“Sun Bent Sediment,” double-sided pigment print photograph, acrylic mirror, dry mud flake collected from Rio Grande, Albuquerque, NM, 85”x42”x9”, 2024
The Department of Art is thrilled to congratulate MFA Photography alumni Anna Rotty and Brianna Tadeo on the selection of their work for “FORECAST 2025” at SF Camerawork! This exhibition, running from May 30-August 16, 2025, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, features emerging imagemakers from around the globe.
Anna Rotty’s work explores the intersections of water, light, and infrastructure, with a focus on the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, where she examines both the physical and symbolic forces shaping landscapes. Through her layered photographic portraits, Rotty reflects on themes of place, power, and the environment.
“Shadows of an echo of a place,” 14’ x 15’ x 1” and smaller version 4’ x 5’ x 1 From Series: “These fleeting shadows dissolve by day’s light” This piece is composed of six 4” x 5” steel panels that intersect to create a shadow silhouette of California Bay Laurels from Berkeley Hill, overlooking Lake Anza.
Brianna Tadeo’s practice merges analog and digital photography to explore the transient beauty of impermanence. With a focus on memory, transformation, and decay, their work challenges the boundaries between photography and lived experience, creating tactile works that reflect the quiet magic of light.
Rotty and Tadeo will be showing their work alongside other incredible artists, including Jonathan Mark Jackson and Jonah Reenders.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
1) LEARN MORE about SF Camerawork and “FORECAST 2025” by visiting sfcamerawork.org
2) EXPLORE the work of Anna Rotty by checking out her website, annarotty.com or follow her on Instagram @annarotty.
3) EXPLORE the work of Brianna Tadeo by visiting their website at briannatadeo.com or by following them on Instagram @brianna_tadeo.
Southwest Contemporary Vol. 12: Obsession features some incredible work from several of the amazing people who comprise the Art Department. Current second-year MFA students Luka Berkley and Justine Kablack, recent MFA graduate Taylor Engel, and instructor Jessamyn Lovell all have work featured in this most recent issue of Southwest Contemporary.
Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán was recently featured in two articles and interviewed by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. UNM News published “UNM Professors Create Exhibition, First-Ever Scholarship of Local Chicano Artists’ Work” by Anna Padilla, highlighting an exhibition curated by Hernández-Durán and Dr. Irene Vásquez. The show, now on view at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, features six talented New Mexican Chicano artists whose work has been historically underrepresented in academic scholarship.
Distinguished Professor Jim Stone is an exhibiting artist who uses photography. His photographs have been published in three monographs and exhibited internationally; they are represented in the permanent collections of over 30 major museums and public archives.
