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
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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
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Southwest Contemporary announces the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023.
April 27, 2023
At the Intersection of Art and Nature with Lindsay Brenner and the Railyard Art Project
Lindsay Brenner's Human Bird Nest, a public artwork presented by the Railyard Art Project in Santa Fe, combines themes of sanctuary, rebirth, and ecological resilience.
April 27, 2023
Environment, Disability, and the Drying of the Great Salt Lake
As Utah faces the evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah artists are finding ways to orient themselves in disaster by considering the relationship between disability and environment.
April 26, 2023
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Southwest Contemporary Takes Home 3 Awards in Society of Professional Journalists Contest
Southwest Contemporary wins design, photography, and editorial awards in the 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies contest.
April 25, 2023
Pedro Reyes: DIRECT ACTION at SITE Santa Fe: Swords into Ploughshares
At SITE Santa Fe, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes proves that sometimes sculptors can both make activist statements and focus on sculptural fundamentals, with stunning results.
April 25, 2023
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at MCA Denver
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art showcases the forward leaps of eighteen artist alumni from RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s residency program.
April 24, 2023
In Perplexities, Cedra Wood and Nina Elder Acknowledge Complexity and the Unaccountable
Perplexities acknowledges complexity and the unaccountable and meets it with one kind of certainty: deeply considered and well executed art.
April 21, 2023
RioBravoFineArt Gallery Celebrates Twenty-Five Years with Three Exhibitions
RioBravoFineArt Gallery presents three new exhibitions with the Border Artists group, H. Joe Waldrum, and William Bertrum Sharp in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary.
April 19, 2023
Desert Mirages: Desert X 2023 Attempts to Engage Problems Facing the Coachella Valley, With Varied Results
Ambitious as always, Desert X delivered on its promise to diversify its pool of participating artists—at the expense of conceptual coherence.
April 19, 2023
Kate Rivers’s Work Slows Down a Fast and Fleeting World at Kay Contemporary Art
New Mexico-based artist Kate Rivers debuts new work in an exhibition at Kay Contemporary Art at their Canyon Road gallery in Santa Fe.
April 18, 2023
Tommy Archuleta, a Poet and Mental Health Therapist for the New Mexico Corrections Department, Talks Grief and the Ineffable
Tommy Archuleta’s debut poetry book Susto delves into the science and folklore of curanderismo to take readers on a magical and frightening journey through grief.
April 18, 2023
Making Visible at ASU Art Museum Addresses Archival Silences
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures.
April 17, 2023
Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies Preserves Monumental Works by Bauhaus-Affiliated Polymath
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction.
April 14, 2023
Cecilia Vicuña’s Community-Centric Tucson Sculpture Riffs On Ancient Andean Tech
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process.
April 12, 2023
Way to Glow: A Classic Denver Neon Shop Helps Artists Revive a So-Called Dying Art
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art.
April 11, 2023
So You Want Your City to Spend More on the Arts—Now What?
Ever wish your city had more arts funding? Learn how artists and arts allies in Phoenix are working to make it happen through the city’s budget process.
April 10, 2023
Pueblo, Colorado is Home to a Burgeoning Contemporary Art Scene
In Pueblo, Colorado, a stacked and growing arts community supports high-quality arts programming that is accessible to everyone, including those who have fled unsustainable inflation in the big city.
April 07, 2023
Southwest Art News: April 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 06, 2023
The Queer Dynamics of Paolo Arao’s Selection of Recent Works
Textile artist Paolo Arao explores queerness through his materials, line work, titles, and forms in his show A Selection of Recent Works at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
April 04, 2023
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Looking Back at Weather Report: How Eco Art Has Shifted as Climate Change Becomes All Too Real
Reflecting on Weather Report, Lucy Lippard’s 2007 exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, Paige Hirschey discusses how the field of eco art has changed.
April 03, 2023
Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2023 Art Guide
Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp's guide to museum and gallery exhibitions to see across the Southwest this spring.
March 31, 2023
