ReviewUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.
March 07, 2025
ReviewTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
March 07, 2025
ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.
March 07, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
March 07, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
A group of white New York painters blended modernist and Native-inspired aesthetics. Space Makers at the Heard Museum pairs them with historical and contemporary Native artists.
March 07, 2025
In what Time Travel feels like, sometimes, New Mexico–based artist Erika Wanenmacher's major solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, the artist collapses the distance between the mystical and the everyday.
January 21, 2025
Wicked Wells and Window Wipeouts traps the viewer between a hard place and a sunken one—but its ambiguity offers a different kind of freedom.
January 09, 2025
Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective's sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe.
January 07, 2025
Cybele Lyle attempts, in confounding and curious ways, to queer desert landscapes in her current installation Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms.
October 17, 2024
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
October 08, 2024
Dario Robleto’s wide-ranging reach—in which the deepest interiors and most distant exteriors mix with popular culture and early analog media—is getting more articulate with each pass.
September 27, 2024
In Memory presents the work of twenty-one artists who excavate the archives of remembrance to reveal how humans document, distort, and cling to the past.
September 17, 2024
ReviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Anchored by imagery from Bears Ears National Monument, Fazal Sheikh's exhibition at the Denver Art Museum explores the dichotomy of beauty and destruction in the Southwest.
September 06, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
The de la Torre Brothers deliver a feast for the eyes—and warnings for the future—in their witty and maximalist exhibition at McNay Art Museum.
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.
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?
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.
September 06, 2024
Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.
August 27, 2024
Tina Mion ventures into unexplored territory in her exhibition Departures, through death spoon sculptures and paintings about her brother’s death.
August 13, 2024
Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
August 06, 2024
In the first exhibition to explore Harry Fonseca’s expressions of “queerness” through his beloved character Coyote, queer-Indigenous performativity takes center stage.
July 16, 2024
"Biophilic design," which emulates the natural environment, is undoubtedly having a moment. So how does the Denver Art Museum’s latest design exhibition expand on this discourse?
July 05, 2024
Inspired by a remarkable 1940s essay, Surrealism and Us in Fort Worth examines Afrosurrealist tools for battling fascism, colonialism, and cultural assimilation.
June 17, 2024
In Performing Self at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, seven multidisciplinary artists expand the concept of performance art with works that are extremely personal, even courageous.
April 15, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art.
March 01, 2024
Antoinette Cauley creates expressive portraiture to bridge hyperlocal and global concerns in I Do It For The Hood, Pt. 2 in Phoenix.
January 16, 2024
In Designed to Move, the microscopic is magnified in Taylor James’s photographs of Colorado Plateau seedpods, revealing a design intelligence humans can only hope to approximate.
July 06, 2023
Abstraction in Albuquerque: Six Artists at the Inpost Artspace—more than a half-decade in the making—materialized after a co-curator spotted a 1991 poster inside of a now closed warehouse.
May 05, 2023
Textile artist Paolo Arao explores queerness through his materials, line work, titles, and forms in his show A Selection of Recent Works at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
April 04, 2023
Vision and Sound brings work by African American artists in Arizona to the overwhelmingly white town of Sedona.
March 24, 2023
