Day Jobs Busts Myths, Raises Questions at the Blanton Museum of Art
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
May 19, 2023
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Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon’s Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.
May 17, 2023
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary Sets Opening Date for September 2023
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary announces the public opening date of September 23, 2023.
May 16, 2023
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Going With the Flow: Stories of Water and Site-Specific Actions at SITE Santa Fe
Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe.
May 16, 2023
“Sorry about this”: On Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake at Understudy, Denver
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace.
May 15, 2023
Curator Profile: Ari Myers of The Valley in Taos
Ari Myers, founder and curator of The Valley, a contemporary art gallery in Taos, New Mexico, is intentional about creating opportunities for Southwestern artists.
May 12, 2023
“I Really Like the Way You Respect Native American Rights”: The Native Guide Project by Anna Tsouhlarakis
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art.
May 10, 2023
Hyunmee Lee’s Changing Shapes at William Havu Gallery
William Havu Gallery presents Changing Shapes, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hyunmee Lee, with an opening reception on Friday, May 12, 5-8 pm in Denver.
May 09, 2023
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
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
