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Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt. 

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

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Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.  

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery.

Patrick McGuire • May 25, 2021

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Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief. 

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

Field GuideNew Mexico

A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico.

Rachel Preston • May 25, 2021

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Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

Field GuideNew Mexico

A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including Chiaroscuro Gallery and Gebert Contemporary, Nüart Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, and Richard Levy Gallery. Chiaroscuro Gallery […]

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

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Artist Isadora Stowe's work explores the landscape of the mind as it relates to the physical environment. She creates an all-encompassing vision with a visual vocabulary that is both personal and builds on the universal.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

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Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

ReviewNew Mexico

California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.

Angie Rizzo • May 12, 2021

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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.  

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

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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.

Annie Bielski • April 30, 2021

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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. 

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

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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.

Daisy Geoffrey • April 30, 2021

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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.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

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New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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Musician Mike Marchant's work aims to explore and extract beauty from the darker and more complex sides of the psyche. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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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.

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them. 

Tamara Johnson • April 30, 2021

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Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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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.  

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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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. 

Angie Rizzo • April 30, 2021