**About Joseph Mota** Taking his cues from the likes of Richard Diebenkorn, Nicola Simbari, and Southwest master Walt Gonske, Joseph Mota approaches his canvas with speed and abandon like the impressionists and expressionists of the mid-century. His subjects are whatever interests him that day: a view of the mesa near his Arizona home, the rabbits, donkeys, cows or songbirds near his home and the fruit or flowers laid out the night before. Anything that gets the most attractive light that day gets captured for posterity.