Artists

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's varied and multi-faceted work, deeply rooted in the power of the human figure, addresses feminism, cultural identity, and contemporary politics. 

Scotti Hill • September 01, 2023

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Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.

Scotti Hill • September 01, 2023

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Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.

Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support

Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.

Gina Pugliese • September 01, 2023

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Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.

Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023

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Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.

Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023

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Hernan Gomez Chavez, an artist and activist, makes work about his personal history along the borderlands of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023

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Karma Henry is a Paiute, Italian, and Portuguese artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose acrylic paintings consider the landscape as site for both the literal and personal embodiment of place.

Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023

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Zuyva Sevilla, an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, makes new-media works that contemplate the cosmic and ineffable, such as heat signatures and dust patterns.

Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023

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Benjamin Winans's sculptural works contend with the impact of Christian nationalism within national memory and the artist’s own lived experience.

Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023

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Ahní Rocheleau is a Santa Fe-based artist whose interdisciplinary work collapses the distance between humans and nature, exhibiting a deep care for the environment that bridges art and activism.

Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023

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Kirsten Angerbauer creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences and installations constructed of site-specific designs, sound art practices, and new media.

Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023

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New Mexico artist Lynnette Haozous (Chiricahua Apache, Diné, Taos Pueblo) combines art and activism with murals that bring representation of Native peoples and cultures into public spaces.

Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023

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Kaitlin Bryson works at the intersections of art, community, ecology, and social justice to create works that reframe concepts of decay while elevating the experience of transformation.

Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023

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Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity.

Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023

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As a photographer, curator, and small business owner, Cougar "Ndoi" Vigil integrates multiplicities of perspectives into his work about Indigenous narratives, perspectives, and knowledge systems.

Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023

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New Mexico artist Jennifer Thoreson calls on her own religious experiences as she examines the complex relationships between belief systems and human behavior.

Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023

New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide

Apolo Gomez’s series Exodus fuses the commonplace with something more curious, yielding presentations that seamlessly cohabitate together. 

Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.

Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023

ArizonaArtistsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Yvette Serrano's multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest.

Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Chrissie Orr is an artist, activist, and the founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective whose work focuses on the interaction between, and integration of the natural and human worlds.

Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023

ArtistsUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism. 

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating. 

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023