Review

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

SouthwestReview

Southwest Contemporary’s favorite exhibition reviews of 2021, from Ed Ruscha in Oklahoma City and Hong Hong in Houston to group shows in Albuquerque and Tempe, Arizona.

Southwest Contemporary • December 28, 2021

ReviewTexas

Ciara Elle Bryant’s installation Server: Love Ta, Love Ta Love Ya at McKinney Avenue Contemporary collages photographs to create a visual bibliography while building a physical space for Black representation.  

Laura Neal • December 15, 2021

ReviewArizona

Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia takes an in-depth look at fifty years of works that highlight the Latin American artist’s compelling examination of life’s fleeting moments via multiple artistic processes and media.

Amy Young • December 13, 2021

ReviewTexas

Gaku Tsutaja: Enola’s Head at UTEP’s Rubin Center recreates the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima—and tells a different history of the victims and survivors of nuclear warfare.

Isadora Stowe • December 06, 2021

ReviewNew Mexico

In Poetic Justice at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the social impacts and artistic contributions of Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith are on display.

Coco Picard • November 30, 2021

ReviewNevada

AH’-WAH-NEE brings together Indigenous women artists throughout the Southwest for an exhibition about feminine Indigeneity at Donna Beam Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Laurence Myers Reese • November 23, 2021

ReviewArizona

Amid the escalating climate crisis, a dozen artists explore the impacts of human activity on the natural world during the Anthropocene era in Temporary in Nature at Lisa Sette Gallery.

Lynn Trimble • November 19, 2021