Artists

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

An older name for New Mexico anchors Moira Garcia’s mixed-media mapping of Nahua migration, cosmology, and return.

Erin Averill • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Denton-based new media artist Julie Libersat transforms everyday roadside objects into installations that challenge how we navigate public space, belonging, and access.

Emma S. Ahmad • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNevadaVol. 13 The Road

Nevada-based artist Luke Rizotto's multimedia, site-specific installations are vaporous portals into personal psychic pathways.

Royal Young • March 20, 2026

ArtistsUtahVol. 13 The Road

In her paintings of shimmering roadways, Utah-based artist Madeline Rupard reaches for the eternal.

Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Inspired by recurring trips to an almost-ghost town in Texas, Hannah Spector makes haunting multimedia installations.

Emma S. Ahmad • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.

Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026

ArtistsMexicoVol. 13 The Road

Artist Jessica Sevilla renders poetics, satire, and political ecology into disorienting video collages that interrogate the commodification of ecosystems.

Erin Averill • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.

Royal Young • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.

Joshua Ware • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Houston-based artist Verónica Gaona sculpts car parts, twisting and denting patriarchal notions of the American gestalt.

Joshua Ware • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 12 Obsession

For Cande Aguilar, the hand-painted signs of the Rio Grande Valley define contemporary painting more than museums do.

Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

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.

Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition.

Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.

Maggie Grimason • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.

Nancy Zastudil • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

Santa Fe–based artist Hilary Nelson plays between image and object, with their sculptural experiments centering around an obsession with the back jack

Nancy Zastudil • September 05, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession

By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.

Joshua Ware • September 05, 2025

ArtistsUtahVol. 12 Obsession

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.

Maggie Grimason • September 05, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 12 Obsession

In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing.

Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025

ArtistsColoradoVol. 12 Obsession

Denver-based artist Joel Swanson’s obsessive processes explore how formal and corporeal repetitions function as methods of discipline.

Joshua Ware • September 05, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

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.

Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World. 

Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

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.

Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.

Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025

ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.

Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

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.

Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

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."

Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

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.

Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025