Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, NM June 27-November 15
The camaraderie among artists is a special kind of bond. They share a passion of the world around them and seek to create works that transcend place and time. For about two decades Glenn Dean, Josh Elliott and Logan Maxwell Hagege have been friends and colleagues. The trio has participated in painting trips and exhibitions together, as well as sharing some of the same gallery representation.
They will exhibit as a group for the first time in 10 years—since the 2015 Three Point Perspective exhibit at the Booth Museum in Cartersville, Georgia—in Sun Brothers: Dean, Elliott, Hagege in the Land of Enchantment at Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico. Opening on June 27, the show is an homage to the desert state’s people, places and art history.
“These three men represent a new generation of artists who are drinking from the same well of inspiration as the painters of the Taos Society of Artists well over 100 years ago. All have visited our historic site and archive over the past several years, just as they’ve been growing as artists and gaining greater and greater success in the art world,” says Davison Koenig, executive director and curator at Couse-Sharp Historic Site, in a press release. “We came up with the idea for them to produce work directly related to Taos people, cultures and landscapes, and we could not be more excited about the amazing artworks they’ve produced.”
For this exhibition, Hagage will focus on the people and places found in the greater town of Taos and the Taos Pueblo. The artist says, “I am currently working on a few paintings of Sonny Spruce, who is a native of the Taos Pueblo. He is a great character and has been an inspiring subject to paint. I am also featuring bits of the Pueblo itself in some of the paintings. The organic structure melds with the land in such a natural way, it almost becomes part of the landscape.”
Elliott’s works will showcase the landscape and architecture of the area, with the artist being particularly drawn to the organic forms he’s come to know from visiting the city through different seasons. Among his paintings is INTERSECTION, which is a view the artist says he hasn’t seen painted before.
He explains, “It has a strong linear perspective and encompasses a lot of the beauty of the Pueblo and the landscape it sits in. The title refers to several intersections. The intersection of the seasons, fall into winter, portrayed in the passing snow squall that dusted the mountains. In addition, it refers to the intersection of cultures and religions, signified by the crosses in the cemetery. Lastly, the intersection of people’s lives, as the figure in the middle walks toward the two distant figures. I don’t often paint figures in my work, but adding them furthered my idea of intersections and, I feel, pays homage to the Taos Society of Artists and the people that still inhabit the Pueblo.”
Dean’s works in the show will largely be scenes from Taos, but other places throughout Northern New Mexico should make an appearance. Dean’s painting SUN OF TAOS depicts a friend who is native to Taos. In the work, Dean describes, the friend is “standing in front of the mountains with a white blanket over his shoulder in the full, bright afternoon sun.”
At past exhibits the three have done together, they’ve created a triptych with a panel painted by each of them. This show continues the tradition. The work, which was still in progress at the time of press, will focus on Taos Pueblo subject matter. Dean adds, “These triptychs are unique as they are a group effort from each artist in creating a single work that then becomes a collective and cohesive single work.”
Sun Brothers will be on view through November 15 in the Dean Porter Gallery of the Lunder Research Center. It kicks off with a public opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. All of works are available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds supporting the Taos Pueblo Day School Art Fund and Couse-Sharp Historic Site. People who are unable to attend in person can visit sunbrotherstaos.com (which goes live on June 27) where they can see the works and make purchase arrangements. —Rochelle Belsito
Contact Information(575) 751-0369couse-sharp.orgsunbrotherstaos.com
This story appeared in the June/July 2025 issue of Southwest Art magazine. Subscribe today to read every issue in its entirety.
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