
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Hilary Nelson
Santa Fe–based artist Hilary Nelson plays between image and object, with their sculptural experiments centering around an obsession with the back jack
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Santa Fe–based artist Hilary Nelson plays between image and object, with their sculptural experiments centering around an obsession with the back jack
Nancy Zastudil • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.
Joshua Ware • September 05, 2025
InterviewTexasVol. 12 Obsession
Texas-based artist Erika Jaeggli on her first descent into a cave—and the all-consuming passion it unearthed.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 05, 2025
PhotographyTexasVol. 12 Obsession
Phoebe Shuman-Goodier’s photography marks her sculptural collaborations with her father, and a shared obsession with transforming a junkyard into art.
Natalie Hegert • September 05, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
Denver-based artist Joel Swanson’s obsessive processes explore how formal and corporeal repetitions function as methods of discipline.
Joshua Ware • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Multimedia artist Luca Berkley (AKA Jack Lope, Jenn Deere, and Piper Pelligrini) critiques narratives surrounding white American ranching through cheeky yet reverent performance, online as well as on stage.
Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing.
Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition.
Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025
For Cande Aguilar, the hand-painted signs of the Rio Grande Valley define contemporary painting more than museums do.
Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Working in her Phoenix studio, artist Gloria Martinez-Granados creates works countering the nation’s anti-immigrant obsession.
Lynn Trimble • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.
Maggie Grimason • September 05, 2025
Salt Lake City–based artist Carol Sogard obsessively collects and catalogues the remains of a world in crisis, wherein action, if not optimism, may be an obligation.
Maggie Grimason • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.
Nancy Zastudil • September 05, 2025
Artists Stephanie Leitch, Angela Ellsworth, and Nancy Rivera use materially obsessive processes to reflect on the mythos of Utah.
Scotti Hill • September 05, 2025
Studio VisitTexasVol. 12 Obsession
After years of building maze-like monuments to queer love, Texas-based painter Eli Ruhala is at a crossroads his practice.
Harrison Blake • September 05, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Three New Mexico–based artists—c marquez, Susan York, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa—reflect on their relationship with the material that has defined their practice.
Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • September 05, 2025
Sculptor-photographer Virginia L. Montgomery is based in Austin but her work lives on a different plane, somewhere between science and dreams.
Ariana Akbari • August 07, 2025
Denver-based artist Kaitlyn Tucek has a seemingly boundless practice, but working without a dedicated space will be a new challenge.
Madeleine Boyson • July 31, 2025
Jennifer Ling Datchuk's live-wire practice is rooted in ceramics but branches into performance, installation—and biting cultural critique.
Lynn Trimble • July 24, 2025
In two successive solo exhibitions, Taiwanese artist Lu Wei traces a wild pilgrimage through the shadows of motherhood into the searing heat of the Utah desert landscape.
Ana Estrada • June 26, 2025
Returning to Santa Fe after nearly thirty years in New York, Nicola López disorients viewers with layered visual systems that defy resolution.
Isabella Beroutsos • June 19, 2025
Aisha Imdad’s exhibition of paintings, The Allegorical Gardens, is a stunning display of virtuosity and literary allusion.
Thao Votang • June 17, 2025
Late artist Michael Tracy hit the Texas border village of San Ygnacio like a "cyclone." His creative aggression melded with an empathic awareness of his adopted home.
Nicholas Frank • May 29, 2025
Informed by his family history, Dean Terasaki uses activist imagery and charged ephemera—including postcards from Japanese American internment camps—to send a present-day "warning."
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2025
Feature2025 New Mexico Field Guide
Artist Kat Kinnick draws from her New Mexico surroundings to visualize a world more aligned with nature.
Erin Averill • May 23, 2025
Artist Jack Craft operates a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle while producing minimalist sculptures and experimental prints.
Natalie Hegert • April 17, 2025
Arizona-based artist Farraday Newsome's studio extends into her high-desert garden, sprouting ideas for intricate ceramics about nature's self-perpetuating systems.
Lynn Trimble • March 24, 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
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
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
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