Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert is host to a community of Benedictine monks in the magnificent Chama Canyon and was designed by famous designer and woodworker George Nakashima.
May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.
May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Adrian Aguirre resides in Las Cruces where he is an educator and artist exploring issues of migration through representational drawing and painting.
May 27, 2022
PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Santa Fe–based artist Saro Calewarts explores trauma and the healing process in her photographic project, Agency Lessons.
February 25, 2022
PhotographyArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Jimmy Fike, a Phoenix-based photographer and plant enthusiast, has embarked on a ten-year project to document edible plants of the North American continent.
October 29, 2021
Source Material, an exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, features eight photographic projects that engage with archival imagery.
October 29, 2021
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Apolo Gomez's portraits feature men in various states of dress and undress with a palpable sense of intimacy, challenging masculine stereotypes.
July 30, 2021
In our staff takeover of the 5x5, Angie Rizzo shares her top five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, and watching.
July 08, 2021
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
May 12, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Taos artist Johnny DeFeo's recent body of work, Department of the Interior, features renderings of Southwestern interior spaces that illustrate the luxury of access to natural scenery.
April 30, 2021
The Family Room exhibition at form & concept in Santa Fe, NM offers a much-needed sanctuary from the new global reality.
March 10, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas
Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston artist collective, creates artwork that comments on family dynamics and American consumer culture.
February 08, 2021
A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including photo-eye, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Santa Fe Workshops, Turner Carroll Gallery, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
July 31, 2020
Anita Rodriguez is a true renaissance woman. She is a writer and painter, in addition to her accomplishments in the field of sustainable architecture.
March 26, 2020
Santa Fe based photographer Memphis Barbree's project, The Sky Calls to Us, documents the Kennedy Space Center in its grandness and the markings of those who created the space program.
March 26, 2020
Parry is well regarded in the world of photography. She taught one of the first official history of photography classes at Wellesley in the early ’70s, creating the curriculum from scratch. She’s published over one hundred pieces during her lifetime, including essays for exhibition catalogues and periodicals and several books...
January 28, 2020
Inga Hendrickson is a Santa Fe-based photographer. She creates colorful still lifes that are simultaneously beautiful and grotesque
January 28, 2020
The role of a midwife is a powerful one. She is a guide through one of the most life-changing events a person can have, welcoming a new child into the world. How one enters the world matters. Birth experiences can have effects that ripple throughout a person’s life, impacting their family and community.
December 01, 2019
Wilson began CIPX in 2012 with the support of the New Mexico Museum of Art and has photographed internationally, adding to the prolific body of work. Over time, the project and Wilson’s intentions have evolved. Today, he speaks about the ritual of portraiture and questions how it fits into contemporary culture. Some traditions that were once a rite of passage for families and individuals have become part of the past.
October 01, 2019
Shimano is worried that the culture of making is diminishing as technology becomes more omnipresent. She has noticed the decline in drawing skills as well as even everyday life skills among incoming students in the classes she teaches. We spoke of this phenomenon and the potential consequences which range from physical abilities in art-making to the power of having personal experiences that are unmediated by any device.
October 01, 2019
Virginia Dwan, best known in the Southwest for her support of land art and artists, as well as the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico, boasts a career that reaches far beyond the desert. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dwan got her start in Los Angeles with the Virginia Dwan Gallery, which eventually expanded to New York, where she represented artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, Sol LeWitt, Edward Kienholz, and many, many more. Dwan, the heiress of manufacturing conglomerate 3M, was able to take risks on challenging art. She played a major role in supporting some of the most definitive earthworks, such as Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, The Lightning Fields by Walter De Maria, Double Negative by Michael Heizer, and the still-in-progress Star Axis by Charles Ross. She is still a passionate supporter of the arts and speaks fondly of working with artists and being a part of the creative process.
August 30, 2019
Sama Alshaibi, a Tucson, Arizona–based photographer, is a Palestinian-Iraqi who originally came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq. Her mother’s family are also refugees from Jaffa, a historic port city that was fought over and ultimately became part of Israel in 1948. The families that lived there were forced to leave quickly, and many left behind family keepsakes such as family photo albums. Alshaibi’s family have few photographs from their time in Palestine.
July 29, 2019
Paula Wilson and Mike Lagg live in Carrizozo, New Mexico, a town of about nine hundred residents, located north of White Sands. Paula, who arrived there ten years ago by way of Chicago and New York, and Mike, who settled in the area over thirty years ago, are mainstays of the art community in the region...
May 24, 2019
Melanie Walker is an artist based in Boulder, Colorado. She works nearly equally in the worlds of photography and public art, with each realm informing the other...
May 24, 2019
Photo Portfolio: Kristin Hatgi-Sink
March 27, 2019
Jesse Rieser’s photographic project Christmas in America: Happy Birthday Jesus is at first glance humorous and lighthearted. The garish colors and cartoonish settings allude to theme parks and the classic feature film A Christmas Story and perhaps to one’s own holiday memories...
November 28, 2018
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, a Santa Fe–based artist by way of Ecuador and New York began laying the groundwork for her project, In the Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar Everybody is a Dancing Hummingbird, nearly eleven years ago when she first visited a small region of the...
June 28, 2018
It started with a disagreement between the photographer Wendy Young and a friend about Confederate monuments and whether or not they should be taken down. The conflict triggered an exploration into her beliefs, education, and roots in the American South. Young was raised in Pensacola, Florida, and recalls studying the Lost Cause...
May 01, 2018
Light, shadow, and doors opened and closed are a few of the subjects of Santa Fe–based photographer Natalie Christensen. Informed by Carl Jung and a twenty-five-year career as a psychotherapist, Christensen looks for symbols in the Southwestern urban landscape that “reveal psychological...
February 01, 2018
