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Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25, 2021
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Josh Tafoya: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs.
May 25, 2021
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Izumi Yokoyama: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.
May 25, 2021
Seeing the City Different by Ivan Barnett
Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery.
May 25, 2021
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Andrés de Varona: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief.
May 25, 2021
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Shoshannah White: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process.
May 25, 2021
Gardens of Northern New Mexico
A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico.
May 25, 2021
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Catie Soldan: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography.
May 25, 2021
2021 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including Chiaroscuro Gallery and Gebert Contemporary, Nüart Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, and Richard Levy Gallery. Chiaroscuro Gallery […]
May 25, 2021
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nicholas b jacobsen: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands.
May 25, 2021
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Isadora Stowe: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Isadora Stowe's work explores the landscape of the mind as it relates to the physical environment. She creates an all-encompassing vision with a visual vocabulary that is both personal and builds on the universal.
May 25, 2021
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Tommy Bruce: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.
May 25, 2021
Your Weekly 5×5: May 13, 2021
From virtual studio visits to commentary on the world of NFTs, our top five arts and culture events for the next five days.
May 13, 2021
Call for Artists: Vol. 3: Inhale. Exhale.
Southwest Contemporary announces a call for entries for our upcoming issue, Vol. 3: Inhale. Exhale.
May 12, 2021
Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
May 12, 2021
Your Weekly 5×5: May 6, 2021
From mk at Trapdoor Projects to Black Mountain Radio out of Las Vegas—our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
May 07, 2021
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.
April 30, 2021
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Christian Cruz: The Fantasy of Rest in the Pandemic Era
Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
April 30, 2021
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Brick by Brick: Building Their Lives Around Adobe
Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.
April 30, 2021
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Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world.
April 30, 2021
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Towards a Feelosophy of Art
Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world.
April 30, 2021
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From the Editor: Vol. 2 — Flights of Fancy
Welcome to Southwest Contemporary Vol. 2, Flights of Fancy. This issue explores the complexities involved in defining—and staying tethered to—what’s “real."
April 30, 2021
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Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.
April 30, 2021
ReviewColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Colorado in the Present Tense
Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.
April 30, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
April 30, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Body/Magic: Liz Cohen
Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.
April 30, 2021
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
May Stevens: Mystery, Politics and Seas of Words
May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.
April 30, 2021
ReviewTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Xxavier Edward Carter: Circulate: 7 Works on Paper
Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Carissa Samaniego
Carissa Samaniego's work obscures the boundaries between disparate places and memories, braiding together experiences to create narratives that seem to be lifted from dreams.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Marcus Fingerlin
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
April 30, 2021
