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.
Jul 30
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Jul 28
Some Serious Business Residency Abiquiú Honors Artistic Process—From Naps to Creation
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.
Jul 27
Santa Fe Theaters Set to Reopen
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.
Jul 26
Albuquerque Theaters Return to Live Performances
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.
Jul 23
New Santa Fe Arts Leaders Commit to Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Jul 21
Intersections / Vital Spaces [sponsored]
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.
Jul 20
Review: The Transcendental Painting Group at Albuquerque Museum
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.
Jul 14
Review: Dust Specks on the Sea at 516 Arts in Albuquerque
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
Jul 08
City of Albuquerque Gallery Under Fire for Exhibiting Painting by Proud Boy
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.
Jul 06
Book Review: American Geography by Santa Fe’s Radius Books
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.
Jun 30
Review: Eyes of the World and Border Matters at the Wheelwright
Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.
Jun 24
Summertime at Pie Projects / Richard Levy Gallery [sponsored]
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.
Jun 24
Edward S. Curtis Photographs on Display at Santa Fe Art Auction
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend.
Jun 18
Review: Thirtieth Anniversary Show at Richard Levy Gallery
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
Jun 17
Currents New Media Festival 2021 Adapts to Hybrid Format
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences.
Jun 16
Egypt in the Eyes of Jean Pascal Sébah at 5. Gallery
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.
Jun 15
Dust Specks on the Sea / 516 Arts [sponsored]
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.
Jun 11
New Mexico’s Long-Delayed Poet Laureate Program Striding Along
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.
Jun 08
Nancy Fleming at Axle Contemporary: Socially Distant Home-Feels
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.
Jun 07
Trapdoor Projects Gallery Burns Twice in Ten Days
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.
Jun 10
SPREAD 7.0 Virtual Voting / SITE Santa Fe [sponsored]
SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists.
Jun 02
Albuquerque’s KiMo Theatre to Reopen October 2021
KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery.
May 26
Albuquerque’s A. Hurd Gallery Skews Low-Brow Art
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.
May 25
Nikesha Breeze: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.
May 25
Emily Margarit Mason: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt.
May 25
Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 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.
May 25
Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25
Josh Tafoya: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 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.
May 25
Izumi Yokoyama: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.
May 25
Seeing the City Different by Ivan Barnett
Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery.
May 25
Andrés de Varona: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief.
May 25
Shoshannah White: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 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.
May 25
Gardens of Northern New Mexico
A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico.
May 25
Catie Soldan: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography.
May 25
2021 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
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 […]
May 25
nicholas b jacobsen: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
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Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands.
May 25
Isadora Stowe: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 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.
May 25
Tommy Bruce: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 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.
May 12
Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
Apr 30
Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
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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.
Apr 30
Brick by Brick: Building Their Lives Around Adobe
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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.
Apr 30
Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
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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.
Apr 30
Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
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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.
