Alex Branch
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
Aug 26
Vol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Aug 26
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
Aug 26
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Aug 26
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
Aug 26
Marvelous Green Encounters: The Poetry and Anthropology of Nathaniel Tarn
InterviewBooks + LiteraryNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Based in Santa Fe since the early 1980s, Nathaniel Tarn has spent his career chasing an international literature. A new autobiography, Atlantis, an Autoanthropology, explores the author’s broad career.
Aug 26
Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest.
Aug 26
“This is the Place”: Utah’s Public Art as Religious Mythmaking and Resistance
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
Aug 26
Studio Visit: Steven Yazzie
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist Steven Yazzie (Diné, Laguna Pueblo, European ancestry) thinks of his art studio as community and land rather than an insular space bound by four walls.
Aug 26
Concerning the minor vaquero character who is one of three men to die in an attempted mutiny against John Wayne’s “Dunson” and his cattle drive in Howard Hawks’s Red River
WritingsVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
Aug 26
Review: Wo/Manhouse 2022
New MexicoReviewVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Wo/Manhouse 2022 reconsiders the relationship between gender and domestic spaces on the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal feminist installation Womanhouse in Belen, New Mexico.
Aug 26
Kuzana Ogg
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint.
Aug 26
Anna Evans
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Utah-based artist Anna Evans's practice as a naturalist informs all aspects of her work as a weaver, in which she uses plants to make dyes and sources local wool.
Aug 26
Luna Galassini
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
Aug 26
Review: A Country is Not a House
ReviewArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A Country is Not a House at ASU Art Museum grapples with the U.S.-Mexico border and capitalist notions of public and private life.
Aug 26
Review: Air
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.
Aug 26
Nick Larsen
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
Aug 26
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
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.
Aug 26
Hills Snyder
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
Aug 26
Becoming More Cottonwood
EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Cottonwoods, giants of riparian habitats, are dying, branch by branch. Erin Elder reflects on the life and death of these trees and how they foreshadow what is to come.
Aug 26
Studio Visit: Sharbani Das Gupta
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Las Cruces-based artist Sharbani Das Gupta is an observer of the earth's elements and the impact of human activity on the natural world.
Aug 26
The Yucca People of the Southwest
PhotographyVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
In The Yucca People, writer Tyler Stallings and photographer Naida Osline contemplate the desert and land use through the lens of the Yucca plant.
Aug 26
Marie Alarcón
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.
Aug 26
Elsewhere, NM, USA, Earth
EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Psychoanalytic wordplay about aliens, isolation, space, and place.
Aug 26
Beth Krensky
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
Aug 26
Anh-Thuy Nguyen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
Aug 26
Face Value: On Procession Panel
EssaySouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Briana Olson meditates on Procession Panel, migration, and the biological and aesthetic complexity of the desert Southwest.
Aug 26
Jorge Rojas
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.
Aug 26
Review: Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric at SITE Santa Fe
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.
Aug 26
Lorena Sosa on Lessons Learned from the Chihuahuan Desert
InterviewMexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
As a member of the inaugural cohort of La Semilla Food Center’s Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, Juárez-based writer Lorena Sosa shares her work on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Aug 26
Rapheal Begay
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."
Aug 26
Gilmore Scott
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.
