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A Weekend with Maia Chavez Larkin

a weekend with

MAIA CHAVEZ LARKIN

A Weekend with Maia Chávez Larkin is both a homecoming and a culmination. Born into a lineage steeped in art, music, and cultural exchange, Larkin was raised among the creative currents of Woodstock, the Southwest, Europe, and Mexico—yet resisted becoming an artist for much of her life. That resistance, paired with decades of lived experience, has become a quiet strength in her work today.

The daughter of painter, sculptor, and musician Edward Chávez and artist and jeweler Eva van Rijn, Larkin grew up immersed in disciplines that valued craft, history, and integrity. Her early years moved fluidly between a ranch in southern Colorado, a medieval château in France, Taos, and Mexico, shaping a visual language rooted in place and observation. Trained in hand drafting and architectural rendering, and later working in fashion illustration for designers in New York and Paris, she brings precision, restraint, and a strong sense of design to her paintings. Traditional drafting tools remain part of her process, grounding each work in intention.

Only in recent years did Larkin fully embrace Western art, and the response has been immediate. Her work has been widely recognized by institutions, publications, and collectors, establishing her as a compelling voice of the next generation. This weekend presents a focused body of 10–15 works, alongside live demonstrations in the gallery on May 8 and 9 from 11–4—an opportunity to experience an artist whose work reflects patience, lineage, and deep respect for the land that shaped her.