Articles

Inside Southwest Contemporary

Southwest Contemporary owner and publisher Lauren Tresp reflects on our five-year anniversary—and all of the work that is still to come.

Lauren Tresp • September 03, 2024

ReviewNew Mexico

Tina Mion ventures into unexplored territory in her exhibition Departures, through death spoon sculptures and paintings about her brother’s death.

Camille LeFevre • August 13, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Mallery Quetawki paints cross-cultural translations that help bridge futures between Indigenous communities and science and medical professionals.  

Sean J Patrick Carney • September 06, 2024

WritingsColoradoRadical Futures

Noah Travis Phillips’s more optimistic, queer, and contemporary “cover” of Pamela Zoline’s feminist collage sci-fi classic “The Heat Death of the Universe.”

Noah Travis Phillips • September 06, 2024

SponsoredNew Mexico

Experience Danielle Orchard's profound sense of storytelling at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque. An opening reception and curator tour will take place on Friday, August 23.

Tamarind Institute • August 13, 2024

EssayVol. 10 Radical Futures

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 10: Radical Futures, curator and conceptual artist Ian Breidenbach ruminates on creative agency and utopian praxis as the guest juror for this issue.

Ian Breidenbach • September 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

Diné artist joins fight to close uranium hauling loophole on the Navajo Nation, and more Southwest art news headlines for September 2024.

Jordan Eddy • August 30, 2024

Inside Southwest ContemporaryNew Mexico

Southwest Contemporary announces Critical Commons 2024: Santa Fe, the fourth iteration of our annual initiative to cultivate creative and critical discourse with a range of events.

Southwest Contemporary • August 09, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Texas-based artist Bonny Leibowitz creates hybridized installations of natural and manufactured materials that reflect the impacts of isolation, environmental degradation, and human conflict.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

In bold pop culture style, Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia envisions Native futures by challenging narratives that have always kept us in the past.

Kimberly Suina Melwani • September 06, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

The large-scale prison art show Between the Lines grew from an interactive display focused on trust building with impacted communities.

Kathryne Lim • August 09, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits. 

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

ProfileColorado

As Anna Tsouhlarakis presents an elaborate Northeastern rendition of The Native Guide Project, she looks back on the Southwestern roots of her artistic practice.

Erin Joyce • August 29, 2024

NewsArizona

With a nod to Andy Warhol's most raucous series, this Scottsdale show of contemporary Native art explodes expectations of medium and message.

Camille LeFevre • August 08, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.

Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024

SponsoredNew Mexico

Experience H. Joe Waldrum's Polaroids. Opening August 10 at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

RioBravoFineArt • August 07, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

ReviewNew Mexico

Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.

Jordan Eddy • August 27, 2024

ReviewArizona

Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.

Jordan Eddy • August 06, 2024

FeatureUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures

At the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah, scientists conduct experiments as if they are on the Red Planet, the only caveat being that they aren’t.

Emily Arntsen • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

SponsoredNew Mexico

Join in on the conversation with Hinojosa, the author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love & Hate in a Torn America, on Saturday, August 10, at 2 pm in Santa Fe. 

SITE Santa Fe • August 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

Living HistoriesSouthwest

Newly discovered letters revive a writer's quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history.

Madeleine Boyson • August 23, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.

Ekin Balcioglu • August 02, 2024

FeatureSouthwestVol. 10 Radical Futures

Science fiction authors have provided many visions of dystopian futures in the Southwest. Can architects help avert such disastrous outcomes? 

Natalie Hegert • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.

Jordan Eddy • August 01, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024