Ventana Fine Art (Santa Fe, NM)

Tel 2: 800-746-8815

Fax: 505-988-4780

Monday-Saturday 9:30am-5:30pm
Sunday 10am-4pm

Established in 1983

Connie Axton

www.ventanafineart.com

Related Links:
www.artfeast.com

www.santafegalleryassociation.org



Among the handful of grande-dame galleries on Santa Fe's fabled Canyon Road, Ventana Fine Art stands out in every respect. Founded by Connie Axton in 1983, in a 600-square-foot retail space in the Inn at Loretto, Ventana outgrew its original location through three expansions. From her first day in business, Axton quickly established herself as a force majeure in contemporary art. Attracting and being instrumental in the career trajectories of painters John Nieto, Albert Handell, Doug Dawson, and John Axton, Connie wanted more space for interior and exterior displays. In 1996 she seized the opportunity to lease Ventana's current home, a red-brick former schoolhouse built in 1906 and now listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and two other state and local historic registries. Axton transformed this perfect example of educational architecture of the period into a perfect venue for showing world-class art by contemporary and traditional artists of exceptional originality and virtuosity.

Ventana Fine Art now represents 18 painters and six sculptors. We have mounted more than 200 group and one-person shows, all successful in terms of attendance, sales, and visibility. Our schedule of receptions begins each year in April and continues through December, attracting enthusiastic art buyers long after many other area galleries have gone into seasonal hibernation. The connoisseur in search of the very best in paintings and sculpture, large and small, need look no farther than Ventana Fine Art.