Vol. 12: OBSESSION
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Vol. 12 — OBSESSION
It’s safe to say that we’re all obsessed. I mean, isn’t all art and creative production driven by some state of obsession? Behold our obsessions made incarnate, perfect bound and in full color, in Volume 12 of Southwest Contemporary: OBSESSION.
In these pages, you’ll find us obsessing over high and low, canon and kitsch, material and message. True to its theme, the issue holds an unusual number of recurring references to ideas, artists, and artworks throughout, like linchpins of influence, or a song that’s stuck in your head.
Come explore the curious obsessions of the artists in this issue. They descend into caves, inhabit different identities, accumulate, catalogue, dissect, and repeat. Their practices respond—in minute detail and with sweeping perspective—to the conditions and currents of the Southwest, a region that has been shaped by internal and faraway fixations for centuries.
Edited by: Natalie Hegert.
Guest juror: Raphael Fonseca, head of modern and contemporary Latin American art, Denver Art Museum.
Contributors: Emma S. Ahmad, Robin Babb, Harrison Blake, Jordan Eddy, Ana Estrada, Nicholas Frank, Maggie Grimason, Natalie Hegert, Scotti Hill, Caitlin Lorraine Johnson, Karla Lagunas, Rica Maestas, Kara Mason, P. Antonio Márquez, Raymundo Muñoz, Lauren Tresp, Lynn Trimble, Joshua Ware, Andrew Weathers, Nancy Zastudil.
Cover art: Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Garden of Dreams I, 2022-25, kiln-fired glass on canvas, five panels, 96 x 86 in. Photo: Eric Swanson. Courtesy the artist and Tia Collection.
Vol. 12 — OBSESSION — Fall-Winter 2025-26
ISSN 2766-3000
Edition of 15,000.
7.5 x 9.5 in, 120 pages.
Perfect bound, offset-printed, full color on coated paper.
Made in New Mexico.
Printed in Colorado.
Publication date: September 5, 2025.
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