Electra Gallery Welcomes New Artists!

This Spring we officially welcomed eight new outstanding artists to Electra Gallery: 

Marlene Seven Bremner (Santa Fe), Gail Buono (Santa Fe), Alexandra Catalina (AZ), Ineke Vera De Soete (Belgium), Daniel Martin Diaz (AZ), Lisa de St. Croix (Santa Fe), Ginny Walden (Santa Fe), and R.A.L. West (Taos).

Throughout the coming year, Electra Gallery will be sharing more about each of these singular and highly collectable artists, and featuring their artwork in the gallery and online. Here's a preview:

Marlene Seven Bremner is a self-taught oil painter, working in a surrealist and allegorical style. Her work explores esoteric themes arising from her study and practice of Hermeticism, alchemy, magic, astrology, and mythology. She is the author of Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey Through the Seven Spheres (Inner Traditions, 2022); and The Hermetic Marriage of Art and Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work (Inner Traditions, 2023).

Gail Buono is a metaphysical oil painter who works with geometry and color to represent abstract philosophical and spiritual concepts. She received her BFA in painting from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and is the receipient of two painting fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, as well as a "Distinguished Artist Award". Her work has been featured in the New York Times, and was selected for a university circuit tour with the exhibition, "The Enduring Presence (New York Abstraction)".

Alexandra Catalina uses traditional silversmithing techniques combined with clay hand-building to make sculpture, talismanic art objects, and wearable art jewelry. Alexandra specializes in vitreous enamel, which is powdered glass kiln-fired on metal. She calls her creations, "Future Temple Objects".

Ineke Vera De Soete is a self-taught artist and poet working between Belgium and Morocco. Ineke works on canvas and paper with a range of approaches from loose fluid paint application to highly detailed geometric forms. Her process and materials are deeply considered and have symbolic and vibrational intentions. Ineke often uses gold thread embroidery in geometric patterns on her canvas pieces to denote the spiritual element in the composition. Her pieces are created to have healing and positive energetic effects on the space they are in and the viewers who behold them.

Daniel Martin Diaz is a self-taught artist known for his graphite and ink drawings that deftly echo the aesthetics of 16th and 17th century esoteric and alchemical imagery. Both mystical and intellectual, and using a highly developed lexicon of symbolic forms, Daniel's artworks make sharp philosophical critiques and provide poignant insight into the woes of today's chaotic and troubled world.

Lisa de St. Croix is an oil painter working in an organic painterly style with rich earthy colors and flowing brushwork. Her paintings often include symbolism inspired by dreams, visions, and tarot iconography. Lisa is also a prolific creator of tarot and oracle decks, she has produced four complete tarot and oracle decks (available at Electra Gallery), and is working on a 5th. 

Ginny Walden is a self-taught visionary sculptor working in bronze, crystal alabaster, and native New Mexico woods like red cedar. Ginny's work is deeply spiritual in nature and draws from her own experiences with her guides, energetic realms, and her miraculous recovery from stage 4 breast cancer. Her forms are often created intuitively, only later revealing angelic, etheric beings of love and healing.

R.A.L. West is a multi-media artist whose mystical inter-dimensional artworks are often wearable, and include magic signs and symbols. Known in the 70's and 80's as the avant-garde couture fashion designer "Cuca", R.A.L. moved to creating textile wall pieces and eventually works on canvas that feature energetic forms and often use iridescent paints that shift and glow when viewed at certain angles.