Jake Trujillo: Refrain

Refrain: New Works from Jake Trujillo
Please join us October 2nd 5-7 PM for an opening reception at Sun & Dust located at 223 1/2 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501.

This series of new paintings features Trujillo’s largest paintings made to date, inviting the viewer to feel the Southwest’s landscapes surrounding presence in interior spaces.

Santa Fe oil painter Jake Trujillo’s solo exhibition Refrain is concerned with observation of repetition. Trujillo’s new body of work is entirely composed of familiar Santa Fe vistas whose emphasis is on the passage of time and seasonality—airy Winter scenes sit alongside distant Summer thunderheads and Autumnal foreground passages in brown and orange. To pause and observe keenly the changes in the land is an exercise in communion and restraint, and in this sense “refrain” refers not only to the musicality of repetition and theme, but to taking a moment of stasis to see distinctions within the presupposed. Santa Fe oil painter Jake Trujillo’s solo exhibition Refrain is concerned with observation of repetition. Trujillo’s new body of work is entirely composed of familiar Santa Fe vistas whose emphasis is on the passage of time and seasonality—airy Winter scenes sit alongside distant Summer thunderheads and Autumnal foreground passages in brown and orange. To pause and observe keenly the changes in the land is an exercise in communion and restraint, and in this sense “refrain” refers not only to the musicality of repetition and theme, but to taking a moment of stasis to see distinctions within the presupposed.

On View October 2nd-November 30th 2026

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Jake Trujillo
Two Mile Reservoir, Winter
48″ x 72″
Oil On Canvas
2026