Work in Progress with Derrick Velasquez
Artist Derrick Velasquez, who is represented by Robischon Gallery and runs Yes Ma’am and Friend of a Friend, is a key pillar in Denver's gallery and DIY scenes.
August 25, 2021
Visual Art
Radius Books: Artist Weekend Auction + Book Sale
Santa Fe artbook publisher Radius Books hosts its 2021 Artist Weekend to bring together all of its artists, writers, and collaborators.
August 20, 2021
Amid Voting Rights and DACA Rollbacks, Arizona Artists Revisit Good Trouble Bucket
As voting rights and the DACA immigration program took hits in Texas, Arizona artists Gloria Martinez-Granados and Joan Baron remain committed to John Lewis’s renowned call to make "good trouble."
August 18, 2021
“It’s Like Your Own Ocean”: The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, established in 1967, gives worldwide artists an entire year of rent-free creation, monthly stipends, support for artists with children, large spaces, and beautiful light in southeastern New Mexico.
August 09, 2021
Worth a Road Trip: Southwest Contemporary’s Summer 2021 Art Guide
From Land Art in Nevada to abstraction in Denver, from demons in Dallas to the legacy of Elaine Horwitch in Santa Fe: visit ten art exhibitions across the Southwest before summer ends.
August 06, 2021
SouthwestFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kellie Bornhoft: Breathing with the Sun
Kellie Bornhoft’s work collaborates with the landscape, presenting both the long view of geologic time and intimate perspectives in poetry and gesture.
July 30, 2021
ArizonaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kristin Bauer: Creating Space to Breathe
Kristin Bauer creates text-based artworks that explore the ways words and images influence our perspectives and interpretations of interior and exterior spaces.
July 30, 2021
NevadaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Jung Min: Bodyscapes and Hairscapes
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Ellen Babcock
Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism.
July 30, 2021
NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rossitza Todorova
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Jill O’Bryan
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.
July 30, 2021
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Si’alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom
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.
July 30, 2021
ColoradoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Brenda Stumpf
Artist Brenda Stumpf's work conjures the mysterious and enchanted, inspired by mythology, mysticism, poetry, and ancient history.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Review: Breath Taking
Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Stefan Jennings Batista
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.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Alejandro Macias
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.
July 30, 2021
TexasReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Review: Imminent Archive: George Bolster & Dong Kyu Kim
In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Everton Tsosie
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.
July 30, 2021
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Dallin Maybee
Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rosalinda Pacheco
Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.
July 30, 2021
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.
July 21, 2021
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.
July 16, 2021
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
July 14, 2021
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.
July 13, 2021
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.
July 12, 2021
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.
June 22, 2021
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.
June 10, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Nikesha Breeze: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.
May 25, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Sarah Siltala: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.
May 25, 2021
New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Shannon Christine Rankin: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2021
Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.
May 25, 2021
