Review

ReviewNew Mexico

In Balancing Cultures at Foto Forum Santa Fe, Jerry Takigawa reckons with family history and trauma, and finds beauty in the process.

Kathryne Lim • September 08, 2021

ReviewColorado

In the tiny town of Fort Garland, Colorado, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado by Chip Thomas (the artist known as jetsonorama) spotlights uncomfortable and paramount histories of Indigenous captivity.

Steve Jansen • September 06, 2021

ReviewNew Mexico

Jami Porter Lara’s Terms and Conditions offers a space for uncomfortable conversations around identity, womanhood, and whiteness.

Kathryne Lim • August 23, 2021

ReviewNew Mexico

Talia Pura’s two-in-one review recounts Santa Fe Classic Theater’s As You Like It at Santa Fe Botanical Garden and New Mexico Actors Lab’s The Lifespan of a Fact at the new Lab Theater.

Talia Pura • August 11, 2021

ReviewColorado

Patrick Marold: The Windmill Project at Ent Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs firmly lands on contingency, environment, and illumination.

Joshua Ware • August 03, 2021

ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira centers the revolutionary power of culture while amplifying the complexities of history, identity, memory, and resistance. 

Lynn Trimble • July 30, 2021

ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix. 

Joshua Rose • July 30, 2021

New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks. 

Steve Jansen • July 30, 2021

TexasReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.

Sommer Browning • July 30, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Bradley Kerl: Balm evokes a sense of calm and reminds us that life sometimes contains something of the sublime, as long as we keep looking for it.

Lauren Moya Ford • July 30, 2021

ReviewColorado

A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.

Deborah Ross • July 21, 2021

New MexicoReview

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 20, 2021

New MexicoReview

Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization

Daisy Geoffrey • July 14, 2021

ColoradoReview

Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.

Joshua Ware • July 13, 2021

New MexicoReview

Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.

Lillia McEnaney • June 30, 2021

ReviewColorado

Eileen Roscina's installation at BreckCreate challenges sentiments about memorials in our pandemic-informed world. 

Joshua Ware • June 28, 2021

TexasReview

At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.

Lauren Moya Ford • June 22, 2021

New MexicoReview

Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.

Nancy Zastudil • June 18, 2021

New MexicoReview

Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.

Coco Picard • June 16, 2021

ColoradoReview

Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual.

Joshua Ware • June 10, 2021

New MexicoReview

Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.

Coco Picard • June 08, 2021

ColoradoReview

Jason DeMarte's Trappings of Arcadia at Denver’s Rule Gallery addresses the clash between nature and artificiality.

Deborah Ross • May 28, 2021

ReviewNew Mexico

California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.

Angie Rizzo • May 12, 2021

ReviewColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.

Sommer Browning • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.

Lynn Trimble • April 30, 2021

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

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.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.

Lyndsay Knecht • April 30, 2021

ReviewCalifornia

Desert X 2021 offers large-scale, photogenic works that, while politically charged, lack a distinct impact. 

Lauren Tresp • April 27, 2021

ReviewArizona

Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture. 

Steve Jansen • April 06, 2021