
Review: Source Material at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Source Material, an exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, features eight photographic projects that engage with archival imagery.
October 29, 2021
Source Material, an exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, features eight photographic projects that engage with archival imagery.
Angie Rizzo • October 29, 2021
PhotographyArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Jimmy Fike, a Phoenix-based photographer and plant enthusiast, has embarked on a ten-year project to document edible plants of the North American continent.
Angie Rizzo • October 29, 2021
The photography exhibition Rania Matar: SHE at Obscura Gallery centers female complexity and empowerment.
Kathryne Lim • October 04, 2021
Santa Fe artbook publisher Radius Books hosts its 2021 Artist Weekend to bring together all of its artists, writers, and collaborators.
Radius Books • August 20, 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
New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks.
Steve Jansen • 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
Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.
Coco Picard • June 16, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt.
Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021
Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery.
Patrick McGuire • May 25, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief.
Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
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
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography.
Steve Jansen • 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
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center.
Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021
Douglas Tolman works to create a sense of place and connection to the community in their state of Utah by reframing historical narratives.
Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesNew Mexico
Las Cruces artist Marcus Xavier Chormicle navigates the loss of family and culture by examining ongoing hardships within his family.
Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
Santa Fe artist Lindsey Kennedy's latest photographic work considers intimacy as an unavoidable necessity of survival. She uses color and instant film to explore texture and concept through still life.
• February 08, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
Albuquerque artist Nate Lemuel (Diné) uses photography to create a perspective of a reality that embodies emotion and the future.
Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
Albuquerque artist Sallie Scheufler uses her personal history for material through her interdisciplinary works. Her recent exhibition explores how relationships inform our desires.
Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021
Santa Fe based photographer Memphis Barbree's project, The Sky Calls to Us, documents the Kennedy Space Center in its grandness and the markings of those who created the space program.
Angie Rizzo • March 26, 2020
Santa Fe preservation architect Beverley Spears’s Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect’s View details her decade-plus study of sixteenth-century churches and conventos in Mexico.
Rachel Preston • March 26, 2020
Inga Hendrickson is a Santa Fe-based photographer. She creates colorful still lifes that are simultaneously beautiful and grotesque
Angie Rizzo • January 28, 2020
FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
“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.
Maggie Grimason • January 28, 2020
In Outside the Castle (2019), Atmus the deer sits on a lawn outside Disney’s Cinderella Castle. Atmus is a fur-suit. The person inside is Tommy Bruce. The lawn is artificial. And the castle is an image. Bruce is a furry. He goes to conventions, participates in online discussions, and documents the community. His also takes self-portraits in his fur-suit.
Matthew Irwin • December 01, 2019
Wilson began CIPX in 2012 with the support of the New Mexico Museum of Art and has photographed internationally, adding to the prolific body of work. Over time, the project and Wilson’s intentions have evolved. Today, he speaks about the ritual of portraiture and questions how it fits into contemporary culture. Some traditions that were once a rite of passage for families and individuals have become part of the past.
Angie Rizzo • October 01, 2019
Sama Alshaibi, a Tucson, Arizona–based photographer, is a Palestinian-Iraqi who originally came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq. Her mother’s family are also refugees from Jaffa, a historic port city that was fought over and ultimately became part of Israel in 1948. The families that lived there were forced to leave quickly, and many left behind family keepsakes such as family photo albums. Alshaibi’s family have few photographs from their time in Palestine.
Angie Rizzo • July 29, 2019
Melanie Walker is an artist based in Boulder, Colorado. She works nearly equally in the worlds of photography and public art, with each realm informing the other...
Angie Rizzo • May 24, 2019
Jasper is the first book from photographer Matthew Genitempo. While the images were made in the Ozarks, they recall an atmosphere of rural America more than they reflect a specific place. The name Jasper, too, has a particular generality...
Sarah Bradley • March 27, 2019
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