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2/6/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Reception

5pm

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7pm

Casa Otro

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2/6/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Reception

Opening for the Border Artists Studio Tour as part of the Artform's For the Love of Art Month in February.

Casa Otro is located at 2622B Call...

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5pm

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7pm

Casa Otro

2/7/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

11am

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4 pm

Casa Otro

Event Details

2/7/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

Border Artists Studio Tour

Casa Otro is located at 2622B Calle de Guadalupe St., Mesilla

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

2/8/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

Event Details

2/8/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

Border Artists Studio Tour

Casa Otro is located at 2622B Calle de Guadalupe St., Mesilla

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

2/14/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

Event Details

2/14/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

Border Artists Studio Tour

Casa Otro is located at 2622B Calle de Guadalupe St., Mesilla

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

2/15/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

Event Details

2/15/2026

Desde El Corazon 2 Studo Tour

Border Artists Studio Tour

Casa Otro is located at 2622B Calle de Guadalupe St., Mesilla

11am

-

4 pm

Casa Otro

Desde de Corazon 2, For The Love of Art 2/26

    Inspired at EPCC Art Gallery

    RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Sept.-Oct. 2025

    Desde el Corazon at Casa Otro, February 2025

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      2019

      2017 "Water on the Border"

       This exhibition was presented at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico and featured work by our arts organization, in multiple mediums, that address the topic of water in the Rio Grande US/Mexico region. Themes included water and community, water scarcity, and water as it relates to an individual. Works by 19 artists were on display. 

      2018 "What We Love"

        

      "What We Love:" an exhibition to benefit KRWG public radio.  Displayed at the Cutter Gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico, October 13, 2018.

      2019 Rio bravo art gallery presents the border artist

      2019 Rio bravo art gallery presents the border artist

      Artist Biography

      Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1956, Roy van der Aa grew up in Montreal Canada. His Formal education includes 2 years of Fine Art Speciality at John Abbott College and 3 years at Concordia University Studying Printmaking and Archaeology. He moved to the US in 1989.

      Roy has had over 140 solo, two-person and group showsThroughout the Southwest United States and Quebec. His work can be seen at RioBravoFineArts in Truth or Consequences and his own gallery, Aa Studios in Las Cruces. He has also shown in Carrizozo, Tularosa, Socorro, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and El Paso.



      Artist Statement

      Roy has been producing painted collages in three sizes since 2017. They are his way of reimagining landscape painting by taking photographs, collaging them and painting prints of the collages in series of four. These give a sense of neighborhoods in motion.

      He has been printmaking in various forms since college. Since 2026, he has been making “pochoir” or stencil prints in small editions. These combine collage and photo manipulation with flat colors. Pochoir is a stencil-based technique popular in Paris from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s and was used by Picasso, Matisse, and Sonya Dulaney. Roy has shown these prints in Amsterdam in 2018 and London in 2019. Locally, they were shown in four annual print shows at Gallery 925.

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