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ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.

Lynn Trimble • April 30, 2021

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesColorado

Colorado Springs artist Corey Drieth seeks to make lyrically poetic objects that are simultaneously intimate, mysterious, and expansive. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 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

FeatureArizonaVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries

A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.

Greg Ruffing • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas

Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston artist collective, creates artwork that comments on family dynamics and American consumer culture.

Angie Rizzo • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas

Midland, Texas artist Michael Hubbard's work creates an imaginary vision of non-binary identity in all its ambiguity, freedom, and contradiction. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Phoenix artist Saskia Jordá’s practice engages in an iterative mapping and remapping to explore concepts of cultural identity, bodies in space, and sense of place.

Lauren Tresp • 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

Taos artist Alivia Magaña, who works as a medical investigator on untimely deaths in her community, explores the notion of grieving for those we don't know. 

• February 08, 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

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

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine

Interdisciplinary Albuquerque artist Helen Juliet Atkins explores the symbiotic nature between individuals and their communities, especially how one’s sense of self is affected by culture. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021

FeatureTexasVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries

Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky.

Marcus Civin • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine

Taos artist Aleya Hoerlein's latest series expresses a desire for closeness and meaning in a time of isolation by working in the space between and around forms. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine

The latest series from Albuquerque artist Caitlin Carcerano is centered on the locus of self-care and vulnerability: the bathtub. 

Maggie Grimason • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas

Houston artist Sarah Sudhoff delves into themes of gender, science, and personal experience. Rooted in the quotidian, Sudhoff's work navigates the personal and universal. 

Southwest Contemporary • 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

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Flagstaff artist Jaewook Lee's work takes inspiration from brain science to examine the human condition and how we're connected to a greater network.

• February 08, 2021

NewsNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Southwest Contemporary announces a call for artists for the third annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now feature.

Southwest Contemporary • February 04, 2021

FeatureField Guide

New Mexico arts organizations bring us together in the era of social distancing.

Maggie Grimason • July 31, 2020

FeatureField Guide

A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including photo-eye, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Santa Fe Workshops, Turner Carroll Gallery, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Angie Rizzo • July 31, 2020

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

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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.

Maggie Grimason • January 28, 2020

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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.

Tamara Johnson • January 28, 2020

FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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.

Steve Jansen • January 28, 2020