Articles

NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico

Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas

Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix. 

Joshua Rose • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks. 

Steve Jansen • July 30, 2021

ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Stefan Jennings Batista explores intersections of place, identity, and belonging in his photography practice. His latest series focuses on the mysteries of life, death, nature, and humanity. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Tucson artist Alejandro Macias addresses themes of heritage, immigration, and ethnicity in his work driven by his Mexican-American identity and the current social-political climate. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

TexasReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.

Sommer Browning • July 30, 2021

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Augustine Romero creates work to shine a light on multiple displaced contexts, offering a space for imagining what could be if we dare to create counter-narratives told from the position of marginalized communities.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Everton Tsosie’s paintings employ an abstractive style, palettes inspired by the New Mexico landscape, and allude to the pulses of urban environments while centering Indigenous figures.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsColorado

Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving.

• July 30, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Bradley Kerl: Balm evokes a sense of calm and reminds us that life sometimes contains something of the sublime, as long as we keep looking for it.

Lauren Moya Ford • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoNews

The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.

Maggie Grimason • July 28, 2021

New MexicoNews

Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.

Talia Pura • July 27, 2021

New MexicoNews

Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 26, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.

Steve Jansen • July 23, 2021

5x5Southwest

From a Marion Palfi retrospective at Phoenix Art Museum to a new folk music project by Family Trade at Granary Arts in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 22, 2021

ReviewColorado

A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.

Deborah Ross • July 21, 2021

New MexicoSponsored

Vital Spaces presents Intersections, a group exhibition that takes place online and in public places, highlighting numerous points of connection among the ninety-seven contemporary works of art and thirty artists exhibited.

Vital Spaces • July 21, 2021

New MexicoReview

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 20, 2021

ColoradoNews

Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.

Steve Jansen • July 19, 2021

ArizonaCurator Profile

Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lynn Trimble • July 16, 2021

5x5Southwest

From Cannupa Hanska Luger at Albuquerque Museum to Earth at Modern West in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 15, 2021

New MexicoReview

Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization

Daisy Geoffrey • July 14, 2021

ColoradoReview

Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.

Joshua Ware • July 13, 2021

ColoradoNews

Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions. 

Deborah Ross • July 12, 2021