Hello, I'm Denise W.

Denise Weaver Ross lived and worked as an artist, designer and muralist since arriving in Albuquerque on New Year’s Day in 1996. As an artist, she explores her understanding of the world through images richly layered with mythological, natural, cultural and historical references. For her, the magic happens when disparate images combine to make a new and unexpected image with layers rich with hidden meaning. Denise is known for her large thematic series such as House of Cards and the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching In the House of Cards series she reimagines a deck of cards in 56 large-scale works-on-paper in which spades become bones and fossils; diamonds become stars, heavenly bodies and constellations; clubs become trees both real and symbolic; and hearts explore her personal experiences in the matters of the heart using Tarot and Egyptian imagery. In her 64 Hexagrams series, she combines symbolic and mythological imagery with the yin and yang lines of the I Ching, the 2,000-year-old Chinese divination system. Denise’s new series Postcards to America explores events and systemic problems in each of the fifty states, in which the postcard dream of America is in direct conflict with its reality. In these images, she layers idealized images from vintage postcards with images taken from current and historical places and events