Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyColorado
Denver artist Marcus Fingerlin makes the familiar strange by skewing commonplace imagery, focusing on the nonsensical and ironic.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
SV Randall's multi-media practice investigates how our exterior perception aligns with our interior selves, and in doing so highlights larger social issues.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Santa Fe artist Jenny Day creates far-out works about resilience—equal parts playful, wounded, and celebratory.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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.
Apr 27
Desert X 2021 offers large-scale, photogenic works that, while politically charged, lack a distinct impact.
Apr 06
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.
Mar 15
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 shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective.
Mar 03
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
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
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
Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe presents an exhibition by the legendary Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, February 26-March 21, 2021.
Feb 08
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesColorado
Colorado Springs artist Corey Drieth seeks to make lyrically poetic objects that are simultaneously intimate, mysterious, and expansive.
Feb 08
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas
Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston artist collective, creates artwork that comments on family dynamics and American consumer culture.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas
Midland, Texas artist Michael Hubbard's work creates an imaginary vision of non-binary identity in all its ambiguity, freedom, and contradiction.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona
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
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
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, 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
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
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
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona
Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging.
Feb 08
Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky.
Feb 08
Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
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
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesMagazine
The latest series from Albuquerque artist Caitlin Carcerano is centered on the locus of self-care and vulnerability: the bathtub.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesTexas
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’s recent exhibition Horror Vacui offers a look beyond the immediate disarray and confusion in which we find ourselves.
