
ReviewTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD
Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
September 01, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
Laura Neal • September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's varied and multi-faceted work, deeply rooted in the power of the human figure, addresses feminism, cultural identity, and contemporary politics.
Scotti Hill • September 01, 2023
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Phoenix-based artist Estrella Esquilín talks about her evolving studio practice, in which community is as important as the construction materials and experimental animation she uses to address identity and place.
Lynn Trimble • September 01, 2023
PhotographyArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Phoenix-based artist Claire A. Warden experiments with camera-less processes to push against the boundaries of photography and identity.
Natalie Hegert • September 01, 2023
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe is the internationally recognized artist's first solo show in New Mexico and includes never-before-shown work.
Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.
Scotti Hill • September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.
Gina Pugliese • September 01, 2023
FeatureVol. 8 Medium + SupportWyoming
The Ucross Residency Program near Sheridan, Wyoming, supports artists in an obligation-free program on a working ranch that’s all about creativity, bonding, good eating, and resting.
Steve Jansen • September 01, 2023
Vol. 8 Medium + SupportArtistsTexas
Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.
Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023
Meggan Gould speculates on the future of photographic practice and the potential of the anthotype process, in which plant-based photosensitive emulsions create ephemeral prints.
Meggan Gould • September 01, 2023
FeatureColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rough Gems, a curatorial fellowship at Denver’s Union Hall, provides funding and gallery space for emerging local curators.
Sommer Browning • September 01, 2023
ReviewCaliforniaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Cheech presents a robust study in Chicano art, past and present, assembling 140 artworks and seventy artists whose work foregrounds the body as a site for revolution.
Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
The Flowers of My Exile at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix explores conceptual art by Cuban dissident Reynier Leyva Novo, now an artist in exile in Houston, Texas.
Lynn Trimble • September 01, 2023
Feature2023 New Mexico Field Guide
P. Antonio Márquez's guide to the good old dives of Nuevo México includes Albuquerque Press Club, The Matador in Santa Fe, Saints and Sinners in Española, and more.
P. Antonio Márquez • May 26, 2023
Feature2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Harwood Museum of Art has lived multiple lives as library, artist crash pad, and world-class art center. The Taos cultural gem now celebrates its centennial.
Steve Jansen • May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
WNMU Museum in Silver City, New Mexico, occupies a historic building and houses one of the largest collections of Mimbres pottery and artifacts in the world, as well as other prehistoric Southwestern pottery and artifacts.
Lauren Tresp • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Hernan Gomez Chavez, an artist and activist, makes work about his personal history along the borderlands of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Karma Henry is a Paiute, Italian, and Portuguese artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose acrylic paintings consider the landscape as site for both the literal and personal embodiment of place.
Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
The Henge by Herb Goldman, a peculiar outdoor structure akin to a reconstituted Stonehenge, announces Roswell as a robust arts scene facilitated by the late Donald B. Anderson.
Steve Jansen • May 26, 2023
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Zuyva Sevilla, an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, makes new-media works that contemplate the cosmic and ineffable, such as heat signatures and dust patterns.
Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Benjamin Winans's sculptural works contend with the impact of Christian nationalism within national memory and the artist’s own lived experience.
Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Ahní Rocheleau is a Santa Fe-based artist whose interdisciplinary work collapses the distance between humans and nature, exhibiting a deep care for the environment that bridges art and activism.
Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Kirsten Angerbauer creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences and installations constructed of site-specific designs, sound art practices, and new media.
Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
New Mexico artist Lynnette Haozous (Chiricahua Apache, Diné, Taos Pueblo) combines art and activism with murals that bring representation of Native peoples and cultures into public spaces.
Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Kaitlin Bryson works at the intersections of art, community, ecology, and social justice to create works that reframe concepts of decay while elevating the experience of transformation.
Lynn Trimble • May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Santa Fe’s Chapel of Light is designed to inspire a sense of unity across peoples and beliefs, and features a naturally occurring solstice lightshow.
Rachel Preston • May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Stardreaming is a twenty-two-acre site just outside of Santa Fe created by visionary artist James Jereb.
Lauren LaRocca • May 26, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity.
Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023
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