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NewsNew Mexico

Santa Fe's fifteen-year Rubber Lady project was a master class in fugitive—and funny—social subversion. At Vladem Contemporary, the artist unmasks herself.

Jordan Eddy • March 18, 2025

SponsoredColorado

Grace Kennison, represented by Visions West Contemporary, explores the American West through a female lens, challenging narratives with dreamlike paintings examining land and identity.

Visions West Contemporary • March 18, 2025

NewsArizona

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made last-minute revisions to a traveling show of women, queer, and trans artists. Museum leadership and a co-curator differ on what happened.

Lynn Trimble • March 13, 2025

EssaySouthwestThe Hyperlocal

Time Zero podcast producer Sean J Patrick Carney on art and the nuclearized world, from the hyperlocal of the Trinity site to the planetary effects of nuclearism.

Sean J Patrick Carney • March 11, 2025

SponsoredNew Mexico

Gerald Peters Contemporary kicks off a season of compelling shows including explorations of American narratives through diverse perspectives, trends in female pop art, a special guest-curated exhibition by Erin Joyce and Ninabah Winton, and more.

Gerald Peters Contemporary • March 11, 2025

From the EditorVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Discover how Southwest Contemporary: The Hyperlocal explores art that connects immediate environments to global concerns—from borderland communities to regional myths and climate concerns.

Lauren Tresp and Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025

FeatureColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

The Future Town Tour, an ongoing series hosted by Warm Cookies of the Revolution, brings residents together throughout small-town Colorado to reflect on shared cultures and create new rituals. 

Parker Yamasaki • March 07, 2025

FeatureTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city's Westside.

Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.

Erin Averill • March 07, 2025

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Selective histories have long defined Santa Fe's main gallery district. Kyle Maier's digital Canyon Road History project aims to round out the picture.

Adele Oliveira • March 07, 2025

PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

With a keen eye and a bold approach, Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project confronts the damaging impact of unethical mining on Southwest Indigenous lands.

Rica Maestas • March 07, 2025

Field ReportArizonaTravelVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Some of best art offerings in metro Phoenix happen off the beaten path. Here’s our eclectic Phoenix art guide.

Lynn Trimble • March 07, 2025

New MexicoStudio VisitVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Las Cruces–based artist Eva Gabriella Flynn's meticulous maps and flags hover in an uncertain space between two nations, to playful and political effect.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

Studio VisitMexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Ceramic artist Israel Gómez Mares transforms his Ciudad Juárez studio into a community hub while creating art that connects desert clay to regional identity.

Camila Abbud • March 07, 2025

EssayVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11: The Hyperlocal, curator and guest juror Jaime Herrell explores how the artworks in this issue transform personal experiences into universal connections.

Jaime Herrell • March 07, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.

Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World. 

Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.

Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.

Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025

ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.

Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025

ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Laredo-based artist Gil Rocha uses found objects from his Texas neighborhood and items purchased across the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the duality of the region.

Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, "feeling for tension."

Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Santa Fe–based artist Edie Tsong explores lineage through repeated strokes of ballpoint pen, revealing the spaces where our inner lives overlap to create new shapes.

Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

ReviewUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.

Ana Estrada • March 07, 2025

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.

Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025

ReviewTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy. 

Emma S. Ahmad • March 07, 2025

ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

A group of white New York painters blended modernist and Native-inspired aesthetics. Space Makers at the Heard Museum pairs them with historical and contemporary Native artists.

Camille LeFevre • March 07, 2025

ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025