In Print

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

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

From the EditorVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Welcome to Southwest Contemporary Vol. 2, Flights of Fancy. This issue explores the complexities involved in defining—and staying tethered to—what’s “real."

Lauren Tresp • April 30, 2021

FeatureColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world. 

Natalie Hegert • April 30, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world. 

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.

Annie Bielski • April 30, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.  

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • April 30, 2021

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.

Daisy Geoffrey • April 30, 2021

ReviewColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.

Sommer Browning • April 30, 2021

FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning. 

Lyndsay Knecht • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

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