“Being Born is Just Plagiarizing Your Parents”: An Interview with Good Actors Author Sommer Browning
Denver poet, librarian, gallerist, and comedian Sommer Browning talks about her new book Good Actors and how it relates to other art forms and interests.
Work in Progress with Douglas Miles
Artist Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) uses visual art and skateboard culture to amplify Indigenous voices.
May 23
Blair Vaughn-Gruler: The Witch and the Scholar
Blair Vaughn-Gruler on modernism, postmodernism, and her recent body of paintings.
May 23
Jivan Lee’s Long-Form Painting Meditation: From “Total, Dead Boredom” to Miracles in the Mundane
Jivan Lee’s series 10,000 Mountains represented a fundamental shift for the painter from chasing the light to deep meditations on place that revealed the miraculous through the mundane.
May 20
Live in America Brings Leading-Edge Southwest Performance to Arkansas
Live in America features under-recognized Southwest cities, such as Albuquerque, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, in a debut performance festival in Northwest Arkansas.
May 19
Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory by Anne Elise Urrutia
Drawing on public and private archives and fifty years of personal documentation, Anne Elise Urrutia’s book Miraflores brings to life her great-grandfather’s San Antonio garden in unmatched detail.
May 18
CURRENTS Festival 2022: Circuits
More than seventy new media artworks will be presented as part of the multi-venue CURRENTS festival across Santa Fe this June.
May 17
A Brief History of African American Homesteading in New Mexico
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun.
May 16
Curator Profile: Laura Copelin’s Creative Placemaking at MOCA Tucson
Curator Laura Copelin creates connections at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona, where her work with artists prompts conversations that counter political rhetoric about immigration and the borderlands.
May 13
New Mexico Jewelry-Making Program Axed by School Officials
Starting fall 2023, Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque will no longer offer a bench jewelry certificate program for its students.
May 11
Aerial Concave Without Cloud by Poet and Artist Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s Aerial Concave Without Cloud is an extended meditation on how thinking through and with light can help to illuminate profound personal grief.
May 10
Kouri + Corrao presents Jen Pack at VOLTA
Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.
May 10
Breaking to Build: Andrew Alba’s Carnal Desire to Paint
Utah artist Andrew Alba’s newest series of stoic portraits, on display at Modern West starting later this month, come after years of dark brooding and artistic scuffles.
May 09
Review: Jae Ko: New Works at Robischon Gallery
Jae Ko’s artworks at Robischon Gallery in Denver address the Southwest’s drought conditions and the rise of water speculation in the futures market.
May 06
The Legacy of Phoenix Graffiti Pioneer Pablo Luna
El Mac reflects on the influential creative output of Arizona-based graffiti innovator Pablo Luna (AKA KAPER), who spent four decades making art before his death last month.
May 04
Artist Spotlight: Khang Pham-New
Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden.
May 04
Review: Nani Chacon: SPECTRUM at SITE Santa Fe
A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.
May 03
Marguerite Humeau’s Speculative Earthwork Orisons Takes Shape in the San Luis Valley
Collectivity + CollaborationColorado
The absence of water and its ecological effects are the subjects of an emerging speculative earthwork by the French artist Marguerite Humeau and nomadic art museum Black Cube.
May 02
Hecho Gallery Comes to Downtown Santa Fe
Hecho Gallery, a new sibling of Hecho a Mano, opened in Downtown Santa Fe on April 1, 2022 with offerings of new and contemporary art from New Mexico and Oaxaca.
May 02
Southwest Art News: May 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Apr 29
Veterans Off-Grid Teaches the Art and Healing of Green Building
Veterans Off Grid in rural Northern New Mexico helps vulnerable veterans get back on their feet in a setting that’s a model for sustainable architecture, community building, and affordable housing.
Apr 27
Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNew Mexico
Southwest Contemporary announces the fourth annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now and a group exhibition.
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