Kellie Bornhoft: Breathing with the Sun
FeatureSouthwestVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kellie Bornhoft’s work collaborates with the landscape, presenting both the long view of geologic time and intimate perspectives in poetry and gesture.
Jul 30
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Jul 30
Kristin Bauer: Creating Space to Breathe
ArizonaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kristin Bauer creates text-based artworks that explore the ways words and images influence our perspectives and interpretations of interior and exterior spaces.
Jul 30
Jung Min: Bodyscapes and Hairscapes
FeatureNevadaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
Jul 30
Ellen Babcock
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism.
Jul 30
Rossitza Todorova
ArtistsNevadaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.
Jul 30
Jill O’Bryan
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Jill O'Bryan has practiced recording her breath in her works for more than twenty years, accumulating the residue of recorded time and place through the physical actions of her body.
Jul 30
Si’alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix.
Jul 30
Brenda Stumpf
ArtistsColoradoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history.
Jul 30
Review: Breath Taking
New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks.
Jul 30
Stefan Jennings Batista
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Stefan Jennings Batista explores intersections of place, identity, and belonging in his photography practice. His latest series focuses on the mysteries of life, death, nature, and humanity.
Jul 30
Alejandro Macias
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Tucson artist Alejandro Macias addresses themes of heritage, immigration, and ethnicity in his work driven by his Mexican-American identity and the current social-political climate.
Jul 30
Review: Imminent Archive: George Bolster & Dong Kyu Kim
ReviewTexasVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.
Jul 30
Everton Tsosie
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Everton Tsosie’s paintings employ an abstractive style, palettes inspired by the New Mexico landscape, and allude to the pulses of urban environments while centering Indigenous figures.
Jul 30
Dallin Maybee
ArtistsColoradoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving.
Jul 30
Rosalinda Pacheco
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.
Jul 21
Review: Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.
Jul 16
Curator Profile: Lisa Sette of Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix
Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jul 14
Review: Dust Specks on the Sea at 516 Arts in Albuquerque
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization
Jul 13
Review: Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift
Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.
Jul 12
Artist Turns Curator to Unpack The Stubborn Influence of Painting
Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions.
Jun 22
Review: New Hong Hong Exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.
Jun 10
Laura Shill: Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery
Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual.
May 25
Nikesha Breeze: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.
May 25
Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.
May 25
Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25
Izumi Yokoyama: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.
May 25
nicholas b jacobsen: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands.
May 25
Isadora Stowe: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Isadora Stowe's work explores the landscape of the mind as it relates to the physical environment. She creates an all-encompassing vision with a visual vocabulary that is both personal and builds on the universal.
May 25
Tommy Bruce: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Tommy Bruce's many-sided art practice comments on identity construction, often through his real-life renderings of furries.
May 12
Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
Apr 30
Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.
Apr 30
Christian Cruz: The Fantasy of Rest in the Pandemic Era
FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
Apr 30
Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world.
Apr 30
Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Towards a Feelosophy of Art
ColoradoFeatureVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world.
Apr 30
Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.
Apr 30
Colorado in the Present Tense
ColoradoReviewVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.
Apr 30
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen
ArizonaReviewVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
Apr 30
Body/Magic: Liz Cohen
ArizonaReviewVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.
Apr 30
May Stevens: Mystery, Politics and Seas of Words
New MexicoReviewVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.
Apr 30
Xxavier Edward Carter: Circulate: 7 Works on Paper
ReviewTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.
Apr 30
Carissa Samaniego
ColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Carissa Samaniego's work obscures the boundaries between disparate places and memories, braiding together experiences to create narratives that seem to be lifted from dreams.
Apr 30
Marcus Fingerlin
ColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
Apr 30
Chaz John
New MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography.
