Southwest Art News: August 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 02, 2023
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Alexis Rausch Unpacks America’s Desensitization to Violence
Alexis Rausch continues raising questions about mass responses to traumatic events and how her identity comes into play through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition Nobody likes it here.
August 01, 2023
Brie Ruais Invigorates Body-Based Conceptual Art for a New Generation
The process-oriented work of Brie Ruais—a Santa Fe-based artist who makes conceptual and gestural performance art for a new generation—recenters artmaking in the body.
July 28, 2023
A Greater Utah at UMOCA Hopes to Offer a More Authentic View of the State
A Greater Utah, a major survey at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, aims to be more representative of regional artmaking than the predecessor show, Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah.
July 24, 2023
Scorpio Palace’s Creative Mysticals Take Over Rhinoceropolis
Scorpio Palace, the creation of Lauren Zwicky and Michael Stone, invites visitors to experience community-focused hypnotic art and music while keeping alive the spirit of DIY creative incubator Rhinoceropolis.
July 19, 2023
Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s New Location Brings Welcome Changes to the Sixty-Year-Old Organization
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, considered a regional hub for the art of photography since 1963, recently moved into new and improved quarters in Denver's Golden Triangle cultural district.
July 10, 2023
Bruce Nauman Presents a Solo Show in New Mexico for the First Time
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe—Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico—features never-before-shown work by the internationally celebrated artist.
July 07, 2023
Extending the Line: A Conversation with Pencil on Paper’s Valerie Gillespie
Pencil on Paper Gallery extends the line of Black-owned galleries that trace the foundational practices of accessibility, inclusivity, and representation among art spaces in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
July 05, 2023
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A Mexican Tradition of Collaborative Printmaking, on Both Sides of the Border
La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
July 04, 2023
Southwest Art News: July 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 03, 2023
At Denver Month of Video, Experience a Medley of Video Art, Exhibitions, Performance Art, and Untraditional Cinema
Denver Month of Video founders Jenna Maurice and Adán De La Garza present a diverse array of video arts throughout July 2023 at venues across the city.
June 29, 2023
Eric J. García’s Latest Community Mural and Video Game Allow Players to Interact with Colonial “Aliens”
Ogden Contemporary Arts’s second artist in residence Eric J. García invites us to scrutinize the principles upon which American history and identity are based in a dazzling and multifaceted artistic project.
June 23, 2023
Shane R. Hendren’s Genre-Defying Work Earns Major Award
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline.
June 21, 2023
Arizona Received Another $5 Million for the Arts. How Will it Get Spent? And When?
Leadership changes at the Arizona Commission on the Arts could impact how the state agency spends the $5 million allocated for arts and culture in Arizona’s 2024 budget.
June 19, 2023
Junk Drawer Invites All To “Come As You Are” To Its Queer Rave Art Installations
Junk Drawer is an inclusive queer techno dance party in Denver featuring installations by local artists who bring together social-justice politics and joy.
June 14, 2023
People from MARS: The History of Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, a Phoenix-Based Chicano Artist Collective
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, or MARS, a Phoenix-based artist collective, became an inclusive home for Chicano and Indigenous artists starting in the 1970s.
June 09, 2023
Arizona Biennial 2023 Artists Make Their Mark Beyond the Southwest
Arizona Biennial 2023, a six-month showcase at the Tucson Museum of Art, includes sixty-seven works by fifty-six artists selected by curator Taína Caragol.
June 05, 2023
Public Art That’s Not a Bummer: A Roundup of Denver’s Linger-Worthy Outdoor Artworks
Denver's public art collection boasts outstanding examples of monumental outdoor sculptures and includes works by Hebert Bayer, Sol LeWitt, Anthony Magar, Beverly Pepper, Bernar Venet, and more.
June 02, 2023
Southwest Art News: June 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
June 01, 2023
Arizona Artists Take Umbrage at a Proposed Development in Phoenix’s Already Gentrified Roosevelt Row
Chicago-based tequila and taco restaurant Federales wants to set up shop in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. Artists and arts leaders aren’t having it.
May 30, 2023
“America’s Most Scenic Dump” Draws Artists to Moab Arts Reuse Residency
Moab Arts Reuse Residency program in Utah, which attracts worldwide artists to make pieces out of rubbish, challenges the concept of detritus and trash.
May 22, 2023
Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon’s Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.
May 17, 2023
“I Really Like the Way You Respect Native American Rights”: The Native Guide Project by Anna Tsouhlarakis
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art.
May 10, 2023
Brand New UVU Museum of Art Foregrounds Communities of Color
Utah Valley University is set to open a new museum inside of an old manor. The debut super exhibition, The Art of Belonging, centers BIPOC voices with connections to Utah.
May 09, 2023
Southwest Art News: May 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
May 01, 2023
CCA Santa Fe, Weeks After Announcing Permanent Closure, to Partially Reopen. But Should It?
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, which recently announced permanent closure after forty-four years, has reversed course and plans to partially reopen in the city's shaky arts nonprofit landscape.
April 28, 2023
Making Visible at ASU Art Museum Addresses Archival Silences
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures.
April 17, 2023
Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies Preserves Monumental Works by Bauhaus-Affiliated Polymath
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction.
April 14, 2023
Cecilia Vicuña’s Community-Centric Tucson Sculpture Riffs On Ancient Andean Tech
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process.
April 12, 2023
Way to Glow: A Classic Denver Neon Shop Helps Artists Revive a So-Called Dying Art
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art.
April 11, 2023
