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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
Psychoanalytic wordplay about aliens, isolation, space, and place.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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'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
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
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
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
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
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Raised in the borderlands, Phoenix-based artist Diana Calderón uses materials from Mexico and the U.S. to investigate her ancestral roots and immigrant experience while exploring both physical and spiritual borders.
October 29, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
A retrospective of German-American female photographer Marion Palfi at the Phoenix Art Museum, the first major exhibition since her 1978 death, places her towards the top of social research photographers.
October 29, 2021
ReviewColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Armor, a group exhibition at the Center for Visual Art in Denver, explored physical and metaphorical barriers in the art-making process.
October 29, 2021
