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Fierro Canyon Gallery interior — wooden beam architecture with framed artwork

Latitude 32 48' 48" Longitude: -108 05' 26"

Weathered concrete surface with metal fixtures — abstract texture

Welcome

The Fierro Canyon Gallery carries unique Modernist Photographic Works with a tendency toward the abstract. We exhibit photography that expresses itself through the creative use of light, texture, rhythm, form, and balance.

The lens of a camera

Vintage film cameras displayed on wooden shelving

My Background

Christopher Saxman has combined his experience as an Architect with his camera work and design training to create work that is simple, clean and UN-manipulated.

Christopher Saxman — photographer and architect

"Artwork that depicts emotion and or character." Christopher Saxman

The Fierro Canyon Gallery specializes in Abstract, Contemporary and Modernist Photography.

Sharing Stories

The Fierro Canyon Gallery — 'Where the coffee is Hot and the Art is Cool'

Biography

Artist Statement:

Christopher Saxman is an architect by training. He was born into a family of photographers. He received his first camera and guidance from his father at age 13. His architectural and design training, along with 50 years of camera work, and shooting photos around the world has given him an eye for composition, light, detail, texture and color. Christopher's subjects are often simple, photos of bikes, doors, walls, fish, and water. That simplicity allows one to focus on the detail, color and composition. His photographs, described as painterly and abstract, are all about expressing the art in photography.

  • Raised in Bozeman, Montana
  • United States Marine 1966 - 68 · Vietnam Combat Veteran
  • Graduated from Montana State University - 1972 - Architecture / Art
  • Received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal and AIA Scholastic Award
  • Received his Masters in Architecture - 2008
  • Worked as a designer in a California Architecture firm
  • Re-located on Whidbey Island, Washington - 1978
  • Ran his Architectural Firm for 30 years
  • Developed many building projects on his own
  • Owned a Construction Company
  • Designs and builds Furniture
  • Remodeled several homes carrying out most of the construction himself
  • Re-located to Hanover, NM - 2009
  • Opened - The Fierro Canyon Gallery

Gallery Showings and Awards

  • Whidbey Panorama Gallery Show - 2004
  • Jean Spaulding Showing - San Francisco - 2005
  • Penn Cove Gallery - Showing Member - 2005 - 2008
  • EarthenWorks Gallery - 2005
  • Coupeville Juried Art Show 1st Place - 2006
  • Whidbey Island Studio Tour - 2007 - 2008
  • The "Joaquin Clausell" Gallery, Campeche Mx - One Person Show 2007 & 2008
  • JW Art Gallery Hurley, New Mexico - 2010
Bare birch tree branches against blue sky
Vintage pickup truck in desert landscape
Abstract fine art photography