
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
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Fans of midcentury designer Alexander Girard will enjoy exploring the Pritzker Student Center at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rachel Preston • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
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.
Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023
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.
RioBravoFineArt • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
New Mexico artist Jennifer Thoreson calls on her own religious experiences as she examines the complex relationships between belief systems and human behavior.
Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023
Language in Times of Miscommunication presents work by eighteen artists illuminating the mercurial interplay between opinion, fact, and fiction.
Erin Joyce • May 24, 2023
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
Thao Votang • May 19, 2023
Finding Water in the WestNew Mexico
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.
Lauren LaRocca • May 16, 2023
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace.
Gina Pugliese • May 15, 2023
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea explores the erasure of Black, LGBTQ+, Indigenous American, Asian American and Latinx culture through contemporary art.
Bianca Velasquez • May 08, 2023
Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily) exhibition at UMOCA comprises a series of untitled mixed-media pieces that explore the relationship between light and land.
Parker Scott Mortensen • May 02, 2023
As Utah faces the evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah artists are finding ways to orient themselves in disaster by considering the relationship between disability and environment.
Parker Scott Mortensen • April 26, 2023
At SITE Santa Fe, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes proves that sometimes sculptors can both make activist statements and focus on sculptural fundamentals, with stunning results.
Janet Abrams • April 25, 2023
Perplexities acknowledges complexity and the unaccountable and meets it with one kind of certainty: deeply considered and well executed art.
Hills Snyder • April 21, 2023
Ambitious as always, Desert X delivered on its promise to diversify its pool of participating artists—at the expense of conceptual coherence.
Justin Duyao • April 19, 2023
Finding Water in the WestColorado
Reflecting on Weather Report, Lucy Lippard’s 2007 exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, Paige Hirschey discusses how the field of eco art has changed.
Paige Hirschey • April 03, 2023
Finding Water in the WestMexicoTexas
Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
Edgar Picazo Merino • March 10, 2023
Hervé Télémaque's exhibition A Hopscotch of the Mind at Aspen Art Museum provides a career-spanning overview of a unique artistic voice dedicated to diverse materials, forms, and media.
Joshua Ware • March 08, 2023
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Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023
ReviewColoradoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.
Deborah Ross • March 03, 2023
ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating.
Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023
EssayTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.
Trey Burns • March 03, 2023
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.
JD Pluecker • March 03, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum in Phoenix elevates the sky knowledge and origin stories of four Indigenous peoples.
Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023
Studio VisitTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
For this social practice collective in Lubbock, Texas, the mesquite tree has become a charismatic icon for water conservation and urban afforestation.
Natalie Hegert • March 03, 2023
The centerpiece of Nima Nabavi: Visiting is the intricate geometry that he practices, letting the silent slide of his pens continue their daily run to infinity.
Hills Snyder • February 27, 2023
Esther Elia: Diasporic Deities reimagines ancient Assyrian goddesses with attention to how they have evolved apace with their diasporic peoples.
Maggie Grimason • February 22, 2023
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • February 17, 2023
Kiah Butcher: Still Theatre, a video-based exhibition in Denver, engages the history of Renaissance portraiture in both playful and critical ways.
Joshua Ware • February 10, 2023
I Like You, Erin Burrell’s colorfully irreverent exhibition at HeyThere Projects, upends the core tenets of masculinity in one fell swoop.
Justin Duyao • February 08, 2023
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