Medium + Support
ArtistsVol. 8 Medium + Support
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 8: Medium + Support, guest juror Laura Copelin discusses the jurying process and themes that thread the ten featured artists together.
Sep 01
Artists
Sep 01
Josh Tafoya
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Josh Tafoya ushers New Mexico’s rich textile history into the contemporary world of fashion and design, keeping old traditions alive and telling new stories within his work.
Sep 01
Ariel Wood
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.
Sep 01
alejandro t. acierto
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Phoenix-based artist alejandro t. acierto's work explores the nodes of digital culture, neoimperialism, genealogies of image-making practices, and the de- and re-contextualization of Indigenous cultural artifacts.
Sep 01
Safwat Saleem
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.
Sep 01
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's varied and multi-faceted work, deeply rooted in the power of the human figure, addresses feminism, cultural identity, and contemporary politics.
Sep 01
Margarita Paz-Pedro
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
Sep 01
Lizz Denneau
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.
Sep 01
Fernando Andrade
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.
Sep 01
Narong Tintamusik
Vol. 8 Medium + SupportArtistsTexas
Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
Sep 01
Bella Maria Varela
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.
Mar 03
Gabriel Martinez
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
Mar 03
Yvette Serrano
ArizonaArtistsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Yvette Serrano's multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest.
Mar 03
Chrissie Orr
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Chrissie Orr is an artist, activist, and the founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective whose work focuses on the interaction between, and integration of the natural and human worlds.
Mar 03
Douglas Tolman
ArtistsUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place.
Mar 03
Bobbe Besold
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism.
Mar 03
Matthew Couper
ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating.
Mar 03
Jack Bowers
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
Mar 03
United Catalysts
ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"
Mar 03
Anna Rotty
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Anna Rotty’s work deals with beauty and anxiety, using water as a jumping-off point to explore the politics of modern civilization.
Mar 03
Bryan David Griffith
ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
Aug 26
Alex Branch
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
Aug 26
Kuzana Ogg
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint.
Aug 26
Anna Evans
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Utah-based artist Anna Evans's practice as a naturalist informs all aspects of her work as a weaver, in which she uses plants to make dyes and sources local wool.
Aug 26
Luna Galassini
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
Aug 26
Nick Larsen
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
Aug 26
Hills Snyder
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
Aug 26
Marie Alarcón
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.
Aug 26
Beth Krensky
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
Aug 26
Anh-Thuy Nguyen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
Aug 26
Jorge Rojas
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.
Aug 26
Rapheal Begay
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."
Aug 26
Gilmore Scott
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.
Feb 25
Cherish Marquez
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Feb 25
Raul Rene Gonzalez
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
Feb 25
Gary Sweeney
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s.
Feb 25
Patrick O’Shea + Jose Villanueva
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo.
Feb 25
Sarah Aziz + J. Eric Simpson
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Tumbleweed Rodeo, led by artists Sarah Aziz and J. Eric Simpson, tracks the non-human journey of tumbleweeds through the Llano Estacado.
Feb 25
Joe Dominguez
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism.
Feb 25
Sandra + Wence Martinez
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving.
Feb 25
Rosie Clements
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rosie Clements is a Tucson-based photographer whose images meditate on the small details of interdependence between nature and the urban environment.
Feb 25
Friends of the Orphan Signs
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Friends of the Orphan Signs is a collaborative art organization that works with community members to bring their voices to empty billboards and signs in Albuquerque.
Feb 25
Amanda Rowan
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe.
