Artists

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

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 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.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits. 

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 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.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Roswell-based Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado treads the line between artist and inventor, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and alternative futures.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.  

Kalyn Fay Barnoski • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. 

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. 

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures.

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024