Visual Art

SponsoredNew Mexico

Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.

Kouri + Corrao Gallery • May 10, 2022

ReviewColorado

Jae Ko’s artworks at Robischon Gallery in Denver address the Southwest’s drought conditions and the rise of water speculation in the futures market.

Joshua Ware • May 09, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden.

Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden • May 04, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.

Kathryne Lim • May 04, 2022

Collectivity + CollaborationNew Mexico

Through the Flower in Belen, New Mexico is organizing a new installation with a collective of New Mexico artists to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse. 

Caitlin Chávez • April 25, 2022

Studio VisitNew Mexico

New Mexico sculptor Jeremy Thomas uses inflation to create three-dimensional works of steel and canvas that explore air as a medium.

Joshua Ware • April 19, 2022

ReviewUtah

David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin collaborate in a multimedia exhibition at UMFA featuring portals to connect us to lost loved ones and heal communal pain.

Hannah McBeth • April 18, 2022

NewsArizona

In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon.

Eva-Marie Hube • April 13, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21. 

UNM Art Department and Frederick Hammersley Foundation • April 12, 2022

Studio VisitColorado

Rochelle Johnson, an artist in residence at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center, is a figurative oil painter who imbues her work with messages about women’s beauty, the Black community, and the human condition.

Deborah Ross • April 12, 2022

Curator ProfileArizona

Julio César Morales explores cultural differences as senior curator for ASU Art Museum in Arizona, drawing on his binational experiences to address social justice issues through collaboration.

Lynn Trimble • April 11, 2022

Collectivity + CollaborationColorado

A new hanging of Clyfford Still’s work, co-curated by a cohort of young children, presents "not just boring grown-up things" at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum.

Natalie Hegert • April 08, 2022

UtahStudio Visit

Salt Lake City artist Mitsu Salmon explores issues of racism, environmentalism, and sexuality. Her performance-based approach to a multi-disciplinary practice crafts an immersive experience between artist and viewer.

Scotti Hill • April 07, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Santa Fe artist Sam Scott’s new body of work on view at Pie Projects, Mind/Mirror, is an invitation to peel back visual layers and a journey into the very essence of abstraction.

Pie Projects • April 06, 2022

ReviewUtah

In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism.

Hannah McBeth • March 31, 2022

Studio VisitUtah

UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program in Salt Lake City provides studio space and exhibition opportunities for Utah artists while enriching the local arts community.

Natalie Hegert • March 24, 2022

ReviewArizona

As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales.

Lynn Trimble • March 22, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.

Winterowd Fine Art • March 22, 2022

ReviewColorado

Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver.

Emilie Trice • March 16, 2022

Curator ProfileTexas

Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.

Caitlin Chávez • March 14, 2022

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. 

Steve Jansen • March 11, 2022

Studio VisitArizona

Benjamin Timpson hand-cuts delicate pieces of ethically-sourced butterfly wings to create meticulous and moving portraits that explore trauma and healing while raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Lynn Trimble • March 08, 2022

EssayTexas

Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.

Laura Neal • March 07, 2022

FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.

Natalie Hegert • February 25, 2022

FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.

Hikmet Sidney Loe • February 25, 2022

ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.

Lyndsay Knecht • February 25, 2022

FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.

Scotti Hill • February 25, 2022

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Cara Despain’s exhibition In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at Utah’s Kimball Art Center confronted the pressing environmental and moral calamities of the American West.

Scotti Hill • February 25, 2022

ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.

Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022

ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Lauren Tresp • February 25, 2022