Opening: E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon

The University Art Museum presents: E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon
UAM Mullennix Bridge Gallery
On view: June 5–August 20, 2025
Opening reception: Thursday, June 5, 5:30–7:30 pm

E Pluribus Unum features over 800 portraits from residents across New Mexico that were collected from August 23rd to October 20th, 2024, while artists Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman traveled around South-Central and South-Western New Mexico in Axle Contemporary, a mobile artspace and solar-powered photography studio. This is the sixth and final phase of Axle Contemporary’s E Pluribus Unum project in New Mexico, which focused on communities south of Interstate 40 and west of Interstate 25. The artists captured portraits of residents from Belen, Deming, Lordsburg, Columbus, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Socorro, Magdalena, Pie Town, Zuni, Pine Hill, Grants, Acoma, Las Cruces, and Silver City.

The exhibition at the UAM and the accompanying book, captures the time and place of this project and underscores that, while unique, we are part of a larger whole. This concept is reflected on the book’s cover, where all the portraits are overlaid in translucent layers, aligned by the eyes of each subject. The exhibition will present this singular image, the full set of over 800 portraits, photos of the 2024 project in action, and a life-size image of the mobile studio.