Rosalinda Pacheco
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences. By Southwest Contemporary
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. By Maggie Grimason
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. By Talia Pura
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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Vital Spaces
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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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 By Daisy Geoffrey
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Caroline Picard
Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place. By Lillia McEnaney
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. By Southwest Contemporary
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend. By Steve Jansen
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary. By Nancy Zastudil
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences. By Caroline Picard
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. By Caroline Picard
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. By Southwest Contemporary
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. By Steve Jansen
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life. By Caroline Picard
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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists. By Southwest Contemporary
KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
A. Hurd Gallery is a new Albuquerque art space that’s home to Anthony Hurd’s studio and a place for showcasing bigger names in lowbrow art. By Steve Jansen
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Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing. By Tamara Johnson
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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt. By Maggie Grimason
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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. By Maggie Grimason
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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies. By Maggie Grimason
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Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs. By Natalie Hegert
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Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying. By Tamara Johnson
Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery. By Patrick McGuire
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Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief. By Tamara Johnson
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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. By Natalie Hegert
A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico. By Rachel Preston Prinz
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Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography. By Steve Jansen
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 […] By Maggie Grimason
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Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands. By Steve Jansen
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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. By Natalie Hegert
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Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries. By Steve Jansen
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work. By Angie Rizzo
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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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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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. By Annie Bielski
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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. By Steve Jansen
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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. By Daisy Geoffrey
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