Opening Reception: Lost & Found
Lost & Found: An Analog Forever Magazine Exhibition opening reception: Friday, October 11, 6-9 pm on view: October 11–November 23, 2024 Lost & Found, curated by Michael Behlen and Michael […]
September 16, 2024
Visual Art
Une Vie, The Mad Hatter Gallery’s Inaugural Exhibit, to Feature the Acid Paintings of Salome Ali Jaffe
The Mad Hatter is showcasing the paintings of artist Salome Ali Jaffe in an exhibition, Une Vie, September 6-October 19, 2024. For Jaffe, who specializes in acid painting and uses […]
September 11, 2024
Tucson Museum of Art’s Centennial Celebration Unveils Temporal Tapestry in Time Travelers
Time Travelers: Foundations, Transformations, and Expansions at the Centennial reconsiders the complex relationships of select artworks in relation to the past, present, and future. On view at the Tucson Museum of Art March 17–October 6, 2024.
January 16, 2024
Antoinette Cauley: I Do It for The Hood, Pt. 2 at Modified Arts
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
Elaine Parks and the Art of Paying Attention to Everything
Ceramicist Elaine Parks, in the under-appreciated northern Nevada landscape, carefully combs the environment to find and fashion objects that command awareness and attention.
January 10, 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
Will You Break Your Silence and Scream? Nicholas Galanin Wants to Know
In Interference Patterns at SITE Santa Fe, Nicholas Galanin (Lingít/Unangax̂) stokes rage and reckoning with the dark history and continuing legacies of settler-colonialism.
December 21, 2023
Bright Lights for Dark Days: Southwest Contemporary’s Winter 2023-24 Art Guide
From contemporary Korean photography to a time-spanning collection of Andean fiber arts and a bubbling biennial on the U.S.-Mexico border, let these exhibitions across the Southwest be bright lights on these short, dark days.
December 19, 2023
Del Harrow Stays True to Form, Fusing Clay and Computer
Del Harrow, a Colorado-based ceramicist, combines ancient practices and contemporary technologies to create historically informed objects that tell stories toward a more sustainable future.
December 18, 2023
“I’m Here, We’re Here”: The Work of Manuel Carrillo in Conversation with Delilah Montoya and Maryssa Rose Chavez
Though focused on a 20th-century photographer, Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist illuminates a sense of community identity through beauty that connects to the work of artists practicing in the Southwest today.
December 11, 2023
Bringing It All Back Home Marks Patrick Kikut’s Return to Santa Fe
Bringing It All Back Home reveals that Patrick Kikut is an unsentimental explorer of the West, manifesting an intrepid curiosity and respect for the land through which he moves.
November 29, 2023
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
Cey Adams, Album Cover Designer of Iconic Public Enemy Record, Receives the Retrospective Treatment in North Texas
The first Cey Adams retrospective displays more than four decades of the artist’s commercial collaborations with global brands and hip-hop visuals that include Public Enemy and Beastie Boys album covers.
November 20, 2023
Crafting Resistance Slays the Binaries Separating Art and Craft
Curated by Erin Joyce, the small-scale exhibition at ASU Art Museum posits big questions about art and craft, resistance and identity.
November 17, 2023
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and form & concept present Paper Trails
Paper Trails challenges the preconceived notions of contemporary art and engages in aesthetic and conceptual conversations. On view through December 23 at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Paper Trails […]
November 16, 2023
Albuquerque Exhibition One Day Closer to Home to Showcase Projects by Incarcerated Youth
Amanda Dannáe Romero and sheri crider discuss the Sanitary Tortilla Factory exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted youth and the role of art in creating social change in New Mexico.
November 15, 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
Dimensionality: Quilts of a Different Stripe
Experience the creative prowess of fabric artist Rebecca Speakes at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
November 08, 2023
Nani Chacon, Hand and Machine, and Working Classroom PAHTIA Mural Collaboration Celebrates Healing, Empowers Education
Nani Chacon, Hand and Machine, and Working Classroom student artists collaborated to create PAHTIA, an interactive, site-specific space for healing via art and technology at Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center.
November 08, 2023
Light, Life, and Color: Tiny Tree by Kelly Lynn Jones at The Pit, Palm Springs
Tiny Tree, Kelly Lynn Jones’s second solo exhibition with The Pit in Palm Springs, celebrates the harmony of the natural world, bringing light and texture into focus.
November 07, 2023
Exhibition by Ben Aleck Honors the Great Basin and Celebrates Native Resistance
Ben Aleck's exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art looks at thirty years of work by the artist and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe member who has witnessed key Native American political moments.
November 06, 2023
Breaking the “Buckskin Ceiling”: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Memory Map
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith provokes conversations about Indigenous peoples and transforms the contemporary art canon with her long-overdue career retrospective.
November 03, 2023
Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Two Fall Exhibitions
MyLoan Dinh: Unsettled Provisions and Nancy Rivera: No Present to Remember open Friday, November 3, 2023, and run through January 14, 2024.
October 31, 2023
Mythopoetica at the Palm Springs Art Museum Delves into the Symbols and Stories of the Desert
Mythopoetica: Symbols and Stories at the Palm Springs Art Museum fuses past and present to imagine a future for the inland Southern California region.
October 30, 2023
No Longer a Hypothetical: If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change
If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change looks at global warming with a right brain/left brain lineup of scientists, journalists, and artists.
October 24, 2023
Alex Boeschenstein Examines Roswell’s Storied History in New Works
Roswell artist-in-residence Alex Boeschenstein takes inspiration from things seen in the skies in Visionary Rumor at the Roswell Museum.
October 19, 2023
Experience Coincidences at Dumke Arts Plaza, Ogden, Utah
The Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University presents Coincidences, a multimedia project and contemporary movement experience exploring shared isolation.
October 18, 2023
In Todd Dobbs’s Typical American, AI Paints a Unique Portrait of Americana
Todd Dobbs’s captivating journey of AI-generated imagery and its complex relationship with human perception—packaged in a witty exploration of art and technology—challenges assumptions about the “typical American.”
October 17, 2023
Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts Unveils New Gallery in a Celebration that Commemorates Past, Present, and Future
The Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, a Salt Lake City organization that promotes marginalized artists, aims to revitalize its mission with a new exhibition space centered on community-based programming.
October 16, 2023
Picks for Pumpkin Spice Season: Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2023 Art Guide
Check out these Southwest art exhibitions for fall 2023, featuring the churning creativity of community, the crisis of climate change, and cowboys.
October 13, 2023
