Denise Weaver Ross

Denise Weaver Ross explores her understanding of the world through art and poetry richly layered with mythological, natural, cultural, and historical references. She feels the magic happens when disparate images combine to make a new and unexpected new image with the layers resonating with undiscovered meaning.

In the House of Cards series, she reimagines a deck of cards in 56 large scale works-on-paper in which the Heart Suit combines heart cards with Egyptian imagery and the swords from the Tarot; the Tree Suit transforms clubs into trees, both natural and symbolic; the Star Suit turns diamonds into stars, constellation and other celestial phenomenon; and the Bone Suit replaces spades with an excavation of bones and fossils.

Denise has lived and worked in Albuquerque since 1996 and is a well known member of the art and poetry scene having created four large-scale murals. In 2018 she was designated a Local Treasure by the Albuquerque Business Arts Association. In 2017 she was commissioned to provide the painting painting for the poster for ¡Globalquerque! In 2016, Denise won Best-in-Show in the Las Vegas International Juried Art Competition at Jana’s RedRoom Gallery with one of the paintings from her House of Cards series and in 2015 three pieces from the series where also displayed in Times Square as part of the international SeeMe competition.

She shows locally at Tortuga and Ghostwolf Galleries and both her poetry and her art has been published nationally and internationally.

www.DeniseWeaverRoss.com