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Donna Monroe
"40 Years of Innovative Wit"

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A Historical Perspective​
Works on Paper, Sculpture, Artfully Embellished Textiles​
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First Floor Main Gallery​
NOV 14 - FEB 28, 2021

Curated by Susan A. Christie
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SELVEDGE MAGAZINE, LONDON
BLOG ARTICLE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Donna Monroe
CLICK TO READ ARTICLE
An exhibition tracing the career of artist Donna Monroe from her early Photographs and  Monoprints, to Collagé, Shrines, Altered Books, Totem Figures and Embellished, Three Dimensional Wall Pieces. Monroe creates sumptuous stories using found textiles, fiber and objects. Image, construction, color, texture and imagination are her watchwords.

Overlooking Turtleback Mountain from the Garden.
Happy Birthday Donna!
The Shrine in her home. 
Her studio is filled with shelves of fabrics, drawers of embroidery floss organized
into colorways, buttons, laces, collected bits and pieces from thrift stores and
​other browsed locations.
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DONNA'S JOURNEY
​My love affair with making, mixing, patterning, collaging, stitching, coloring, pasting
began early. Scrapbooking and creating my own images with cut outs from Life
magazines is one of my fondest and earliest art making memories. Coming from a long
lineage of women who embroidered, quilted, knit and crocheted, instilled a love of the
feel and texture of fiber and thread. While a child at my grandmother's knee
I experienced the thrill of plying a needle with a bright length of colored thread
through flour sacking to create a set of dish towels.

Graduating from the University of California Santa Cruz with degrees in Photography
and Printmaking, I spent the next several years taking a lot of pictures. At a point about
20 years ago I returned to my first love and began a series of original needlepoint pillows.
At the time I was living a gypsy lifestyle and the ease and lightness of carrying canvas
​and yarn around was very appealing and allowed me to work with the lush colors
and richness of Persian yarns.

After settling in T or C I had the good fortune to buy a house with a large studio space
and my focus changed from small, portable pieces to larger and more varied work which
includes wall hangings, totem figures, bags, fabric collage and assemblages. Of utmost
importance to my aesthetic is the unearthing of found fabrics, paper, beads, sticks rocks,
rusty stuff found in the desert, on the street and anywhere else one stumbles upon the
detritus of human activity for reuse, repurposing, and reshaping into whatever captures
my fancy at any given moment. Having fun combining all of these elements along with
color and pattern gives me such great pleasure in making things.

...Donna Monroe
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MONOPRINTS
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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PAPER COLLAGE'
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SCULPTURE
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EMBELLISHED TEXTILES
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TOTEMS
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SHRINES
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ALTERED BOOKS
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ASSEMBLAGE
FOR INFORMATION REGARDING PURCHASING DONNA'S WORK PLEASE CONTACT
RioBravoFineArt® Gallery 
110 North Broadway Avenue
​Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
Phone: 1.575.894.0572 

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Eduardo Alicea, Owner - Director      H. Joe Waldrum, Founder in 1998
Gallery Hours
Closed Monday & Tuesday
Open Wednesday – Sunday
Noon – 5 p.m.
And by Appointment
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riobravofa@gmail.com

RioBravoFineArt® Gallery 
110 Broadway Street,
​
Truth or Consequences, 
NM 87901
Phone: 1.575.894.0572 


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  • HOME
    • ABOUT RBFA
    • Gallery Calendar 2022
    • Gallery Calendar 2023
    • GALLERY GIFT SHOP
  • CURRENT EXHIBITION PREVIEW
    • Julia Masaoka Exhibition
    • In A Small Way
  • WORKS FROM H. JOE WALDRUM TRUST
    • Exhibition Preview
    • Paintings Linocuts And Etchings
    • Polaroids
    • About Joe
  • GALLERY ARTISTS INDEX
    • Roy van der Aa
    • Martye Allen >
      • Martye Allen Profile
    • Wiz Allred >
      • About Wiz Allred
    • Dave Barnett >
      • Dave Barnett Resume'
    • Susan A Christie
    • Delmas Howe >
      • Delmas Howe Resume' And More
    • Sandy Hopper
    • Noël Hudson >
      • New Grasses Series Paintings
      • New Abstract Series Paintings
      • New Fragments Series Collages
      • Noel Hudson Resume'
    • Katharine Kreisher
    • Julia Masaoka
    • Tyler Mason
    • Darlene Olivia McElroy >
      • About Darlene Olivia McElroy
    • Donna Monroe
    • Gregory Montreuil
    • Graham Murtough
    • Deborah Mushock
    • Leo Neufeld
    • Susan Noreen
    • Ricky Padilla
    • Miguel Pino
    • William Bertrum Sharp
    • Joel Smith >
      • Joel Smith Resume'
    • Rebecca Speakes
    • Nolan Winkler >
      • Nolan Winkler Resume'
  • RECENT PAST EXHIBITIONS
    • Tyler Mason Exhibition
    • Mannequin Mayhem >
      • Mannequin Mayham Artists Index
    • Nolan Winkler Blooms Exhibition
    • Susan A. Christie From The Studio Exhibition
    • Sandy Hopper Interweaving
    • Delmas Howe Guys and Canyons
    • Santa Fe Community College Show
    • Tondo Rotondo
    • Rebecca Speakes
    • ​Gregory Grafwallner Exhibition
    • Wendy Tremayne Exhibition
    • Martye Allen Exhibition 2021
    • 2021 GALLERY ARTISTS' SHOW
    • Donna Monroe Retrospective >
      • Curator Statement
    • Graham Murtough
    • Darlene Olivia McElroy >
      • About Darlene Olivia McElroy
    • Wiz Allred Exhibition >
      • About Wiz Allred
    • Gregory Montreuil Exhibition
    • The Family Winkler Exhibition
    • Dave Barnett Exhibition
    • Noël Hudson Exhibitions
    • Leo Neufeld Exhibition
    • Susan Noreen Exhibition
  • AVAILABLE COLLECTIONS
    • From The Winkler Collection
  • PURCHASE INQUIRIES
  • BLOG/EXHIBITION/ REVIEWS
  • ARTIST SUBMISSIONS
  • LINKS WE LIKE