Maudie
A painter, Lewis grew up in Nova Scotia and had no formal training apart from painting postcards with her mother when she was young. Her hands, shoulders, and neck were crumpled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [...]
Sep 01
Review
Sep 01
Quilts of Southwest China
Complex patterns unfold for the viewer and richly reward time spent looking in Quilts of Southwest China. The curation of this show, which includes textiles dated from 1900 to contemporary times, expands our [...]
Sep 01
Melinda Rosenberg: Found and Made
Tansey Contemporary: In her solo exhibition of geometric wall sculptures, Melinda Rosenberg’s lines are not always her own. The Columbus, Ohio, artist’s work is a collaboration with designers [...]
Sep 01
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: A single visit to the Institute of American Indian Arts' Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is enough to prompt wonder at why those visits are not more frequent [...]
Feb 01
Mary Dezember: Still Howling
Mary Dezember: Still Howling: When I walked in to Mary Dezember’s reading for Still Howling, upstairs from the plaza in a snug gallery space run by Strangers Collective, the poet came up to me and immediately connected me with something I’d written, something about women, she said...
Sep 01
Kukuli Velarde: Plunder Me Baby
Peters Projects: Is it possible for an artist to exhaust the format of the self-portrait? Or are we better off asking the opposite question: are artists’ reflections on their own likeness ever enough to fully describe depth of character, change over time, or one’s psyche?...
Feb 01
Something I Need You to Know
Something I Need You To Know debuted on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, the day after the United States presidential election. During the opening reception, visitors staggered through the hallways of Santa Fe [...]
Feb 01
Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, and Future
A recent exhibition at one of Santa Fe's truly contemporary galleries conveyed a tenet of what makes an art space in Santa Fe “contemporary” in the first place. The word is largely misused—by myself and [...]
Aug 01
Long Environmentalism in the Near North
UNM Art Museum: The Arctic has for so long been defined by distance, both geographically and conceptually. Called the Far North because it is far from some perceived [...]
Aug 01
Kent Monkman: The Rendezvous
Peters Projects: Upon entering Kent Monkman’s solo exhibition, resist the temptation to revel in the raucous party raging across monumental canvases in the [...]
Aug 01
American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka
IAIA MoCNA: It's like seeing an afterimage. Though you blink, a vision continues to persist even after the original ceases. Over time, these images and afterimages layer upon one another, like sediment refusing to settle[...]
Aug 01
Collecting Digital Art: Highlights + New Acquisitions from the Thoma Foundation
The newly acquired work at the Thoma Foundation, by such artists as computer pioneer Vera Molnar, Alan Rath, Steina Vasulka, and Guillermo Galindo, unfolds in so many technological and conceptual directions [...]
Aug 01
Rebecca Rutstein: Fault Lines
form & concept: I went to Rebecca Rutstein’s Fault Lines expecting to see in her paintings a comment, a reflection, or a transformation of the [...]
Jul 01
Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: Claire Vaye Watkins set her 2015 novel Gold Fame Citrus in a not-so-distant future, in the aftermath of a disastrous event: the entire western United States has been engulfed by a massive sand dune [...]
Jul 01
Figure/Ground: Beyond the White Field
Whitney Museum of American Art: At first I noticed the smell, earthy almost. Then there was shade and a flush of coolness. I had entered Rafa Esparza’s Figure/Ground: Beyond the White Field [...]
Jul 01
Inside Nature and Time: Charles Ross + Jill O’Bryan
Mayeur Projects: I imagine them as children: O’Bryan on the sidewalk, rubbing the concrete with chalk, while Ross sits in the grass and fries ants with a magnifying glass. This comes to me only after [...]
Jul 01
Multiple Universes
Freeform Art Space: Freeform Art Space is what you’d call “off the beaten path.” Way off the beaten path. Not only is it off of Cerrillos Road past Siler, but the only individuals likely to stumble into [...]
Jun 01
Marcus Zúñiga: Ya Veo
No Land Gallery: There is one segment in the episodic Bayeux Tapestry—the famous 230-foot long textile (ca. 1070-1080) that depicts the Battle of Hastings in 1066 [...]
Jun 01
Cryin’ Out Loud
Center for Contemporary Arts: In the early 1970s I worked on a radio show at KPFA in Berkeley called Unlearning to Not Speak. It was a historical moment when educated, middle-class, Western women articulated how we had been silenced [...]
Jun 01
Jun 01
Origins: Life is a Lover
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Jun 01
Ilona Pachler: Memory, Places and Measures
Art.i.fact Gallery: Fukuda Chiyo-ni’s famous haiku bloomed from the mists of Edo Period Japan to inspire Ilona Pachler’s solo exhibition [...]
Apr 01
Park Place Gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now
David Richard Gallery: The Park Place Gallery is probably not as prominent as it should be in the art-historical canon. Founded in 1962 by nine artists working in New York City, many of whom were recent West Coast transplants, the gallery’s program was decidedly anti-dogmatic [...]
Apr 01
WISC Fellowship Presentation with Judy Chicago and Curator Chad Alligood
The Women’s International Study Center (WISC) and form + concept gallery collaborated to present a lecture by Chad Alligood, curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art [...]
Apr 01
Jill O’Bryan: Mapping Resonance & Madelin Coit: Interface
Center for Contemporary Arts: How do you sum up a solo exhibition? You could measure it in studio hours, or leagues of thought. Jill O’Bryan counted Mapping Resonance in breaths [...]
Apr 01
Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: By altering technology humans alter their perceptions. By altering our perceptions we alter our minds, our thoughtways. Euro Medicine exploits aboriginal ethno-botanies [...]
Apr 01
Erin Fussell: Deep Waters, Thin Places
Sanitary Tortilla Factory: In the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, among the tufts of brush, cacti, and tangles of hiking paths and winding mountain-bike trails, sits the Embudo Dam, just one of the many flood-control structures that exist throughout the neighborhoods of Albuquerque [...]
Apr 01
