
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Jack Bowers
Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
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
ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"
Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Anna Rotty’s work deals with beauty and anxiety, using water as a jumping-off point to explore the politics of modern civilization.
Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Utah-based artist Anna Evans's practice as a naturalist informs all aspects of her work as a weaver, in which she uses plants to make dyes and sources local wool.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
Thao Votang • August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.
Natalie Hegert • August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
Hannah Dean • August 26, 2022
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Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
Lyndsay Knecht • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.
Angie Rizzo • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.
Angie Rizzo • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Adrian Aguirre resides in Las Cruces where he is an educator and artist exploring issues of migration through representational drawing and painting.
Angie Rizzo • May 27, 2022
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New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack's colorful fiber wall hangings bring the materiality of painting into question.
Joshua Ware • May 27, 2022
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A native of Albuquerque’s South Valley, Eric J. Garcia imbues political art with personal experience.
Lyndsay Knecht • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Santa Fe-based Tigre Mashaal-Lively creates large-scale interactive sculptures influenced by Afrofuturism, solarpunk, and mycopunk.
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Albuquerque artist Caroline Liu paints images that teeter between the real and the imaginary.
Joshua Ware • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Artist Terran Last Gun (Piikani) creates ledger drawings, prints, and murals that translate Indigenous culture and cosmology into geometric explorations of color, shape, nature, and sky.
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2022
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Albuquerque-based artist Welly Fletcher’s sculptural practice activates lines that question normative gender roles, sexual orientation, and identity.
Joshua Ware • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
New Mexico-based artist Nina Elder explores geology, ecological processes, and deep time while addressing social justice and transformation with materials like radioactive charcoal, stardust, and pulverized guns.
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2022
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Lucy Maki’s intuitive process calls back to New Mexico’s Transcendental Painting Group and yields shaped paintings in a style of her own.
Lyndsay Knecht • May 27, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Phoenix-based artist Jen Urso presents Remarkable Presence, an installation that explores the concept of grief and the aftermath of COVID-19 deaths in Arizona.
Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo.
Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022
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