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They were big canvases with small bits of faces, boldly colored and precisely drawn, almost photo-realistic. It's the rare artist who brings an entirely contemporary touch to figurative work. And this one did.

But who was she? The name Lindsay Mound didn't ring a bell.

Turned out she was 17 years old, just graduating from Valley High School and heading to art school in New York City.

Mound is entering her fourth year at the Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College in Manhattan. And as an exhibit this month of 20 pieces of her new work, again at Java Joe's, shows, she was no fluke.

Mound has an expert touch with the figurative style. She catches movement, expression and feeling in small moments frozen in time. Her work is boldly conceived, expertly executed, clean and provocative.

Mound was born in Ranchos de Taos and raised in Albuquerque by her mother Marie Mound, a well-known market and political researcher. She attended Taylor Middle School then did two years at Cibola High before spending a year at the exclusive Oxbow art school in northern California.

"It was a special experience," she says of that year. "The art classes gave us really progressive real-world art assignments. It was totally cool and foreign to all of us."

Mound finished high school at Valley then headed to the Big Apple.

Her artistic talent was recognized early by her mother, and encouraged. As a teen, Mound studied oil painting with Barbara Tyner, and this summer took a course in old-master oil painting techniques with Yuqi Wang at the Andreeva Portrait Academy in Santa Fe.

While Mound also studies writing, she believes her future is in art.

"I really love to paint," she says. "It's hard for me to believe that, that I've become the thing I'm good at."

She also plans to return to Albuquerque to see where her career takes her.

"It's roots," she says.