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Nikesha Breeze: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.
May 25, 2021
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Emily Margarit Mason: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt.
May 25, 2021
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Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.
May 25, 2021
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Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25, 2021
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Josh Tafoya: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs.
May 25, 2021
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Izumi Yokoyama: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.
May 25, 2021
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Andrés de Varona: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief.
May 25, 2021
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Shoshannah White: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process.
May 25, 2021
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Catie Soldan: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography.
May 25, 2021
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nicholas b jacobsen: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands.
May 25, 2021
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Isadora Stowe: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Isadora Stowe's work explores the landscape of the mind as it relates to the physical environment. She creates an all-encompassing vision with a visual vocabulary that is both personal and builds on the universal.
May 25, 2021
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Tommy Bruce: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.
May 25, 2021
Linda Lomahaftewa and the Moving Land
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her.
March 03, 2021
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Catherine Czacki: Write a Poem, Make a Sculpture, Do the Wash
Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material.
February 08, 2021
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Margaret Neumann: I Just Like the Cherry
Colorado artist Margaret Neumann's paintings are rooted in the human experience as it is translated through time, through the body, and through our many coping mechanisms.
February 08, 2021
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c marquez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
“The intention of this work is to honor vulnerability, impermanence, and cycles of life on our planet,” c marquez says of their work, which includes two-dimensional pieces, sculpture, installation, and the results of a daily sketchbook practice.
January 28, 2020
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Rapheal Begay: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Intensely thoughtful, Raphael Begay sees significance in objects and quotidian scenes and is able to begin a conversation with the viewer through his lens. With installations and discussions about his work, he adds a further dimension of storytelling that engages community...
January 28, 2020
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Joe Ramiro Garcia: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Garcia, an Art Institute of Chicago–educated artist who moved to Santa Fe from his native Houston in 1987, developed a unique transfer procedure: he creates an image or pattern on paper that’s soaked in gum arabic and water, which is then hand pressed onto a painting surface.
January 28, 2020
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MK: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Currently residing in Albuquerque where they are pursuing an MFA in photography, MK began the recent series The Pain Is Just an Annoyance Now as members of their family began to pass away and they witnessed the grief of their mother. These losses spurred an exploration of the complications of family relationships, as well as obscured histories through the physical remnants of the past that shore up the present—family photo albums.
January 28, 2020
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Cedra Wood: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Looking at Cedra Wood’s paintings feels a little like finding a secret door to enchanted lands. Wood understands a connection between the outer wild terrains and the inward ones. Her art celebrates both realms as essential and beautiful, linked by mythos. The worlds she depicts evoke something of the hero’s journey.
January 28, 2020
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Eric-Paul Riege: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Eric-Paul Riege’s (Diné) elaborate and beautiful fiber works not only connect him with his ancestral and artistic centers, but also envelop viewers in an everyday Navajo worldview, one that the artist believes should be communal.
January 28, 2020
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Andrea Pichaida: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
The shapes of Andrea Pichaida’s sculptural works in clay are at once spare and suggestive, their lines and colors inspired by nature, their content speaking to experience both personal and universal.
January 28, 2020
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Danielle Shelley: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Danielle Shelley, who earned critical acclaim as a painter, has found similar success as a textile wizard. "My artistic concerns didn’t change when I morphed from a painter into a fiber artist,” writes Shelley in her artist statement. “I am still a passionate colorist, in love with shapes and lines. But I also find satisfaction in being part of the movement that has reclaimed stitch work, a long-dismissed women’s medium.”
January 28, 2020
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Justin Richel: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Justin Richel infuses his paintings and sculptures with incisive, humorous, and exacting layers of commentary. He studied the technique of icon painting at the Franciscan monastery in Kennebunk, Maine, in 2004. This thoughtful Franciscan attention to color and the creation of signifiers informs his work, but his use of these methods is unique.
January 28, 2020
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Frank Blazquez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
“My photos illustrate the blood pumping through Albuquerque,” Frank Blazquez told the Guardian in 2018. The portraits—largely captured along the east-west belt of Central Avenue—capture human faces, yes, but each carries a story in and of itself.
January 28, 2020
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William T. Carson: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
William T. Carson’s work brings a unique perspective to the adage “The medium is the message.” He works with coal to explore a multitude of significations. Beyond the economic, political, or environmental meaning of the substance, Carson reminds us that coal is prehistoric, born of ancient metamorphosis.
January 28, 2020
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David Gaussoin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
David Gaussoin, a Santa Fe jewelry artist of Picuris Pueblo, Navajo, and French descent, comes from a long line of creatives, ranging from silversmiths and painters to rug weavers, sculptors, and woodworkers.
January 28, 2020
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Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
All year long we share the stories of artists from across our state, but this special issue is our way of focusing on a sample of some of the premier talent continuously emerging from New Mexico. These are artists whose works are shaping the landscape of contemporary art in the Southwest.
January 28, 2020
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Vanessa Gonzalez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Charming plushy animals walk the razor’s edge between life and lifelessness in Vanessa Gonzalez’s paintings. Each creature—a sloth, a jackalope, a flock of birds—has its limbs wrenched from its tiny body, with threads and fiberfill stuffing poking out of wounds.
January 30, 2019
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Yeshe Parks: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
In Yeshe Parks’s gouache-on-paper paintings, figures perform impossible acrobatics. Knees and elbows bend in perfect U-shapes as cartoon-like, faceless characters contort and intertwine themselves into arbitrary postures.
January 30, 2019
