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ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ReviewArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

PORTALS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona features new works by California-based artist Fay Ray, who imagines radical futures in the Sonoran Desert and Southwest borderlands.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.

Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Off-Center at Vladem Contemporary is a three-decade survey of New Mexico art with myriad bright spots—but how are they connected?

Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024

InterviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Pamela Zoline speaks with Noah Travis Phillips about the Colorado Plateau, recent work, and the science that excites her.

Noah Travis Phillips • September 06, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

EssayTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Jon Revett compares and contrasts two monumental works of art, Amarillo Ramp and Cadillac Ranch, and discusses their possible futures.

Jon Revett • September 06, 2024

FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.

Karla Lagunas • September 06, 2024

ReviewUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures

In the Shadow of the Wall at the Kimball Art Center offers poignant and playful perspectives on the border wall, beyond political controversy.

Ana Estrada • September 06, 2024

Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

Artist studio tours across New Mexico illustrate the enduring power of creative exchange—and give visitors an insider's view of the artistic process.

Maggie Grimason • May 24, 2024

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"Come for the aliens, stay for the art!" sums up the compelling reasons to visit Roswell, New Mexico—a mecca for UFO culture and contemporary art.

Natalie Hegert • May 24, 2024

Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

Artist Kim Arthun reflects on decades spent holding space for contemporary art for the Albuquerque community.

Steve Jansen • May 24, 2024

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Santa Fe–based artist Jarrett West creates large-scale ceramic stonework sculptures that evoke the drama of nature and the organic architecture of New Mexico. 

Tierra Mar Gallery • May 24, 2024

Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

Maida Branch and Johnny Ortiz-Concha, the New Mexico-based founders of Maida Goods and / shed, reclaim daily life as an artistic practice.

Erin Averill • May 24, 2024

Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

An eclectic guide to New Mexico's so-called outsider art monuments made from all sorts of oddities.

Jess Ziegenfuss • May 24, 2024

Essay2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

August 2024 will usher in one hundred years of setting Zozobra ablaze—a ceremony of fire, redemption, and the incineration of Santa Fe’s gloom.

Emily Arntsen • May 24, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.  

Kalyn Fay Barnoski • March 01, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.

Nancy Zastudil • March 01, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Navajo weaver Venancio Aragon's journey to revive and preserve Diné weaving amidst modern challenges and cultural appropriation.

Olivia Amaya Ortiz • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. 

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. 

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories

The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus.

Brent Holmes • March 01, 2024

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity.

Jordan Eddy • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024