Throughout her childhood, Maryssa Chavez joined her grandfather on long walks through the New Mexico wilderness. He loved pointing out to his nieta that this place was an ancient seabed, a history that imbued the vistas with oceanic grandeur and severity. When Chavez began quilting the multifaceted family portrait that appears in this exhibition, she chose the deep blue of the cyanotype to evoke the poetry of this inherited paradigm.

 From a largely first-person perspective, under a rock, along the shore is about the eye and body's interactions with swiftly changing landscapes of the 21st century. It is keenly concerned with the craft of photography; through a dazzling array of processes and techniques, these artists plunge us into visual and tactile, cultural and political experiences of the Desert Southwest and other corners of the world.

 -Jordan Eddy, Gallery Director