Work in Progress with Patricia Sannit
Patricia Sannit, in this deeply personal visit to her Phoenix studio, reflects on the ways loss, vulnerable ecologies, and recent residencies in Iceland and Sweden are shifting her practice.
Jan 24
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Jan 23
Fate of Utah’s Outsider Art Site The Christian School Remains In Flux
Salt Lake City’s Christian School, the brainchild of late artist Ralphael Plescia, is in limbo as an arts organization’s preservation efforts are hampered by the recent sale of the property.
Jan 20
When, Where, and How Did Phoenix’s Downtown Art Scene Commence? Four Local Artists Remember.
Janet de Berge Lange, Jeff Falk, James B. Hunt, and Annie Lopez—in roundtable style—dish on downtown Phoenix’s art scene pre-America West Arena and prior to First Friday.
Jan 19
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard and Richard B Reimagine Art and Dining
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard gallery and Richard B restaurant blur the lines between dinner party and exhibition opening with an invitation to take in art with a side of gastronomy.
Jan 17
Work in Progress with Mario Zoots
Mario Zoots is a Denver-based artist who has explored the medium of collage for nearly fifteen years, and pushed against the genre's boundaries and expectations.
Jan 16
Riding Off into the Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson
Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson is a group exhibition of 16mm video, silver-gelatin prints, and sculptural fabrications that share formally austere and technically complex approaches to composition.
Jan 11
Alternative Worlds of What Ifs, Brought to You by Angel Cabrales
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
Jan 05
Exhibiting an Archive of a Shadow: Southwest Reflections at the Millicent Rogers
At the Millicent Rogers Museum, Southwest Reflections: Between Shadows of the Land takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to the place now known as New Mexico.
Jan 03
The Center Can Not Hold Illustrates the Temporal Nature of Our Cores
The Center Can Not Hold—curated by Hikmet Sidney Loe and featuring works by Anne Mooney, John Sparano, and Hannah Vaughn—explores the varied meanings of holding space through architecture.
Dec 21
New Media Leader Denver Digerati Looks Towards an Educational and Local Community Focused Future
Denver Digerati, under the direction of executive director and chief curator Sharifa Lafon, looks to change up its digital arts and educational programming in 2023.
Dec 20
Petra Cortright Displays Traditional Pieces Distilled Through Newer Media at Palm Springs Art Museum
Petra Cortright, a Net Art and Post-Internet Art painter, bends traditional art-world genres in a solo exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Dec 16
Work in Progress with Maja Ruznic
Maja Ruznic of Placitas, New Mexico builds and embraces darkness in canvas works that are informed by trauma and inspired by Carl Jung’s philosophy of the shadow self.
Dec 14
Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Founder of Southern New Mexico’s CAV Gallery, Disentangles Personal Stories of Family Violence
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […]
Dec 13
Work in Progress with MarSha Robinson
Denver-based artist and entrepreneur MarSha Robinson creates elaborate, botanical worlds and runs a thriving business under the moniker Strange Dirt.
Dec 08
Kiki Smith: From the Creek Offers Wondrous Passage to Natural Worlds
From the Creek, an exhibition by artist Kiki Smith, brings the experience of the flora and fauna of the Hudson River Valley to the Albuquerque Museum.
Dec 07
How High-Profile Southwest Museums Prioritize Local Artists
Several art museums in the Southwest region are highlighting local artists in creative ways, countering the tendency to associate major museums with monumental exhibitions of world-renowned artists.
Dec 06
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) at UCCS GOCA in Colorado Springs
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
Dec 02
Whose Bodies? Authorship and Control in Anuar Maauad’s WE ARE BODIES at Black Cube in Denver
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots?
Nov 28
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Reunion Reckons With Annihilation While Dreaming of the Future
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
Nov 23
Artists Turn to Text for Concise Social Messages at the Rubin Center in El Paso
In (RE)CONTEXT at the Rubin Center in El Paso, ten contemporary artists integrate text into their practices, recontextualizing and reappropriating words to create tools of social change.
Nov 18
Meggan Gould: Happy Time, Doomsday Time Pictures an Acute Contemporary Moment
Meggan Gould’s slow photography emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the moment in Happy Time, Doomsday Time.
Nov 17
“Pornographic” Mural in Salt Lake City Suburb Causes Confusion, Outrage
Midvale, Utah recently instituted a cultural revitalization project to enhance its downtown. A large mural depicting two nude figures and a ghoulish specter has become the talk of the town. […]
Nov 16
Scratching the Surface: Masha Sha’s Large-Scale Graphite Drawings at Warehouse 1-10
Masha Sha’s drawings are made in stillness alternating with something like fever, with words built of lanky linear planks unfolding at angles.
Nov 15
Downtown Phoenix Art Existed Before Roosevelt Row. Just Ask Pete Petrisko.
Pete Petrisko has spent decades participating in and documenting the downtown Phoenix arts scene, which has morphed from the grit of Metropophobobia and Gallery X to a place for brewpub-hopping.
Nov 14
A Rift Out West: Salt Lake City’s Arts Community Confronts Issues of Indigenous Representation at Local Gallery Modern West
New Mexico artist Billy Schenck has made a successful career of cowboy-and-Indian pop-art imagery, but a recent exhibition of his work brings present-day debates over representation and authorship into the harshest of spotlights.
Nov 11
Warm Up With These Winter 2022-23 Exhibitions Throughout the Southwest
From legendary folk artists in Texas to Black cowboys in New Mexico, these 2022-23 exhibitions are sure to get you thinking and exploring this winter.
Nov 10
Albuquerque’s Risolana Fosters Lo-Fi Art That’s Responsive to the Contemporary Moment
Risolana—Albuquerque’s only risograph studio that’s set to open an exhibition by debut artist-in-residence Lena Kassicieh—builds knowledge-sharing connections and shares stories through printed books, posters, and more.
Nov 09
Thoughts on Language in Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe highlights the work of thirteen artists exploring the present and future of Native and Indigenous art.
Nov 08
Wendy Kveck Stages the Feminine at ASAP in Las Vegas
Wendy Kveck’s Prompt: at ASAP in Las Vegas explored the ways we stage ourselves and our art while employing a feminist practice that confronts and amplifies women as cultural markers.
Nov 07
In Our Time: SMoCA Shows Works by Contemporary Black Artists From the Singer Collection
On view in In Our Time, Arizona-based collectors Iris and Adam Singer have been collecting contemporary art by Black artists for almost two decades.
Nov 04
Stephen Marc Explores the American Psyche Amid Midterm Elections
As midterm elections loom, Stephen Marc, an Arizona-based photographer and Guggenheim fellow, explores what protests reveal about the American psyche in An American Journey Continues.
Nov 03
Connections With the Land in Works by Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson at Exhibit 208
Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, and Judy Richardson are New Mexico artists connected by their engagement with land and landscape at Exhibit 208.
Oct 28
Pete Petrisko: 35 Years Onward at Lost Leaf Counterpunches at In-Flux Phoenix
Pete Petrisko, one of the few remaining old heads in the local art scene who has lived in downtown Phoenix since the 1980s, exhibits selections from the past thirty-five years.
Oct 26
Documenta 15: What You Need to Know About the History-Making Quinquennial
Documenta 15, the globally significant quinquennial, was both an exercise in decentralized curation with a focus on the Global South and a show riddled with unrelenting controversies.
Oct 25
Salt Lake City Bids Farewell to John Sproul’s Beloved Nox Contemporary
John Sproul, a prominent local artist and owner of Nox Contemporary, will close the gallery following the end of Jared Steffensen’s exhibition Idem, Norms, Dorms Mine on November 4, 2022.
Oct 24
Work in Progress with Monica Aissa Martinez
Monica Aissa Martinez talks about her drawings of human figures, animals, and viruses during a studio visit in Phoenix, where she shares past inspirations and future projects.
Oct 18
Country’s Largest Mexican Retablo Collection, Once Stored Underneath Bleachers, is Paired with Contemporary Devotional Works
Contemporary Ex-Votos at NMSU Art Museum sheds light on the understudied iconographic and ideological aspects of retablos depicting miracles on tin and found materials.
Oct 14
In i know you are, but what am i?, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity.
Oct 12
Santa Fe’s Multicultural Mural, Version 2.0
Gilberto Guzmán, a lead artist of Santa Fe’s sharply contested and now-defunct Multicultural mural, painted a new Multicultural to be displayed in 2023.
Oct 10
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
Oct 07
Shawn Skabelund Explores Ecological and Cultural Destruction at Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff artist Shawn Skabelund explores ecological and cultural destruction using materials gathered from forests in his exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts.
Sep 30
Step Into Christian Degn’s Dark, Magical Castle
Provo-based artist Christian Degn brings viewers into an abstract, dark, and magical world with pen-and-ink illustrations that grace album covers for well-known metal and ambient bands.
Sep 29
Review: Desert ArtLAB: Chicanx Landscapes at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Working across performance, printmaking, video, and Native ecological practices and philosophies, Desert ArtLAB cultivates and nourishes Indigenous agriculture through a Chicanx lens.
