Artists

NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico

Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas

Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Stefan Jennings Batista explores intersections of place, identity, and belonging in his photography practice. His latest series focuses on the mysteries of life, death, nature, and humanity. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Tucson artist Alejandro Macias addresses themes of heritage, immigration, and ethnicity in his work driven by his Mexican-American identity and the current social-political climate. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Augustine Romero creates work to shine a light on multiple displaced contexts, offering a space for imagining what could be if we dare to create counter-narratives told from the position of marginalized communities.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Artist Everton Tsosie’s paintings employ an abstractive style, palettes inspired by the New Mexico landscape, and allude to the pulses of urban environments while centering Indigenous figures.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsColorado

Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving.

• July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt. 

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

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Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

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Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.  

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief. 

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

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Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

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Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

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Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

NewsArtistsNew Mexico

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.

Michelle J. Lanteri • March 03, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries

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. 

Natalie Hegert • February 08, 2021

FeatureColoradoVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries

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.

Sommer Browning • February 08, 2021

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

“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.

Maggie Grimason • January 28, 2020

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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...

Tamara Johnson • January 28, 2020

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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.

Steve Jansen • January 28, 2020