Review: Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake at SMOCA
Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art magnifies societal ills and amplifies women’s issues through soft materials.
Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art magnifies societal ills and amplifies women’s issues through soft materials. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Thais Mather: Western Blue at Santa Fe’s form & concept ponders the comprehensive characteristics of the color blue in a cunning display of sculptural installations, micro-pointillist drawings, watercolors, and holograms. By Steve Jansen
Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, a Santa Fe cultural worker and oral historian, holds a series of live talks this week that spotlight the distinct nature of BIPOC cultural work. By Steve Jansen
In the tiny town of Fort Garland, Colorado, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado by Chip Thomas (the artist known as jetsonorama) spotlights uncomfortable and paramount histories of Indigenous captivity. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
The Project Freeway program by DiverseWorks in Houston amplifies the arts in the fast-growing city’s overlooked neighborhoods. It also provides artist fellowships to social-change and community-based practitioners. By Steve Jansen
Ghost Ranch Music Weekend celebrates pioneering and innovative women in the Abiquiú summer home and studio of wildly popular American painter Georgia O’Keeffe. By Steve Jansen
We’re back with a staff contribution of the 5×5! This week, SWC's news editor Steve Jansen shares his top five picks of media he’s been obsessing over. By Steve Jansen
Meow Wolf, a corporate outlier in the business of arts and entertainment, announced opening plans for Convergence Station in Denver, its third and largest permanent interactive exhibition to date. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan. By Steve Jansen
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Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks. By Steve Jansen
Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity. By Steve Jansen
Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado. By Steve Jansen
The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver. By Steve Jansen
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend. By Steve Jansen
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
The Tulsa race massacre is memorialized at Oxley Nature Center in Sarah Ahmad’s The American Dream, a Greenwood Art Project-sponsored installation featuring a replica of a refugee tent. By Steve Jansen
A. Hurd Gallery is a new Albuquerque art space that’s home to Anthony Hurd’s studio and a place for showcasing bigger names in lowbrow art. By Steve Jansen
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Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography. By Steve Jansen
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Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands. By Steve Jansen
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Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries. By Steve Jansen
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world. By Steve Jansen
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Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist. By Steve Jansen
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture. By Steve Jansen
Indelible Ink displays pieces by nine multigenerational Native American printmaking women whose artwork stuns with originality, beauty, and color, while also illustrating the historical trauma that impacts Native people today. By Steve Jansen
Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan at the Museum of International Folk Art spotlights the Japanese folk art tradition of yōkai, which depicts paranormal beings such as ghosts, demons, and monsters in a variety of settings, ranging from traditional kabuki theater to Pokémon anime. By Steve Jansen
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Garcia, an Art Institute of Chicago–educated artist who moved to Santa Fe from his native Houston in 1987, developed a unique transfer procedure: he creates an image or pattern on paper that’s soaked in gum arabic and water, which is then hand pressed onto a painting surface. By Steve Jansen
We, The Masses: Here, the men—drawn in mind-blowing detail on palimpsest-free surfaces—engage in unhinged activity, ranging from gnawing on tree bark to fighting with one another. Some men hug en masse: they seem to know that O’Neil is about to hit the go button on the apocalypse... By Steve Jansen
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Eric-Paul Riege’s (Diné) elaborate and beautiful fiber works not only connect him with his ancestral and artistic centers, but also envelop viewers in an everyday Navajo worldview, one that the artist believes should be communal. By Steve Jansen
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Danielle Shelley, who earned critical acclaim as a painter, has found similar success as a textile wizard. "My artistic concerns didn’t change when I morphed from a painter into a fiber artist,” writes Shelley in her artist statement. “I am still a passionate colorist, in love with shapes and lines. But I also find satisfaction in being part of the movement that has reclaimed stitch work, a long-dismissed women’s medium.” By Steve Jansen
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David Gaussoin, a Santa Fe jewelry artist of Picuris Pueblo, Navajo, and French descent, comes from a long line of creatives, ranging from silversmiths and painters to rug weavers, sculptors, and woodworkers. By Steve Jansen
In Nari Ward: We the People at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Harlem-based mixed-media artist subtly yet powerfully confronts America’s sordid legacy of racism and discrimination as well as overall American identity in his show of sculptural pieces constructed from discarded materials. By Steve Jansen
The exhibition, H. Joe Waldrum: Retrospective, at Rio Bravo Fine Art is a first-of-its-kind overview of works from the H. Joe Waldrum Trust, which inherited a majority of his pieces after his estate closed in 2014. The exhibition, curated by Eduardo Alicea-Moreno—director and president of Rio Bravo Fine Art, the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, gallery Waldrum founded shortly before his unexpected death in 2003—showcases the depth and breadth of Waldrum’s high-volume career. By Steve Jansen
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