Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture.
Apr 06
Visual Art
Mar 15
Senga Nengudi: Topologies
Topologies, Senga Nengudi’s retrospective currently on view at the Denver Art Museum, acts as a call-to-action: for marginalized bodies and beings to be seen in the world.
Mar 04
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective.
Mar 03
Linda Lomahaftewa and the Moving Land
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her.
Feb 25
In OKLA, Ed Ruscha Grows From His Roots
OKLA, Ed Ruscha’s first solo exhibition in his home state Oklahoma, is more than just a homecoming parade for the artist, who is still making work at eighty-three years old.
Feb 23
unFlagging: Unfurling new Symbols
The exhibition unFlagging at Ballroom Marfa aligned strikingly with current events, reevaluating in real-time what flags signal about place, national identity, and values.
Feb 23
POSADA! Calaveras, Chapbooks, & Broadsides: Works from 1880-1910 [sponsored]
Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe presents an exhibition by the legendary Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, February 26-March 21, 2021.
Feb 08
Nazafarin Lotfi: The Distance to the Horizon
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
Feb 08
Corey Drieth
Colorado Springs artist Corey Drieth seeks to make lyrically poetic objects that are simultaneously intimate, mysterious, and expansive.
Feb 08
José Guadalupe Posada, Legendary Printmaker of Mexico
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work.
Feb 08
Hillerbrand+Magsamen
Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston artist collective, creates artwork that comments on family dynamics and American consumer culture.
Feb 08
Michael Hubbard
Midland, Texas artist Michael Hubbard's work creates an imaginary vision of non-binary identity in all its ambiguity, freedom, and contradiction.
Feb 08
Saskia Jordá
Phoenix artist Saskia Jordá’s practice engages in an iterative mapping and remapping to explore concepts of cultural identity, bodies in space, and sense of place.
Feb 08
Alivia Magaña
Taos artist Alivia Magaña, who works as a medical investigator on untimely deaths in her community, explores the notion of grieving for those we don't know.
Feb 08
Catherine Czacki: Write a Poem, Make a Sculpture, Do the Wash
Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material.
Feb 08
Helen Juliet Atkins
Interdisciplinary Albuquerque artist Helen Juliet Atkins explores the symbiotic nature between individuals and their communities, especially how one’s sense of self is affected by culture.
Feb 08
Safwat Saleem
Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging.
Feb 08
Hong Hong: Before Earth and Sky Were Separate
Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky.
Feb 08
Teresita Fernández: Elemental
Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality.
Feb 08
Aleya Hoerlein
Taos artist Aleya Hoerlein's latest series expresses a desire for closeness and meaning in a time of isolation by working in the space between and around forms.
Feb 08
Caitlin Carcerano
The latest series from Albuquerque artist Caitlin Carcerano is centered on the locus of self-care and vulnerability: the bathtub.
Feb 08
Sarah Sudhoff
Houston artist Sarah Sudhoff delves into themes of gender, science, and personal experience. Rooted in the quotidian, Sudhoff's work navigates the personal and universal.
Feb 08
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Horror Vacui
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s recent exhibition Horror Vacui offers a look beyond the immediate disarray and confusion in which we find ourselves.
Feb 08
Jaewook Lee
Flagstaff artist Jaewook Lee's work takes inspiration from brain science to examine the human condition and how we're connected to a greater network.
Feb 08
Margaret Neumann: I Just Like the Cherry
Colorado artist Margaret Neumann's paintings are rooted in the human experience as it is translated through time, through the body, and through our many coping mechanisms.
Jan 27
Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
The new book Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts shows how IAIA is redefining boundaries in Native art scholarship.
Jan 18
Virtual Reality Installation Carne y Arena Immerses Viewers in Migrants’ Stories
The virtual-reality installation Carne y Arena, the brainchild of acclaimed director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is an unforgettable twenty minutes of walking in migrants’ shoes at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Dec 21
Support Santa Fe Gift Guide: Art Edition
The Support Santa Fe Gift Guide series features treasures from local shops, makers, and organizations. Presenting: the Art Edition.
Oct 12
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Eric-Paul Riege
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) updates us on the work he's been making, the space he's holding, and material as a teacher.
Sep 17
Larger Than Memory Contends for Our Attention
Larger Than Memory includes works made by Indigenous artists from North America in the first two decades of this century.
Sep 07
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Danielle Shelley
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
NM Artist to Know Now Danielle Shelley updates us on her current work within the political and social landscape, and making art as an act of faith.
Sep 04
12 NM Artists to Know Now Update: William T. Carson
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
New Mexico Artist to Know Now William T. Carson updates us on his practice since the pandemic, working with sound, and creating without expectation.
Aug 28
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Andrea Pichaida
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Andrea Pichaida gives us an update on her new work, her studio practice, and making art in the time of global unrest.
Aug 27
Artists Brighten a Boarded up Albuquerque
Artists descended on downtown Albuquerque, a “ghost town” after the pandemic, for two weeks to paint the boarded-up windows...
Aug 24
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Joe Ramiro Garcia
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Joe Ramiro Garcia updates us on his current work and studio practice.
Aug 21
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: c marquez
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
Taos-based artist c marquez, one of SWC's 12 NM Artists to Know Now, updates us on their practice, new pieces, and wishes for the arts community.
Aug 18
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Rapheal Begay
New Mexico Artists to Know NowNews
Rapheal Begay, one of SWC's 12 NM Artists to Know Now, updates us on his work and relationship to art since the COVID-19 pandemic, which he has spent at home in Navajo Nation. He continues to advocate for Indigenous aesthetics and visual sovereignty.
Aug 07
Making the Most of a Virtual Indian Market
Reimagined for the COVID-19 era, this year’s entirely virtual monthlong Indian Market is ushering in a new era for SWAIA and many Native artists.
Jul 31
[sponsored] Infinite Beauty: Ulla and Martin Kaufmann Strive for Innovation and Essence
Patina Gallery presents Infinite Beauty, On the Move, a collection by master metalsmiths and jewelry makers Ulla and Martin Kaufmann, in partnership with Charon Kransen Arts.
Jul 24
A Storefront Art Exhibition Must Balance Creative Expression With Private Interest
Windows On the Future, which spans Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos, aims to re-energize commercial districts that have slowed down due to COVID-19.
Jul 13
The Annexation of Art, Empathy, and the Future
From thermal surveillance imaging to maps of the dead to stories and visions of survival, the work at two imminent Santa Fe exhibitions invites you to come closer to some of the millions of humans who have lost, fled, or been chased from their homes and countries in the past three decades.
May 19
Uncharted: Sarah Stolar
This week we chat with Sarah Stolar, an interdisciplinary artist and head of the art department at UNM-Taos. She shares how her students are coping, and the importance of supporting young artists whose voices we need most
May 06
NM Art from Anywhere: Jeff Kellar, New Work
Richard Levy Gallery presents New Work: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, a solo exhibition of colorful minimal pieces by Jeff Kellar. He creates beautiful surfaces through the application of many layers of acrylic resin and clay pigment onto paper, aluminum panels, and woodblocks. Each layer is methodically sanded and buffed leaving the surface smooth and modulated. Playing with illusion, ambiguity, and space, Kellar uses these ultra-flat surfaces to form dimensional compositions.
