Living Histories
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories. By Kalyn Fay Barnoski
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women. By Nancy Zastudil
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. By Lauren Tresp
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. By Maggie Grimason
ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus. By Brent Holmes
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media. By Maggie Grimason
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures. By Joshua Ware
ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum. By Lynn Trimble
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art. By Lynn Trimble
EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell. By nicholas b jacobsen
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures. By Lauren Tresp
FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West. By Brent Holmes
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico. By Robin Babb
ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States. By Natalie Hegert
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries. By Natalie Hegert
FeatureArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill. By Camille LeFevre
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection. By Joshua Ware
ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art. By Steve Jansen
FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book. By Emily Arntsen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia. By Lynn Trimble
Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas. By Aleina Grace Edwards
ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism. By Scotti Hill
EssayTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Anne Elise Urrutia reflects on how exploring and writing about her Mexican family history adds to a broader understanding of a vibrant cultural heritage. By Anne Elise Urrutia
In 2023, Southwest Contemporary published 300 original articles by seventy-five contributors across eight states about contemporary art in the Southwest. These are readers' ten favorite stories of the year. By Lauren Tresp
Southwest Contemporary gives the arts community the focused attention, critical engagement, and depth of storytelling that no other publication can provide to the Southwest region. By Lauren Tresp
From contemporary Korean photography to a time-spanning collection of Andean fiber arts and a bubbling biennial on the U.S.-Mexico border, let these exhibitions across the Southwest be bright lights on these short, dark days. By Lauren Tresp
ArtistsVol. 8 Medium + Support
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 8: Medium + Support, guest juror Laura Copelin discusses the jurying process and themes that thread the ten featured artists together. By Laura Copelin
From the EditorVol. 8 Medium + Support
Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp discusses the publication's role in the arts ecosystem of the Southwest—including some behind-the-scenes work building networks and sharing resources. By Lauren Tresp
FeatureUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Building Man, an annual, week-long desert rave and art festival in Green River, Utah, celebrates artists who work with found and reclaimed materials. By Emily Arntsen
In this essay, Audrey Molloy dissects the stealth palm and the iconographies of the palm tree, telegraph pole, and cell phone tower as visual media that convey myths of Western expansion and technological innovation. By Audrey Molloy
ReviewColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support
The exhibition AgriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land is a multi-venue project that features conceptual and reverential artworks connected to farmers and farming. By Deborah Ross
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Phoenix-based artist alejandro t. acierto's work explores the nodes of digital culture, neoimperialism, genealogies of image-making practices, and the de- and re-contextualization of Indigenous cultural artifacts. By Gina Pugliese
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe is the internationally recognized artist's first solo show in New Mexico and includes never-before-shown work. By Maggie Grimason
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos. By Gina Pugliese
ReviewCaliforniaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Cheech presents a robust study in Chicano art, past and present, assembling 140 artworks and seventy artists whose work foregrounds the body as a site for revolution. By Justin Duyao
The University of Nevada, Reno’s low-residency MFA Interdisciplinary Arts program celebrates its most recent summer residency—and announces that applications are open to join the program in January 2024. By MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts and Reno and University of Nevada
In the Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 staging of Pelléas et Mélisande, director Netia Jones’s contemporary aesthetics renew Debussy’s mystifying Symbolist opera for present-day audiences. By Lauren Tresp
Carlsbad Caverns National Park celebrates the centennial anniversary of this special national park in a new exhibition at the Carlsbad Museum, May 30–October 25, 2023. By Carlsbad Museum
Isabelle Plat, an artist based in Paris, France, brings a new definition of portraiture to Taos in a new exhibition at the Wright Contemporary, opening on June 10 with a reception 4-6 pm. By The Wright Contemporary
The Santa Fe Railyard Park + Plaza is a site of creative collaborations, with recent projects presented in collaboration with the Railyard Park Conservancy’s Railyard Art Project and local arts organizations. By Railyard Park Conservancy
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
WNMU Museum in Silver City, New Mexico, occupies a historic building and houses one of the largest collections of Mimbres pottery and artifacts in the world, as well as other prehistoric Southwestern pottery and artifacts. By Lauren Tresp
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Karma Henry is a Paiute, Italian, and Portuguese artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose acrylic paintings consider the landscape as site for both the literal and personal embodiment of place. By Scotti Hill
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Zuyva Sevilla, an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, makes new-media works that contemplate the cosmic and ineffable, such as heat signatures and dust patterns. By Joshua Ware
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