Artists

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

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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.

Daisy Geoffrey • February 25, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Phoenix-based artist Jen Urso presents Remarkable Presence, an installation that explores the concept of grief and the aftermath of COVID-19 deaths in Arizona.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Apolo Gomez's portraits feature men in various states of dress and undress with a palpable sense of intimacy, challenging masculine stereotypes. 

Angie Rizzo • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.

Lauren Tresp • July 30, 2021

ArtistsArizonaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan. 

Steve Jansen • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas

Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump's dance and video collaboration Hypoxia is an acknowledgment and delayering of all the tension from the last year.

Tamara Johnson • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico

Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas

Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Stefan Jennings Batista explores intersections of place, identity, and belonging in his photography practice. His latest series focuses on the mysteries of life, death, nature, and humanity. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Tucson artist Alejandro Macias addresses themes of heritage, immigration, and ethnicity in his work driven by his Mexican-American identity and the current social-political climate. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Augustine Romero creates work to shine a light on multiple displaced contexts, offering a space for imagining what could be if we dare to create counter-narratives told from the position of marginalized communities.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021