Artists

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.

Joshua Ware • 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.

Justin Duyao • 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.

Joshua Ware • 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.

Lynn Trimble • 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.

Joshua Ware • 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.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • 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. 

Steve Jansen • 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. 

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • 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.

Steve Jansen • 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?"

Maggie Grimason • 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.

Maggie Grimason • 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.

Lynn Trimble • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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. 

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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. 

Hannah Dean • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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.

Thao Votang • August 26, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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."

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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.

Natalie Hegert • August 26, 2022

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.

Lauren Tresp • February 25, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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.

Steve Jansen • February 25, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022