Alien: Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
September 04, 2026
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
Sage Vogel • September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Jess Johnson's immersive exhibitions transcend every timeline, resolving visceral alternate realities through drawings and installations.
Rica Maestas • September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.
Rica Maestas • September 04, 2026
Step aside, quirky and drab extraterrestrials. Faye Lenore reimagines alien iconography with atypical panache.
Max Stone • September 04, 2026
Chantal Lesley uses self-portraiture and the Andean concept of pachakuti to explore identity, belonging, and transformation across borders.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Jess Merritt’s mixed-media photographs and sculptures may stir the subconscious, but they're grounded in the Southwest landscape.
Adele Oliveira • September 04, 2026
Video artist Lauren(ce) Myers Reese connects transness to the land and the queer collective through concertedly cryptic visual language.
Max Stone • September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Adrian Pijoan explores Bigfoot, UFOs, and paranormal belief, framing the supernatural as a social practice.
Sage Vogel • September 04, 2026
JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 04, 2026
Kevin Sloan’s paintings of endangered species set against surreal, Edenic backdrops, remind the viewer how much beauty we have left to lose.
Adele Oliveira • September 04, 2026
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
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
Nevada-based artist Luke Rizotto's multimedia, site-specific installations are vaporous portals into personal psychic pathways.
Royal Young • March 20, 2026
In her paintings of shimmering roadways, Utah-based artist Madeline Rupard reaches for the eternal.
Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026
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
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
Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.
Joshua Ware • March 20, 2026
Houston-based artist Verónica Gaona sculpts car parts, twisting and denting patriarchal notions of the American gestalt.
Joshua Ware • March 20, 2026
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
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
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