After arriving at Connie Rohde’s C Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Alamos, CA, I was surprised to meet the artist of the quilts and discover not a savvy middle aged Southern woman, but a very young man seemingly in the prime of his career. Having grown up in the South and studied art and architecture at Cooper Union, Haynes began experimenting with quilting and has developed a very unique repertoire of colorful fabric mosaics that …

I recently popped into the C Gallery for a show opening of work by Guy Rocky Stroup. I first saw Stroup’s work in a group show at the same gallery. My introduction to his work was with an intense and personal piece called “Borrowed Time,” which I was glad to see again in his solo show. The piece, to the left on the photo below, is constructed with bottles of heart prescription medications Stroup had …