Southwest Art News: April 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including exhibition openings, people on the move, grants, and more.
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including exhibition openings, people on the move, grants, and more. By Southwest Contemporary
Our top five picks for arts and culture events in the southwest, April 8-14, 2021. By Southwest Contemporary
SITE Santa Fe presents a number of new exhibitions and events in April 2021. By Southwest Contemporary
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture. By Steve Jansen
Our top five picks for arts and culture events in the southwest. By Southwest Contemporary
Our top five picks for the next five days: arts and culture events in the Southwest. By Southwest Contemporary
Ten Thousand Flowers pairs Japanese bamboo art with flowers in a nod to the longstanding relationship between the two. By Southwest Contemporary
Our top five picks for the next five days: arts and culture events in the Southwest. By Southwest Contemporary
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism at the Albuquerque Museum includes a kaleidoscope of work from iconic Mexican artists. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
Topologies, Senga Nengudi’s retrospective currently on view at the Denver Art Museum, acts as a call-to-action: for marginalized bodies and beings to be seen in the world. By Joshua Ware
The Family Room exhibition at form & concept in Santa Fe, NM offers a much-needed sanctuary from the new global reality. By Angie Rizzo
Space Gallery presents Dark Blue Days: Finding Meaning During Times of Change, a collection of new works in indigo by Wendy Kowynia By Southwest Contemporary
The biennial Month of Photography is underway in Denver and surrounding cities, showcasing hundreds of photographers exploring the genre in a multitude of ways. By Deborah Ross
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
Our top five picks for the next five days: arts and culture events in the Southwest. By Southwest Contemporary
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her. By Michelle J. Lanteri
OKLA, Ed Ruscha’s first solo exhibition in his home state Oklahoma, is more than just a homecoming parade for the artist, who is still making work at eighty-three years old. By Lyndsay Knecht
Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe presents an exhibition by the legendary Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, February 26-March 21, 2021. By Southwest Contemporary
Our top five picks for the next five days: arts and culture events in the Southwest. By Southwest Contemporary
Fine art photographer Catherine Roberts Leach was challenged with a new set of limitations when the pandemic hit in 2020 and like many others, had to adapt life to the confines of her own home. By Southwest Contemporary
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A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place. By Greg Ruffing
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Colorado Springs artist Corey Drieth seeks to make lyrically poetic objects that are simultaneously intimate, mysterious, and expansive. By Southwest Contemporary
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Las Cruces artist Marcus Xavier Chormicle navigates the loss of family and culture by examining ongoing hardships within his family. By Southwest Contemporary
SWC Vol. 1: Bodies//Boundaries is the first publication of a new journey and an expanded mission: to bring curated, critical arts and culture publishing to the American Southwest, in print and online. By Lauren Tresp
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston artist collective, creates artwork that comments on family dynamics and American consumer culture. By Angie Rizzo
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas
Midland, Texas artist Michael Hubbard's work creates an imaginary vision of non-binary identity in all its ambiguity, freedom, and contradiction. By Southwest Contemporary
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Phoenix artist Saskia Jordá’s practice engages in an iterative mapping and remapping to explore concepts of cultural identity, bodies in space, and sense of place. By Lauren Tresp
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Santa Fe artist Lindsey Kennedy's latest photographic work considers intimacy as an unavoidable necessity of survival. She uses color and instant film to explore texture and concept through still life. By
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Taos artist Alivia Magaña, who works as a medical investigator on untimely deaths in her community, explores the notion of grieving for those we don't know. By
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Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material. By Natalie Hegert
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Albuquerque artist Nate Lemuel (Diné) uses photography to create a perspective of a reality that embodies emotion and the future. By Southwest Contemporary
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Albuquerque artist Sallie Scheufler uses her personal history for material through her interdisciplinary works. Her recent exhibition explores how relationships inform our desires. By Southwest Contemporary
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Interdisciplinary Albuquerque artist Helen Juliet Atkins explores the symbiotic nature between individuals and their communities, especially how one’s sense of self is affected by culture. By Southwest Contemporary
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Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging. By Southwest Contemporary
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Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky. By Marcus Civin
Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality. By Lynn Trimble
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Taos artist Aleya Hoerlein's latest series expresses a desire for closeness and meaning in a time of isolation by working in the space between and around forms. By Southwest Contemporary
Musician Patrick McGuires writes that while the internet is a proven tool for putting distance between human beings, it's also been a lifeline for humanity. By Patrick McGuire
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The latest series from Albuquerque artist Caitlin Carcerano is centered on the locus of self-care and vulnerability: the bathtub. By Maggie Grimason
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Houston artist Sarah Sudhoff delves into themes of gender, science, and personal experience. Rooted in the quotidian, Sudhoff's work navigates the personal and universal. By Southwest Contemporary
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s recent exhibition Horror Vacui offers a look beyond the immediate disarray and confusion in which we find ourselves. By Joshua Ware
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Flagstaff artist Jaewook Lee's work takes inspiration from brain science to examine the human condition and how we're connected to a greater network. By
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