Visual Art

Everyone has a biennial these days—a sprawling exhibition that brings in outside curators... By Jenn Shapland

Aug 28

Eye Contact

Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look. —Robert Wilson... By Diane Armitage

Aug 28

Nascent Atmospheres

At a preview event for Amie LeGette and Courtney Leonard’s exhibition, guests were lost in a literal twilight zone... By Jordan Eddy

Aug 28

The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag

The Printed Page

Redefine Terms by Thomas Christopher Haag. By Thomas Christopher Haag

Aug 21

The Printed Page / Nani Chacon

The Printed Page

when we erase the medicine...we erase the people, 2018, oil on panel with string, 10 x 8 in. By Nani Chacon

Jul 30

Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art

For the past several years, the Birmingham Museum of Art has been quietly amassing a powerhouse collection of some of the most significant politically inflected art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By Chelsea Weathers

Jul 30

The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha

Nearly everyone who walks into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has some version of the artist they’re looking for: their Georgia... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Jul 30

Allyson Packer: Liquid State

It wasn’t close yet to 3:50, but I lay down anyway on the thick red rug pulled through with floral patterns in blue and white yarn... By Maggie Grimason

Jul 30

XYZT: Abstract Landscapes

Can we materialize time? Does light have roots? Can we see something when there is nothing?... By Nancy Zastudil

Jul 30

Beautiful Test Sites/Now I Am Become Death

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” quoth J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad Gita... By Jordan Eddy

Jul 30

Everywhen: Indigenous Photoscapes

Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such... By Kathryn M Davis

Jul 30

Jetsonorama: Messages for the Future

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"I am the son of J.E.T., or Jetson," Chip Thomas said, referring to his own initials and those of his father. Thomas’s full name is Dr. James Edward Thomas, Jr., and his father, James Edward Thomas, Sr., was the original J.E.T. It’s how Chip Thomas came to his own moniker, Jetsonorama. By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Jul 30

Daisy Quezada

Early in her artistic career, Daisy Quezada came across a real-life scene with all the power of an omen. She and her mother had ventured to their old house in Jalisco, Mexico, which was long abandoned. By Jordan Eddy

Jun 29

Raychael Stine

As Raychael Stine guided us to her studio on the fringes of the University of New Mexico campus, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing for the past five years, I realized that all my questions were actually the same question: Why dogs? By Chelsea Weathers

Jun 29

Recall, Recapture, Remember

Tansey Contemporary: The title of this fiber-art exhibition smacks of redundancy—if you couldn’t guess, it’s about memory—but it’s surprisingly economical in other respects. Recall, Recapture, Remember features twenty-two artists from across the Southwest, selected... By Jordan Eddy

Jun 29

Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer

Words, whether in the form of slogans, mantras, or hip-hop lyrics, matter, and they are treated reverentially and humorously by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw, Cherokee), whose work is the subject of Like a Hammer, a show on view at the Denver... By Iris McLister

Jun 29

Two-Fold: A Pairing of Frederick Hammersley + Matthew Shlian

Paper has a memory. Each crease is recorded in the impression left where it was once folded. It can expand like origami, and it can collapse into flatness again, but its history remains pressed into the stuff it’s made of. It is this material and all the marks worn... By Maggie Grimason

Jun 29

Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12

Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12, currently on view at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, is a large-scale exhibition focusing on the artist’s minimalist, architectonic works that reference the clean modernism of Southern California as well as the sleek geometric forms of... By Anna Novakov

Jun 28

Inner Orbit

form & concept: For most people who aren’t astronomers or astrophysicists, outer space is a nebulous concept (no pun intended). How we relate to ideas like space-time, the Big Bang, and black holes often has more to do with our immediate material surroundings than with... By Chelsea Weathers

Jun 28

The Folk Art Universe

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This year the International Folk Art Market celebrates its fifteenth birthday. IFAM first began in 2004 with sixty-one artists from thirty-six countries. Now, that number has more than doubled to 162 artists from fifty-three countries. Officially, the vending is two days... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Jun 29

Unpacking the Archives: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Unpacking the Archives

If an object you hold dear could speak, what would it say? Would it talk about the circumstances of its making, who it came into contact with, or where it’s traveled? You see, objects are born into the world, moving about from place to place. Sometimes they are passed... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Jun 01

Futurition Santa Fe

Preview

Futurition Santa Fe is a collaborative effort to bring awareness to a number of events taking place across several Santa Fe institutions and businesses that involve the intersections of art, science, and technology. The primary participants include Santa Fe Institute, Currents New Media, the Thoma Foundation (Art House), form & concept... By The Magazine

Jun 01

Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12

Preview

The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos is gearing up for a large-scale exhibition of local luminary Larry Bell’s work. The show, titled Hocus, Focus and 12, is curated by Gus Foster, Taos photographer and Bell’s friend and collaborator. Highlights of the exhibition... By Anna Novakov

Jun 01

Stuart Arends: Tin Man, Slabs, and My Father’s House

Mayeur Projects: Stuart Arends is fond of saying that he lives in the middle of nowhere. Ever hear of Willard, New Mexico? The landscape around the artist’s house is austere, almost barren, with a view of some mountains off in the distance. He is “off the grid and under the radar”... By Diane Armitage

Jun 01

Taos: 1960s-Present

Soon after moving to northern New Mexico, almost seven years ago, and after doing a welter of studio visits, I noted the number of exceptional draftspersons in the area and pulled together a proposal for a show of drawings by artists who live in the general area of Taos... By Ann Landi

Jun 01

Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM

National Hispanic Cultural Center: Identity. It’s one of those words, concepts, ways of making sense of the world and ourselves that could fill volumes. Indeed, volumes of stories: self-made, inherited, or, in many instances, projected. Identity is that way... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Jun 01

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru

Museum of International Folk Art: On the wall of Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru reads a statement describing the Peruvian capital’s thriving artistic communities: “Popular arts in Lima are all about remixing.” Moving through the show, it becomes clear that... By Chelsea Weathers

Jun 01

Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs

UNM Art Museum: The whir of air conditioning swells as viewers descend the stairs of the UNM Museum of Art into the cave-like rooms that contain Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs. Blonde wood chairs sit at the bottom of the staircase in the... By Maggie Grimason

Jun 01

Nikesha Breeze: Within This Skin

Harwood Museum of Art: Late in the process of making artwork for her solo exhibition, Within This Skin, Nikesha Breeze started a series of ceramic and oxide wall sculptures titled Written in Water. She calls the works “death masks,” and each coppery visage was... By Jordan Eddy

Jun 01

Shane Tolbert

“This rock formation is forty million years old.” Shane Tolbert is guiding me through a narrow passage whose walls contain countless miniscule pebbles and stones—remnants of a mudslide caused by a rush of prehistoric water that cut through the area around the Colorado... By Chelsea Weathers and Clayton Porter

May 10

Michael Hedges: In Bloom

David Richard Gallery: Michael Hedges is a painter based near Chicago. He is youngish, what we might call “mid-career,” and I would suggest that he’s an artist to watch as he continues making art over the years. In Bloom consists of fifteen oil paintings whose style and... By Kathryn M Davis

May 01

Gloria Graham

Spending a morning with Gloria Graham in her drawing studio is like being in the world's most inspiring chemistry class. She speaks with sheer awe about the structures and movements of molecular particles, telling personal anecdotes about carbon and silicon, acting out the effects... By Jenn Shapland

May 01

Agueda Salazar Martínez

New Mexico Women

In a video taken in 1995, Agueda Martínez stands at her loom wearing a long floral dress, an apron, and a faded baseball cap with the logo of a local café. She works the threads quickly with both hands, tapping out a rhythm on the treadles below. She is 97 years old... By Jenn Shapland

Jun 02

Field Report: Naoshima

Travel

For us the journey to Naoshima, the art island of Japan in the Seto Inland Sea, will necessarily be long. You’ll have taken a plane or two or three, a Shinkansen, a train, a bus, a ferry, a shuttle. You’ll have overcome the inevitable travel dramas of buying the right... By Lauren Tresp

May 01

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

In a recent interview in Artforum, the artist Howardena Pindell recalls her first efforts toward protesting the oppressive and exclusionary practices of art institutions in the 1970s: “Because I was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I needed to remain anonymous, so... By Chelsea Weathers

May 01

Young Curators Present: Guises

Since 2000, SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators program has given high school students the opportunity to plan every step of a museum exhibition. Students from across New Mexico meet weekly to plan an exhibition theme, create calls for artwork, jury submissions, and install... By Chelsea Weathers

May 01

Jane Lackey: Shifting Pulse

Central Features Contemporary Art: The term shibui refers to a particular aesthetic in Japanese art, and it can mean a variety of things that are like spokes on a wheel organized around a central core of perceptions: simplicity, unobtrusive beauty, a spare elegance, and implicity... By Diane Armitage

May 01

Shaelin Jornigan: Home Whispers and Jazmyn Crosby: Eggs in the Rain, Eggs on the Floor

Orpheum Community Hub: A narrow entrance and hallway separates two exhibition spaces in downtown Albuquerque’s Orpheum Community Hub, a building that features classrooms, art spaces, and more, as well as offices for the Homewise Albuquerque Homeownership Center. Word is that... By Nancy Zastudil

May 01

Work by Women

Harwood Museum of Art: On the walls of major museums, only five percent of artwork is by women. The Harwood Museum flips this number in its current exhibition: there’s a small display featuring some men upstairs, but most of the institution’s galleries are devoted to Work... By Jordan Eddy

May 01

David Naranjo