read Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' artist statement.
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas earned a MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art (Hoffberger School of Painting) and a BFA from the University of North Texas. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She currently lives in Farmington, New Mexico.
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Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: My Hair Story – from Brunette to Gray
28 Jun - 31 Aug 2024Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' 22-year retrospective, "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray," confronts the sexualization of Latina bodies, gender-based burdens, & the relationship between sex, violence, and women in popular media.Read more -
Summer Show 2021
25 Jun - 31 Jul 2021Carolyn Riman’s lush new series of 11 paintings, Plant People, anchors this year’s Summer Show at form & concept. The annual exhibition features new work by all of the gallery’s...Read more
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Artist Talk: Two Latinas Talking, a Conversation Between Rosemary Meza-DesPlas and Cecilia L. Vargas
1 PM 10 Aug 2024Join multidisciplinary artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas & independent curator Cecilia L. Vargas as they discusses Meza-DesPlas' hair embroidery practice and latest exhibition, "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray."Read more -
Artist Talk: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
1 PM 29 Jun 2024Join multidisciplinary artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas as she discusses her hair embroidery practice and latest exhibition, "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray."Read more -
Opening Reception: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
5–7 PM 28 Jun 2024Join us on June 28th from 5 to 7 PM for the opening reception of "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray," a 22-year retrospective presenting the hair-drawing practice of multidisciplinary artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas.Read more -
Video Premiere: Miss Nalgas USA 2022 by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
3:00 - 4:30pm 3 Dec 2022The video premiere,Miss Nalgas USA 2022, focuses on a performance artwork by the same title. This one-night only performance, held in Farmington, NM on November...Read more -
Reading: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
5:30pm 30 Jul 2021Drawing from her own personal history as a Latina, artist and spoken word performer Rosemary Meza-DesPlas taps into memories and symbolism related to casa (house/home)...Read more -
Opening Reception: Summer Show 2021
5 - 7pm 25 Jun 2021form & concept celebrates our annual Summer Show with brand new work by new and returning artists, including 11 new paintings by Carolyn Riman; a...Read more
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Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: Show Statements
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas & Spencer Linford June 25, 2024Read show statements about Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray."Read more -
Artist Statement: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
June 21, 2024Read intersectional feminist and multidisciplinary artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' artist statement about her studio practice.Read more