Work in Progress with Patricia Sannit
Patricia Sannit, in this deeply personal visit to her Phoenix studio, reflects on the ways loss, vulnerable ecologies, and recent residencies in Iceland and Sweden are shifting her practice.
January 24, 2023
Fate of Utah’s Outsider Art Site The Christian School Remains In Flux
Salt Lake City’s Christian School, the brainchild of late artist Ralphael Plescia, is in limbo as an arts organization’s preservation efforts are hampered by the recent sale of the property.
January 23, 2023
When, Where, and How Did Phoenix’s Downtown Art Scene Commence? Four Local Artists Remember.
Janet de Berge Lange, Jeff Falk, James B. Hunt, and Annie Lopez—in roundtable style—dish on downtown Phoenix’s art scene pre-America West Arena and prior to First Friday.
January 20, 2023
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard and Richard B Reimagine Art and Dining
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard gallery and Richard B restaurant blur the lines between dinner party and exhibition opening with an invitation to take in art with a side of gastronomy.
January 19, 2023
Work in Progress with Mario Zoots
Mario Zoots is a Denver-based artist who has explored the medium of collage for nearly fifteen years, and pushed against the genre's boundaries and expectations.
January 17, 2023
Under New Leadership, the Springville Museum of Art Remains Essential to Utah Arts and Arts Education
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks.
January 13, 2023
A Win for Underserved Communities: New Mexico Sustainable Architecture Firms AOS and MASS Team Up
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond.
January 12, 2023
Alternative Worlds of What Ifs, Brought to You by Angel Cabrales
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
January 11, 2023
Arizona Commission on the Arts Currently Fails to Represent the Whole State
Arizona Commission on the Arts' new director says its governing board lacks geographic diversity, which goes against Arizona statute. It’s not the only violation of state law involving the agency.
January 09, 2023
Exhibiting an Archive of a Shadow: Southwest Reflections at the Millicent Rogers
At the Millicent Rogers Museum, Southwest Reflections: Between Shadows of the Land takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to the place now known as New Mexico.
January 05, 2023
Curator Profile: María del Mar González-González Sparks Conversations About Latinx Art
María del Mar González-González, a Utah-based curator, bolsters artist voices that are too often relegated to the fringes of discussions about Latinx art.
January 04, 2023
The Center Can Not Hold Illustrates the Temporal Nature of Our Cores
The Center Can Not Hold—curated by Hikmet Sidney Loe and featuring works by Anne Mooney, John Sparano, and Hannah Vaughn—explores the varied meanings of holding space through architecture.
January 03, 2023
Southwest Contemporary’s 10 Most-Read Articles of 2022
Southwest Contemporary’s most-read list for 2022 includes our 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now announcement and our first longform feature.
December 27, 2022
New Media Leader Denver Digerati Looks Towards an Educational and Local Community Focused Future
Denver Digerati, under the direction of executive director and chief curator Sharifa Lafon, looks to change up its digital arts and educational programming in 2023.
December 21, 2022
Petra Cortright Displays Traditional Pieces Distilled Through Newer Media at Palm Springs Art Museum
Petra Cortright, a Net Art and Post-Internet Art painter, bends traditional art-world genres in a solo exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
December 20, 2022
Local Nevada Gift Guide 2022
Southwest Contemporary's final 2022 gift guide travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, where shoppers can score amazing coffee, miniature neon deserts, and a photo sesh inside a life-sized cabinet of curiosities.
December 19, 2022
Work in Progress with Maja Ruznic
Maja Ruznic of Placitas, New Mexico builds and embraces darkness in canvas works that are informed by trauma and inspired by Carl Jung’s philosophy of the shadow self.
December 16, 2022
Local Utah Gift Guide 2022
Our next gift guide travels to Salt Lake City and Provo, where shoppers can score upcycled clothing, wood-burned prints, and gender-affirming underwear.
December 15, 2022
Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Founder of Southern New Mexico’s CAV Gallery, Disentangles Personal Stories of Family Violence
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […]
December 14, 2022
Work in Progress with MarSha Robinson
Denver-based artist and entrepreneur MarSha Robinson creates elaborate, botanical worlds and runs a thriving business under the moniker Strange Dirt.
December 13, 2022
Work in Progress with Rhiannon Griego
Santa Fe-based textile artist Rhiannon Griego weaves wearable and displayable artworks that pay respect to the land and her Spanish and Native heritage.
December 09, 2022
Kiki Smith: From the Creek Offers Wondrous Passage to Natural Worlds
From the Creek, an exhibition by artist Kiki Smith, brings the experience of the flora and fauna of the Hudson River Valley to the Albuquerque Museum.
December 08, 2022
How High-Profile Southwest Museums Prioritize Local Artists
Several art museums in the Southwest region are highlighting local artists in creative ways, countering the tendency to associate major museums with monumental exhibitions of world-renowned artists.
December 07, 2022
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) at UCCS GOCA in Colorado Springs
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
December 06, 2022
Local Santa Fe Gift Guide 2022
This holiday season, consider shopping in Santa Fe for a variety of delights, ranging from gifts for cats (and cat mommies and daddies) to a music concert membership.
December 05, 2022
Southwest Art News: December 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
December 01, 2022
The Sentience of Sediments: Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s Alchemy of Ochre
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s Unknown Prospect explores the material possibilities of ochre to showcase the beauty and agency of the Utah landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants.
November 30, 2022
Local Tucson Gift Guide 2022
Whether giving or receiving gifts is your love language, you’ll never run out of original Tucson gift options for friends and family this holiday season.
November 29, 2022
Artists Speak About the Impacts of Rampant Development in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row
Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row arts district is different (read: more corporate) these days. How are all of the speedy commercial and residential developments impacting local artists?
November 22, 2022
Local Denver Gift Guide 2022
Southwest Contemporary’s first installment of the 2022 gift guide series takes shoppers to Denver, with jaw-dropping nature bundles, an in-the-thick-of-it-all staycation, and more.
November 21, 2022
