Arturo Chavez was born in 1949 in Embudo, New Mexico, near Taos. Raised amid the spectacular vistas of Northern New Mexico, Chavez is dedicated to preserving the landscape by painting it. Intrigued with light and space on a two-dimensional plane, Chavez began painting with oil when he was about 8 years old. Although Chavez painted throughout his youth, he did not turn to art as a full-time career until the 1980s. Since then, he has received international recognition for his landscapes. Like many gifted artists, Chavez possesses many other talents. He is a talented musician and tango dancer, having studied classical concert guitar at the University of New Mexico, as well as having worked as a mission pilot for the Civil Air Patrol. In his artistic process, Arturo Chavez uses a combination of “on location studies,” multiple compositional drawings, and intermediate painting studies that he creates in his studio to arrive at a finished painting for exhibition in a gallery or a museum.

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