e reached Chicago in Belen, the small town south of Albuquerque where she’s lived since the early 1990s. “Although I began coming to New Mexico in the early 1980s, it was to paint,” says Chicago. “I never imagined that I would end up living here. But there is definitely a connection between California and New Mexico…in terms of the light, the color, and the psychic space.” We asked Chicago about the importance of California to her
