Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
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.
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.
February 08, 2023
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas is a compelling mix of art and artifacts that elevate themes of identity, power, resistance, and performance.
January 31, 2023
Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson is a group exhibition of 16mm video, silver-gelatin prints, and sculptural fabrications that share formally austere and technically complex approaches to composition.
January 16, 2023
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
December 12, 2022
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots?
December 02, 2022
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
November 28, 2022
In (RE)CONTEXT at the Rubin Center in El Paso, ten contemporary artists integrate text into their practices, recontextualizing and reappropriating words to create tools of social change.
November 23, 2022
Meggan Gould’s slow photography emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the moment in Happy Time, Doomsday Time.
November 18, 2022
Masha Sha’s drawings are made in stillness alternating with something like fever, with words built of lanky linear planks unfolding at angles.
November 16, 2022
From legendary folk artists in Texas to Black cowboys in New Mexico, these 2022-23 exhibitions are sure to get you thinking and exploring this winter.
November 11, 2022
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe highlights the work of thirteen artists exploring the present and future of Native and Indigenous art.
November 09, 2022
On view in In Our Time, Arizona-based collectors Iris and Adam Singer have been collecting contemporary art by Black artists for almost two decades.
November 07, 2022
Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson are New Mexico artists connected by their engagement with land and landscape at Exhibit 208.
November 03, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
