In Print

WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Laura Neal reflects on her earliest memories of water and the profound presence water has for humanity as a whole.

Laura Neal • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Chrissie Orr is an artist, activist, and the founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective whose work focuses on the interaction between, and integration of the natural and human worlds.

Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023

ArtistsUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

FeatureArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.

Camille LeFevre • March 03, 2023

ReviewColoradoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.

Deborah Ross • March 03, 2023

FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.

Emily E. Lee • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism. 

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating. 

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 03, 2023

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos normalizes the Black cowboy past and present.

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

EssayTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.

Trey Burns • March 03, 2023

ReviewTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.

Edgar Picazo Merino • March 03, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.

Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"

Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Anna Rotty’s work deals with beauty and anxiety, using water as a jumping-off point to explore the politics of modern civilization.

Maggie Grimason • March 03, 2023

ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West

Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.

Lynn Trimble • March 03, 2023

ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint. 

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Utah-based artist Anna Evans's practice as a naturalist informs all aspects of her work as a weaver, in which she uses plants to make dyes and sources local wool.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.

Thao Votang • August 26, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.

Natalie Hegert • August 26, 2022

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place

Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America. 

Hannah Dean • August 26, 2022

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Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.

Lyndsay Knecht • May 27, 2022

New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide

Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.

Angie Rizzo • May 27, 2022

New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide

Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.

Angie Rizzo • May 27, 2022