Southwest Art News: April 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 01, 2022
Articles
Review: Jesse Meredith: So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane
In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism.
March 31, 2022
Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes by Poet Nicky Beer
Denver-based poet Nicky Beer’s Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes is a clever, probing look into the collective desires and fears underlying our love of illusion.
March 29, 2022
Breadth of Bodies: Dancers with Disabilities Speak Out
A new book, Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, spotlights the voices, experiences, and art of dancers with disabilities.
March 28, 2022
Way to Gogh: The Immersive Experience, For Better or Worse, Visits ABQ
If you decide to Gogh, be prepared for decent visuals, a hefty debit charge, and a pun or two at the Beyond Van Gogh projection room at Albuquerque’s Sawmill District.
March 25, 2022
SLC AIR Quality Report: Visits with Artists in Residence at UMOCA
UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program in Salt Lake City provides studio space and exhibition opportunities for Utah artists while enriching the local arts community.
March 24, 2022
Elizabeth Hohimer: On the Threshold of Dusk
Gerald Peters Contemporary presents On the Threshold of Dusk, featuring new and recent works by Elizabeth Hohimer on view at the gallery’s New York location.
March 23, 2022
Review: Breaking Up at Phoenix Art Museum
As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales.
March 22, 2022
Tom Kirby: Celestial Movement at Winterowd Fine Art
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.
March 22, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationUtah
United Nation: For Freedoms Collective Engages Rather Than Alienates
The For Freedoms collective, dubbed the country’s largest network of artists, cultural workers, and organizations, engages in tough and important conversations about social change through artistic civic activism.
March 21, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationTexas
Juntos Art Association Humanizes and Celebrates the Borderlands
El Paso, Texas-based Juntos Art Association tackles the power of place and the “who is heard” component of storytelling in its multi-faceted project, Icons and Symbols of the Borderland.
March 18, 2022
Review: Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver.
March 16, 2022
Review: Sara Hubbs: Soft Shoulder at Everybody, Tucson
Sara Hubbs’s exhibition Soft shoulder at Everybody gallery in Tucson pays homage to the inseparability of art and life.
March 15, 2022
Curator Profile: Suzanne Zeller of Foto Relevance, Houston
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.
March 14, 2022
12 to See: Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2022 Art Guide
Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
March 11, 2022
Explore the Newly Envisioned Bishop’s Lodge in Santa Fe
Bishop's Lodge is a Santa Fe landmark steeped in history, and is a distinctive venue to explore arts, dining, the outdoors, and wellness in the Southwest—whether you leave the grounds or not.
March 10, 2022
Work in Progress with Benjamin Timpson
Benjamin Timpson hand-cuts delicate pieces of ethically-sourced butterfly wings to create meticulous and moving portraits that explore trauma and healing while raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
March 08, 2022
Good Grief: Theresa Chong, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Repositioning Grief
Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.
March 07, 2022
A New Release by Chris Roberts-Antieau
Chris Roberts-Antieau releases a new limited series piece titled Painted Horse, premiering in Santa Fe on March 4, 2022.
March 04, 2022
Work in Progress with Pard Morrison
The September 11 attacks and monthly visits with Agnes Martin continue to inform the gridwork of artist Pard Morrison, whose Denver installation Course comments on drought conditions in the Southwest.
March 03, 2022
Harry Reid, Searchlight, and the Erasure of Life in the Desert
During former Senator Harry Reid’s eulogies, Hikmet Loe heard that Searchlight, Nevada, is a ghost town—which clashed with her experience of a land teeming with life.
March 02, 2022
Southwest Arts News: March 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
March 01, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationArizona
The Artists’ Grief Deck Helps Us Navigate Death, Trauma, and Loss
The Artists’ Grief Deck, created during the COVID-19 crisis, reveals the essential role of creative collaboration and art in helping individuals and communities move through death, grief, and trauma.
February 28, 2022
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collective Cosmos: M12 Studio on Rural Territories and Common Resources
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
February 25, 2022
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Honor the Space: Contemporary Dance Collaborates with Historic Architecture
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
February 25, 2022
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
February 25, 2022
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Salt of the Earth: Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, Utah’s Contemporary Art Visionaries
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
February 25, 2022
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
On Light and Line: The Radical Poetics of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, renowned New Mexico-based poet, opens up about her personal poetry process and collaboration across artistic disciplines.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
February 25, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Review: Emilio Lobato: Lessons Learned
Facing shortages of his usual materials, Colorado artist Emilio Lobato turned to rubber sheets, household tacks, and porcelain strips. The outcome is work that is surprisingly multifaceted.
February 25, 2022
