In Print

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Rosie Clements is a Tucson-based photographer whose images meditate on the small details of interdependence between nature and the urban environment.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Tumbleweed Rodeo, led by artists Sarah Aziz and J. Eric Simpson, tracks the non-human journey of tumbleweeds through the Llano Estacado.

Steve Jansen • February 25, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Lauren Tresp • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Daisy Geoffrey • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Willow Naomi Curry • 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.

Lauren Tresp • 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.

Sommer Browning • 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.

Natalie Hegert • 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. 

Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2021

WritingsVol. 4 Winter 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. 

Steve Jansen • October 29, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 4 Winter 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.”  

Bryan Rindfuss • 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.

Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2021

FeatureVol. 4 Winter 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.

Lillia McEnaney • 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.

Steve Jansen • 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.

Angie Rizzo • 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.

Joshua Ware • 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. 

Daisy Geoffrey • 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.

Lyndsay Knecht • 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. 

Angie Rizzo • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.

Lauren Tresp • 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. 

Steve Jansen • 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.

Tamara Johnson • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021