ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wills Brewer: Radical Futures
Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.
September 06, 2024
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ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen: Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.
September 06, 2024
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The Insider’s View: Studio Tours Across New Mexico
Artist studio tours across New Mexico illustrate the enduring power of creative exchange—and give visitors an insider's view of the artistic process.
May 24, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Tamara Burgh: Living Histories
Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Esther Elia: Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
March 01, 2024
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles Connects Native Artworks Past and Contemporary
Horizons at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture pairs historical and contemporary weaving with photography and other media to create connections across materials, time, and lands.
September 06, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Safwat Saleem
Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.
September 01, 2023
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bruce Nauman: His Mark
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe is the internationally recognized artist's first solo show in New Mexico and includes never-before-shown work.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
September 01, 2023
Bruce Nauman Presents a Solo Show in New Mexico for the First Time
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe—Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico—features never-before-shown work by the internationally celebrated artist.
July 07, 2023
Shane R. Hendren’s Genre-Defying Work Earns Major Award
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline.
June 21, 2023
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Kate Turner: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity.
May 26, 2023
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Apolo Gomez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
Apolo Gomez’s series Exodus fuses the commonplace with something more curious, yielding presentations that seamlessly cohabitate together.
May 26, 2023
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Patina Gallery: An Enlightened Take on Creation
Patina Gallery’s Mindful Meditations series offers insight on craft, beauty, and the human element of art.
May 26, 2023
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Cougar “Ndoi” Vigil: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023
As a photographer, curator, and small business owner, Cougar "Ndoi" Vigil integrates multiplicities of perspectives into his work about Indigenous narratives, perspectives, and knowledge systems.
May 26, 2023
ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
United Catalysts
Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"
March 03, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Anna Rotty
Anna Rotty’s work deals with beauty and anxiety, using water as a jumping-off point to explore the politics of modern civilization.
March 03, 2023
Esther Elia’s Diasporic Deities Summons the Divine to Downtown Albuquerque
Esther Elia: Diasporic Deities reimagines ancient Assyrian goddesses with attention to how they have evolved apace with their diasporic peoples.
February 22, 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
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
Albuquerque’s Risolana Fosters Lo-Fi Art That’s Responsive to the Contemporary Moment
Risolana—Albuquerque’s only risograph studio that’s set to open an exhibition by debut artist-in-residence Lena Kassicieh—builds knowledge-sharing connections and shares stories through printed books, posters, and more.
November 10, 2022
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
July 20, 2022
2022 New Mexico Field GuideFeature
2022 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
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 Report: Joshua Tree and the High Desert
Maggie Grimason's guide to Joshua Tree and other High Desert towns, a deeply weird region where art, energies, and aliens are as commonplace as tie-dye and scrub oak.
October 28, 2021
New Mexico Installations Challenge Complicated Histories in Fort Sumner
In an eastern New Mexico town known for Billy the Kid, the Art in Public Places program confronts complex and difficult histories, including the tragic Long Walk to Bosque Redondo.
August 19, 2021
The Wheelwright Museum’s 46th Annual Benefit Has Something for Everyone
The Wheelwright Museum annual benefit—which features hundreds of pieces of jewelry, sculpture, weaving, painting, and more by Native artists—has become more expansive than ever with the addition of a second event, the Native Artist Market.
August 17, 2021
Some Serious Business Residency Abiquiú Honors Artistic Process—From Naps to Creation
The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.
July 28, 2021
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Emily Margarit Mason: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt.
May 25, 2021
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Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.
May 25, 2021
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Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25, 2021
