Hecho a Mano

Hecho a Mano Hecho a Mano is all about handmade. Linktree: https://bio.site/hechoamanoorg Hecho a Mano primarily showcases New Mexican and Mexican printmakers.

We also show artists working in the mediums of ceramics, and jewelry. Our sibling gallery, Hecho Gallery, features artists making unique works primarily on canvas, paper and in clay at 129 W Palace Ave.

The figures in her work are totemic beings that explore personal and cultural identity; vessels based on the form of the...
06/24/2026

The figures in her work are totemic beings that explore personal and cultural identity; vessels based on the form of the stacking matryoshka doll. They are adorned in textiles and patterns informed by Indigenous Ukrainian textiles, embroidery, and ceremonial dress, as well as vintage American western wear. “The patterns are used to allude to distant homelands- places that are lost or cannot be returned to,” Gratovich says. Flora and fauna of the American South and Southwest adorn and surround her figures, rooting them in place and symbolizing interdependency, resiliency, and generational survival.

Image: Annalise Gratovich, The Musician, 2017, woodcut with hand dyed chine collé, 71 x 41 in

Is There a Horse on Your Roof? is a solo exhibition of watercolor paintings by Kuwaiti-born, Albuquerque-based artist Za...
06/23/2026

Is There a Horse on Your Roof? is a solo exhibition of watercolor paintings by Kuwaiti-born, Albuquerque-based artist Zahra Marwan, opening July 3 at Hecho a Mano. The title comes from Maurice Sendak's first book, Kenny's Window, the story of a boy who wakes convinced there's a horse on the roof, and decides not to tell his parents, certain they'd dismiss it as a dream. For Marwan, that image of inhabiting a reality no one else can see became a way to hold her own experience of this past year.

The work negotiates a state she calls disbelief, at how beautiful life can be, and at the darkness pressing on her family and country at the same time. As war reached Iran and her home region, she found herself answering "how are you?" from strangers while wondering whether the neighborhoods her family live in were actually under attack. The paintings move through that liminal space between dream and reality, but they're not despairing. Tender and jewel-like, they catch moments of grounding: an aunt calling her habibti-joon and telling her not to be scared, a brother in the Pecos river, music at a family party. Marwan's work is at once intensely personal and open to anyone: a quiet reverence for the fleeting acts of love and care that return us to our humanity, even in the worst of it. On view through August 2nd.

Image: Zahra Marwan, Post-War Circus Skirt, watercolor & ink on board, 2026, 32 x 22 in

Dry Land opens July 3 at Hecho a Mano, a group exhibition of ceramic sculpture curated by gallery co-director Martha Tra...
06/23/2026

Dry Land opens July 3 at Hecho a Mano, a group exhibition of ceramic sculpture curated by gallery co-director Martha Traer. The show takes its name from the idea of solid ground as refuge. Traer describes a general sense of being lost at sea these past few years, and frames the exhibition as a place to rest. The artists she's brought together draw from diverse backgrounds but share a sensibility: whimsy, structural confidence, and a tongue-in-cheek humor that makes the work feel effortless even when it isn't.

Janny Baek builds cloudlike, anthropomorphic forms in a buoyant color palette. Sara Swink's hand-built figures - a mischievous alligator, a puckish horse - test your instincts about what to trust and who to believe. Holly Curcio works across ceramic sculpture and comics, occupying a storytelling mode where the two aren't so different. Lisa Smith builds coil by coil and layers dozens of glazes in combinations that only reveal themselves after the kiln fires, leaving room, as she puts it, for serendipity. Monica Van den Dool rounds out the group with a darker, equally wry edge. The work is largely figurative, and where it isn't, Traer says, each piece is holding a story. On view through August 2nd.

Image: Holly Curcio, Dream Team, 2019, stoneware, terracotta & wood, 14 x 12 x 8.75

The creativity of children’s minds has always been a central theme in Cruz’s work. They are the protagonists in this ser...
06/22/2026

The creativity of children’s minds has always been a central theme in Cruz’s work. They are the protagonists in this series, depicted as free, strong, dignified, and meditative human beings, with animals as allies, travel guides, and companions. Cruz typically makes art for people of all ages, but children are the intended primary audience for this project—a sensibility rooted in his four years teaching art to kindergarten and elementary students in Oaxaca, an experience he credits with reshaping how he sees the world.

Image: Alberto Cruz, Montañas I, 2026, linocut, 22 x 22.5 in

In his visual universe, Alberto Cruz imagines children and animals coexisting because he sees deep correspondences betwe...
06/17/2026

In his visual universe, Alberto Cruz imagines children and animals coexisting because he sees deep correspondences between human beings and the rest of the animal world. “I’ve always thought that each animal has a distinctive quality, in the same manner as each person has a gift or an aptitude,” he says. His compositions are deliberately schematic—a child, an object, an animal, typically close but not touching—and he describes the process as one that consistently surprises him: “What I’m drawing always surprises me. To me it’s impossible to believe I’m doing it; it’s as if it wasn’t me.”

Image: Alberto Cruz, Playa I, 2026, linocut, 22 x 22.5 in

06/16/2026

Artist Annalise Gratovich is on our podcast “A Creative Excuse” and talks about the impetus behind the work that composes her new show at Hecho A Mano called: Carrying Things From Home

The show features eight life-sized woodcuts inspired by the flight of her father and his parents from Ukraine during WWII. 

“My family left Ukraine in the night saving only what they could carry,” Gratovich says. “What was lost or left behind has become a source of mystery and mythology, and through printmaking, I investigate how this absence influences my sense of self and how I value materiality.”

Check out the work from Annalise Gratovich in Carrying Things From Home on view through June 29th, 2026.

Listen to the full episode of  “A Creative Excuse” with HIGH LOW PRINT CO (link in our bio).

Alberto Cruz is a co-founder of B***o Press, a printmaking collective workshop in downtown Oaxaca City, and of Mini Prin...
06/15/2026

Alberto Cruz is a co-founder of B***o Press, a printmaking collective workshop in downtown Oaxaca City, and of Mini Print Oaxaca, an annual contest created to support the development of printmaking in the region. He came to the discipline through drawing, eventually gravitating toward printmaking as the technique most closely aligned with it—through lithography, woodcut, and linocut, he found a world built on chiaroscuro and high contrast that felt native to his sensibility.

Image: Alberto Cruz, Desierto I, 2026, linocut, 22 x 22.5 in

Annalise Gratovich returns for her second conversation with A Creative Excuse! In this episode we talk about Annalise’s ...
06/11/2026

Annalise Gratovich returns for her second conversation with A Creative Excuse! In this episode we talk about Annalise’s newest body of work, Carrying Things From Home, a series of 8 monumental woodcuts that are 13 years in the making. On view at Hecho now for the first time in their entirety. Link in the bio to listen!.

"I'd already decided to switch that figure to a healer long before my autoimmune disease expressed itself, so it just happened to be the one that was next in line when I was able to go back to my studio. I don't think that's a coincidence. That piece is extremely powerful to me, because it saved me, and we maybe kind of created each other. I can't look at it and not feel grateful."

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