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Tommy Bruce: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.
May 25, 2021
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Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
May 12, 2021
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Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
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.
April 30, 2021
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Brick by Brick: Building Their Lives Around Adobe
Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.
April 30, 2021
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Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
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.
April 30, 2021
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Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
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.
April 30, 2021
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May Stevens: Mystery, Politics and Seas of Words
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.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Chaz John
New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography.
April 30, 2021
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Mike Marchant
Musician Mike Marchant's work aims to explore and extract beauty from the darker and more complex sides of the psyche.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Tigre Mashaal-Lively
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.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Ranran Fan
Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Chelsea Wrightson
Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more.
April 30, 2021
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Erika Wanenmacher
Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel.
April 30, 2021
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Jenny Day
Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory.
April 30, 2021
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Enrique Figueredo
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.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Johnny DeFeo
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.
April 30, 2021
Paula Wilson Artist Talk / UNM Department of Art [sponsored]
Paula Wilson is in residency at UNM as the 2021 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist for the spring semester. She is giving a free public lecture discussing her process, influences, and experiences and a studio tour on Thursday, April 29
April 20, 2021
Take Me to the Movies
RSVP Cinema at Violet Crown invites audiences back to the movies through private screenings.
April 13, 2021
Ten Thousand Flowers at TAI Modern
Ten Thousand Flowers pairs Japanese bamboo art with flowers in a nod to the longstanding relationship between the two.
March 23, 2021
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism at the Albuquerque Museum includes a kaleidoscope of work from iconic Mexican artists.
March 18, 2021
The Family Room
The Family Room exhibition at form & concept in Santa Fe, NM offers a much-needed sanctuary from the new global reality.
March 10, 2021
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective.
March 04, 2021
Linda Lomahaftewa and the Moving Land
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her.
March 03, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesNew Mexico
Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Las Cruces artist Marcus Xavier Chormicle navigates the loss of family and culture by examining ongoing hardships within his family.
February 08, 2021
José Guadalupe Posada, Legendary Printmaker of Mexico
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work.
February 08, 2021
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Catherine Czacki: Write a Poem, Make a Sculpture, Do the Wash
Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material.
February 08, 2021
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Eric-Paul Riege
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) updates us on the work he's been making, the space he's holding, and material as a teacher.
October 12, 2020
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Cedra Wood
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Cedra Wood updates us on her current work, reflecting rather than producing, and the subject of mortality.
October 06, 2020
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Frank Blazquez
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Frank Blazquez updates us on his latest documentary work and writing for The Guardian.
September 21, 2020
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Justin Richel
Justin Richel updates us on his current projects and the vital role of art-making.
September 15, 2020
