Southwest Art News: August 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 01, 2022
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Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Fall 2022–Winter 2023 Deadlines
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.
July 29, 2022
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
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.
July 28, 2022
K Contemporary Presents Acclaimed Artists at Intersect Aspen
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.
July 26, 2022
Review: Borna Sammak: america, nice place Tackles U.S. Cultural Touchstones
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
July 26, 2022
Emily Margarit Mason Recontextualizes Photographs Past a Single Moment
Emily Margarit Mason challenges the limits of the still image by placing photos into alternative settings—whether baking one into a cake or rearranging another into an abstract collage.
July 25, 2022
Ya La’ford’s Survey Renews Perspectives of the American West
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.
July 22, 2022
Review: Forgotten Artifacts Imagines Post-Humanity Via Ancient Metals
In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.
July 21, 2022
Happy Birthday, Alex Katz
On the occasion of Alex Katz’s 95th birthday, Richard Levy Gallery presents Happy Birthday, Alex Katz, an exhibition of prints and paintings.
July 20, 2022
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
July 20, 2022
“They Have Always Been Here”: Sister Speaks Up for Marginalized Artists
Sister SLC’s creative, fun, and diverse one-off events are as a safe space for all genders, sexualities, and ethnicities, and increase visibility for Utah’s femme, queer, and nonbinary artists.
July 18, 2022
Gallery Incomplet, a New Santa Fe Art Space, Only Displays Unfinished Works
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film.
July 15, 2022
Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
What defines a photograph? Transgressions and Amplifications showcases the work of mid-twentieth-century American artists exploring that question.
July 14, 2022
The Exodus Ensemble Will Upend Your Reality
The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater group in Santa Fe, combines tactics from television with live performance to create intense, dramatic theater.
July 14, 2022
Santa Fe Art Institute Celebrates the Art of Change with Alumnus Dread Scott
Art of Change is a night celebrating artists that change the world in support of Santa Fe Art Institute.
July 13, 2022
Review: Joey Fauerso’s Weighty Metaphors at NMSU Art Museum
Joey Fauerso: Wait For It at NMSU Art Museum embeds poignant metaphors in basic, somber forms to question what happens when stability is off-kilter.
July 12, 2022
(re)purpose Launches a New Venue for GVG Contemporary
GVG Contemporary debuts new artwork, a new warehouse exhibition, and studio space in Santa Fe.
July 11, 2022
Field Report: Tour New Deal Artworks Across Southern New Mexico
WPA and New Deal artworks are highlights of a road trip across Southern New Mexico.
July 11, 2022
Black and Latinx Choreographers Take Center Stage at BlakTinx Dance Festival Phoenix
BlakTinx Dance Festival in Phoenix showcases works by Black and Latin choreographers, who bring their creativity to contemporary issues from Black Lives Matter to COVID-19.
July 07, 2022
Nuestras Acequias Reimagines Museum Practice and Shares Community Wisdom
Gutiérrez Hubbell House spotlights life-sustaining New Mexico acequias and reimagines museum practice with a new guest-curator program.
July 06, 2022
Distilled Presence: Minimalist Works by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Minimal and sublime yet deeply visceral, Distilled Presence at Pie Projects is a curated selection of work by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa.
July 06, 2022
Raquel Gutiérrez Explores Queer Latinx Identity in Brown Neon
Tucson author Raquel Gutiérrez explores queer identity, creative communities, and life in the Southwest borderlands in her debut essay collection Brown Neon.
July 05, 2022
Sanctuary of Light: Paintings by Rick Stevens Bring the Wilderness to Kay Contemporary
Santa Fe-based artist Rick Stevens's latest body of work brings scenes of immersive wilderness and lush, abundant flora to Kay Contemporary Art on historic Canyon Road.
July 05, 2022
Southwest Art News: July 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 01, 2022
The Results Are In: Southwest Contemporary’s 2022 Reader Survey
Southwest Contemporary's 2022 reader survey results are in. Here is what we've learned so far. Plus, meet the feline members of our team.
June 30, 2022
Arizona’s 2023 State Budget More Than Doubles Arts Funding
Arts advocates in Arizona celebrate a new state budget that includes $5 million for the arts, more than doubling the state’s arts funding.
June 28, 2022
Three Summer Shows Amplify Floyd D. Tunson’s Powerful Body of Work
Floyd D. Tunson, one of Colorado’s most important contemporary artists, is the subject of three summer exhibitions shedding light on the breadth and scope of his sociopolitical and race-related themes.
June 27, 2022
Work in Progress with Amber Tutwiler
The large-scale paintings of recent Salt Lake City transplant Amber Tutwiler blend figural realism with abstraction to uncover the myriad ways in which technology dislodges notions of the self.
June 24, 2022
Review: Bottomland Artist Brook-Lynne Clark at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park
At Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Brook-Lynne Clark finds signs of her life on the Blackland Prairie in Big Tex is Burning, which tracks her relationship with embedded histories of Dallas.
June 22, 2022
The Hiroshima Library: A Memorial Next to Refrigerators
The Hiroshima Library is a library (kind of), art installation (we think), reading room, and place for contemplation created by Brandon Shimoda at Counterpath in Denver.
June 21, 2022
