Omnhium's Featured
Artists
Omnihum Gallery believes in supporting living artists with impactful missions. We showcase dozens of artists primarily based in the Taos area and New Mexico. Their work is inspired by concepts of spirituality, nature, and the human experience.
Lynn Gitter
Lynn Gitter classically trained in woodstock NY. A best seller at OmniHum Gallery known for her historical works based off buddhism, Greek Goddesses, and landmarks. Lynn Gitter is a true scholar and now retired to focus deeper on her buddhist practices
Oil Painter
Peter Harrington
An aesthetic influence for me has been with the Imagist School of Chicago, however my work has taken its own path into uncharted territory.
My paintings are a kind of Kabuki of forms, often have a totemic, iconic expression.
An unlikely, but inevitable, intersection of elements from primitive nature and the human presence, toward a philosophical whole.
Artist friends have commented on the humor and inventiveness of the way things are put together, pointing to the pure ideas behind the resolved work.
Some years spent living in Zen Monastic communities and solitary retreats in the wilderness have also lent a certain feeling of relatedness to the natural world and the paintings have since been marked by these experiences.
Oil Painter, Pigment Maker
Hannah Heaton
I am an artist born of the sciences. Raised by an engineer and a hydrologist, I began avidly painting as a teenager and began my college studies in fine art. Seeking an understanding of the troubled human condition, I shifted my focus to the sciences, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science and a minor in studio art. Through my subsequent experiences in genetics research, science education as well as health care, I became aware of the undeniable connection between human health and nature. Studying as an herbalist in both the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, I attempted to heal this lost connection to the earth.
After a decade of searching for meaning and purpose through work in the healing sciences, I realized the one practice that consistently brought me fulfillment and connection to the present moment was painting. Answering a deeper calling to the creative life and allowing myself to release the socially informed expectations that I would pursue a career in science I committed to painting full time. Since then I have shown work in galleries throughout the southwest including Exhibit 208, Zendo, and Matrix Fine Art in Albuquerque, New Mexico, The HeArt Box in Flagstaff Arizona and Exhibizone on Biafarin's Online Exhibition. I was chosen as a distinguished artist published in Art Ascent's International Art Magazine and my work was included in the Pumphouse Pilot Program of the Fountain Hills Public Art Program.
My science background continues to shape and inform my approach to my creative work. For example, while working at an art supply store in Albuquerque New Mexico, I became so curious about the ingredients of paint that I began collecting my own pigment and experimenting with various processes to refine and incorporate them into my paintings. This project provided opportunity to collaborate with artists of various mediums; our common interest in color bringing us together to process pigments from natural sources.
Oil Painter
Sara Kollig
Sara was born in Minneapolis, MN. She moved around the midwest United States during her childhood, living in Tennessee and Michigan. Her recent adult life was spent in Cincinnati, where she was introduced to the underground arts and upcycled fashion scene, which had a huge impact on her. She is now working out of a garage somewhere in Taos, NM. In this new chapter, she is learning from the rich traditions of art and spirituality in New Mexico to inspire her work. She has been working with oil paints since age 16, self-taught besides high school art lessons.
“In my art, I search for the soul of humanity. I find it in our relationships with the land and with each other. Through a blend of abstract and impressionist styles, I capture the physical and emotional landscapes that define our existence.
My work explores the dialogue between nature and civilization, between freedom and oppression, and the enduring bonds that shape our collective identity.
Through introspection and empathy, I challenge my viewers to contemplate their relationships with the world around them. My art seeks to foster a deeper understanding of our interconnectedness- our profound capability for beauty and pain, encouraging reflection on our place in humanity.”
Jarad McHugh
Jarad McHugh was born October 13, 1991 on Long Island, New York where he spent his childhood and teenage years learning to make art with little guidance other than a natural inclination.
He writes that "Art, for me (and probably everyone), is an act of self-discovery and expansion. To draw on the page is, I think, to draw out more complete and fulfilled versions of ourselves. I hope my art offers rebirth and the light of consciousness, but for every bit of light these pieces may reveal, they have also demanded that I root down into my own darkness, subconscious, and shadow. In doing so, my drawings have taught me how to embrace the full spectrum of who I am—the light and the dark. And it's through their high contrast graphite and ink that I aim to symbolically express this spectrum of light and dark as well as life and death that we all have within us."
Jarad is currently practicing Zen Buddhism at Mountain Gate Zen Center in Northern New Mexico, continuing to develop his art, and recording his podcast, Becoming Human—an exploration into using art as a tool for self-discovery. You can find Becoming Human on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Chloë Michele
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Trained by her grandfather in fine art; Chloë has been illustrating her dreams since she could hold a crayon.
She is on a mission to bring more joy and harmony to planet Earth through the emphasis of creative self expression, self mastery, psycho-spiritual liberation, and the use of natural medicines.
Augustine Mirabel
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Taos Pueblo Sculptor and student of local legend John Suazo, Augustine has been hand-carving for over 40 years. His work is inspired by his love of animals and real-life experiences, like time with his horses or hunting a buck.
Juniper Vaughn
Juniper Vaughn is an artist and a student of earth sciences and human-ecological wellness based in northern New Mexico. She refers to her work as “Ecological Arts” since both it and the field of Ecology explore patterns and relationships between systems of living and nonliving things. By working with site-specific materials, such as soils and rocks for pigments, her work offers perspectives which can deepen and expand our appreciation and interaction with the natural world. Her educational background allows her to be a bridge between environmental sciences and the arts, using the arts — with an emphasis on the materials — as an instrument to incite more awareness, understanding, and reverence for life.
Juniper was born and raised in rural Texas and received a scholarship award in Fine Arts from Midwestern State University in 2017 but went on to study environmental sciences. She is currently a online student working toward a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health & Wellness Management from Unity Environmental University and will graduate in the Fall of 2024. Using this training as well as her skills and experience in art, she is taking steps toward starting the “Ecological Arts Project”, which would eventually provide a research space where artists could connect their work to the natural world by regeneratively harvesting, mining, and crafting their own materials, and then processing and working with them on site. Her work has been exhibited at Midwestern State University, Austin Community College in Texas, the Harwood Museum of Art, and most recently, in the “Devotion” group exhibition at Omnihum Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, where she was an artist in residence from March-June 2024.
Marlene Seven Bremner
Completely self-taught, I began oil painting because it was the only thing that seemed to help me during a traumatic time in my life. My subject matter has been greatly influenced by Jungian psychology and alchemical philosophy, both of which have provided me with a symbolic language to interpret otherwise ineffable sensations and impressions. Alchemy is a sacred art of union between the Above and Below, which I have explored in-depth through my creative process. As physical, mental, and emotional transmutation takes place within me, it is projected externally onto the canvas, distilling a psycho-spiritual process into its visual quintessence. Every painting is the end result of a visceral, lived experience that deepens my understanding of what it means to be human, of immortal essence and mortal form.
The aim of the alchemical work, called the Magnum Opus, is to free the authentic Self to be in alignment with its perfect, divine, unified nature, and to awaken the creative potential and power of the human imagination. Behind all of my work is the intention of sharing this fundamental understanding with unapologetic authenticity and beauty, and to support others in their own awakening process.
Teresa Gostanza
Juniper Vaughn is an artist and a student of earth sciences and human-ecological wellness based in northern New Mexico. She refers to her work as “Ecological Arts” since both it and the field of Ecology explore patterns and relationships between systems of living and nonliving things. By working with site-specific materials, such as soils and rocks for pigments, her work offers perspectives which can deepen and expand our appreciation and interaction with the natural world. Her educational background allows her to be a bridge between environmental sciences and the arts, using the arts — with an emphasis on the materials — as an instrument to incite more awareness, understanding, and reverence for life.
Juniper was born and raised in rural Texas and received a scholarship award in Fine Arts from Midwestern State University in 2017 but went on to study environmental sciences. She is currently a online student working toward a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health & Wellness Management from Unity Environmental University and will graduate in the Fall of 2024. Using this training as well as her skills and experience in art, she is taking steps toward starting the “Ecological Arts Project”, which would eventually provide a research space where artists could connect their work to the natural world by regeneratively harvesting, mining, and crafting their own materials, and then processing and working with them on site. Her work has been exhibited at Midwestern State University, Austin Community College in Texas, the Harwood Museum of Art, and most recently, in the “Devotion” group exhibition at Omnihum Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, where she was an artist in residence from March-June 2024.