An Artist Who is Hatching a Hyperpop Universe from Her Phoenix Studio
Internet burnout, vulnerability, kinetic egg sculptures. Royal Young visits the studio of interdisciplinary artistic entity Lady Egg.
September 17, 2026
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ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Alien: Jess Johnson
Jess Johnson's immersive exhibitions transcend every timeline, resolving visceral alternate realities through drawings and installations.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Lauren(ce) Myers Reese
Video artist Lauren(ce) Myers Reese connects transness to the land and the queer collective through concertedly cryptic visual language.
September 04, 2026
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 14 Alien
Kate Casanova: The Spiral of Studio Practice
Shaping a wild array of materials, Denver-based sculptor Kate Casanova explores the "post-human" through gut feelings.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Kevin Sloan
Kevin Sloan’s paintings of endangered species set against surreal, Edenic backdrops, remind the viewer how much beauty we have left to lose.
September 04, 2026
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Alien: Hayley Krichels
Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.
September 04, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Santino Gonzales: Signal Sender
In a moment of increasing disconnection despite amplified communication, Santino Gonzales tunes back into a sense of wonder.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Alien: Jess Merritt
Jess Merritt’s mixed-media photographs and sculptures may stir the subconscious, but they're grounded in the Southwest landscape.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Alien: Adrian Pijoan
Adrian Pijoan explores Bigfoot, UFOs, and paranormal belief, framing the supernatural as a social practice.
September 04, 2026
Alien: JR Roykovich
JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Faye Lenore
Step aside, quirky and drab extraterrestrials. Faye Lenore reimagines alien iconography with atypical panache.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Chantal Lesley
Chantal Lesley uses self-portraiture and the Andean concept of pachakuti to explore identity, belonging, and transformation across borders.
September 04, 2026
Nic Nicosia Isn’t Doing This on Purpose (or Maybe He Is)
Is Nic Nicosia's work utterly surreal? Deeply autobiographical? His Dallas retrospective plumbs an oeuvre brimming with play and pain.
July 21, 2026
Emmi Whitehorse’s Work Once Provoked Hisses; These Days She’s Gone Global
On her path to the international art circuit, Emmi Whitehorse had to defend her aesthetic at every turn. The Diné artist reflects on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the Venice Biennale, and more.
July 16, 2026
An Artist Who Launched His Career in Iran, and Now Documents its Violence from a World Away
Mehrdad Mirzaie staged his first shows in Iran, challenging its regime. In Arizona he furthers the fight with art and an archive.
July 10, 2026
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Jake Trujillo: Neon Tonalist
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
May 22, 2026
Artist Lily Reeves Believes Neon is Magic—Can She Convert the Rest of Us?
Neon nearly died at the altar of the LED revolution. Phoenix-based artist Lily Reeves is working to resurrect it, with literal witchcraft.
May 14, 2026
Mother-Daughter Show in Arizona Surveys the Melding—and Mitosis—of Artistic Inheritance
In their first-ever joint show in Scottsdale, Beth Ames Swartz and her daughter Julianne Swartz draw from shared esoteric knowledge to astonishingly varied ends.
April 28, 2026
“I Was Told I Couldn’t Do That”: Jody Folwell’s Endless Pueblo Pottery Revolution
In the 1980s, Pueblo artist Jody Folwell jolted Santa Fe Indian Market with political ceramics. Amid her retrospective, she's already pushing toward the next sharp statement.
April 07, 2026
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 13 The Road
Alanna Airitam: Black Diamonds
Working in her Tucson, Arizona studio, artist Alanna Airitam counters cultural erasure with a photographic series highlighting the Chosen Few, the nation’s first racially integrated outlaw motorcycle club.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Luke Rizzotto
Nevada-based artist Luke Rizotto's multimedia, site-specific installations are vaporous portals into personal psychic pathways.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Hannah Spector
Inspired by recurring trips to an almost-ghost town in Texas, Hannah Spector makes haunting multimedia installations.
March 20, 2026
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The Road: Carmen Selam
For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.
March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
The Road: Adelaide Theriault
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Jessica Sevilla
Artist Jessica Sevilla renders poetics, satire, and political ecology into disorienting video collages that interrogate the commodification of ecosystems.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Vahid Valikhani
Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Julie Libersat
Denton-based new media artist Julie Libersat transforms everyday roadside objects into installations that challenge how we navigate public space, belonging, and access.
March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Evidence, Epistle, and the Evolutionary: A Response to the Works of Johannes Barfield
Poet Laura Neal discovers new roads in the collected works of Albuquerque-based artist Johannes Barfield exploring alternative states of being and imagining in Black culture.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Verónica Gaona
Houston-based artist Verónica Gaona sculpts car parts, twisting and denting patriarchal notions of the American gestalt.
March 20, 2026
