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Ariel Wood
Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.
September 01, 2023
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Soy de Tejas: Home as open permeable itinerant and metaphysical?
JD Pluecker explores the artworks of five artists in the exhibition Soy de Tejas, looking at issues of home and belonging in Texas.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
alejandro t. acierto
Phoenix-based artist alejandro t. acierto's work explores the nodes of digital culture, neoimperialism, genealogies of image-making practices, and the de- and re-contextualization of Indigenous cultural artifacts.
September 01, 2023
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Safwat Saleem
Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.
September 01, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD
Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
September 01, 2023
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Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's varied and multi-faceted work, deeply rooted in the power of the human figure, addresses feminism, cultural identity, and contemporary politics.
September 01, 2023
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Estrella Esquilín: Terraforming Identity in the Sonoran Desert
Phoenix-based artist Estrella Esquilín talks about her evolving studio practice, in which community is as important as the construction materials and experimental animation she uses to address identity and place.
September 01, 2023
PhotographyArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Claire A. Warden: Finding Photography’s Edge
Phoenix-based artist Claire A. Warden experiments with camera-less processes to push against the boundaries of photography and identity.
September 01, 2023
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Bruce Nauman: His Mark
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe is the internationally recognized artist's first solo show in New Mexico and includes never-before-shown work.
September 01, 2023
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Margarita Paz-Pedro
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
September 01, 2023
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Lizz Denneau
Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.
September 01, 2023
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Fernando Andrade
Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.
September 01, 2023
FeatureVol. 8 Medium + SupportWyoming
Stories from Ucross: How a Wyoming Residency Gives Thousands of Artists Support and Opportunities
The Ucross Residency Program near Sheridan, Wyoming, supports artists in an obligation-free program on a working ranch that’s all about creativity, bonding, good eating, and resting.
September 01, 2023
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Narong Tintamusik
Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
September 01, 2023
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Bella Maria Varela
Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.
September 01, 2023
Photography for the Apocalypse
Meggan Gould speculates on the future of photographic practice and the potential of the anthotype process, in which plant-based photosensitive emulsions create ephemeral prints.
September 01, 2023
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Rough Gems, A Curatorial Fellowship for the Underdogs
Rough Gems, a curatorial fellowship at Denver’s Union Hall, provides funding and gallery space for emerging local curators.
September 01, 2023
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Xican-a.o.x. Body
Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Cheech presents a robust study in Chicano art, past and present, assembling 140 artworks and seventy artists whose work foregrounds the body as a site for revolution.
September 01, 2023
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Reynier Leyva Novo: The Flowers of My Exile
The Flowers of My Exile at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix explores conceptual art by Cuban dissident Reynier Leyva Novo, now an artist in exile in Houston, Texas.
September 01, 2023
RioBravoFineArt Celebrates Two Longtime New Mexico Artists with Exhibitions this Fall
RioBravoFineArt presents the bold, large-scale abstractions of Noёl Hudson's Freedom Series opening on September 9, and the contemplative work of Delmas Howe's Mood Drawings opening on October 14.
August 31, 2023
Work in Progress with Ben Coleman
Ben Coleman, a Denver-based sound and performance artist, explores the aesthetic and conceptual contours of noise, music, and the body through installations and live events.
August 31, 2023
Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch Team Up at Bountiful Davis Art Center
Although the thematic connection feels strained, the pairing of works by Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch creates a visually rich and compelling exhibition that invites us to relish process and material.
August 30, 2023
Meet the University of Nevada, Reno’s MFA Interdisciplinary Arts Program—And Apply for 2024!
The University of Nevada, Reno’s low-residency MFA Interdisciplinary Arts program celebrates its most recent summer residency—and announces that applications are open to join the program in January 2024.
August 29, 2023
Financial Lifespan of an Artist: Sandwich Generation Financial Planning for Family
In the final article in Southwest Contemporary’s Financial Literacy for Artists series, Tamara Bates discusses how artists can stay on track with their nest egg while simultaneously supporting family members.
August 29, 2023
Work in Progress with Hayley Labrum Morrison
Hayley Labrum Morrison’s eerily provocative work invites viewers to contemplate the formation of identity, gender, and body politics within über-religious patriarchal systems.
August 28, 2023
I Am Not Your Mexican Expands Post-Minimal Boundaries
I Am Not Your Mexican at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio explores how Mexican and Mexican American artists have expanded the limitations of Post-Minimalism.
August 25, 2023
Work in Progress with Esther Hz
Esther Hz discusses soil and soul in her studio and reveals her passion for farming through zoetropes created for the exhibition agriCULTURE at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
August 24, 2023
Manual Cinema Presents a Thrilling Multimedia Performance of Frankenstein
Experience the thrilling, live-performance version of Frankenstein, the Gothic tale of love, loss, and creation by Manual Cinema on September 26, 2023, in Santa Fe.
August 23, 2023
Goodnight Noises Everywhere: Rachel Rose at SITE Santa Fe
In Goodnight Moon, Rachel Rose’s ambitious and deeply researched work opens multiple tiny entry points into vast stories of past and future days and ages.
August 23, 2023
An Ode to Trees: Southern Utah Museum of Art Presents Reaching for the Sky
Experience works exploring the juxtaposition between trees and the well-known red rocks of southern Utah landscapes in Reaching for the Sky, on view through September 23 in Cedar City.
August 22, 2023
