New Mexico

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

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

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

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

New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks. 

Steve Jansen • 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

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Everton Tsosie’s paintings employ an abstractive style, palettes inspired by the New Mexico landscape, and allude to the pulses of urban environments while centering Indigenous figures.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoNews

The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.

Maggie Grimason • July 28, 2021

New MexicoNews

Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.

Talia Pura • July 27, 2021

New MexicoNews

Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 26, 2021

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Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.

Steve Jansen • July 23, 2021

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Vital Spaces presents Intersections, a group exhibition that takes place online and in public places, highlighting numerous points of connection among the ninety-seven contemporary works of art and thirty artists exhibited.

Vital Spaces • July 21, 2021

New MexicoReview

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 20, 2021

New MexicoReview

Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization

Daisy Geoffrey • July 14, 2021

New MexicoNews

The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.

Steve Jansen • July 08, 2021

New MexicoBooks + Literary

American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius Books) connects the exploitation of landscape and people to the formation of so-called American identity.

Coco Picard • July 06, 2021

New MexicoReview

Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.

Lillia McEnaney • June 30, 2021

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Join Richard Levy Gallery for Summertime at Pie Projects, a two-person show featuring scratched portraits in plexiglass by Joanne Lefrak and mixed-media paintings by Martha Tuttle.

Southwest Contemporary • June 24, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend.

Steve Jansen • June 24, 2021

New MexicoReview

Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.

Nancy Zastudil • June 18, 2021

New MexicoNews

Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences.

Coco Picard • June 17, 2021

New MexicoReview

Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.

Coco Picard • June 16, 2021

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Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts features sculptural works by twenty-seven artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti.

Southwest Contemporary • June 15, 2021

New MexicoNews

Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021.

Steve Jansen • June 11, 2021

New MexicoReview

Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.

Coco Picard • June 08, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

Trapdoor Projects, an art gallery near downtown Albuquerque, caught fire twice in under two weeks. Gallery owner Katie Doyle suspects arson. Albuquerque Fire Rescue is investigating.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • June 07, 2021

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SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists.

Southwest Contemporary • June 10, 2021