Self-Determined Explores the State of Contemporary Native and Indigenous Art
In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.
August 16, 2022
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“Making Art is Like Making Pizza; Layers, Baby!”: Inside the VHS Vic Universe
Utah video artist VHS Vic (Victor Blandon) shows his audience how to find magic in the mundane, the goofy in the serious, and the artistry in making a pizza.
August 15, 2022
Meet Zara Kriegstein, the Forgotten Artist Who Spearheaded Santa Fe’s Most Embattled Mural
The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.
August 12, 2022
Review: Urban Pop Goes Awry Despite Local and International Talents
Urban Pop in Bountiful, Utah offers a unique opportunity to see big names, but the exhibition fails to situate artists within the movements to which the show claims they belong.
August 11, 2022
In a City Besieged by Rent Hikes, Santa Fe Scores an Affordable Housing Complex for Artists
Siler Yard fills a void in Santa Fe’s affordable housing crunch, especially for artists and long-standing residents. Though celebrated, the development faces challenges.
August 10, 2022
Mandelman, Ribak, Cooper, Namingha: Two Utah Venues Examine the Legacy of the Taos Moderns
Southern Utah Museum of Art and Modern West exhibit concurrent shows in Utah examining the legacy of abstract expressionism in the Southwest, featuring Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak and contemporary arts Shalee Cooper and Arlo Namingha.
August 09, 2022
Secret Gardens and Meditative Art Spaces in Colorado
Art meets nature in four Colorado gardens and outdoor installations—creating space for meditative contemplation and divine catharsis at Aspen Art Museum, Chatfield Farms, Greenbox Arts, and the San Luis Valley.
August 08, 2022
Review: The African Diaspora Experience for Women at Phoenix Art Museum
Five emerging artists explore experiences of the African Diaspora in And Let It Remain So, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that assesses family, home, displacement, identity, and Black representation.
August 05, 2022
Salt Lake City Cultural Workers Fight for Unionization, Threaten Strike
Clever Octopus’s unionization efforts in Salt Lake City speak out about potential exploitation within creative and arts careers. As living costs rise, unions are becoming more common among underpaid cultural workers.
August 03, 2022
Work in Progress with Yu Yu Shiratori
Yu Yu Shiratori, an artist based in Tucson, creates large-scale embroidery, jewelry, and illustrations that juxtapose materials to reflect the dichotomy of her bicultural experience.
August 02, 2022
Southwest Art News: August 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 01, 2022
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Fall 2022–Winter 2023 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies (and a cool one in Nebraska!) in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming with deadlines between August 2022 and January 2023.
July 29, 2022
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.
July 28, 2022
K Contemporary Presents Acclaimed Artists at Intersect Aspen
K Contemporary presents an internationally acclaimed roster of artists at Intersect Aspen this summer, including Suchitra Mattai, Ken Gun Min, Viktor Frešo, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios.
July 26, 2022
Review: Borna Sammak: america, nice place Tackles U.S. Cultural Touchstones
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
July 26, 2022
Emily Margarit Mason Recontextualizes Photographs Past a Single Moment
Emily Margarit Mason challenges the limits of the still image by placing photos into alternative settings—whether baking one into a cake or rearranging another into an abstract collage.
July 25, 2022
Ya La’ford’s Survey Renews Perspectives of the American West
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.
July 22, 2022
Review: Forgotten Artifacts Imagines Post-Humanity Via Ancient Metals
In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.
July 21, 2022
Happy Birthday, Alex Katz
On the occasion of Alex Katz’s 95th birthday, Richard Levy Gallery presents Happy Birthday, Alex Katz, an exhibition of prints and paintings.
July 20, 2022
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
July 20, 2022
“They Have Always Been Here”: Sister Speaks Up for Marginalized Artists
Sister SLC’s creative, fun, and diverse one-off events are as a safe space for all genders, sexualities, and ethnicities, and increase visibility for Utah’s femme, queer, and nonbinary artists.
July 18, 2022
Gallery Incomplet, a New Santa Fe Art Space, Only Displays Unfinished Works
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film.
July 15, 2022
Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
What defines a photograph? Transgressions and Amplifications showcases the work of mid-twentieth-century American artists exploring that question.
July 14, 2022
The Exodus Ensemble Will Upend Your Reality
The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater group in Santa Fe, combines tactics from television with live performance to create intense, dramatic theater.
July 14, 2022
Santa Fe Art Institute Celebrates the Art of Change with Alumnus Dread Scott
Art of Change is a night celebrating artists that change the world in support of Santa Fe Art Institute.
July 13, 2022
Review: Joey Fauerso’s Weighty Metaphors at NMSU Art Museum
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.
July 12, 2022
(re)purpose Launches a New Venue for GVG Contemporary
GVG Contemporary debuts new artwork, a new warehouse exhibition, and studio space in Santa Fe.
July 11, 2022
Field Report: Tour New Deal Artworks Across Southern New Mexico
WPA and New Deal artworks are highlights of a road trip across Southern New Mexico.
July 11, 2022
Black and Latinx Choreographers Take Center Stage at BlakTinx Dance Festival Phoenix
BlakTinx Dance Festival in Phoenix showcases works by Black and Latin choreographers, who bring their creativity to contemporary issues from Black Lives Matter to COVID-19.
July 07, 2022
Nuestras Acequias Reimagines Museum Practice and Shares Community Wisdom
Gutiérrez Hubbell House spotlights life-sustaining New Mexico acequias and reimagines museum practice with a new guest-curator program.
July 06, 2022
