For the past 50 years Shelley Horton-Trippe's art has grappled with the linkup of emotion and history in both painting and installation. Large-Scale canvasses often tackling the dilemmas of being a female in a male world are abstract, colorful and, at times use placement of recognizable objects to juxtapose Southwestern life into the mix of contemporary culture.
After earning her MFA at the University of Oklahoma, she studied video with Nam June Paik in Paris. Her installations often combine video, found objects and site-specific locations.
Horton-Trippe taught painting, drawing and Art History at the Institute of American Indian Art, the University of New Mexico and the College of Santa Fe for nearly 40 years.
She now lives in an old adobe that once was a 17th century weigh station, stables and then a dance hall on the edge of Agua Fria village on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.