Review

ReviewUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

The exhibition Air considers Salt Lake City's rising air pollution and the impacts of climate change on the environment and social justice.

Scotti Hill • August 26, 2022

ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

The Contour of Feeling at the Denver Botanic Gardens introduces Colorado audiences to immense, organic cedar sculptures and other large-scale works by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.

Deborah Ross • August 26, 2022

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state. 

Hills Snyder • August 26, 2022

ReviewColorado

In Denver Art Museum’s Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail, Latin American millennial artists transform narratives rooted in collective memory and the virtual realm of cyberspace.

Emilie Trice • August 22, 2022

ReviewUtah

Urban Pop in Bountiful, Utah offers a unique opportunity to see big names, but the exhibition fails to situate artists within the movements to which the show claims they belong.

Scotti Hill • August 11, 2022

ReviewArizona

Five emerging artists explore experiences of the African Diaspora in And Let It Remain So, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that assesses family, home, displacement, identity, and Black representation. 

Lynn Trimble • August 05, 2022

ReviewTexas

Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.

Laura Neal • July 26, 2022

ReviewNevada

In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.

Laurence Myers Reese • July 21, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

Joey Fauerso: Wait For It at NMSU Art Museum embeds poignant metaphors in basic, somber forms to question what happens when stability is off-kilter.

Nancy Zastudil • July 12, 2022

ReviewTexas

At Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Brook-Lynne Clark finds signs of her life on the Blackland Prairie in Big Tex is Burning, which tracks her relationship with embedded histories of Dallas.

Lyndsay Knecht • June 22, 2022

ReviewArizona

In Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, artists challenge norms in paintings, installations, and video works that confront the white gaze that privileges colonizer culture and systems of oppression.

Lynn Trimble • June 17, 2022

ReviewArizona

The exhibition Somos Southwest at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum delivers a muted homage to the Chicano Arts Movement, primarily through works by Arizona and California artists. 

Lynn Trimble • June 06, 2022

ReviewColorado

Jae Ko’s artworks at Robischon Gallery in Denver address the Southwest’s drought conditions and the rise of water speculation in the futures market.

Joshua Ware • May 09, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.

Kathryne Lim • May 04, 2022

ReviewUtah

David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin collaborate in a multimedia exhibition at UMFA featuring portals to connect us to lost loved ones and heal communal pain.

Hannah McBeth • April 18, 2022

ReviewArizona

Indigenous artist Brad Kahlhamer explores nomadic existence and hybrid identity in Swap Meet exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Lynn Trimble • April 06, 2022

ReviewUtah

In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism.

Hannah McBeth • March 31, 2022

ReviewArizona

As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales.

Lynn Trimble • March 22, 2022

ReviewColorado

Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver.

Emilie Trice • March 16, 2022

ReviewArizona

Sara Hubbs’s exhibition Soft shoulder at Everybody gallery in Tucson pays homage to the inseparability of art and life.

Thao Votang • March 15, 2022

ReviewColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Facing shortages of his usual materials, Colorado artist Emilio Lobato turned to rubber sheets, household tacks, and porcelain strips. The outcome is work that is surprisingly multifaceted.

Deborah Ross • February 25, 2022

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Cara Despain’s exhibition In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at Utah’s Kimball Art Center confronted the pressing environmental and moral calamities of the American West.

Scotti Hill • February 25, 2022

ReviewArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

A Tucson exhibition highlights Latinx women collaborating in the borderlands, creating an ode to shared power and place that nourishes brown bodies.

Lynn Trimble • February 25, 2022

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Counter Mapping, a group show of local, national, and international creatives at 516 Arts in Albuquerque, attempted to reclaim stories and ties to place for underheard populations, with mixed results.

Steve Jansen • February 25, 2022

ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.

Lyndsay Knecht • February 25, 2022

ReviewColorado

Taiko Chandler’s Denver Botanic Gardens exhibition provides a powerful framework for how to think differently about the world around us.

Joshua Ware • February 18, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

Josephine Halvorson: Contemporary Voices at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe offers an intimate view of the Abiquiú desert.

Shane Tolbert • February 14, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

Roswell, New Mexico artist-in-residence Marie Alarcón explores the revolutionary potential of the end of the world in her solo exhibition Relocations.

Coco Picard • February 09, 2022

ReviewTexas

Internationally renowned Oaxacan artist Carlomagno Pedro Martínez uses folk iconography to restage moments of Mexican history in barro negro (black clay) at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.

Caitlin Chávez • January 17, 2022

ReviewTexas

Artists in The Dirty South at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston work with materials and subject matter that reflect a century-long tradition of regional dialogue between Black visual art and music.

Caitlin Chávez • January 05, 2022