WritingsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Landscaping with Brick
In the early 20th century, bricks were brought over Raton Pass to Raton, New Mexico from the Trinidad Brick Company. We stole this brick for our backyard.
September 01, 2023
InterviewOklahomaVol. 8 Medium + Support
8,000 Pounds of Clay with My Hands: An Interview with Raven Halfmoon
Oklahoma-based artist Raven Halfmoon (Caddo) discusses the material and conceptual underpinnings of her large-scale ceramic works.
September 01, 2023
FeatureTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Soy de Tejas: Home as open permeable itinerant and metaphysical?
JD Pluecker explores the artworks of five artists in the exhibition Soy de Tejas, looking at issues of home and belonging in Texas.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Safwat Saleem
Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.
September 01, 2023
PhotographyArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Claire A. Warden: Finding Photography’s Edge
Phoenix-based artist Claire A. Warden experiments with camera-less processes to push against the boundaries of photography and identity.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
September 01, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Reynier Leyva Novo: The Flowers of My Exile
The Flowers of My Exile at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix explores conceptual art by Cuban dissident Reynier Leyva Novo, now an artist in exile in Houston, Texas.
September 01, 2023
Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch Team Up at Bountiful Davis Art Center
Although the thematic connection feels strained, the pairing of works by Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch creates a visually rich and compelling exhibition that invites us to relish process and material.
August 30, 2023
I Am Not Your Mexican Expands Post-Minimal Boundaries
I Am Not Your Mexican at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio explores how Mexican and Mexican American artists have expanded the limitations of Post-Minimalism.
August 25, 2023
Goodnight Noises Everywhere: Rachel Rose at SITE Santa Fe
In Goodnight Moon, Rachel Rose’s ambitious and deeply researched work opens multiple tiny entry points into vast stories of past and future days and ages.
August 23, 2023
Say Their Names: Artists Reflect on Nuclear Injustice in New Mexico
Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing—A People’s Perspective at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showcases the work of seventeen artists to shed light on nuclear injustice.
August 18, 2023
Encounters Past and Future: Duhon James at Hecho a Mano
Capturing glimpses of ancestors and extraterrestrials, Duhon James’ (Diné) work illustrates a moment in time with something both there and not there at the same time.
August 14, 2023
Land Suffering: The Unavailing Amelioration of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons
The meek, reverent sculptures of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons puncture 160 acres of unusable potato farmland in Hooper, Colorado, offering healing to a sandhill crane nesting ground undergoing megadrought.
August 10, 2023
Handmade Readymades: Tamara Johnson’s Kitschy Kitchen Imposters in House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery
Tamara Johnson’s exhibition House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin examines the absurdity of daily domesticity with mass-produced kitchen items turned into one-of-a-kind sculptures.
August 04, 2023
Hazel Larsen Archer: Out of the Shadows and Into the Light
Hazel Larsen Archer was a luminary yet underrecognized photographer and educator who inspired countless others, celebrated now at the Center for Creative Photography along with her student, Linda McCartney.
August 01, 2023
Finding Water in the WestColorado
Erin Elder’s From Source to Mouth Shares the Stories of Monument Creek
In From Source to Mouth, artist Erin Elder takes a multifaceted, community-sourced approach to researching Monument Creek in Colorado Springs.
June 06, 2023
Field Report2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Field Report: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
While a soak in the healing waters is essential, the magic of Truth or Consequences really comes alive when visiting the town’s art galleries and shops downtown.
May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Benjamin Winans: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Benjamin Winans's sculptural works contend with the impact of Christian nationalism within national memory and the artist’s own lived experience.
May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Kate Turner: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity.
May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Chapel of Light at Rivera Family Funeral Home
Santa Fe’s Chapel of Light is designed to inspire a sense of unity across peoples and beliefs, and features a naturally occurring solstice lightshow.
May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Stardreaming
Stardreaming is a twenty-two-acre site just outside of Santa Fe created by visionary artist James Jereb.
May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Alexander Girard at St. John’s College
Fans of midcentury designer Alexander Girard will enjoy exploring the Pritzker Student Center at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Cougar “Ndoi” Vigil: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
As a photographer, curator, and small business owner, Cougar "Ndoi" Vigil integrates multiplicities of perspectives into his work about Indigenous narratives, perspectives, and knowledge systems.
May 26, 2023
RioBravoFineArt: A Contemporary Art Space with a Rich Legacy
RioBravoFineArt is a unique art space and gallery located in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, founded twenty-five years ago by the iconic American abstract painter H. Joe Waldrum.
May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Jennifer Thoreson: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
New Mexico artist Jennifer Thoreson calls on her own religious experiences as she examines the complex relationships between belief systems and human behavior.
May 26, 2023
Language in Times of Miscommunication at SMoCA Issues a Call That Asks for a Response
Language in Times of Miscommunication presents work by eighteen artists illuminating the mercurial interplay between opinion, fact, and fiction.
May 24, 2023
Day Jobs Busts Myths, Raises Questions at the Blanton Museum of Art
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
May 19, 2023
Finding Water in the WestNew Mexico
Going With the Flow: Stories of Water and Site-Specific Actions at SITE Santa Fe
Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe.
May 16, 2023
“Sorry about this”: On Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake at Understudy, Denver
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace.
May 15, 2023
Many Wests Shows Us How American Existence is Not One Size Fits All
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea explores the erasure of Black, LGBTQ+, Indigenous American, Asian American and Latinx culture through contemporary art.
May 08, 2023
