The Walter Art Gallery was pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Phoenix-based artist Charmagne Vasquez. This collection of paintings and sculptures are narrations from the artist’s life in the last few years. They reflect time spent in the natural spaces of the Sonoran Desert, Coconino Forest, and Vashon Island, WA. Vasquez endeavors to understand the web of life, personal human life stories and the constant pulse of evolution. She channels thoughts about nature as a wondrously mysterious hivemind of energy and interconnected species, all of which is in imminent need of our protection. Her spontaneous paintings are diverse close-up and panoramic terrains. She rawly integrates traditional and non-traditional materials: thick impasto, oil pastels, pencil, assemblages, mesquite pods, wool, wire, twine, canna lilies... The artist is also thrilled to present her newest experimental direction in sculpture: these are small, figurative works which embody human vulnerability, and a complex array of emotion and actions. These sculptures are part of a continuation of ideas she has explored in other sculptural forms and drawings. Come see “Hinterlands & Murmurations” to dwell in a place where art transcends words about humanness and our ephemeral planet.