
An Artist Who Wrangles Cattle, Pours Iron, and Pulls Prints
Artist Jack Craft operates a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle while producing minimalist sculptures and experimental prints.
April 17, 2025
Artist Jack Craft operates a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle while producing minimalist sculptures and experimental prints.
Natalie Hegert • April 17, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World.
Natalie Hegert • 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.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Laredo-based artist Gil Rocha uses found objects from his Texas neighborhood and items purchased across the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the duality of the region.
Jessica Fuentes • 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.
Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Bruce Nauman’s Center of the Universe on the campus of the University of New Mexico inspires a personal ritual and creative essay that asks us to reconnect to the environment and ourselves.
Christina Cook • March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
EssayUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
How a lost-and-found neon dragon on Ogden's main drag shaped one family's mythology—and captured a community's heart.
Jennifer Primbs • March 07, 2025
Yasuaki Onishi's site-specific installation Stone on Boundary poetically links Japan and Utah's mountains, rivers—and entanglements in the mining industry.
Ana Estrada • February 18, 2025
Mavasta Honyouti debuts sixteen remarkable panels bearing ancestral memories of the Native American boarding school system at Wheelwright Museum.
Olivia Amaya Ortiz • February 13, 2025
New Mexico–based artist Eric-Paul Riege chose Canal Street, a commercial thoroughfare and counterfeit market, to question notions of material value in his first New York solo exhibition.
Gabriella Angeleti • February 11, 2025
Artist Jon Revett makes a pilgrimage to see his mentor Larry Bell's career retrospective in Phoenix, and view what the Light and Space master calls his last cube in Taos.
Jon Revett • January 30, 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.
Ryan Hawk • January 09, 2025
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
Stephanie Wolf • November 14, 2024
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.
Xan Murphy • November 01, 2024
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.
Phoenix Savage • October 24, 2024
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
Gina Pugliese • October 22, 2024
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.
Camille LeFevre • September 26, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 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.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024
FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.
Karla Lagunas • September 06, 2024
When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.
Ekin Balcioglu • August 02, 2024
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?”
Xan Murphy • July 12, 2024
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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.
Tierra Mar Gallery • May 24, 2024
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.
Spenser Willden • March 15, 2024
Roswell artist-in-residence ann haeyoung confronts the geopolitics of emptiness in terra nullius at the Roswell Museum.
Jess Ziegenfuss • February 26, 2024
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.
Amarillo Museum of Art • February 06, 2024
Ceramicist John Flores infuses natural forms with humanistic qualities to create surreal sculptures that celebrate transition and change.
Aleina Grace Edwards • January 08, 2024
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality.
Barbara Purcell • November 27, 2023
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