April May 2017

Photography

Chair & Wall 2. Harvey Morgenbesser lives and works in Santa Fe, NM [...]

Southwest Contemporary • April 01, 2017

Writings

“C C’s house!” they’d chime at any abandoned alpine shack or desert ruin, / Though 50 years passed before she drove the 3 mph road off Hwy 14 between Cerrillos and Madrid

Cynthia Broshi • April 01, 2017

Review

The Women’s International Study Center (WISC) and form + concept gallery collaborated to present a lecture by Chad Alligood, curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art [...]

Kathryn M Davis • April 01, 2017

Review

Center for Contemporary Arts: How do you sum up a solo exhibition? You could measure it in studio hours, or leagues of thought. Jill O’Bryan counted Mapping Resonance in breaths [...]

Jordan Eddy • April 01, 2017

Review

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: By altering technology humans alter their perceptions. By altering our perceptions we alter our minds, our thoughtways. Euro Medicine exploits aboriginal ethno-botanies [...]

Jon Carver • April 01, 2017

Review

Sanitary Tortilla Factory: In the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, among the tufts of brush, cacti, and tangles of hiking paths and winding mountain-bike trails, sits the Embudo Dam, just one of the many flood-control structures that exist throughout the neighborhoods of Albuquerque [...]

Megan Schultz • April 01, 2017

Review

David Richard Gallery: The Park Place Gallery is probably not as prominent as it should be in the art-historical canon. Founded in 1962 by nine artists working in New York City, many of whom were recent West Coast transplants, the gallery’s program was decidedly anti-dogmatic [...]

Chelsea Weathers • April 01, 2017

Review

Richard Levy Gallery: In this two-person show, with paintings by Matthew McConville and photographs by Jason DeMarte, both the genres of still-life painting and nature photography are given a conceptual once-over [...]

Diane Armitage • April 01, 2017

Feature

There is no order in this hellish landscape: two policemen raise billy clubs against a figure slouched at the foot of a parked police car [...]

Alicia Inez Guzmán • April 01, 2017

Preview

I first met Janet Catherine Berlo when she invited me to her home for dinner. It was 2009, and I had just arrived in Rochester, New York, where she is Professor of Native American Art History [...]

Alicia Inez Guzmán • April 01, 2017

National Spotlight

Denver Art Museum: Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place is an exhibition of site-specific installations by emerging and mid-career Latino artists that express experiences of contemporary life in the American West [...]

Southwest Contemporary • April 01, 2017

One Bottle

There’s this thing that bothers me. It’s been bothering me my whole life. I don’t know what to make of it or what to call it. That’s part of the problem. It won’t show its face [...]

Joshua Baer • April 01, 2017

Studio Visit

Richard Kurtz paints prolifically on almost any substrate he can find. Appropriating everything from children’s books to football helmets, vintage flash cards to large pieces of leftover plywood, Kurtz combines pictorial characters with hand-written aphorisms [...]

Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • April 01, 2017

From the Editor

The Santa Fe art season is upon us, and this issue embraces the spring awakening with kaleidoscopic original cover art by local designer/illustrator Luke Dorman [...]

Lauren Tresp • April 01, 2017