Image: 203 Fine Art, Taos
Robbi Firestone’s solo exhibition ‘The Long Horizon’ is on view at Gallery 215 in Taos, New Mexico, in a presentation by 203 Fine Art. The exhibition brings together 30 paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolor, alongside pastels and watercolors, and examines the relationship between Firestone’s life in northern New Mexico and her ancestral connection to the region’s landscape.
The exhibition opened on July 18, 2026, at Gallery 215, 215 Ranchitos Road. Gallery materials describe the works as ranging from small watercolor paintings to large-scale gestural canvases, with the installation extending through the rooms of the historic building. One featured work is ‘Taken to the Beyond’ (2025), a 48-by-60-inch painting made with acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas. Another, ‘Ponderosa Embers’ (2025), measures 24 by 18 inches and combines acrylic and oil on canvas.
Firestone’s stated point of departure is the discovery that her great-great-grandmother, Cornelia Veronica Trujillo, was born and raised in Santa Fe County. The exhibition’s accompanying text connects that family history with Firestone’s longstanding engagement with New Mexico’s light, dust, sage and sky. Firestone moved to Santa Fe in 2010, established a studio there and has painted the region’s landscape and atmosphere across 15 years of work, according to the gallery’s materials.
The new paintings approach Trujillo’s journey through abstracted lines and topographical forms. The exhibition text refers to boulders, passages and difficult stretches of ground, while placing Firestone’s own movement through the landscape alongside that of her ancestor. Rather than presenting the works simply as depictions of place, the gallery describes them as meditations on lineage, memory and the way landscapes can shape personal identity.
Firestone is identified by 203 Fine Art as a contemporary American painter and conceptual artist working between New York City and Santa Fe. Her practice spans three decades and includes oil, acrylic, pastel and graphite. The gallery states that her paintings emerge from sustained observation of the high-desert landscape of New Mexico. Her conceptual work also includes the 2026 series ‘Existential Snacks: Food for Thought’, which uses mass-produced consumer materials to address ecological collapse, cultural numbness and consumption.
Gallery 215 is a recently restored, two-story adobe hacienda whose roots date to 1850. It operates as a private, appointment-only gallery space and presents historic, modern and contemporary New Mexican art in a domestic setting. The location page for 203 Fine Art lists Gallery 215 at 215 Ranchitos Road, across from the Harwood Museum of Art’s parking lot.
The supplied exhibition announcement says ‘The Long Horizon’ is available by appointment through September 5, with public viewing on Saturday, August 29, from 1 to 3 p.m., and Sunday, September 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. The gallery’s exhibition page instead lists the run as July 18 through August 22, 2026. Visitors are therefore advised to confirm access and dates with 203 Fine Art before visiting.
