Review

Jul 06

Designed to Move at Museum of Northern Arizona Elucidates Complete Worlds in the Microscopic

ReviewArizona

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. By Camille LeFevre

May 05

Abstraction in Albuquerque Inspired by Long-Forgotten Show from Thirty-Two Years Ago

ReviewNew Mexico

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. By Steve Jansen

Apr 04

The Queer Dynamics of Paolo Arao’s Selection of Recent Works

ReviewColorado

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. By Joshua Ware

Mar 24

The Black Experience is Showcased in Vision and Sound in Sedona

ReviewArizona

Vision and Sound brings work by African American artists in Arizona to the overwhelmingly white town of Sedona. By Camille LeFevre

Mar 20

The Gallery as Slaughterhouse: Tamara Kostianovsky’s Mesmerizing Flesh at Ogden Contemporary Art

ReviewUtah

Mesmerizing Flesh, Tamara Kostianovsky’s exhibition of textile sculptures, encapsulates a compelling, if harrowing contradiction between industrial violence and the beauty of corporeal and organic forms. By Scotti Hill

Mar 03

Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum, Taos

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. By Steve Jansen