Obsession: Cande Aguilar
For Cande Aguilar, the hand-painted signs of the Rio Grande Valley define contemporary painting more than museums do.
September 05, 2025
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ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Luca Berkley
Multimedia artist Luca Berkley (AKA Jack Lope, Jenn Deere, and Piper Pelligrini) critiques narratives surrounding white American ranching through cheeky yet reverent performance, online as well as on stage.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Taylor Engel
Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Justine Kablack
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: jesse lovell
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Hilary Nelson
Santa Fe–based artist Hilary Nelson plays between image and object, with their sculptural experiments centering around an obsession with the back jack
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Karl Orozco
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.
September 05, 2025
Obsession: Carol Sogard
Salt Lake City–based artist Carol Sogard obsessively collects and catalogues the remains of a world in crisis, wherein action, if not optimism, may be an obligation.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Philip Gabriel Steverson
In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Joel Swanson
Denver-based artist Joel Swanson’s obsessive processes explore how formal and corporeal repetitions function as methods of discipline.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Shaunté Glover
Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Joshua Graham
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Cindee Klement
Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham
Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Antonio Lechuga
Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Sammy Lee
Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Gil Rocha
Laredo-based artist Gil Rocha uses found objects from his Texas neighborhood and items purchased across the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the duality of the region.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Max Sorenson
Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, "feeling for tension."
March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Edie Tsong
Santa Fe–based artist Edie Tsong explores lineage through repeated strokes of ballpoint pen, revealing the spaces where our inner lives overlap to create new shapes.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Urgent Care Art
Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Bonny Leibowitz: Radical Futures
Texas-based artist Bonny Leibowitz creates hybridized installations of natural and manufactured materials that reflect the impacts of isolation, environmental degradation, and human conflict.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Nancy Good: Radical Futures
Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wabwila Mugala: Radical Futures
Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Jimmy Fike: Radical Futures
Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
JK Russ: Radical Futures
JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren: Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.
September 06, 2024
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
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
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Angel Cabrales: Radical Futures
El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado: Radical Futures
Roswell-based Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado treads the line between artist and inventor, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and alternative futures.
September 06, 2024
