No Man’s Land: Amy Cutler at Ruby City
Amy Cutler: Past, Present, Progress at Ruby City in San Antonio follows a community of women performing ambiguous domestic tasks as a means of feminist critique.
September 19, 2023
Articles
Groundswell at the Nasher Expands the Conversation Around Land Art to Include a Multiplicity of Perspectives
Groundswell: Women of Land Art features twelve artists—some names familiar, some fresh—all working concurrently yet in the shadow of their male Land Art counterparts.
September 18, 2023
Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum Honors Overlooked Desert Mystic
The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum in Las Vegas, dedicated to the late artist, traces Abbey’s prolific but underappreciated career that remained cemented in Southern Nevada.
September 15, 2023
The Broom of the System: Trey Duvall’s RETURN/SWEEP at Rule Gallery
Denver artist Trey Duvall combines digital, mechanical, manual, and natural tools in order to explore a multitude of concepts in his durational installation RETURN/SWEEP.
September 14, 2023
Moab’s Mid-Century Cave Dwelling is an Ode to Bad Taxidermy and Jesus Christ
Hole N” The Rock—a 1930s excavated cave that honors Jesus Christ and Franklin Delano Roosevelt—is a feat of do-it-yourself architecture just off Highway 191 near Moab, Utah.
September 13, 2023
How Four 2023 Latinx Artist Fellows Are Working in the Southwest–And Where You Can See Their Artwork
The four Southwest-based winners of a 2023 Latinx Artist Fellowship—who each received $50,000 in unrestricted funds—include Margarita Cabrera, Verónica Gaona, Postcommodity, and Daisy Quezada Ureña.
September 12, 2023
Reno-Tahoe International Art Show Returns for its Second Year with Double the Footprint—and Big Ambitions
The Reno-Tahoe International Art Show returns for its second year and at double the scope, with big ambitions to position the region as a major cultural destination.
September 11, 2023
Contemporary Patronage: How Artists Find Support Through Third-Party Advisors
Complementing and circumventing traditional gallery relationships, artists in Colorado find financial and material support through corporate and private clients via third-party advisors.
September 08, 2023
Richard Levy Gallery Presents a Gallery Reception for Painting Scenarios by Mick Burson and Terri Roland
Richard Levy Gallery is present the two-person exhibition Painting Scenarios by Mick Burson and Terri Roland with a gallery reception on Saturday, September 9, 6-8 pm.
September 07, 2023
Hyperlink and Land Report Collective Re-Activate a Uranium Mine Ghost Town in Remote Wyoming
If you can find it, Wyoming’s uranium mine ghost town Shirley Basin will surprise you with a treasure trove of eclectic art from Hyperlink and Land Report Collective members.
September 07, 2023
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles Connects Native Artworks Past and Contemporary
Horizons at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture pairs historical and contemporary weaving with photography and other media to create connections across materials, time, and lands.
September 06, 2023
UNM Art Museum’s Hindsight Insight 3.0 Transforms Galleries into an Extension of the Classroom
The University of New Mexico Art Museum announces the next installment of its permanent collection exhibition series, Hindsight Insight 3.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum. The exhibitions opens on September 8, 2023.
September 05, 2023
Making the Unseen Seen in Jammie Holmes’s Make the Revolution Irresistible
Jammie Holmes’s first solo museum exhibition celebrates the lives of everyday Black folk while continuing the rich tradition of Black figurative painting.
September 05, 2023
Southwest Art News: September 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
September 04, 2023
ArtistsVol. 8 Medium + Support
Medium + Support
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 8: Medium + Support, guest juror Laura Copelin discusses the jurying process and themes that thread the ten featured artists together.
September 01, 2023
FeatureSouthwestVol. 8 Medium + Support
Intervention and Interconnection: How Should Artists Work With(in) the Environment?
Eco art is attracting a new generation of artists, but when working with the land, there’s a way to do it right and a way to do it wrong.
September 01, 2023
From the EditorVol. 8 Medium + Support
From the Publisher: Arts Writing as Ecosystem Building
Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp discusses the publication's role in the arts ecosystem of the Southwest—including some behind-the-scenes work building networks and sharing resources.
September 01, 2023
FeatureUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Talking Trash at Building Man, Utah’s Festival of Junk
Building Man, an annual, week-long desert rave and art festival in Green River, Utah, celebrates artists who work with found and reclaimed materials.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Josh Tafoya
Josh Tafoya ushers New Mexico’s rich textile history into the contemporary world of fashion and design, keeping old traditions alive and telling new stories within his work.
September 01, 2023
WritingsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Landscaping with Brick
In the early 20th century, bricks were brought over Raton Pass to Raton, New Mexico from the Trinidad Brick Company. We stole this brick for our backyard.
September 01, 2023
Semi-Tropical: Stealth Palms
In this essay, Audrey Molloy dissects the stealth palm and the iconographies of the palm tree, telegraph pole, and cell phone tower as visual media that convey myths of Western expansion and technological innovation.
September 01, 2023
Studio VisitUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Lenka Konopasek: Paper Tendrils, Threatening
Salt Lake City–based artist Lenka Konopasek disrupts and decenters anthropocentrism with her three-dimensional paper sculptures, whose prickly paper strips instill aversion and attraction, as if growing out of the wall.
September 01, 2023
InterviewOklahomaVol. 8 Medium + Support
8,000 Pounds of Clay with My Hands: An Interview with Raven Halfmoon
Oklahoma-based artist Raven Halfmoon (Caddo) discusses the material and conceptual underpinnings of her large-scale ceramic works.
September 01, 2023
ReviewColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support
agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land
The exhibition AgriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land is a multi-venue project that features conceptual and reverential artworks connected to farmers and farming.
September 01, 2023
A Letter to the Museum
In this essay, Tyler Stallings pens a letter to the University of Arizona Museum of Art regarding Willem de Kooning’s stolen painting Woman-Ochre.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
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
FeatureTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
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
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
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
