New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
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
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.
May 25, 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
Southwest Contemporary announces a call for entries for our upcoming issue, Vol. 3: Inhale. Exhale.
May 12, 2021
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
May 12, 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
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
FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
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
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
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
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
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
FeatureColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
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
From the EditorVol. 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
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
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 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 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 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’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
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'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
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land.
April 30, 2021
SV Randall's multi-media practice investigates how our exterior perception aligns with our interior selves, and in doing so highlights larger social issues.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Musician Mike Marchant's work aims to explore and extract beauty from the darker and more complex sides of the psyche.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Tigre (Bailando) Mashaal-Lively's latest work is a sanctuary for the times, offering a space that cultivates solace for grief and inspiration for survival.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory.
April 30, 2021
