Review: Two Cultures, One Family at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Two Cultures, One Family, a group exhibition curated by Dr. Erika Abad at the Marjorie Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, constitutes a cross-cultural call and response.
Sep 23
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Sep 22
New Salt Lake City Gallery Current Work Arrives at a Transitional Time for the Local Art Scene
Current Work, founded by longtime arts advocate Tiffini Porter, raises the contemporary art bar in Salt Lake City. The gallery also fills several sudden gaps in Utah's creative ecosystem.
Sep 21
2022 Santa Fe Studio Tour: Visit the Heart of Art
The Santa Fe Studio Tour includes eighty-four artists in seventy-one studios throughout the Santa Fe area.
Sep 20
Work in Progress with Afton Love
Afton Love, who lives and creates in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, pivoted from big-picture abstract art to a form of abstraction that ponders and employs addition rather than subtraction. 1. […]
Sep 20
Karsten Creightney and Sarah Hadley Debut Work at Richard Levy Gallery
Richard Levy Gallery presents two solo exhibitions this fall: new work by Albuquerque artist Karsten Creightney and Los Angeles artist Sarah Hadley.
Sep 19
A Peek Inside Performance Santa Fe’s Fall Concerts
A look at three upcoming Performance Santa Fe fall 2022 concerts featuring Hélène Grimaud, the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, and the Charles Lloyd Ocean Trio.
Sep 19
Anthony Garcia Sr.’s Serape-Influenced Murals of Denver
The serape-style murals and public-art pieces of Birdseed Collective co-founder Anthony Garcia Sr. are integral to Denver’s urban infrastructure.
Sep 16
Work in Progress with Jeff Suina
Cochiti Pueblo artist Jeff Suina incorporates traditional pottery materials and knowledge as well as architectural and digital technologies in sculpting angular and eye-catching works in clay.
Sep 14
Indigenous Designers Rebuff Mainstream Fashion Industry Trends
The Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show shined a spotlight on Indigenous designers who bring new perspectives to an industry in need of positive, equitable change.
Sep 13
Origami in the Garden Takes Center Stage in Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s September celebration of art spotlights Kevin and Jennifer Box's Origami in the Garden with a gallery show, a documentary film, and a studio tour in Northern New Mexico.
Sep 12
New Mexico State Committee Honors Judy Chicago at 25th Anniversary Event
The New Mexico State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates its 25th Anniversary on October 14th with the event Championing Women Through the Arts: An Evening with Judy Chicago.
Sep 12
Review: The Powers Art Center: Worshiping at the Altar of Jasper Johns
Visiting an exquisite private art collection nestled in the Colorado Rockies devoted to Jasper Johns, Emilie Trice wonders: is his work relevant in this day and age?
Sep 09
Phoenix Faces Tough Choices with Arts and Culture Funding
Phoenix seeks community input as the city considers bond funding for a new Latino Cultural Center and other creative projects, all while art spaces rebound from COVID-19 impacts.
Sep 07
Review: Jorge Rojas: Material Witness at Granary Arts
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist.
Sep 07
UMFA’s Air Makes the Invisible Visible
In Air at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, sixteen contemporary artists from around the globe illuminate how air connects us to each other and the planet.
Sep 06
The 30th Annual Eldorado Studio Tour
This fall, artists celebrate thirty years of creative community in Eldorado by opening their studios to the public during the Eldorado Studio Tour.
Sep 05
Utah’s Expanded Art Budget Increases Opportunities for Artists
The pandemic forced Utah’s arts organizations to get creative with funding sources. The strategy ultimately allowed for more direct aid for individual artists and novel programming.
Sep 02
Review: Patrick Dean Hubbell: Tack Room Challenges Representations of Indigenous Peoples
Patrick Dean Hubbell’s exhibition Tack Room at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe serves up a powerful discourse that challenges the representation of Indigenous peoples.
Sep 01
Southwest Art News: September 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Aug 30
Nancy Rivera’s Laborious Practice Pulls a Thread Between Her Art-Making Process and Her Immigration Experience
Salt Lake City artist Nancy Rivera illustrates the immigrant experience in a series of complex and time-consuming embroideries.
Aug 26
Alex Branch
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
Aug 29
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s Modernized Trompe L’Oeil Nods to the Canon’s Victors and Antiheroes
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Iteratives at Rule Gallery in Denver subverts and reinforces historical permutations of beauty.
Aug 26
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
Aug 26
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Aug 26
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
Aug 26
Marvelous Green Encounters: The Poetry and Anthropology of Nathaniel Tarn
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Based in Santa Fe since the early 1980s, Nathaniel Tarn has spent his career chasing an international literature. A new autobiography, Atlantis, an Autoanthropology, explores the author’s broad career.
Aug 26
Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest.
Aug 26
“This is the Place”: Utah’s Public Art as Religious Mythmaking and Resistance
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
Aug 26
Studio Visit: Steven Yazzie
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist Steven Yazzie (Diné, Laguna Pueblo, European ancestry) thinks of his art studio as community and land rather than an insular space bound by four walls.
Aug 26
Concerning the minor vaquero character who is one of three men to die in an attempted mutiny against John Wayne’s “Dunson” and his cattle drive in Howard Hawks’s Red River
WritingsVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
Aug 26
Review: Wo/Manhouse 2022
New MexicoReviewVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Wo/Manhouse 2022 reconsiders the relationship between gender and domestic spaces on the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal feminist installation Womanhouse in Belen, New Mexico.
Aug 26
Kuzana Ogg
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint.
Aug 26
Anna Evans
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Utah-based artist Anna Evans's practice as a naturalist informs all aspects of her work as a weaver, in which she uses plants to make dyes and sources local wool.
Aug 26
Luna Galassini
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
Aug 26
Review: A Country is Not a House
ReviewArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A Country is Not a House at ASU Art Museum grapples with the U.S.-Mexico border and capitalist notions of public and private life.
Aug 26
Review: Air
ReviewMagazineUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The exhibition Air considers Salt Lake City's rising air pollution and the impacts of climate change on the environment and social justice.
Aug 26
Nick Larsen
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
Aug 26
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Contour of Feeling at the Denver Botanic Gardens introduces Colorado audiences to immense, organic cedar sculptures and other large-scale works by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Aug 26
Hills Snyder
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
Aug 26
Becoming More Cottonwood
EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Cottonwoods, giants of riparian habitats, are dying, branch by branch. Erin Elder reflects on the life and death of these trees and how they foreshadow what is to come.
Aug 26
Studio Visit: Sharbani Das Gupta
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Las Cruces-based artist Sharbani Das Gupta is an observer of the earth's elements and the impact of human activity on the natural world.
Aug 26
The Yucca People of the Southwest
PhotographyVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
In The Yucca People, writer Tyler Stallings and photographer Naida Osline contemplate the desert and land use through the lens of the Yucca plant.
Aug 26
Marie Alarcón
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.
