Artists

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.

Gina Pugliese • 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.

Maggie Grimason • 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.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.

Karla Lagunas • September 06, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Zoë Zimmerman's painterly photographs of hair clippings, cigarettes, and other ephemera from a Taos house museum only hint at larger mysteries.

Gina Pugliese • July 25, 2024

NewsTexas

On a recent residency, New York-based artist Melissa Joseph fell in love with the "intertwined" community of San Antonio. The feeling is mutual.

Gabriella Angeleti • July 01, 2024

SponsoredUtah

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums proudly presents the 2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients, awarded for their artistic excellence.

Utah Division of Arts & Museums • June 20, 2024

InterviewNew Mexico

Raised on art and transcendental meditation, Taos-based artist and collectivist Aleya Hoerlein paints beyond this world.

Ekin Balcioglu • June 12, 2024

Sponsored2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

Santa Fe–based artist Jarrett West creates large-scale ceramic stonework sculptures that evoke the drama of nature and the organic architecture of New Mexico. 

Tierra Mar Gallery • May 24, 2024

Studio VisitNew Mexico

Nick Larsen, who gives a talk about his Nevada Museum exhibition this Thursday, explores an invisible history through collage by “pulling from what already exists to visualize something that doesn’t.”

Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • April 02, 2024

NewsColorado

Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas.

Gina Pugliese • March 18, 2024

ReviewArizona

Duwawisioma’s (Victor Masayesva Jr.) retrospective exhibition Màatakuyma at Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson solidifies the Hopi artist’s importance in contemporary photographic and Indigenous artistic discourse.

Isabella Beroutsos • March 05, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.

Nancy Zastudil • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. 

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. 

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures.

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

Studio VisitColorado

Laura Shill, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, commits to creative community-building through the playful and profound lens of conceptual buffoonery, which she elevates to a high art form.

Gina Pugliese • February 21, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support

Josh Tafoya ushers New Mexico’s rich textile history into the contemporary world of fashion and design, keeping old traditions alive and telling new stories within his work.

Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support

Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.

Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023

ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support

Phoenix-based artist alejandro t. acierto's work explores the nodes of digital culture, neoimperialism, genealogies of image-making practices, and the de- and re-contextualization of Indigenous cultural artifacts.

Gina Pugliese • September 01, 2023

ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support

Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.

Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023