Picks for Pumpkin Spice Season: Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2023 Art Guide
Check out these Southwest art exhibitions for fall 2023, featuring the churning creativity of community, the crisis of climate change, and cowboys.
October 13, 2023
Ellen Berkenblit’s In Motion Expresses the Magic of Mark Making
Ellen Berkenblit’s exhibition In Motion at Tamarind Institute surveys the New York-based artist’s continuing collaboration with the renowned lithography workshop in Albuquerque.
October 09, 2023
Alt Weakly: What Happens When an Art Community Loses its News?
For arts communities in southern Colorado, a diminished presence of alternative newspapers like the Colorado Springs Indy means less coverage and support.
October 05, 2023
A Greater Utah Surveys the Artistic Output of an Entire State
While many of the figures in UMOCA’s A Greater Utah are familiar, the ambitious scope of the project allows for new perspectives outside of the state’s metropolitan center.
September 28, 2023
Debasers: A Brief Look at Albuquerque’s Basement Films, Which is Again in Flux
Basement Films is a dedicated collective that keeps a massive collection of vintage film reels as a resource for alternative, DIY, experimental, and micro-cinema.
September 22, 2023
No Man’s Land: Amy Cutler at Ruby City
Amy Cutler: Past, Present, Progress at Ruby City in San Antonio follows a community of women performing ambiguous domestic tasks as a means of feminist critique.
September 19, 2023
Groundswell at the Nasher Expands the Conversation Around Land Art to Include a Multiplicity of Perspectives
Groundswell: Women of Land Art features twelve artists—some names familiar, some fresh—all working concurrently yet in the shadow of their male Land Art counterparts.
September 18, 2023
The Broom of the System: Trey Duvall’s RETURN/SWEEP at Rule Gallery
Denver artist Trey Duvall combines digital, mechanical, manual, and natural tools in order to explore a multitude of concepts in his durational installation RETURN/SWEEP.
September 14, 2023
Contemporary Patronage: How Artists Find Support Through Third-Party Advisors
Complementing and circumventing traditional gallery relationships, artists in Colorado find financial and material support through corporate and private clients via third-party advisors.
September 08, 2023
Hyperlink and Land Report Collective Re-Activate a Uranium Mine Ghost Town in Remote Wyoming
If you can find it, Wyoming’s uranium mine ghost town Shirley Basin will surprise you with a treasure trove of eclectic art from Hyperlink and Land Report Collective members.
September 07, 2023
Making the Unseen Seen in Jammie Holmes’s Make the Revolution Irresistible
Jammie Holmes’s first solo museum exhibition celebrates the lives of everyday Black folk while continuing the rich tradition of Black figurative painting.
September 05, 2023
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Intervention and Interconnection: How Should Artists Work With(in) the Environment?
Eco art is attracting a new generation of artists, but when working with the land, there’s a way to do it right and a way to do it wrong.
September 01, 2023
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
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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 GuideTravel
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
