ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Andrew Ina: Living Histories
Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.
March 01, 2024
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Chip Thomas: Living Histories
Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.
March 01, 2024
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The Tanning-Ernst Effect: Is Sedona Poised for a Surrealist Renaissance?
Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill.
March 01, 2024
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Jisun Myung: Living Histories
Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection.
March 01, 2024
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2024 Border Biennial/Bienal Fronteriza at El Paso Museum of Art
The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art.
March 01, 2024
InterviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Paisley Rekdal Reimagines History in West: A Translation
Salt Lake City-based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad.
March 01, 2024
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Living at the Home of Truth: Emma Kemp Blends History with Memoir in Marie’s Place
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jacey Coca: Living Histories
Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia.
March 01, 2024
Twin Tracks
Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas.
March 01, 2024
ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Shaping Landscapes: 150 Years of Photography in Utah
Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism.
March 01, 2024
EssayTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Ancestral threads, a writer’s journey
Anne Elise Urrutia reflects on how exploring and writing about her Mexican family history adds to a broader understanding of a vibrant cultural heritage.
March 01, 2024
If Autumn Knight is Here: Nothing Less
Autumn Knight’s multimedia work at the Visual Arts Center connects video, vinyl drawing, lecture, and performance to challenge audiences to re-think their ideas about disappointment, doing nothing, and sounding.
February 29, 2024
Late Artist and Tuskegee Airmen Clarence Shivers Showcased at Colorado College
The remarkable Clarence Shivers—a multifaceted artist, Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot, and Colorado Springs philanthropist—is remembered in a retrospective exhibition at Colorado College.
February 28, 2024
Karla Garcia’s Clay Landscapes Challenge the Lines that Divide Us
Karla Garcia, a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist, creates clay landscapes that urge us to reflect on our connections to place and each other.
February 27, 2024
Emptiness is the Mirage of the New Frontier in ann haeyoung’s Exhibition terra nullius
Roswell artist-in-residence ann haeyoung confronts the geopolitics of emptiness in terra nullius at the Roswell Museum.
February 26, 2024
Work in Progress with Claire Kennedy
Fort Worth-based artist Claire Kennedy explores materiality and play during her residency at Arts Fort Worth that culminates in an exhibition of new work.
February 23, 2024
Performance Santa Fe Presents Kronos Quartet
Experience the extraordinary Kronos Quartet on March 19, 2024, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.
February 21, 2024
Work in Progress with Laura Shill
Laura Shill, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, commits to creative community-building through the playful and profound lens of conceptual buffoonery, which she elevates to a high art form.
February 21, 2024
Raven Chacon: Three Songs Extols Indigenous Matriarchy
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time.
February 20, 2024
Landscape, Body, Identity: Laura Aguilar at Phoenix Art Museum
Landscapes and large bodies featured in the Laura Aguilar: Nudes in Nature exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona illuminate the artist’s explorations of gender, race, identity, and community.
February 19, 2024
The Tucson Art Scene Impresses with its People Power
Tucson, Arizona is home to an incredible community of creative people. Southwest Contemporary visited in November 2023 to discover the local art scene.
February 16, 2024
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Spring 2024 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and more with Spring 2024 deadlines between February 17 and May 31.
February 16, 2024
Leslie Martinez Shifts the Personal and Political in The Fault of Formation
Dallas-based Leslie Martinez’s first New York solo show, The Fault of Formation at MoMA PS1, addresses political binaries and cultural survival.
February 14, 2024
Signals From Beyond: Wands and Sounds from Late Composer Jerry Hunt
Jerry Hunt was an oddball avant-gardist who conducted an international career from rural Texas. A collection of his work and ephemera are briefly on view in Lubbock.
February 13, 2024
Harwood Museum of Art Announces Raven Chacon: Three Songs
Experience Three Songs, Raven Chacon's immersive tribute to Indigenous, First Nations, and Mestiza woman at the Harwood Museum of Art opening on Friday, February 23, 6:30 pm, and on view through July 7, 2024, in Taos.
February 13, 2024
Work in Progress with Perla Segovia
Perla Segovia, a Peruvian immigrant who has made Tucson her home for the past ten years, advocates for the value of immigrants through textile, embroidery, glass, and painting techniques.
February 13, 2024
Richard Levy Presents Nikesha Breeze: Black Archive and Alex Ponca Stock: Color Relatives
Nikesha Breeze: Black Archive and Alex Ponca Stock: Color Relatives are on view through March 16, with an artists' reception on Saturday, February 17, 6-8 pm at Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.
February 08, 2024
Jeannie Hua’s Tailings Focuses on a Dark History Involving Chinese Americans, Mining Waste, and a Burial Site
Las Vegas artist Jeannie Hua conceptually illustrates the Tonopah tailings burial site and asks the viewer to ponder the historic neglect of Asian Americans who settled in the American West.
February 08, 2024
The Collecting Eye of Ray Graham at the Amarillo Museum of Art
Discover the rich and expansive collection of artwork amassed by Ray Graham, a lifelong art advocate and collector, at the Amarillo Museum of Art. On view through March 24, 2024.
February 06, 2024
BLAC Empowerment: New Tucson Gallery Bolsters Black Artists
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists.
February 06, 2024
