Writings2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Two Poems from Susto by Tommy Archuleta
Two poems from Susto, Tommy Archuleta's debut poetry book.
May 26, 2023
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Patina Gallery: An Enlightened Take on Creation
Patina Gallery’s Mindful Meditations series offers insight on craft, beauty, and the human element of art.
May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Alexander Girard at St. John’s College
Fans of midcentury designer Alexander Girard will enjoy exploring the Pritzker Student Center at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
May 26, 2023
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Kirsten Angerbauer: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Kirsten Angerbauer creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences and installations constructed of site-specific designs, sound art practices, and new media.
May 26, 2023
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Cougar “Ndoi” Vigil: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
As a photographer, curator, and small business owner, Cougar "Ndoi" Vigil integrates multiplicities of perspectives into his work about Indigenous narratives, perspectives, and knowledge systems.
May 26, 2023
RioBravoFineArt: A Contemporary Art Space with a Rich Legacy
RioBravoFineArt is a unique art space and gallery located in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, founded twenty-five years ago by the iconic American abstract painter H. Joe Waldrum.
May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Dwan Light Sanctuary
Dwan Light Sanctuary is a prismatic art installation in Las Vegas, New Mexico conceived by influential arts patron Virginia Dwan.
May 26, 2023
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Unique New Mexico: The Henge
The Henge by Herb Goldman, a peculiar outdoor structure akin to a reconstituted Stonehenge, announces Roswell as a robust arts scene facilitated by the late Donald B. Anderson.
May 26, 2023
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Jennifer Thoreson: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
New Mexico artist Jennifer Thoreson calls on her own religious experiences as she examines the complex relationships between belief systems and human behavior.
May 26, 2023
Work in Progress with David Brothers
David Brothers of SLC evokes dark, dingy worlds through the derelict sets he builds. Photos from his latest project, Peed Upon, offer a dire caricature of our current times.
May 25, 2023
Language in Times of Miscommunication at SMoCA Issues a Call That Asks for a Response
Language in Times of Miscommunication presents work by eighteen artists illuminating the mercurial interplay between opinion, fact, and fiction.
May 24, 2023
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Summer 2023 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and some beyond with Summer 2023 deadlines.
May 23, 2023
“America’s Most Scenic Dump” Draws Artists to Moab Arts Reuse Residency
Moab Arts Reuse Residency program in Utah, which attracts worldwide artists to make pieces out of rubbish, challenges the concept of detritus and trash.
May 22, 2023
Day Jobs Busts Myths, Raises Questions at the Blanton Museum of Art
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
May 19, 2023
Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon’s Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.
May 17, 2023
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary Sets Opening Date for September 2023
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary announces the public opening date of September 23, 2023.
May 16, 2023
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Going With the Flow: Stories of Water and Site-Specific Actions at SITE Santa Fe
Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe.
May 16, 2023
“Sorry about this”: On Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake at Understudy, Denver
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace.
May 15, 2023
Curator Profile: Ari Myers of The Valley in Taos
Ari Myers, founder and curator of The Valley, a contemporary art gallery in Taos, New Mexico, is intentional about creating opportunities for Southwestern artists.
May 12, 2023
“I Really Like the Way You Respect Native American Rights”: The Native Guide Project by Anna Tsouhlarakis
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art.
May 10, 2023
Hyunmee Lee’s Changing Shapes at William Havu Gallery
William Havu Gallery presents Changing Shapes, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hyunmee Lee, with an opening reception on Friday, May 12, 5-8 pm in Denver.
May 09, 2023
Brand New UVU Museum of Art Foregrounds Communities of Color
Utah Valley University is set to open a new museum inside of an old manor. The debut super exhibition, The Art of Belonging, centers BIPOC voices with connections to Utah.
May 09, 2023
Many Wests Shows Us How American Existence is Not One Size Fits All
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea explores the erasure of Black, LGBTQ+, Indigenous American, Asian American and Latinx culture through contemporary art.
May 08, 2023
Abstraction in Albuquerque Inspired by Long-Forgotten Show from Thirty-Two Years Ago
Abstraction in Albuquerque: Six Artists at the Inpost Artspace—more than a half-decade in the making—materialized after a co-curator spotted a 1991 poster inside of a now closed warehouse.
May 05, 2023
Work in Progress with Betelhem Makonnen
Betelhem Makonnen of Austin expands the silences of history and develops work and language to describe nonlinear time.
May 03, 2023
Eric J. García’s Aim High Explores Concepts of “Aliens,” Space Invasion, and Colonialism
New Mexico-based artist Eric García presents solo exhibition Aim High at Ogden Contemporary Arts and unveils a community mural, the culmination of a two-month residency at OCA.
May 02, 2023
Bands of Light: Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily)
Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily) exhibition at UMOCA comprises a series of untitled mixed-media pieces that explore the relationship between light and land.
May 02, 2023
Southwest Art News: May 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
May 01, 2023
CCA Santa Fe, Weeks After Announcing Permanent Closure, to Partially Reopen. But Should It?
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, which recently announced permanent closure after forty-four years, has reversed course and plans to partially reopen in the city's shaky arts nonprofit landscape.
April 28, 2023
A-Z West Might Make You Rethink Absolutely Everything
A-Z West, Andrea Zittel’s decades-long art experiment presently stewarded by High Desert Test Sites near Joshua Tree, investigates the architecture of everyday life by stripping items to their most basic components.
April 28, 2023
