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.
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life. By Coco 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
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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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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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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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. By Southwest Contemporary
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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. By Southwest Contemporary
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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. By Southwest Contemporary
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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. By Tamara Johnson
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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. By Southwest Contemporary
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Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel. By Southwest Contemporary
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Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory. By Southwest Contemporary
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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. By Southwest Contemporary
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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. By Angie Rizzo
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 By Southwest Contemporary
RSVP Cinema at Violet Crown invites audiences back to the movies through private screenings. By Daisy Geoffrey
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism at the Albuquerque Museum includes a kaleidoscope of work from iconic Mexican artists. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
The Family Room exhibition at form & concept in Santa Fe, NM offers a much-needed sanctuary from the new global reality. By Angie Rizzo
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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. By Michelle J. Lanteri
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Las Cruces artist Marcus Xavier Chormicle navigates the loss of family and culture by examining ongoing hardships within his family. By Southwest Contemporary
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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