Alien: Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
September 04, 2026
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ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Alien: Hayley Krichels
Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Alien: Jess Merritt
Jess Merritt’s mixed-media photographs and sculptures may stir the subconscious, but they're grounded in the Southwest landscape.
September 04, 2026
Alien: JR Roykovich
JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Faye Lenore
Step aside, quirky and drab extraterrestrials. Faye Lenore reimagines alien iconography with atypical panache.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Chantal Lesley
Chantal Lesley uses self-portraiture and the Andean concept of pachakuti to explore identity, belonging, and transformation across borders.
September 04, 2026
Etherton Gallery Announces Dramatic Downsizing After Losing Tucson Space
Tucson artists are reeling—and reminiscing—amid the displacement of a forty-six-year-old photography gallery with international clout.
August 27, 2026
Marilyn Minter’s Remarkable Career Comeback Began Deep in the Colorado Rockies
Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center honored Marilyn Minter for its 60th anniversary, affirming its faith in artistic risk and grit-infused glamour.
July 30, 2026
Nic Nicosia Isn’t Doing This on Purpose (or Maybe He Is)
Is Nic Nicosia's work utterly surreal? Deeply autobiographical? His Dallas retrospective plumbs an oeuvre brimming with play and pain.
July 21, 2026
An Artist Who Launched His Career in Iran, and Now Documents its Violence from a World Away
Mehrdad Mirzaie staged his first shows in Iran, challenging its regime. In Arizona he furthers the fight with art and an archive.
July 10, 2026
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 13 The Road
Alanna Airitam: Black Diamonds
Working in her Tucson, Arizona studio, artist Alanna Airitam counters cultural erasure with a photographic series highlighting the Chosen Few, the nation’s first racially integrated outlaw motorcycle club.
March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
The Road: Carmen Selam
For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.
March 20, 2026
The Road: Vahid Valikhani
Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.
March 20, 2026
PhotographyArizonaVol. 13 The Road
Bikini-Clad in the Body Shop, Liz Cohen Reframes Women’s Labor
Photographer and sculptor Liz Cohen visualizes "radically transformed bodies," revealing how labor reshapes machines and people.
March 20, 2026
Photography Meets Place: CENTER Santa Fe’s Spring Exhibitions and Workshops Explore New Mexico’s Living Landscape
CENTER Santa Fe presents two photography exhibitions this spring—Elements of Wonder and A New Mexican Burial—alongside a statewide printing workshop series designed to help artists grow their practice.
March 20, 2026
For Her First Major Museum Solo Show, Cara Romero Does It in Her Own Time
Over six years, artist Cara Romero and curator Jami C. Powell resisted the art world’s rush to capitalize on Native art. Their show just arrived in Phoenix.
March 05, 2026
Sprung from Suburbia, Summer Raine Young Seeks Inherent Queerness of a Desert City
In cyanotypes and soft sculptures, genderfluid artist maps queer elements of Phoenix—from dilapidated signs to their own body.
January 08, 2026
In Seven Days by Chuck Ramirez, Foodscapes Become Community Portraits
A series of still life photographs by late San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez capture the essence of a Texas community and subculture.
October 23, 2025
Ghostly Images of Plants, Landscapes—and a Baseball Stadium—Reveal a Desert in Flux
Through LiDAR scans, UK-based studio ScanLAB Projects captured the Sonoran Desert in haunting detail, revealing a landscape on the brink.
October 09, 2025
PhotographyTexasVol. 12 Obsession
Phoebe Shuman-Goodier Transfigures Trash into Tender Monuments of Care and Possibility
Phoebe Shuman-Goodier’s photography marks her sculptural collaborations with her father, and a shared obsession with transforming a junkyard into art.
September 05, 2025
SponsoredNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
CENTER’s Portfolio Walk: A Public Celebration of Lens-Based Art
Discover cutting-edge photography by more than ninety global artists at CENTER's one-night-only Portfolio Walk, November 1 in the Santa Fe Railyard.
September 05, 2025
EssayColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
A Newer West: Ruminations on Robert Adams’s Front Range Imagery
The republication of Robert Adams’s The New West evokes reflections on what it means to intimately know the subject of renowned photographs.
September 05, 2025
Obsession: Carol Sogard
Salt Lake City–based artist Carol Sogard obsessively collects and catalogues the remains of a world in crisis, wherein action, if not optimism, may be an obligation.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: jesse lovell
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.
September 05, 2025
An Artist Who Unearths Layers of History, and Stacks Them Again
Informed by his family history, Dean Terasaki uses activist imagery and charged ephemera—including postcards from Japanese American internment camps—to send a present-day "warning."
May 27, 2025
Stephen Robeck’s Abstract Photography Captures Exquisite Natural Textures
Santa Fe-based photographer Stephen Robeck captures abstract forms, colors, and textures from wilderness landscapes and waterscapes across the U.S.
May 23, 2025
Feature2025 New Mexico Field Guide
Center Santa Fe Celebrates 30 Years—and It’s Just Getting Started
On its 30th anniversary, Center, a nonprofit focused on sharing lens-based art, is looking to the future while reflecting on all it has already achieved.
May 23, 2025
Feature2025 New Mexico Field Guide
Photography Pioneers Scheinbaum & Russek Mark 45-Year Legacy
Santa Fe's Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. celebrates forty-five years showcasing 20th-century fine-art photography from masters like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
May 23, 2025
Anthropology Museums Are Returning Some Objects, But What About the Ones They Keep?
To address misleading historical photos of the Navajo Nation, Albuquerque's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology tapped Diné collaborators to fill in the gaps.
April 22, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Collective Imagination: Rethinking Canyon Road with Kyle Maier
Selective histories have long defined Santa Fe's main gallery district. Kyle Maier's digital Canyon Road History project aims to round out the picture.
March 07, 2025
