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FeatureColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world. 

Natalie Hegert • April 30, 2021

From the EditorVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Welcome to Southwest Contemporary Vol. 2, Flights of Fancy. This issue explores the complexities involved in defining—and staying tethered to—what’s “real."

Lauren Tresp • April 30, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.

Daisy Geoffrey • April 30, 2021

ReviewColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.

Sommer Browning • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.

Lynn Trimble • April 30, 2021

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.

Lyndsay Knecht • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado

Carissa Samaniego's work obscures the boundaries between disparate places and memories, braiding together experiences to create narratives that seem to be lifted from dreams. 

Maggie Grimason • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado

Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona

Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona

Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyTexas

SV Randall's multi-media practice investigates how our exterior perception aligns with our interior selves, and in doing so highlights larger social issues. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Musician Mike Marchant's work aims to explore and extract beauty from the darker and more complex sides of the psyche. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Tigre (Bailando) Mashaal-Lively's latest work is a sanctuary for the times, offering a space that cultivates solace for grief and inspiration for survival.

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them. 

Tamara Johnson • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyUtah

Douglas Tolman works to create a sense of place and connection to the community in their state of Utah by reframing historical narratives. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Enrique Figueredo presents cultural critiques through revised accounts of history and current events. Inspired by Magical Realism, his distortions boldly imagine a new version of history.  

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico

Taos artist Johnny DeFeo's recent body of work, Department of the Interior, features renderings of Southwestern interior spaces that illustrate the luxury of access to natural scenery. 

Angie Rizzo • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyTexas

Sarah Lasley's experimental film and video art exposes cracks and pathways in and out of our current socio-political moment. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyTexas

Texas artist Loc Huynh's recent body of work honors moments with his mother previously taken for granted and subverts typical European genre paintings by presenting a Vietnamese-American perspective.

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

5x5News

From Nikesha Breeze at form & concept to Liu Xiaodong at Dallas Contemporary, our top five arts and culture picks this week in the southwest. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 29, 2021

ReviewCalifornia

Desert X 2021 offers large-scale, photogenic works that, while politically charged, lack a distinct impact. 

Lauren Tresp • April 27, 2021

5x5News

From Juan Gris at Dallas Museum of Art to a pinhole photography workshop, our top five picks for arts and culture events in the southwest.

Southwest Contemporary • April 22, 2021

New MexicoSponsored

Paula Wilson is in residency at UNM as the 2021 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist for the spring semester. She is giving a free public lecture discussing her process, influences, and experiences and a studio tour on Thursday, April 29

Southwest Contemporary • April 20, 2021

5x5News

Our top five picks for arts and culture events in the southwest.

Southwest Contemporary • April 15, 2021