08/20/2026
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Artist bio: Mindy Bruck
“I grew up in small town Nevada with a passion for art and the wide, beautiful desert. From spending hours oil painting with my gran as a kid, to sketching in every spare minute while raising my two children, I’ve taken a rather unconventional path towards starting a career in art. I have lived in the art-centric cities of Seattle and Tucson but have always come home to Nevada. Over the last decade my husband and children have supported my dream, and given me the opportunity, tools and time to broaden my skills. Focusing mainly on acrylic painting, I’ve explored what the medium can do, adding in layers of hand-cut, hand-painted canvas to many of my pieces, to add depth and interest, opening up a new level of creativity. My goal as an artist is to keep exploring with new techniques in my favorite mediums to portray the beauty I see. I want to be able to capture the complexity and depth of our beautifully familiar and endlessly captivating desert mountain state in paintings and wearable art.”
