Name: Carlos Mérida: Estampas Del Popol-Vuh
Start: 2019-12-27T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2019-12-27T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Hecho a Mano

volume XXVIII, issue V
Dec '19-Jan '20

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Dec 01

Portfolio: Tommy Bruce

Photography Portfolio

In Outside the Castle (2019), Atmus the deer sits on a lawn outside Disney’s Cinderella Castle. Atmus is a fur-suit. The person inside is Tommy Bruce. The lawn is artificial. And the castle is an image. Bruce is a furry. He goes to conventions, participates in online discussions, and documents the community. His also takes self-portraits in his fur-suit. By Matthew Irwin

Dec 01

Studio Visit: Bonnie Lynch

FeatureStudio Visit

Lynch makes hand-built, smoke-fired vessels, some as large as five feet tall, others small enough to fit in the hand. Her color palette is minimal and plays the whiteness of the clay against the deep graphite blacks achieved by saggar firing, a process that sometimes also deposits hues of blue and brown. Her work is simple to describe but is not necessarily easy to talk about... By Sarah Bradley

Dec 01

Made with Hand & Heart: Craftspeople to Know in New Mexico

Feature

Craft is alive and well in New Mexico. The home of Pueblo pottery and colorful Diné tapestry, this part of the world has a heritage of craft and design that continues to inspire artisans to practice old trades or create something entirely new. Often some mixture of the two. These are just a few of the craftspeople in New Mexico who are creating one-of-a-kind goods by hand. You can find all of them on Instagram and at local markets. By Robin Babb

Dec 01

Justin Favela: The Original

Feature

Southern Nevada–based artist Justin Favela’s work embodies the qualities of Las Vegas by affirming the startling originality of smart near-copies. Last spring, I visited Favela in his temporary studio at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Reliably buoyant, Favela can shed light on seemingly any aspect of the folklore of contemporary Las Vegas... By Marcus Civin

Dec 01

Water by the Spoonful

Review

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful examines the results of trauma in people’s lives in this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at Santa Fe's Teatro Paraguas. By Talia Pura

Dec 01

Still: Elemental

Review

From the vast archives of Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum comes Elemental, an eye-catching exhibition that organizes Still’s work around images conjured by the elements: earth, air, water, fire, and æther. By Deborah Ross

Dec 01

Scott Johnson: Fissure

Review

Scott Johnson’s solo show, Fissure, at the Center for Contemporary Arts is a rich smorgasbord of textures, light, and reflections, culminating in a crescendo of visual experience. By Clayton Porter

Dec 01

Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971

National Spotlight

In this day of broad familiarity with Philip Guston’s figurative paintings, it’s hard to comprehend the shock of his 1970 show at Marlborough. Remember, though, that by then Guston, first a muralist and then a part of the New York School, had been painting his gestural liquid masses to much acclaim for over twenty years. By Shane Tolbert

Dec 01

Nari Ward: We the People

Review

In Nari Ward: We the People at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Harlem-based mixed-media artist subtly yet powerfully confronts America’s sordid legacy of racism and discrimination as well as overall American identity in his show of sculptural pieces constructed from discarded materials. By Steve Jansen

Dec 01

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Review

Organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is a comprehensive survey of the obscure American modernist painter, who actively worked for decades to invent abstraction in the West. By Shane Tolbert