ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia.
March 01, 2024
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
September 01, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
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?"
March 03, 2023
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.
March 03, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
March 03, 2023
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
