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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 07, 2025
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Nonagenarian artist Jerry West on New Mexico homesteading, dream work, and adobe architecture as sculpture.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 07, 2025
Mavasta Honyouti debuts sixteen remarkable panels bearing ancestral memories of the Native American boarding school system at Wheelwright Museum.
February 13, 2025
New Mexico–based artist Eric-Paul Riege chose Canal Street, a commercial thoroughfare and counterfeit market, to question notions of material value in his first New York solo exhibition.
February 11, 2025
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
October 22, 2024
Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund returns to the storm-swept ravine that birthed his latest show—and explains what a squirrel stick is—in an intrepid studio visit.
September 26, 2024
Santa Fe-based designer and artist Paulina Ho’s work tilts reality to find pleasure in the everyday absurdities of her new Southwestern environs.
September 12, 2024
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Drawing from his community’s roots in social commentary, Virgil Ortiz crafts a future without limitations, and his epic series Revolt 1680/2180 reaches a climax this fall.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Texas-based artist Bonny Leibowitz creates hybridized installations of natural and manufactured materials that reflect the impacts of isolation, environmental degradation, and human conflict.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits.
September 06, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Mallery Quetawki paints cross-cultural translations that help bridge futures between Indigenous communities and science and medical professionals.
September 06, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
In bold pop culture style, Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia envisions Native futures by challenging narratives that have always kept us in the past.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Roswell-based Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado treads the line between artist and inventor, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and alternative futures.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.
September 06, 2024
