Jordan Eddy

CareerSouthwest

Apply for artist residencies with spring 2025 deadlines in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, California, and beyond.

Alejandra Lara and Naomi Eldridge • February 10, 2025

Curator ProfileUtah

Nancy Stoaks of Park City's Kimball Art Center wrote her thesis on artistic rabble-rouser Niki de Saint Phalle, sparking a career-long fight for the underdogs.

Ana Estrada • February 06, 2025

NewsArizona

The City of Tempe says there are no plans to demolish DIY arts hub Danelle Plaza, but the mayor is sending different signals. Local artists are demanding clarity.

Lynn Trimble • February 04, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies, Texas officials seize Sally Mann photos, and more top Southwest art news headlines for January and February 2025.

Jordan Eddy • February 04, 2025

EssaySouthwest

Artist Jon Revett makes a pilgrimage to see his mentor Larry Bell's career retrospective in Phoenix, and view what the Light and Space master calls his last cube in Taos.

Jon Revett • January 30, 2025

NewsNew Mexico

Robert Washington-Vaughns dumped the "capitalistic dream" to start Black Men Flower Project, a fanciful gifting initiative with the muscle of a mutual aid organization.

Jordan Eddy • January 28, 2025

Curator ProfileNevada

From fundraising to ceiling patches, here's how artist and curator Fawn Douglas cofounded Nuwu Art in downtown Las Vegas.

Gabriella Angeleti • January 23, 2025

Curator ProfileTexas

Amid a triumphant New York triennial, Fort Worth–based curator María Elena Ortiz looks back at her diasporic storytelling efforts—and calls for a bigger Latinx curatorial web.

Emma S. Ahmad • January 16, 2025

NewsArizona

Keith Haring was a Phoenix teacher's second choice for a 1986 art workshop, but the invite made a major mark on the city.  

Lynn Trimble • January 14, 2025

ReviewNew Mexico

Wicked Wells and Window Wipeouts traps the viewer between a hard place and a sunken one—but its ambiguity offers a different kind of freedom. 

Ryan Hawk • January 09, 2025

EssayColorado

Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective's sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe.

Madeleine Boyson • January 07, 2025

Books + LiteraryInside Southwest Contemporary

The Artist's Way for werewolves, a guide to forgetting the Alamo, and other compelling reads from the Southwest Contemporary editorial team.

Southwest Contemporary • January 06, 2025

ProfileArizona

The Arizona-born artist’s MOCA Tucson exhibition draws inspiration (and soil) from the Santa Cruz River, melding body and land.

Camille LeFevre • December 23, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Museum insiders offer firsthand accounts of the flash flood that breached Roswell Museum in October—and an update on the uphill battle for remediation.

Natalie Hegert • December 19, 2024

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Catch these must-see art exhibitions across the Southwest for winter 2024–25, featuring Richard Avedon, Nancy Hemenway Barton, Charles Ross, and more.

Lauren Tresp • December 17, 2024

Books + LiteraryNew Mexico

Despite economic flux, new independent book publishers are blooming—and veteran presses are thriving—across New Mexico.

Monika Dziamka • December 12, 2024

ReviewNevada

Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects.

Alejandra Lara • December 10, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Guy Cross, who cofounded SWC precursor The Magazine, stoked Santa Fe’s turn-of-the-21st-century push to join a globalized contemporary art conversation.

Jordan Eddy • December 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

MCA Denver director to lead ICA Boston, Utah artist who formed 21st-century art salon dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for December 2024.

Jordan Eddy • December 03, 2024

Gift GuideSouthwest

E-commerce has nothing on these holiday shopping experiences at galleries, museums, and community art spaces in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Lynn Trimble • November 26, 2024

Books + LiteraryTexas

Capturing scenes of quotidian life and military infrastructure, Zoe Leonard's photo book and Chinati show underscore a borderlands reality: an unstoppable river runs through it.

Gene Fowler • November 21, 2024

NewsColorado

“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.

Stephanie Wolf • November 14, 2024

NewsOklahoma

Hosted by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and featuring multidisciplinary luminaries, including the first Black female space pilot, Earthbound blends art and science.

Gabriella Angeleti • November 07, 2024

NewsTexas

Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.

Xan Murphy • November 01, 2024

NewsSouthwest

The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.

Jordan Eddy • October 31, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.

Phoenix Savage • October 24, 2024

Studio VisitNew Mexico

Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.

Gina Pugliese • October 22, 2024

NewsArizona

The traveling exhibition ARX3 pairs artists and scientists, while Brains and Beauty at SMoCA draws on neuroaesthetics, to visualize transformative research.

Lynn Trimble • October 10, 2024

Studio VisitNew Mexico

AI tools just hit the mainstream, but Albuquerque-based artist Zac Travis has been messing with them for years—in trippy, analog ways.

Delaney Hoffman • October 03, 2024

NewsSouthwest

New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024