ReviewNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum, Taos
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos normalizes the Black cowboy past and present.
March 03, 2023
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ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Anna Rotty
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
Looking Through to Some Greater Grid: Nima Nabavi: Visiting at the Roswell Museum
The centerpiece of Nima Nabavi: Visiting is the intricate geometry that he practices, letting the silent slide of his pens continue their daily run to infinity.
February 27, 2023
Lensic Presents Select Spring 2023 Performances
The Lensic Presents lineup promises an eclectic mix of performances, including live music, dance, comedy, theater, and more.
February 22, 2023
Esther Elia’s Diasporic Deities Summons the Divine to Downtown Albuquerque
Esther Elia: Diasporic Deities reimagines ancient Assyrian goddesses with attention to how they have evolved apace with their diasporic peoples.
February 22, 2023
New Santa Fe Art Space Container Saves Artwork from Storage—and Destruction
Container in Santa Fe, an offshoot of Turner Carroll Gallery, offers a model that prizes artists, curators, and artwork—some saved from the ultimate demise—over profit.
February 21, 2023
Eco Build Lab in Taos Designs Menus for Off-Grid Living
Eco Build Lab co-founder, earthship builder, and educator Kirsten Jacobsen describes the delicacy and environmental factors integral to green building construction and action.
February 15, 2023
Smoke the Moon in Santa Fe Elevates Emerging Artists on Canyon Road
Smoke the Moon, which moved from its original Marcy Street location to Canyon Road in March 2022, uplifts emerging artists and cultivates young collectors and artists in Santa Fe.
February 13, 2023
Three Exhibitions at RioBravoFineArt Gallery
RioBravoFineArt Gallery's winter 2023 season in Truth or Consequences features artwork by Nolan Winkler, Darlene Olivia McElroy, Paul White, and Gregory Montreuil.
February 07, 2023
The Wright Contemporary Counters Winter Blues with Florals and Blooms
The Wright Contemporary in Taos brings brightness to winter with bloom-inspired artworks in the exhibition Botanicals.
January 24, 2023
Gerald Peters Contemporary Highlights 1960s Printmaking
Gerald Peters Gallery features two prominent and experimental printmakers of the 1960s, Garo Antreasian and Phyllis Sloane.
January 19, 2023
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard and Richard B Reimagine Art and Dining
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard gallery and Richard B restaurant blur the lines between dinner party and exhibition opening with an invitation to take in art with a side of gastronomy.
January 19, 2023
A Win for Underserved Communities: New Mexico Sustainable Architecture Firms AOS and MASS Team Up
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond.
January 12, 2023
Exhibiting an Archive of a Shadow: Southwest Reflections at the Millicent Rogers
At the Millicent Rogers Museum, Southwest Reflections: Between Shadows of the Land takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to the place now known as New Mexico.
January 05, 2023
Work in Progress with Maja Ruznic
Maja Ruznic of Placitas, New Mexico builds and embraces darkness in canvas works that are informed by trauma and inspired by Carl Jung’s philosophy of the shadow self.
December 16, 2022
Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Founder of Southern New Mexico’s CAV Gallery, Disentangles Personal Stories of Family Violence
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […]
December 14, 2022
Work in Progress with Rhiannon Griego
Santa Fe-based textile artist Rhiannon Griego weaves wearable and displayable artworks that pay respect to the land and her Spanish and Native heritage.
December 09, 2022
Kiki Smith: From the Creek Offers Wondrous Passage to Natural Worlds
From the Creek, an exhibition by artist Kiki Smith, brings the experience of the flora and fauna of the Hudson River Valley to the Albuquerque Museum.
December 08, 2022
Emi Ozawa and Jeff Kellar at Richard Levy Gallery
With new work by Emi Ozawa and Jeff Kellar, two winter exhibitions play with perception and illusion at Richard Levy Gallery.
December 07, 2022
Local Santa Fe Gift Guide 2022
This holiday season, consider shopping in Santa Fe for a variety of delights, ranging from gifts for cats (and cat mommies and daddies) to a music concert membership.
December 05, 2022
New Gallery in Taos Features Stellar Regional Photography
The Wright Contemporary in Taos, New Mexico opens the exhibition Photography in B&W, which features photographers from across the region.
November 29, 2022
Meggan Gould: Happy Time, Doomsday Time Pictures an Acute Contemporary Moment
Meggan Gould’s slow photography emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the moment in Happy Time, Doomsday Time.
November 18, 2022
Scratching the Surface: Masha Sha’s Large-Scale Graphite Drawings at Warehouse 1-10
Masha Sha’s drawings are made in stillness alternating with something like fever, with words built of lanky linear planks unfolding at angles.
November 16, 2022
Albuquerque’s Risolana Fosters Lo-Fi Art That’s Responsive to the Contemporary Moment
Risolana—Albuquerque’s only risograph studio that’s set to open an exhibition by debut artist-in-residence Lena Kassicieh—builds knowledge-sharing connections and shares stories through printed books, posters, and more.
November 10, 2022
Thoughts on Language in Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe highlights the work of thirteen artists exploring the present and future of Native and Indigenous art.
November 09, 2022
Gary Niblett: His Life & Art Presents a Retrospective the Artist’s Storied Career
Longtime New Mexico artist Gary Niblett receives the retrospective treatment at the Carlsbad Museum November 5, 2022 through February 4, 2023.
November 08, 2022
Keeping Still Within: Janet Russek & David Scheinbaum
Pie Projects celebrates the vision of artists Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum, both immersed in the history and practice of lens-based imagery.
November 03, 2022
Connections With the Land in Works by Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson at Exhibit 208
Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson are New Mexico artists connected by their engagement with land and landscape at Exhibit 208.
November 03, 2022
Roswell AIR Quality Report: Visits with Artists-in-Residence at RAiR
The Southwest Contemporary team visits Roswell to do studio visits with the residents of the renowned and generous Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.
October 21, 2022
Challenging Cowboy History at the Harwood Museum of Art
Two new exhibitions at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos complicate the rich history of the cowboy in the American Southwest.
October 19, 2022
