Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar. By Steve Jansen
Memorial services for Tigre Mashaal-Lively, who made art about individual and collective trauma and healing, are scheduled for Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 in Santa Fe. By Steve Jansen
JC Gonzo’s photographs of New Mexico cemeteries place viewers in a symbiotic relationship with the land, community, and history. By Bethany Tabor
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Provo-based artist Christian Degn brings viewers into an abstract, dark, and magical world with pen-and-ink illustrations that grace album covers for well-known metal and ambient bands. By Bianca Velasquez
Tya Alisa Anthony untangles the meaning of safe spaces as sanctuary and explores the art of social justice, human rights, and identity in the Mile High City. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Rachelle Pablo (Diné), 516 Arts's newly-appointed curator who will unveil her first exhibition this weekend, aims to unpack nuance and adjust misrepresentations of contemporary Indigenous artists. By Bethany Tabor
Current Work, founded by longtime arts advocate Tiffini Porter, raises the contemporary art bar in Salt Lake City. The gallery also fills several sudden gaps in Utah's creative ecosystem. By Scotti Hill
Afton Love, who lives and creates in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, pivoted from big-picture abstract art to a form of abstraction that ponders and employs addition rather than subtraction. 1. […] By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
The serape-style murals and public-art pieces of Birdseed Collective co-founder Anthony Garcia Sr. are integral to Denver’s urban infrastructure. By Joshua Ware
Cochiti Pueblo artist Jeff Suina incorporates traditional pottery materials and knowledge as well as architectural and digital technologies in sculpting angular and eye-catching works in clay. By Will Riding In
The Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show shined a spotlight on Indigenous designers who bring new perspectives to an industry in need of positive, equitable change. By Erin Joyce
Phoenix seeks community input as the city considers bond funding for a new Latino Cultural Center and other creative projects, all while art spaces rebound from COVID-19 impacts. By Lynn Trimble
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist. By Steve Jansen
The pandemic forced Utah’s arts organizations to get creative with funding sources. The strategy ultimately allowed for more direct aid for individual artists and novel programming. By Scotti Hill
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Salt Lake City artist Nancy Rivera illustrates the immigrant experience in a series of complex and time-consuming embroideries. By Bianca Velasquez
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Iteratives at Rule Gallery in Denver subverts and reinforces historical permutations of beauty. By Emilie Trice
InterviewBooks + LiteraryNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Based in Santa Fe since the early 1980s, Nathaniel Tarn has spent his career chasing an international literature. A new autobiography, Atlantis, an Autoanthropology, explores the author’s broad career. By Devin King
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest. By Steve Jansen
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint. By Southwest Contemporary
EssaySouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Briana Olson meditates on Procession Panel, migration, and the biological and aesthetic complexity of the desert Southwest. By Briana Olson
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world. By Southwest Contemporary
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state. By Hills Snyder
InterviewMexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
As a member of the inaugural cohort of La Semilla Food Center’s Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, Juárez-based writer Lorena Sosa shares her work on the U.S.-Mexico border. By Michelle E. Carreon
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture. By Natalie Hegert
Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. By Steve Jansen
Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting. By Laura Neal
In Denver Art Museum’s Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail, Latin American millennial artists transform narratives rooted in collective memory and the virtual realm of cyberspace. By Emilie Trice
Abecedario de Juárez by artist Alice Leora Briggs and photojournalist Julián Cardona is partly an illustrated glossary of narcolenguaje and partly a collection of stories from the streets. By Natalie Hegert
Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California. By Steve Jansen
Land Art scholar Hikmet Loe has visited and studied Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, and other earthworks for decades. She returned to a handful this summer—and found cause for concern. By Hikmet Sidney Loe
Utah video artist VHS Vic (Victor Blandon) shows his audience how to find magic in the mundane, the goofy in the serious, and the artistry in making a pizza. By Bianca Velasquez
The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration. By Jordan Eddy
Urban Pop in Bountiful, Utah offers a unique opportunity to see big names, but the exhibition fails to situate artists within the movements to which the show claims they belong. By Scotti Hill
Siler Yard fills a void in Santa Fe’s affordable housing crunch, especially for artists and long-standing residents. Though celebrated, the development faces challenges. By Kathryne Lim
Art meets nature in four Colorado gardens and outdoor installations—creating space for meditative contemplation and divine catharsis at Aspen Art Museum, Chatfield Farms, Greenbox Arts, and the San Luis Valley. By Emilie Trice
Five emerging artists explore experiences of the African Diaspora in And Let It Remain So, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that assesses family, home, displacement, identity, and Black representation. By Lynn Trimble
Clever Octopus’s unionization efforts in Salt Lake City speak out about potential exploitation within creative and arts careers. As living costs rise, unions are becoming more common among underpaid cultural workers. By Bianca Velasquez
Yu Yu Shiratori, an artist based in Tucson, creates large-scale embroidery, jewelry, and illustrations that juxtapose materials to reflect the dichotomy of her bicultural experience. By Eva-Marie Hube
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Southwest artist residencies (and a cool one in Nebraska!) in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming with deadlines between August 2022 and January 2023. By Steve Jansen
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries. By Bethany Tabor
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