ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Friends of the Orphan Signs is a collaborative art organization that works with community members to bring their voices to empty billboards and signs in Albuquerque.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s.
February 25, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
October 29, 2021
From the EditorVol. 4 Winter 2021
Southwest Contemporary Vol. 4 travels across the region to meet artists, brewers, climate-change activists, and DIY-ers to have in-depth conversations about significant and inspiring issues.
October 29, 2021
FeatureColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear in downtown Denver is a retrospective that examines "in-between" spaces with keen observation and irreverent humor.
October 29, 2021
Studio VisitUtahVol. 4 Winter 2021
New work by Jaclyn Wright explores the contentious space of the Utah desert and how the ideology of ‘rugged individualism’ has visually manifested itself.
October 29, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
The artists in Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration explore the relationship between visual culture and imprisonment at the Arizona State University Art Museum.
October 29, 2021
Steve Jansen rummages through the concept of repetition—from hashtag-self-care rituals to daily pandemic infection counts—in this short-form musing essay.
October 29, 2021
San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca’s Artpace exhibition, The 1836 Project, is an immersive video installation employing poppy animation to take aim at “the colonial fantasies of the Texas creation myth.”
October 29, 2021
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Raised in the borderlands, Phoenix-based artist Diana Calderón uses materials from Mexico and the U.S. to investigate her ancestral roots and immigrant experience while exploring both physical and spiritual borders.
October 29, 2021
Patricia Norby, the first Indigenous curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, talks about the representation of Indigenous art in institutional gallery spaces.
October 29, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
A retrospective of German-American female photographer Marion Palfi at the Phoenix Art Museum, the first major exhibition since her 1978 death, places her towards the top of social research photographers.
October 29, 2021
PhotographyArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Jimmy Fike, a Phoenix-based photographer and plant enthusiast, has embarked on a ten-year project to document edible plants of the North American continent.
October 29, 2021
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Denver artist Suchitra Mattai challenges Western traditions of painting through her use of culturally specific materials that are informed by the South Asian diaspora.
October 29, 2021
Food + DrinkNew MexicoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. has created a genuinely Southwest-centric beer brand based on connections to the landscape, people, and magic of the region.
October 29, 2021
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Emerging choreographer Alexandra Honchell’s journey from company dancer to independent artist is reuniting her mind with her body.
October 29, 2021
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Apolo Gomez's portraits feature men in various states of dress and undress with a palpable sense of intimacy, challenging masculine stereotypes.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.
July 30, 2021
ArtistsArizonaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump's dance and video collaboration Hypoxia is an acknowledgment and delayering of all the tension from the last year.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism.
July 30, 2021
NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico
Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body.
July 30, 2021
