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ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.

Thao Votang • August 26, 2022

EssaySouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Briana Olson meditates on Procession Panel, migration, and the biological and aesthetic complexity of the desert Southwest.

Briana Olson • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state. 

Hills Snyder • August 26, 2022

InterviewMexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

As a member of the inaugural cohort of La Semilla Food Center’s Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, Juárez-based writer Lorena Sosa shares her work on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Michelle E. Carreon • August 26, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.

Natalie Hegert • August 26, 2022

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Steve Jansen • August 25, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Eugene Newmann, a pioneering artist of the New Mexico abstract art scene, presents Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.

Pie Projects • August 24, 2022

Studio VisitTexas

Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.

Laura Neal • August 23, 2022

ReviewColorado

In Denver Art Museum’s Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail, Latin American millennial artists transform narratives rooted in collective memory and the virtual realm of cyberspace.

Emilie Trice • August 22, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw Nation) is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world, now showing at Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe.

Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden • August 19, 2022

NewsMexico

Abecedario de Juárez by artist Alice Leora Briggs and photojournalist Julián Cardona is partly an illustrated glossary of narcolenguaje and partly a collection of stories from the streets.

Natalie Hegert • August 19, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California.

Steve Jansen • August 17, 2022

TravelUtah

Land Art scholar Hikmet Loe has visited and studied Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, and other earthworks for decades. She returned to a handful this summer—and found cause for concern.

Hikmet Sidney Loe • August 16, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.

Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe • August 16, 2022

NewsUtah

Utah video artist VHS Vic (Victor Blandon) shows his audience how to find magic in the mundane, the goofy in the serious, and the artistry in making a pizza. 

Bianca Velasquez • August 15, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.

Jordan Eddy • August 12, 2022

ReviewUtah

Urban Pop in Bountiful, Utah offers a unique opportunity to see big names, but the exhibition fails to situate artists within the movements to which the show claims they belong.

Scotti Hill • August 11, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

Siler Yard fills a void in Santa Fe’s affordable housing crunch, especially for artists and long-standing residents. Though celebrated, the development faces challenges.

Kathryne Lim • August 10, 2022

SponsoredUtah

Southern Utah Museum of Art and Modern West exhibit concurrent shows in Utah examining the legacy of abstract expressionism in the Southwest, featuring Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak and contemporary arts Shalee Cooper and Arlo Namingha.

Southern Utah Museum of Art • August 09, 2022

TravelColorado

Art meets nature in four Colorado gardens and outdoor installations—creating space for meditative contemplation and divine catharsis at Aspen Art Museum, Chatfield Farms, Greenbox Arts, and the San Luis Valley.

Emilie Trice • August 08, 2022

ReviewArizona

Five emerging artists explore experiences of the African Diaspora in And Let It Remain So, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that assesses family, home, displacement, identity, and Black representation. 

Lynn Trimble • August 05, 2022

NewsUtah

Clever Octopus’s unionization efforts in Salt Lake City speak out about potential exploitation within creative and arts careers. As living costs rise, unions are becoming more common among underpaid cultural workers.

Bianca Velasquez • August 03, 2022

Studio VisitArizona

Yu Yu Shiratori, an artist based in Tucson, creates large-scale embroidery, jewelry, and illustrations that juxtapose materials to reflect the dichotomy of her bicultural experience.

Eva-Marie Hube • August 02, 2022

NewsSouthwest

Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.

Steve Jansen • August 01, 2022

CareerSouthwest

Southwest artist residencies (and a cool one in Nebraska!) in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming with deadlines between August 2022 and January 2023.

Steve Jansen • July 29, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.

Bethany Tabor • July 28, 2022

SponsoredColorado

K Contemporary presents an internationally acclaimed roster of artists at Intersect Aspen this summer, including Suchitra Mattai, Ken Gun Min, Viktor Frešo, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios.

K Contemporary • July 26, 2022

ReviewTexas

Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.

Laura Neal • July 26, 2022