FeatureNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
The Southwest was a central stage for Japanese American incarceration during World War II. In a new exhibition in Santa Fe, descendants cross generational divides to surface submerged histories.
September 04, 2026
Aliens invaded the culture again this year. Southwest writers and contemporary artists had already made compassionate contact.
September 04, 2026
Leslie Moody Castro reflects on the slippery definition of "alien" through the artists featured in Southwest Contemporary Vol. 14: ALIEN.
September 04, 2026
Crop circles on the High Plains? Julian Francolino meditates on questions of alienness and human intervention in agriculture and art in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas.
September 04, 2026
For nearly four decades, Guillermo Gómez-Peña has revisited alien iconography. Graciela Blandon grapples with his new AI project, and what his little green men teach us about facing the unfamiliar.
September 04, 2026
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 14 Alien
Shaping a wild array of materials, Denver-based sculptor Kate Casanova explores the "post-human" through gut feelings.
September 04, 2026
In Historia Sintética at Dallas Contemporary, Francisco Moreno blends history and fantasy to shape a surreal new reality.
September 04, 2026
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Madison Van Der Lingen, an Albuquerque-based fashion designer balancing sustainability and maximalism, comments on the importance of being earnest, even while transcending worlds.
September 04, 2026
Kevin Sloan’s paintings of endangered species set against surreal, Edenic backdrops, remind the viewer how much beauty we have left to lose.
September 04, 2026
As the U.S. hits a major anniversary, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture gathers American imagery with Indigenous origins.
September 04, 2026
In the Las Vegas exurb of Pahrump, Nevada, UFO culture and human alienation converge in Mars-like terrain.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.
September 04, 2026
Kimball Art Center makes space for this group exhibition to zero in on our ears—and it's all-consuming.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Jess Merritt’s mixed-media photographs and sculptures may stir the subconscious, but they're grounded in the Southwest landscape.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Adrian Pijoan explores Bigfoot, UFOs, and paranormal belief, framing the supernatural as a social practice.
September 04, 2026
In New Mexico, a scholar hunts for mysteries and monsters. An apparition in a 19th-century painting stirs another liminal experience: grief.
September 04, 2026
FeatureCaliforniaVol. 14 Alien
In the California desert, Angella d’Avignon traces a spiritual and extraterrestrial lineage in the works of Agnes Pelton, El Disco, and Esther Pearl Watson. the artist Esther Pearl Watson counts […]
September 04, 2026
Step aside, quirky and drab extraterrestrials. Faye Lenore reimagines alien iconography with atypical panache.
September 04, 2026
"We turn backward to move forward," explains the collective Hilma’s Ghost. Their work challenges erasure in the art historical canon and foregrounds female, queer, and trans artists.
September 04, 2026
Invoking the shifting lineage of void aesthetics, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana’s installations confront colonial practices of erasure by examining what he terms the “Playa Bagdad/SpaceX Conundrum.”
September 04, 2026
Field ReportTexasVol. 14 Alien
Located on the high plains of West Texas, Lubbock is a creative hotbed in the middle of the cotton fields, with a vibrant art scene that draws big crowds to downtown and devotees to the fringes.
September 04, 2026
Inspired by her quirky family and the '80s UFO craze, Jo Cunningham's Freak Family Roadshow is a traveling art installation evoking alienation and wonder.
September 04, 2026
Chantal Lesley uses self-portraiture and the Andean concept of pachakuti to explore identity, belonging, and transformation across borders.
September 04, 2026
Video artist Lauren(ce) Myers Reese connects transness to the land and the queer collective through concertedly cryptic visual language.
September 04, 2026
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Jess Johnson's immersive exhibitions transcend every timeline, resolving visceral alternate realities through drawings and installations.
September 04, 2026
JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.
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