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.
Oct 28
Maggie Grimason
Aug 19
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.
Aug 17
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.
Jul 28
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.
May 25
Emily Margarit Mason: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt.
May 25
Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
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Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.
May 25
Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25
2021 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including Chiaroscuro Gallery and Gebert Contemporary, Nüart Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, and Richard Levy Gallery. Chiaroscuro Gallery […]
Apr 30
Carissa Samaniego
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Carissa Samaniego's work obscures the boundaries between disparate places and memories, braiding together experiences to create narratives that seem to be lifted from dreams.
Feb 08
Caitlin Carcerano
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
The latest series from Albuquerque artist Caitlin Carcerano is centered on the locus of self-care and vulnerability: the bathtub.
Dec 04
Support Albuquerque Gift Guide
The Support Albuquerque Gift Guide features an eclectic mix from Albuquerque's vibrant scene of makers and doers.
Nov 02
Getting to Center: A Worthy Offering
Writer and dancer Marlee Grace explores the practice of returning (again and again) to center in her new book.
Jul 31
Virtual Until Further Notice
New Mexico arts organizations bring us together in the era of social distancing.
Mar 26
Studio Visit: Nora Wendl
Nora Wendl applies diverse talents to equally diverse examinations of place, of being a woman moving through the world, and the “poetics of inhabiting things.” Her recent cycles of work examine the Farnsworth House in Illinois—an iconic glass and steel International-Style house.
Jan 28
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020: c marquez
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“The intention of this work is to honor vulnerability, impermanence, and cycles of life on our planet,” c marquez says of their work, which includes two-dimensional pieces, sculpture, installation, and the results of a daily sketchbook practice.
Jan 28
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020: MK
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Currently residing in Albuquerque where they are pursuing an MFA in photography, MK began the recent series The Pain Is Just an Annoyance Now as members of their family began to pass away and they witnessed the grief of their mother. These losses spurred an exploration of the complications of family relationships, as well as obscured histories through the physical remnants of the past that shore up the present—family photo albums.
Jan 28
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020: Andrea Pichaida
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The shapes of Andrea Pichaida’s sculptural works in clay are at once spare and suggestive, their lines and colors inspired by nature, their content speaking to experience both personal and universal.
Jan 28
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020: Frank Blazquez
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“My photos illustrate the blood pumping through Albuquerque,” Frank Blazquez told the Guardian in 2018. The portraits—largely captured along the east-west belt of Central Avenue—capture human faces, yes, but each carries a story in and of itself.
Oct 01
Still in Print: ABQ Zine Fest 9 and Local Lit Destinations
As ABQ Zine Fest 9 approaches, we take a look at how print media has endured and the spaces that are building culture through the celebration of zines, books, and comics.
Aug 28
All Work and All Play: At Home with Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Ginger Dunnill
We took a seat at the table in the center of the warehouse-turned-home (turned-“work, brainstorming, and studio space”) where artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Ginger Dunnill live in Glorieta, New Mexico. Taped to the kitchen cabinet was a wall-size paper schedule of impending deadlines for numerous projects. Every line was filled out, and notes were made in black marker, even in the margins. “Welcome to my life,” Dunnill laughed as, never skipping a beat, she outlined their individual projects—while the couple’s two children ran in one door and out the other...
Jul 27
[sponsored] Preview: Ian Kuali’i
The work that Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Apache artist Ian Kuali’i makes today is largely born out of a longstanding connection to the landscapes he has lived and worked in, as well as a sense that these different places each hold unique lessons for their inhabitants. As the Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, Kuali’i is putting his talent to work to create intricate works of hand-cut paper, as well as an expansive earthwork on a slice of the center’s undeveloped acreage.
Jun 26
Summer According to The
Summer in northern New Mexico can be overwhelming. Any day of the week there is some activity calling for our attention: artist talks, studio tours, performances, openings, fairs, festivals, markets, music, and, of course, beautiful weather beckoning us outdoors. To help us make sense of it all, I asked two of our regular contributors, Maggie Grimason and Rachel Preston Prinz, to give us a selection of their “must-sees” for the summer season...
May 24
Meet Your Makers: Subhankar Banerjee
“If you’re celebrating landscape as a pure aesthetic category,” Subhankar Banerjee explains from his office in the Art & Ecology Department on the University of New Mexico’s campus, “it is a crime”...
Apr 26
Studio Visit: Grace Rosario Perkins
Grace Rosario Perkins describes a drawing she had made years ago, taking Black Flag’s Family Man album and replacing Raymond Pettibon’s violent imagery with a repeated series of pencil drawings of women. She then filled out the liner notes with her mother’s name...
Mar 27
Hindsight/Insight
After an afternoon insisting that I was impatient, though my date didn’t believe it was true, it was significant to walk into the UNM Museum of Art together. Galleries, of course, with their windowless, static light...
Jan 08
Meet the Team: Maggie Grimason
Meet Maggie Grimason, The Mag writer since 2017, who lives in Albuquerque and hails from "northwest Indiana, land of lakes and soy beans." Her favorite things about New Mexico? "Mountains on the horizon, lizards, and clothes drying instantly on the line."
Nov 28
Darby Photos: 207
A collection of eight quilts by Darby Photos, some longer than seven feet, spreads across the white walls of the gallery. In them, violence is implied but not explicit. Each depicts a school where a mass shooting took place. The title of the collected work, 207, refers to the number of people injured across all eight sites.
Oct 01
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now
The upcoming exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, highlights the work of modern Indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada...
Aug 28
American Jewelry
It is thought that prehistoric humans adorned their bodies with simple jewelry pieces...
Jul 30
Allyson Packer: Liquid State
It wasn’t close yet to 3:50, but I lay down anyway on the thick red rug pulled through with floral patterns in blue and white yarn...
Jun 29
Two-Fold: A Pairing of Frederick Hammersley + Matthew Shlian
Paper has a memory. Each crease is recorded in the impression left where it was once folded. It can expand like origami, and it can collapse into flatness again, but its history remains pressed into the stuff it’s made of. It is this material and all the marks worn...
Jun 01
Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs
UNM Art Museum: The whir of air conditioning swells as viewers descend the stairs of the UNM Museum of Art into the cave-like rooms that contain Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs. Blonde wood chairs sit at the bottom of the staircase in the...
May 01
Albuquerque Museum Photo Archives Collection: Images in Silver
Images in Silver begins with a quote from famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing,” it goes, “and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Photography, then...
Apr 01
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
Albuquerque Museum: Making Africa approaches the design of a huge, diverse place through many media with the intention of providing a fuller understanding of the contemporary work being developed in the creative sector across the continent's 54 countries.
Feb 01
Pre-existing Conditions
Sanitary Tortilla Factory: Pre-existing Conditions features collaborative sculpture and readymade found art by Cecilia McKinnon and Lance Ryan McGoldrick. All materials were salvaged from illegal dump sites, the work effectively exploring cycles of production and waste.
Dec 01
Nina Elder: New Works
Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque: Central Features is blank in all the right ways. treading across the unassuming polished concrete floors to the center of the gallery—which is partitioned into one large immaculately white room and several smaller ones...
Nov 21
Dispatch: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Cruising on foot down the packed blocks of downtown Los Angeles where open-air storefronts advertising their services in Spanish face the amblers of the sidewalk, I am struck by how much this dense corridor reminds me of Mexico City. Indeed, perhaps the whole of the nation's second biggest city...
Oct 01
Steve Barry: Wave
The thick metal door swung shut behind me, and the momentum of its thud closed off the thrum of traffic from Coal Avenue, quieting the world inside the gallery. In the small exhibition space of Sanitary Tortilla Factory, machinery began to whirr, set off by the movement of my body in...
