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.
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. By Lynn Trimble
NevadaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque. By Marcus Civin
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism. By Southwest Contemporary
NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future. By Southwest Contemporary
New MexicoArtistsVol. 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. By Southwest Contemporary
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. By Joshua Rose
ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history. By Southwest Contemporary
New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks. By Steve Jansen
New MexicoArtistsVol. 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. By Southwest Contemporary
New MexicoArtistsVol. 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. By Southwest Contemporary
TexasReviewVol. 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. By Sommer Browning
New MexicoArtistsVol. 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. By Southwest Contemporary
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Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving. By
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences. By Southwest Contemporary
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. By Deborah Ross
Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. By Lynn Trimble
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 By Daisy Geoffrey
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. By Joshua Ware
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. By Deborah Ross
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime. By Lauren Moya Ford
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. By Joshua Ware
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing. By Tamara Johnson
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. By Maggie Grimason
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies. By Maggie Grimason
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. By Tamara Johnson
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Natalie Hegert
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. By Steve Jansen
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work. By Angie Rizzo
FeatureColoradoVol. 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. By Natalie Hegert
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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. By Daisy Geoffrey
ReviewColoradoVol. 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. By Sommer Browning
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. By Lyndsay Knecht
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist. By Steve Jansen
ReviewArizonaVol. 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. By Lynn Trimble
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 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. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
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. By Lyndsay Knecht
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
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. By Maggie Grimason
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic. By Southwest Contemporary
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
New Mexico artist Chaz John's series Manifest Destiny's Child proposes a deeply personal and contemporary translation of Indigenous and American iconography. By Southwest Contemporary
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land. By Southwest Contemporary
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