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Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Southwest Contemporary announces the fourth annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now and a group exhibition.
April 27, 2022
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Morgan Barnard: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
May 27, 2022
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Amelia Bauer: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Adrian Aguirre: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Adrian Aguirre resides in Las Cruces where he is an educator and artist exploring issues of migration through representational drawing and painting.
May 27, 2022
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Patina Gallery’s Cerulean Celebration
Patina Gallery in downtown Santa Fe honors connections and creativity with A Season of Blue.
May 27, 2022
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Summer at Gaia Contemporary
Gaia Contemporary presents a unique blend of sculpture, painting, jewelry, kimono, photography, and Japanese antiquities in Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road district.
May 27, 2022
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Art Santa Fe Returns in 2022
Art Santa Fe is an intimate contemporary art fair that welcomes world-class art and design presented by a diverse range of exhibitors.
May 27, 2022
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Indigenous Celebration NM 2022
Indigenous Celebration New Mexico 2022 is a New Mexico art and culture collaboration like no other.
May 27, 2022
Kouri + Corrao presents Jen Pack at VOLTA
Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.
May 10, 2022
Artist Spotlight: Khang Pham-New
Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden.
May 04, 2022
Mitsuru Ando: 自然のアルゴリズム | Nature’s Algorithms
Mitsuru Ando, a Tokyo-based painter inspired by biology and Eastern medicine, opens his first solo exhibition in the United States at Kouri + Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe on April 22.
April 20, 2022
Meet Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist
Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21.
April 12, 2022
Sam Scott: New and Timeless Paintings
Santa Fe artist Sam Scott’s new body of work on view at Pie Projects, Mind/Mirror, is an invitation to peel back visual layers and a journey into the very essence of abstraction.
April 06, 2022
Tom Kirby: Celestial Movement at Winterowd Fine Art
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.
March 22, 2022
Explore the Newly Envisioned Bishop’s Lodge in Santa Fe
Bishop's Lodge is a Santa Fe landmark steeped in history, and is a distinctive venue to explore arts, dining, the outdoors, and wellness in the Southwest—whether you leave the grounds or not.
March 10, 2022
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Honor the Space: Contemporary Dance Collaborates with Historic Architecture
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
February 25, 2022
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
February 25, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Review: Emilio Lobato: Lessons Learned
Facing shortages of his usual materials, Colorado artist Emilio Lobato turned to rubber sheets, household tacks, and porcelain strips. The outcome is work that is surprisingly multifaceted.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Raul Rene Gonzalez
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
February 25, 2022
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Wynema Chavez Quintana on Aging and Dyeing
Wynema Chavez Quintana discusses her work as a head ager/dyer in the film industry, a job that requires a skillful understanding of color and textiles and collaboration across many departments.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Gary Sweeney
Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s.
February 25, 2022
Design Corps: The Intersection for Design in Santa Fe
Design Corps is Santa Fe's network for creative professionals and a comprehensive resource for creative services.
February 16, 2022
Southwest Contemporary’s Studio Visits of 2021
A handy roundup of Southwest Contemporary's studio visits with Southwest artists in 2021.
December 27, 2021
Southwest Contemporary’s Most-Read Articles of 2021
A list of our most-read articles of 2021 ranges from a Joshua Tree field report to an exhibition review of printmaking works by José Guadalupe Posada.
December 29, 2021
Debra Baxter: Love Tears at form & concept
In Debra Baxter’s exhibition Love Tears, the artist uses a vocabulary of minerals and metal to examine how grief and longing have manifested within material culture throughout history.
December 15, 2021
Rees Bowen’s Evolving Art Practice
Artist Rees Bowen works across multiple media and is an adept collaborator, creating custom commissions for designers and corporate collections and large-scale, site-specific installations for architects and contractors.
December 14, 2021
Remembering the Future at the Heard Museum
In Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art, the Heard Museum’s new exhibition tells the story of an artistic movement that is often left out of the broader story of American art.
November 16, 2021
Your Weekly 5×5: Lauren’s Picks for Horror and Poetry
We’re back with a staff contribution of the 5×5! This week, SWC’s publisher Lauren Tresp shares her top five picks for horror and poetry.
November 04, 2021
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Announcing Art Steady 2.0: Career Development for Creators
We want to see more artists shine in all aspects of their work, so we’re excited to announce Art Steady 2.0, a series of five workshops that cover essential areas of successful creative career development led by leading experts.
November 02, 2021
