Isaac Suarez Flint

Artist Karl Orozco: 'Signs of Life'

When grappling with loss during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, artist Karl Orozco had nothing to say. “I knew that I could reflect that moment through absence and that would be more powerful than putting anything on a platform,” Orozco said. After moving to Albuquerque from New York City in summer 2020 to teach art at the Albuquerque Academy, Orozco found himself not only wrestling with his role as an artist during a global tragedy, but with being placed in a starkly different environment than where he had begun his professional career.