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Studio VisitColorado

Tony Ortega, a prolific artist and longtime Denverite known for his acrylics, pastels, prints, and murals, observes and honors the city’s vibrant mix of Chicano, Mexican, and Anglo cultures.

Deborah Ross • March 17, 2023

ReviewTexas

Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa proposes an expanded definition of the landscape genre by assembling a transgenerational group of artists for this exhibition and film series.

Alana Wolf-Johnson • March 15, 2023

NewsArizona

The Oak Street Alley Mural Festival in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood gives community members a chance to meet and talk with local artists whose live painting reflects diverse styles and themes.

Lynn Trimble • March 14, 2023

NewsColorado

Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, a first-of-its-kind retrospective now at the Denver Art Museum, celebrates Native culture while confronting settler colonialism. 

Kara Mason • March 13, 2023

Finding Water in the WestMexicoTexas

Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.

Edgar Picazo Merino • March 10, 2023

ReviewColorado

Hervé Télémaque's exhibition A Hopscotch of the Mind at Aspen Art Museum provides a career-spanning overview of a unique artistic voice dedicated to diverse materials, forms, and media.

Joshua Ware • March 08, 2023

NewsUtah

The Horacio Rodriguez-curated exhibition and auction Boombox Benefit at UMOCA, a multi-artist showcase of ten ceramic pieces patterned from Rodriguez’s 1980s childhood boombox, aids ten different social justice-centric organizations.

Bianca Velasquez • March 07, 2023

FeatureVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Summer Orr employs the ancient practice of dowsing to find sculptural materials for her project Geomancer.

Emily Arntsen • March 06, 2023

NewsNew Mexico

Bingo Studios, a pandemic project of artists Lance McGoldrick and Josh Stuyvesant that includes studios, a gallery space, and a fabrication shop, recently opened to fanfare. 

Robin Babb • March 06, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.

Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023

FeatureUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

The depletion of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a symbol of the state’s worsening water crisis and has, throughout the past few years, inspired a diverse array of artistic responses.

Scotti Hill • March 03, 2023

EssayVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Simone Johnson writes about her experience living between New York City and Arizona, while also highlighting her explorations of water and time in the Colorado River Basin.

Simone Johnson • March 03, 2023

ReviewUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Between Life and Land: Material at Kimball Art Center stuns not by virtue of its star artists, but from those that highlight the wonder and horror of our natural world.

Scotti Hill • March 03, 2023

ArizonaArtistsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Yvette Serrano's multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest.

Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023

WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Laura Neal reflects on her earliest memories of water and the profound presence water has for humanity as a whole.

Laura Neal • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Chrissie Orr is an artist, activist, and the founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective whose work focuses on the interaction between, and integration of the natural and human worlds.

Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023

ArtistsUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

FeatureArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.

Camille LeFevre • March 03, 2023

ReviewColoradoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.

Deborah Ross • March 03, 2023

FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.

Emily E. Lee • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism. 

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating. 

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos normalizes the Black cowboy past and present.

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

EssayTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.

Trey Burns • March 03, 2023

ReviewTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.

Edgar Picazo Merino • March 03, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"

Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023

FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.

JD Pluecker • March 03, 2023

Studio VisitNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Nanda Sharif-pour discusses her use of living plants, soil, and video in her work from her Las Vegas, Nevada greenhouse.

Laurence Myers Reese • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Anna Rotty’s work deals with beauty and anxiety, using water as a jumping-off point to explore the politics of modern civilization.

Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023