The art pays homage to native plants and cactus fruit. The shape, color and placement of the magenta structures call up the image of colorful prickly pear fruits resting atop light green cactus pads.

People have asked Rio Rico artist Nathalie Harmening if her ethereal sculptures are made from plastic. “No! It’s natural prickly pear!” she responds. With a half-laugh and a quick, knowing ...

View Prickly Pear - 1984 and Blue Corn - 1985 (1984 - 1985) By Gorman R.C.; 2 lithographs; Prickly Pear: 27 1/2 x 36 in. (69.9 x 91.4 cm.), ... Painting Prints & Graphic Art Works on Paper. Sculpture ...

An art display above the nearly completed Broadway Curve expansion is taking its time to bloom. The big picture: When completed, "City Fruit" will feature 20 hexagonal steel structures mounted ...

Albuquerque prickly pear festival celebrates abundance of the desert The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia treats.

At the Fall Art Walk in Tubac in November, Harmening held her delicate, wing-like sculptures made from Sonoran prickly pear cactus fibers. Her work is available exclusively at the Turquoise ...