A Generous Proposal at Ballroom Marfa’s Ecstatic Land
Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa proposes an expanded definition of the landscape genre by assembling a transgenerational group of artists for this exhibition and film series.
March 15, 2023
Review
A Hopscotch of the Mind Skips Through the Varied Visual Vocabulary of Hervé Télémaque
Hervé Télémaque's exhibition A Hopscotch of the Mind at Aspen Art Museum provides a career-spanning overview of a unique artistic voice dedicated to diverse materials, forms, and media.
March 08, 2023
ReviewUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Between Life and Land: Material at the Kimball Art Center, Park City
Between Life and Land: Material at Kimball Art Center stuns not by virtue of its star artists, but from those that highlight the wonder and horror of our natural world.
March 03, 2023
ReviewColoradoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Entanglements at the Center for Visual Art, Denver
The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.
March 03, 2023
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum, Taos
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos normalizes the Black cowboy past and present.
March 03, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Immersive Abstractions
Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.
March 03, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum, Phoenix
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum in Phoenix elevates the sky knowledge and origin stories of four Indigenous peoples.
March 03, 2023
Looking Through to Some Greater Grid: Nima Nabavi: Visiting at the Roswell Museum
The centerpiece of Nima Nabavi: Visiting is the intricate geometry that he practices, letting the silent slide of his pens continue their daily run to infinity.
February 27, 2023
Esther Elia’s Diasporic Deities Summons the Divine to Downtown Albuquerque
Esther Elia: Diasporic Deities reimagines ancient Assyrian goddesses with attention to how they have evolved apace with their diasporic peoples.
February 22, 2023
Renaissance Portraiture Revamped in Kiah Butcher: Still Theatre at Lane Meyer Projects
Kiah Butcher: Still Theatre, a video-based exhibition in Denver, engages the history of Renaissance portraiture in both playful and critical ways.
February 10, 2023
Erin Burrell’s Cartoonish Nudes Upend Masculinity at HeyThere Projects
I Like You, Erin Burrell’s colorfully irreverent exhibition at HeyThere Projects, upends the core tenets of masculinity in one fell swoop.
February 08, 2023
American Framing at Palm Springs Art Museum Peeks into America’s Complex Psyche
American Framing, a Palm Springs Art Museum exhibition by Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner, contemplates the pillars of American architecture.
February 02, 2023
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas at ASU Art Museum
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas is a compelling mix of art and artifacts that elevate themes of identity, power, resistance, and performance.
January 31, 2023
Riding Off into the Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson
Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson is a group exhibition of 16mm video, silver-gelatin prints, and sculptural fabrications that share formally austere and technically complex approaches to composition.
January 16, 2023
Exhibiting an Archive of a Shadow: Southwest Reflections at the Millicent Rogers
At the Millicent Rogers Museum, Southwest Reflections: Between Shadows of the Land takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to the place now known as New Mexico.
January 05, 2023
The Center Can Not Hold Illustrates the Temporal Nature of Our Cores
The Center Can Not Hold—curated by Hikmet Sidney Loe and featuring works by Anne Mooney, John Sparano, and Hannah Vaughn—explores the varied meanings of holding space through architecture.
January 03, 2023
Petra Cortright Displays Traditional Pieces Distilled Through Newer Media at Palm Springs Art Museum
Petra Cortright, a Net Art and Post-Internet Art painter, bends traditional art-world genres in a solo exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
December 20, 2022
Kiki Smith: From the Creek Offers Wondrous Passage to Natural Worlds
From the Creek, an exhibition by artist Kiki Smith, brings the experience of the flora and fauna of the Hudson River Valley to the Albuquerque Museum.
December 08, 2022
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) at UCCS GOCA in Colorado Springs
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
December 06, 2022
Whose Bodies? Authorship and Control in Anuar Maauad’s WE ARE BODIES at Black Cube in Denver
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots?
December 02, 2022
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Reunion Reckons With Annihilation While Dreaming of the Future
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
November 28, 2022
Artists Turn to Text for Concise Social Messages at the Rubin Center in El Paso
In (RE)CONTEXT at the Rubin Center in El Paso, ten contemporary artists integrate text into their practices, recontextualizing and reappropriating words to create tools of social change.
November 23, 2022
Meggan Gould: Happy Time, Doomsday Time Pictures an Acute Contemporary Moment
Meggan Gould’s slow photography emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the moment in Happy Time, Doomsday Time.
November 18, 2022
Scratching the Surface: Masha Sha’s Large-Scale Graphite Drawings at Warehouse 1-10
Masha Sha’s drawings are made in stillness alternating with something like fever, with words built of lanky linear planks unfolding at angles.
November 16, 2022
Thoughts on Language in Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe highlights the work of thirteen artists exploring the present and future of Native and Indigenous art.
November 09, 2022
In Our Time: SMoCA Shows Works by Contemporary Black Artists From the Singer Collection
On view in In Our Time, Arizona-based collectors Iris and Adam Singer have been collecting contemporary art by Black artists for almost two decades.
November 07, 2022
Connections With the Land in Works by Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson at Exhibit 208
Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson are New Mexico artists connected by their engagement with land and landscape at Exhibit 208.
November 03, 2022
Pete Petrisko: 35 Years Onward at Lost Leaf Counterpunches at In-Flux Phoenix
Pete Petrisko, one of the few remaining old heads in the local art scene who has lived in downtown Phoenix since the 1980s, exhibits selections from the past thirty-five years.
October 28, 2022
In i know you are, but what am i?, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity.
October 14, 2022
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
October 10, 2022
