Roswell AIR Quality Report: Visits with Artists-in-Residence at RAiR
The Southwest Contemporary team visits Roswell to do studio visits with the residents of the renowned and generous Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.
October 21, 2022
Shawn Skabelund Explores Ecological and Cultural Destruction at Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff artist Shawn Skabelund explores ecological and cultural destruction using materials gathered from forests in his exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts.
October 07, 2022
Review: Desert ArtLAB: Chicanx Landscapes at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Working across performance, printmaking, video, and Native ecological practices and philosophies, Desert ArtLAB cultivates and nourishes Indigenous agriculture through a Chicanx lens.
September 29, 2022
Review: Two Cultures, One Family at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Two Cultures, One Family, a group exhibition curated by Dr. Erika Abad at the Marjorie Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, constitutes a cross-cultural call and response.
September 23, 2022
Review: The Powers Art Center: Worshiping at the Altar of Jasper Johns
Visiting an exquisite private art collection nestled in the Colorado Rockies devoted to Jasper Johns, Emilie Trice wonders: is his work relevant in this day and age?
September 12, 2022
Review: Patrick Dean Hubbell: Tack Room Challenges Representations of Indigenous Peoples
Patrick Dean Hubbell’s exhibition Tack Room at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe serves up a powerful discourse that challenges the representation of Indigenous peoples.
September 02, 2022
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
August 26, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
August 26, 2022
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
August 26, 2022
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Studio Visit: Steven Yazzie
Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist Steven Yazzie (Diné, Laguna Pueblo, European ancestry) thinks of his art studio as community and land rather than an insular space bound by four walls.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
August 26, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
The Contour of Feeling at the Denver Botanic Gardens introduces Colorado audiences to immense, organic cedar sculptures and other large-scale works by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.
August 26, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Elsewhere, NM, USA, Earth
Psychoanalytic wordplay about aliens, isolation, space, and place.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Beth Krensky
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Anh-Thuy Nguyen
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
August 26, 2022
2022 New Mexico Field GuideFeature
2022 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
This year is a landmark year for many of New Mexico’s arts institutions, some of which are celebrating their centennials and other significant anniversaries.
May 27, 2022
Field Report2022 New Mexico Field GuideTravel
Field Report: Magdalena, New Mexico
Hannah Dean visits Hills Snyder and shares some of the local lore, food, art, and books from Magdalena, New Mexico.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Eric J. Garcia: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
A native of Albuquerque’s South Valley, Eric J. Garcia imbues political art with personal experience.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Welly Fletcher: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
Albuquerque-based artist Welly Fletcher’s sculptural practice activates lines that question normative gender roles, sexual orientation, and identity.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Nina Elder: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
New Mexico-based artist Nina Elder explores geology, ecological processes, and deep time while addressing social justice and transformation with materials like radioactive charcoal, stardust, and pulverized guns.
May 27, 2022
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collective Cosmos: M12 Studio on Rural Territories and Common Resources
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
February 25, 2022
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Salt of the Earth: Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, Utah’s Contemporary Art Visionaries
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
February 25, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
A Risk Taker
This autofiction short revisits an outpatient surgery and the drive home through the lens of health, marriage, and fantasy.
February 25, 2022
ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Review: Crit Group Reunion
At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Friends of the Orphan Signs
Friends of the Orphan Signs is a collaborative art organization that works with community members to bring their voices to empty billboards and signs in Albuquerque.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Amanda Rowan
Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Ghislaine Fremaux + Lando Valdez
Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.
February 25, 2022
EssaySouthwestVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rile and Error: The Artistic Imperative in Social Progress
Art critic Darren Jones on the ways artists lead the way in matters of social progress, in our Collectivity + Collaboration themed issue.
February 25, 2022
Studio VisitUtahVol. 4 Winter 2021
Studio Visit: Jaclyn Wright
New work by Jaclyn Wright explores the contentious space of the Utah desert and how the ideology of ‘rugged individualism’ has visually manifested itself.
October 29, 2021
Review: Michael Menchaca: The 1836 Project at Artpace, San Antonio
San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca’s Artpace exhibition, The 1836 Project, is an immersive video installation employing poppy animation to take aim at “the colonial fantasies of the Texas creation myth.”
October 29, 2021
