Relax and Stay Alert: The Playful Incoherence of Tristram Lansdowne and Ryan Crowley
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
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MCA Denver’s Dance Exhibition Churns with Social and Political Energy, Matching a “Moment of Anxiety”
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Magic School Bus Outmaneuvers Political Rhetoric with Mystical Migration Stories
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
November 01, 2024
Santa Fe Gallery Opens Revelatory Portal into Cuba’s Globally Connected Culture
Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.
October 24, 2024
Work in Progress with Beedallo
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
October 22, 2024
Work in Progress with Shawn Skabelund
Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund returns to the storm-swept ravine that birthed his latest show—and explains what a squirrel stick is—in an intrepid studio visit.
September 26, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Angel Cabrales: Radical Futures
El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.
September 06, 2024
FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Emily Budd Breaks the Mold: Founder of the Foundry Project Aluminati
Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.
September 06, 2024
Taos Abstract Artist Collective’s Path from Pandemic-Era Instagram Project to Arts Nonprofit
When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.
August 02, 2024
Queer Horticulture: Getting Entangled in JD Pluecker’s Artistic Root System
In this chosen family history from Texas, Xan Murphy asks, “If you’re the only queer person in your family, who will teach you to survive?”
July 12, 2024
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Jarrett West: Working with Poise and Simplicity
Santa Fe–based artist Jarrett West creates large-scale ceramic stonework sculptures that evoke the drama of nature and the organic architecture of New Mexico.
May 24, 2024
The Trail Ahead… How Artist Brian Norwood Helped Shape the Identity of Jal, New Mexico
Brian Norwood's sculpture The Trail Ahead..., erected in 2000, has created an identity for the small oil-and-gas town of Jal, New Mexico, much as the town created him.
March 15, 2024
Emptiness is the Mirage of the New Frontier in ann haeyoung’s Exhibition terra nullius
Roswell artist-in-residence ann haeyoung confronts the geopolitics of emptiness in terra nullius at the Roswell Museum.
February 26, 2024
The Collecting Eye of Ray Graham at the Amarillo Museum of Art
Discover the rich and expansive collection of artwork amassed by Ray Graham, a lifelong art advocate and collector, at the Amarillo Museum of Art. On view through March 24, 2024.
February 06, 2024
Work in Progress with John Flores
Ceramicist John Flores infuses natural forms with humanistic qualities to create surreal sculptures that celebrate transition and change.
January 08, 2024
Of Venom, Virility, and Vulnerability: José Villalobos at Big Medium in Austin
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality.
November 27, 2023
Donna Zarbin-Byrne’s Like Water from a Rock Reimagines Landscapes Against Grief
Donna Zarbin-Byrne’s solo exhibition at Arts Fort Worth immerses viewers in fantastical representations of ecosystems from Texas and Hawai’i in the wake of climate crisis.
November 14, 2023
Exhibition by “Under-Understood” Louise Nevelson Reclaims the Late Artist’s Place in American Art History
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury at the Amon Carter takes a fresh look at the influential artist through a historical lens, and argues that the world shaped her.
October 03, 2023
Jared Steffensen: Nosey Taily and the Leftover Review Features Sculptural Transformations from Busted Skateboards
Jared Steffensen, a Salt Lake City-based artist and curator, repurposes broken skateboard decks into enigmatic, nearly inexplicable sculptural artworks in the Current Work exhibition Nosey Taily and the Leftover Review.
September 25, 2023
InterviewOklahomaVol. 8 Medium + Support
8,000 Pounds of Clay with My Hands: An Interview with Raven Halfmoon
Oklahoma-based artist Raven Halfmoon (Caddo) discusses the material and conceptual underpinnings of her large-scale ceramic works.
September 01, 2023
Living National Treasure Fujinuma Noboru Comes to TAI Modern
Living National Treasure Fujinuma Noboru's exhibition at TAI Modern in Santa Fe showcases his commitment to preserving the beauty of Japan's bamboo and culture, August 18–September 30, 2023.
August 15, 2023
Land Suffering: The Unavailing Amelioration of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons
The meek, reverent sculptures of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons puncture 160 acres of unusable potato farmland in Hooper, Colorado, offering healing to a sandhill crane nesting ground undergoing megadrought.
August 10, 2023
Handmade Readymades: Tamara Johnson’s Kitschy Kitchen Imposters in House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery
Tamara Johnson’s exhibition House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin examines the absurdity of daily domesticity with mass-produced kitchen items turned into one-of-a-kind sculptures.
August 04, 2023
Art Santa Fe Returns During Santa Fe’s Annual Art Week
Celebrating its 23rd edition, Art Santa Fe features a curated selection of international exhibitors featuring one-of-a-kind works for sale in a gallery-style venue July 14–16, 2023.
July 01, 2023
Public Art That’s Not a Bummer: A Roundup of Denver’s Linger-Worthy Outdoor Artworks
Denver's public art collection boasts outstanding examples of monumental outdoor sculptures and includes works by Hebert Bayer, Sol LeWitt, Anthony Magar, Beverly Pepper, Bernar Venet, and more.
June 02, 2023
The Outsized Presence of Luis Jiménez in the Southwest
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
March 28, 2023
Whose Bodies? Authorship and Control in Anuar Maauad’s WE ARE BODIES at Black Cube in Denver
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots?
December 02, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
The Contour of Feeling at the Denver Botanic Gardens introduces Colorado audiences to immense, organic cedar sculptures and other large-scale works by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.
August 26, 2022
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Studio Visit: Sharbani Das Gupta
Las Cruces-based artist Sharbani Das Gupta is an observer of the earth's elements and the impact of human activity on the natural world.
August 26, 2022
Review: Forgotten Artifacts Imagines Post-Humanity Via Ancient Metals
In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.
July 21, 2022
