THE LOCUS
Grant Hayunga Studio Gallery is located in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Here you will find the work of
Grant Hayunga and Elizabeth DeCicco.
GRANT HAYUNGA
He/the musician/the painter
Born 1970 in New York City with a perception attuned differently from that of most people…such is the way with the born artist. Whether manifested in art for the eyes or the ears, Grant has always created from his own blood and bones. His art, whatever form it takes, is always from the soul and for the soul. Both sub and supraliminal. Both sub and suprahuman.
Even before graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he was Santa Fe-bound, having been signed by Linda Durham Contemporary Art…maybe he’d been seen and called home.
Hayunga has created interconnected series of paintings, all of which give the viewer insight into his unique perspective on earth and its creatures, the spirit bound as it is in flesh.
Grant Hayunga paints past the threshold of the visible.
“I can tell by the look in your eyes that it’s going to be a wicked road ahead for you boy, and you need to keep your gaze straight ahead.”
-Townes Van Zandt to 20-year-old Grant Hayunga

ELIZABETH DECICCO
She/the observer/the observed
Elizabeth DeCicco’s photography is rooted in a desire to notice what is often overlooked and share the beauty of those moments with others.
Born in Chicago and shaped by years spent in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe, DeCicco has traveled extensively, developing a distinctive eye for the character, beauty, and unexpected details of the places she encounters. An actress since the age of seven, she has spent a lifetime observing people, expression, movement, and emotion. This deepened her understanding of feeling, presence, and the experience of inhabiting a moment rather than simply observing it. That instinct has become an essential part of the way she sees through a camera.
Her visual education was further shaped by working alongside some of the world’s most celebrated photographers, developing a refined understanding of light, composition, and visual storytelling.
Her work moves seamlessly between the natural and built worlds—from observing wildlife on safari in Africa to discovering architecture, interiors, landscapes, and the distinctive visual language of cultures around the world. She is drawn to moments that can easily pass unnoticed.
Rather than simply documenting what she sees, DeCicco seeks to create an intimate experience of it. Her photographs invite the viewer to pause, look closer, and feel something—to enter a moment, even briefly, and experience the world from a different perspective.
At the heart of her work is a belief that the world is filled with extraordinary beauty, often found in its smallest and most fleeting details. Through her photographs, DeCicco hopes to preserve those moments and give others the opportunity to experience, appreciate, and carry a piece of that world with them.

Photo Credit: Baron Wolman
Again, New York City. Mutual friends, the taping of a nationally broadcast program…Grant and Elizabeth like magnets across the room.
More than a spark.
Later they discover French horses in common, and ways of seeing that overlap. Their worlds merge.
Now they make things together. A gallery. Art. A life.
They sing together in Goshen, a band and a region of Egypt where the Israelites dwelled pre-Exodus.
They leave these offerings for you.