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Richard Levy Gallery presents New Work: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, a solo exhibition of colorful minimal pieces by Jeff Kellar. He creates beautiful surfaces through the application of many layers of acrylic resin and clay pigment onto paper, aluminum panels, and woodblocks. Each layer is methodically sanded and buffed leaving the surface smooth and modulated. Playing with illusion, ambiguity, and space, Kellar uses these ultra-flat surfaces to form dimensional compositions.

Southwest Contemporary • May 06, 2020

News5x5

The Weekly 5x5 is Southwest Contemporary's weekly email newsletter with our top five picks of things to do for the next five days. At least that's what it was until our to-dos became homebound during the COVID-19 pandemic. We're now sharing five things to enjoy from home, and this week we are focused on creative activities for kids in quarantine captivity.

Southwest Contemporary • April 09, 2020

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This exhibition is the culmination of Tonee Harbert's first nine months at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. A photography exhibition that shows the southeast New Mexico landscape with surreal and melancholy beauty, and is relevant during the pandemic, showing an absence of people, while referencing marks of humanity on the landscape.

Southwest Contemporary • May 06, 2020

News

"It’s that idea of, if not now, when? Weirdly, this horrible time has forced me to prioritize and get back to what I actually want to do and not worry about what’s going to happen with it." —Rachel Popowcer

Daisy Geoffrey • May 06, 2020

News

"Uncharted” is a new interview series created in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, we catch up with Merry Scully, Head of Curatorial Affairs at the New Mexico Museum of Art about working from home, translating the work of the museum to the web, and her hopeful outlook.

Daisy Geoffrey • April 29, 2020

News

The current state of virtual exhibitions is rather disappointing, but there are a few promising gems out there in the cacophonous landscape of the net. In this essay, Lauren Tresp tries to make some sense of the noise of art online.

Lauren Tresp • April 29, 2020

News

"Uncharted" is a new interview series created in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. First up, we're talking to Pauline Kamiyama, Director of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department, to see how the Department is navigating this unprecedented health crisis and how it is working to serve the rest of the community.

Daisy Geoffrey • April 21, 2020

NewsFrom the Editor

Southwest Contemporary will continue to serve our community by sharing information, resources, and connections, and supporting arts businesses, organizations, and artists as best we can during this time. However, we need you, our readers and community members, to help us weather this storm.

Lauren Tresp • March 23, 2020

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Jessica Zeglin: A Quiet But Not Empty Place March 6—March 28, 2020 The city of Albuquerque grows interlaced with the high desert grasslands it inhabits. These grasslands are not vacant […]

Southwest Contemporary • April 03, 2020

News

We know many artists, arts professionals, arts and culture organizations are in difficult situations now and facing uncertain futures in the coming months. Southwest Contemporary has compiled a list of resources that may be useful to our community members at this time. This list will be updated as new information and new resources become available. 

Southwest Contemporary • March 23, 2020

Studio VisitFeature

Nora Wendl applies diverse talents to equally diverse examinations of place, of being a woman moving through the world, and the “poetics of inhabiting things.” Her recent cycles of work examine the Farnsworth House in Illinois—an iconic glass and steel International-Style house.

Maggie Grimason • March 26, 2020

New Mexico Women

Anita Rodriguez is a true renaissance woman. She is a writer and painter, in addition to her accomplishments in the field of sustainable architecture.

Angie Rizzo • March 26, 2020

News

Call for videos! We can't visit your exhibitions, so we want to see them on video!

Editor • March 18, 2020

Books + Literary

Santa Fe preservation architect Beverley Spears’s Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect’s View details her decade-plus study of sixteenth-century churches and conventos in Mexico.

Rachel Preston • March 26, 2020

Food + DrinkNew Mexico

“I always tell people ‘wine is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it’s not very good,’” says Sean Sheehan, owner and head vintner at Sheehan Winery in Albuquerque.

Robin Babb • March 26, 2020

Feature

The armillary sphere is a modern, artistic, and accurate interpretation of a historic scientific tool, located on the St. John’s College campus in Santa Fe.

Hannah Loomis • March 26, 2020

Review

The new Charlene Teters exhibition at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe challenges border policies in a time of mass migration.

Coco Picard • March 26, 2020

ReviewNew Mexico

Esphyr Slobodkina: Six Decades of Groundbreaking Painting, Collage, and Sculpture at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe is a window into twentieth-century abstract art by one of the movement’s early pioneers, Esphyr Slobodkina, a versatile and prolific New York artist. A cofounder of the American Abstract Artists group, she translated the concepts of European Modernism into American idiom.

Alejandro López • March 26, 2020

Review

Indelible Ink displays pieces by nine multigenerational Native American printmaking women whose artwork stuns with originality, beauty, and color, while also illustrating the historical trauma that impacts Native people today.

Steve Jansen • March 26, 2020

ReviewNew Mexico

Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan at the Museum of International Folk Art spotlights the Japanese folk art tradition of yōkai, which depicts paranormal beings such as ghosts, demons, and monsters in a variety of settings, ranging from traditional kabuki theater to Pokémon anime.

Steve Jansen • March 26, 2020

Feature

At Georgia O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, new research about the enigmatic sitting-room window provides unexpected insights into the artist’s life and creative practice during the 1960s.

Sarah Rovang • March 26, 2020

ReviewColorado

The provocative work of Francesca Woodman, an art photographer who took her life at only twenty-two, takes on new dimensions in Portrait of a Reputation, an exhibition at MCA Denver that combines Woodman’s experimental work from the late 1970s with candid photos of the artist by her friend, George Lange.

Deborah Ross • March 26, 2020

Feature

Two Indigenous architects take a look at issues in architecture and consider the future of Indigenous design in New Mexico and beyond.

Geraldene Blackgoat and Michaela Shirley • March 26, 2020

Feature

Preservationist Rachel Preston Prinz explores shifting ideas about architecture, design, and historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Rachel Preston • March 26, 2020

Photography

Santa Fe based photographer Memphis Barbree's project, The Sky Calls to Us, documents the Kennedy Space Center in its grandness and the markings of those who created the space program.

Angie Rizzo • March 26, 2020

Feature

An examination of what authenticity means for historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Lisa Gavioli Roach • March 26, 2020

ReviewTexas

Chinati's special exhibition is like a conversation between Donald Judd and Barnett Newman, with work from both artists on view.

Briana Olson • March 26, 2020

SponsoredPreview

Artist Leah Mata Fragua on addressing climate change during her School for Advanced Research fellowship in Santa Fe.

Patrick McGuire • March 26, 2020

From the EditorMagazine

For this special issue on architecture and preservation, coinciding with national Architecture Month in April and Preservation Month in May, I wanted to look at the intersections of architecture, time, and place—all of which are changing as our community does. I also wanted to lift up the voices of women in design.

Rachel Preston • March 26, 2020

SponsoredPreview

Patina Gallery presents Urban Landscapes, a collection of metagraphs by artist Sol Hill. A native New Mexican and son of Santa Fe artist Megan Hill, this will be Hill’s second show in New Mexico.

Tamara Johnson • March 26, 2020