Uncharted: Rachel Popowcer
"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
May 06, 2020
Articles
Uncharted: Merry Scully
"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.
April 29, 2020
Navigating the Noise: Exhibitions Online
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.
April 29, 2020
Uncharted: Pauline Kanako Kamiyama
"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.
April 21, 2020
Support SWC + The Magazine
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.
March 23, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: A Quiet But Not Empty Place at Trapdoor Projects
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 […]
April 03, 2020
Art Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
March 23, 2020
Studio Visit: Nora Wendl
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.
March 26, 2020
New Mexico Women: Anita Rodriguez
Anita Rodriguez is a true renaissance woman. She is a writer and painter, in addition to her accomplishments in the field of sustainable architecture.
March 26, 2020
Call for Videos: NM Exhibition Walk-Throughs
Call for videos! We can't visit your exhibitions, so we want to see them on video!
March 18, 2020
Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect’s View
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.
March 26, 2020
One on One: Sean Sheehan of Sheehan Winery
“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.
March 26, 2020
A Heavenly Instrument for the Ages: The St. John’s College Armillary Sphere
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.
March 26, 2020
Charlene Teters: Way of Sorrows
The new Charlene Teters exhibition at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe challenges border policies in a time of mass migration.
March 26, 2020
Esphyr Slobodkina: Six Decades of Groundbreaking Painting, Collage, and Sculpture
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.
March 26, 2020
Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration
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.
March 26, 2020
Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan
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.
March 26, 2020
A Window into the Mythos of Georgia O’Keeffe
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.
March 26, 2020
Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation
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.
March 26, 2020
Letters on the Future of Indigenous Design
Two Indigenous architects take a look at issues in architecture and consider the future of Indigenous design in New Mexico and beyond.
March 26, 2020
Challenges in Preserving Santa Fe’s Past
Preservationist Rachel Preston Prinz explores shifting ideas about architecture, design, and historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 26, 2020
Memphis Barbree: The Sky Calls to Us
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.
March 26, 2020
Authenticity, Belonging, and Becoming Real in Santa Fe’s Historic Districts
An examination of what authenticity means for historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 26, 2020
Donald Judd & Barnett Newman
Chinati's special exhibition is like a conversation between Donald Judd and Barnett Newman, with work from both artists on view.
March 26, 2020
[sponsored] Leah Mata Fragua at the School for Advanced Research
Artist Leah Mata Fragua on addressing climate change during her School for Advanced Research fellowship in Santa Fe.
March 26, 2020
Letter: April-May 2020
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.
March 26, 2020
[sponsored] Sol Hill’s Metagraphs: Recording the Unknown
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.
March 26, 2020
Arts-Related COVID-19 Closures and Postponements in New Mexico
Amidst this unprecedented time of change across the globe, we're tracking arts-related closures and postponements locally and nationally. In this post you'll also find resources for artists. For the most updated information, please contact each venue individually. Stay tuned for more from us on ways to enjoy the beauty of art—its release, its expression, its embodiment of joy—from wherever you may be.
March 16, 2020
Letter: February-March 2020
Welcome to the Artists Issue, featuring 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now, a readership survey, new features, and a new calendar.
February 02, 2020
FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
c marquez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
“The intention of this work is to honor vulnerability, impermanence, and cycles of life on our planet,” c marquez says of their work, which includes two-dimensional pieces, sculpture, installation, and the results of a daily sketchbook practice.
January 28, 2020
