Jordan Eddy

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

NewsNevada

The U.S. debut of a documentary by Tuan Andrew Nguyen potently combines with the museum's recent gift of Aboriginal paintings in We Were Lost in Our Country.

Gabriella Angeleti • September 24, 2024

NewsUtah

The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.

Scotti Hill • September 19, 2024

ProfileNew Mexico

Santa Fe-based designer and artist Paulina Ho’s work tilts reality to find pleasure in the everyday absurdities of her new Southwestern environs.

Daisy Geoffrey • September 12, 2024

Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.

Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024

FeatureArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Seeking fresh hope in the 20th-century futurisms of Arizona architectural marvels Biosphere 2, Taliesin West, and Arcosanti.

Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ReviewTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

The de la Torre Brothers deliver a feast for the eyes—and warnings for the future—in their witty and maximalist exhibition at McNay Art Museum.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024