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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
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.
April 30, 2021
SV Randall's multi-media practice investigates how our exterior perception aligns with our interior selves, and in doing so highlights larger social issues.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Tigre (Bailando) Mashaal-Lively's latest work is a sanctuary for the times, offering a space that cultivates solace for grief and inspiration for survival.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Ranran Fan's surrealist images are both political, intimate, and multidimensional. Through her work she explores oppressive systems and our own complicity within them.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Erika Wanenmacher's project, What Time Travel feels like, sometimes, depicts a personal and human narrative about time travel.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Chelsea Wrightson creates works from vivid dreams and walking meditations, channeling new futures that support feminine approaches to sustainability, care, and more.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Enrique Figueredo presents cultural critiques through revised accounts of history and current events. Inspired by Magical Realism, his distortions boldly imagine a new version of history.
April 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Taos artist Johnny DeFeo's recent body of work, Department of the Interior, features renderings of Southwestern interior spaces that illustrate the luxury of access to natural scenery.
April 30, 2021
Texas artist Loc Huynh's recent body of work honors moments with his mother previously taken for granted and subverts typical European genre paintings by presenting a Vietnamese-American perspective.
April 30, 2021
Desert X 2021 offers large-scale, photogenic works that, while politically charged, lack a distinct impact.
April 27, 2021
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.
April 06, 2021
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.
March 15, 2021
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective.
March 04, 2021
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.
February 25, 2021
The exhibition unFlagging at Ballroom Marfa aligned strikingly with current events, reevaluating in real-time what flags signal about place, national identity, and values.
February 23, 2021
Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe presents an exhibition by the legendary Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, February 26-March 21, 2021.
February 23, 2021
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesColorado
Colorado Springs artist Corey Drieth seeks to make lyrically poetic objects that are simultaneously intimate, mysterious, and expansive.
February 08, 2021
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work.
February 08, 2021
FeatureArizonaVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
February 08, 2021
