Interior Appeal
by Wolfgang Mabry
A successful, full-time painter for the past 20 years, Nancy Ortensone absorbs the sights, sounds, and atmospheric wonders of the physical world w... more
Where Space Meets Time
by Suzanne Deats
Nancy Ortenstone loves to go for long walks in the mountains near her home in northern New Mexico. It is an expansive landscape, with vast meadows bel... more
Ortenstone's Atmospheres
by Robert Nott
Artist Nancy Ortenstone has a bird's-eye view of the world. That's not surprising, considering she spent many days of her Minnesota-based childhood... more
Trading Sea for Sky
by Jo Ann Baldinger
For most people, the term "New Mexico art" evokes images of mountains, arroyos, adobe walls and Indians in traditional dress. Certainly it was the reg... more
Artist Profile
by Suzanne Deats
Look and look again. And again. Each time there is something more, something different, something deeper. The view from one's own front door changes c... more
Suzanne Deats, "Abstract Art - New Mexico Artist Series", Fresco Fine Art Publishing, 2003.
Crate and Barrel Catalog, Fall Collection, 2003, 22-23.
Jo Ann Baldinger, "Moving Toward the Still Point", Focus/Santa Fe, August/September, 2002, 22-23.
"Bruce McGaw Graphics Catalogs", 2000-2004.
Lynn Cline, "Canons on Canvas - Ortenstone paints melodies", Pasatiempo/The New Mexican, March 17, 2000, 18.
Suzanne Deats, "The Harmonics of Color & Light", Focus/Santa Fe, Jan./Feb./March, 2000, 28-31.
Dottie Indyke, "Artist paints like a dance inside space", Pasatiempo/The New Mexican, March 12, 1999.
Dennis Jarrett, "Music to My Eyes", Santa Fe Reporter, Culture, March 15-22, Our Picks.