Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
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New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.
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Christian Cruz: The Fantasy of Rest in the Pandemic Era
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Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
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Brick by Brick: Building Their Lives Around Adobe
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Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.
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Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
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Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world.
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Towards a Feelosophy of Art
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Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world.
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From the Editor: Vol. 2 — Flights of Fancy
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Welcome to Southwest Contemporary Vol. 2, Flights of Fancy. This issue explores the complexities involved in defining—and staying tethered to—what’s “real."
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Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
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For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.
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Colorado in the Present Tense
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Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.
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Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen
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Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
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Body/Magic: Liz Cohen
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Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.
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May Stevens: Mystery, Politics and Seas of Words
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May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.
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Xxavier Edward Carter: Circulate: 7 Works on Paper
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Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.
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Carissa Samaniego
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Carissa Samaniego's work obscures the boundaries between disparate places and memories, braiding together experiences to create narratives that seem to be lifted from dreams.
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Marcus Fingerlin
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
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Sanna Stabell
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center.
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Chaz John
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography.
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Lex Gjurasic
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land.
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SV Randall
SV Randall's multi-media practice investigates how our exterior perception aligns with our interior selves, and in doing so highlights larger social issues.
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Mike Marchant
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Musician Mike Marchant's work aims to explore and extract beauty from the darker and more complex sides of the psyche.
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Tigre Mashaal-Lively
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Tigre (Bailando) Mashaal-Lively's latest work is a sanctuary for the times, offering a space that cultivates solace for grief and inspiration for survival.
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Ranran Fan
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them.
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Chelsea Wrightson
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more.
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Erika Wanenmacher
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel.
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Jenny Day
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory.
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Douglas Tolman
Douglas Tolman works to create a sense of place and connection to the community in their state of Utah by reframing historical narratives.
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Enrique Figueredo
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Enrique Figueredo presents cultural critiques through revised accounts of history and current events. Inspired by Magical Realism, his distortions boldly imagine a new version of history.
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Johnny DeFeo
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Taos artist Johnny DeFeo's recent body of work, Department of the Interior, features renderings of Southwestern interior spaces that illustrate the luxury of access to natural scenery.
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Sarah Lasley
Sarah Lasley's experimental film and video art exposes cracks and pathways in and out of our current socio-political moment.
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Loc Huynh
Texas artist Loc Huynh's recent body of work honors moments with his mother previously taken for granted and subverts typical European genre paintings by presenting a Vietnamese-American perspective.
