Entre por la Cocina
Etching
Anamaria Samaniego (b. 1961)
Santa Fe
Capitol Art Selection Committee Purchase
Capitol Art Collection, Capitol Art Foundation
Anamaria Samaniego was born in Canutillo, Texas and raised in Mesquite, New Mexico. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Santa Fe in 1984.
Samaniego feels she knows the land, because it has been her playground:
“It is important to understand the strength of our land. To recognize its gifts, to cherish its beauty and to feel its soul. I developed a bond with the land early in life. In fact the fields were my extended playground. Among the fields of onion, chile and cotton, I noted characteristics of soil in relation to the crop and the location.”
Her paintings and prints capture the intimacy, texture, and richness of location—of landscape.
About the Artist: Anamaria Samaniego
Anamaria Samaniego is a New Mexico-based printmaker and painter whose work explores themes of memory, agriculture, and regional identity. Rooted in her lived experience growing up among the fields of southern New Mexico, Samaniego’s etchings often focus on subtle relationships between place, heritage, and cultivation.
Through works like Entre por la Cocina (“Enter Through the Kitchen”), she invites viewers into private, sensory, and grounded experiences of land and life. Her commitment to handmade processes and to honoring familial and cultural ties through landscape has made her a notable voice in the New Mexican art community.
