Southwest Contemporary

Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Gary Sweeney

Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Patrick O’Shea + Jose Villanueva

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Joe Dominguez

Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Sandra + Wence Martinez

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Rosie Clements

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Rosie Clements is a Tucson-based photographer whose images meditate on the small details of interdependence between nature and the urban environment. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Amanda Rowan

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe. By Southwest Contemporary

Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez, A Troubled Gut (Lavage & Debridement)

Feb 25

Ghislaine Fremaux + Lando Valdez

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these. By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 25

Jen Urso

Phoenix-based artist Jen Urso presents Remarkable Presence, an installation that explores the concept of grief and the aftermath of COVID-19 deaths in Arizona. By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 27

Southwest Contemporary’s Studio Visits of 2021

Studio VisitSouthwest

A handy roundup of Southwest Contemporary's studio visits with Southwest artists in 2021. By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 28

Southwest Contemporary’s Favorite Exhibition Reviews of 2021

SouthwestReview

Southwest Contemporary’s favorite exhibition reviews of 2021, from Ed Ruscha in Oklahoma City and Hong Hong in Houston to group shows in Albuquerque and Tempe, Arizona. By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 29

Southwest Contemporary’s Most-Read Articles of 2021

NewsSouthwest

A list of our most-read articles of 2021 ranges from a Joshua Tree field report to an exhibition review of printmaking works by José Guadalupe Posada. By Southwest Contemporary

Nov 02

Announcing Art Steady 2.0: Career Development for Creators

CareerSouthwest

We want to see more artists shine in all aspects of their work, so we’re excited to announce Art Steady 2.0, a series of five workshops that cover essential areas of successful creative career development led by leading experts. By Southwest Contemporary

Sep 29

Preview the 2021 Santa Fe Studio Tour

Discover work by Santa Fe artists in their working studios at the 2021 Santa Fe Studio Tour October 9-10 and 16-17. By Southwest Contemporary

Sep 15

Daniel McCoy: Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers

Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers, a new exhibition by Daniel McCoy, opens at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe on September 24. By Southwest Contemporary

Sep 01

Introducing Smoke The Moon

Introducing Smoke The Moon, a new contemporary gallery and one of Santa Fe’s newest additions to the downtown art landscape. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Ellen Babcock

NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Rossitza Todorova

Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Julia C. Martin

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Daniel Hojnacki

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico

Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Alexandra Lechin

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas

Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Jill O’Bryan

ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Brenda Stumpf

Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Stefan Jennings Batista

Artist Stefan Jennings Batista explores intersections of place, identity, and belonging in his photography practice. His latest series focuses on the mysteries of life, death, nature, and humanity. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Alejandro Macias

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Tucson artist Alejandro Macias addresses themes of heritage, immigration, and ethnicity in his work driven by his Mexican-American identity and the current social-political climate. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Augustine Romero

Artist Augustine Romero creates work to shine a light on multiple displaced contexts, offering a space for imagining what could be if we dare to create counter-narratives told from the position of marginalized communities. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Everton Tsosie

Artist Everton Tsosie’s paintings employ an abstractive style, palettes inspired by the New Mexico landscape, and allude to the pulses of urban environments while centering Indigenous figures. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 30

Rosalinda Pacheco

Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 22

Your Weekly 5×5: July 22, 2021

From a Marion Palfi retrospective at Phoenix Art Museum to a new folk music project by Family Trade at Granary Arts in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary

arts and culture events in the southwest

Jul 15

Your Weekly 5×5: July 15, 2021

From Cannupa Hanska Luger at Albuquerque Museum to Earth at Modern West in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 01

Your Weekly 5×5: July 1, 2021

From photography by Kwame Brathwaite at the Blanton Museum of Art to Denver's seventh annual SeriesFest, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 24

Summertime at Pie Projects / Richard Levy Gallery [sponsored]

Join Richard Levy Gallery for Summertime at Pie Projects, a two-person show featuring scratched portraits in plexiglass by Joanne Lefrak and mixed-media paintings by Martha Tuttle. By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 17

Your Weekly 5×5: June 17, 2021

From the Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA to Rose B. Simpson at Nevada Museum of Art, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 15

Dust Specks on the Sea / 516 Arts [sponsored]

Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts features sculptural works by twenty-seven artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti. By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 03

Your Weekly 5×5: June 3, 2021

From Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Almine Rech to Sundance Film Festival's Indigenous Short Film Tour, our top five arts and culture picks in the southwest for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 10

SPREAD 7.0 Virtual Voting / SITE Santa Fe [sponsored]