Southwest Art News: June 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Jun 01
Visual Art
May 31
Work in Progress with Reyes Padilla
Albuquerque artist Reyes Padilla, born with synesthesia, paints visual representations of music in works that have appeared throughout New Mexico and on Better Call Saul.
May 30
See the Wheelwright’s Latest Jewelry Acquisitions
Contemporary Native American jewelry is showcased at the Wheelwright Museum’s Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry and Case Trading Post gift shop in Santa Fe.
May 27
Santa Fe Gets a New Home for Art in the Vladem Contemporary
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The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
May 27
Morgan Barnard: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
May 27
Mikayla Patton: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.
May 27
Caroline Liu: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Albuquerque artist Caroline Liu paints images that teeter between the real and the imaginary.
May 27
Terran Last Gun: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Artist Terran Last Gun (Piikani) creates ledger drawings, prints, and murals that translate Indigenous culture and cosmology into geometric explorations of color, shape, nature, and sky.
May 27
Lucy Maki: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Lucy Maki’s intuitive process calls back to New Mexico’s Transcendental Painting Group and yields shaped paintings in a style of her own.
May 27
Jen Pack: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack's colorful fiber wall hangings bring the materiality of painting into question.
May 27
Tigre Mashaal-Lively: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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Santa Fe-based Tigre Mashaal-Lively creates large-scale interactive sculptures influenced by Afrofuturism, solarpunk, and mycopunk.
May 24
Work in Progress with Douglas Miles
Artist Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) uses visual art and skateboard culture to amplify Indigenous voices.
May 23
Blair Vaughn-Gruler: The Witch and the Scholar
Blair Vaughn-Gruler on modernism, postmodernism, and her recent body of paintings.
May 23
Jivan Lee’s Long-Form Painting Meditation: From “Total, Dead Boredom” to Miracles in the Mundane
Jivan Lee’s series 10,000 Mountains represented a fundamental shift for the painter from chasing the light to deep meditations on place that revealed the miraculous through the mundane.
May 17
A Brief History of African American Homesteading in New Mexico
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun.
May 10
Kouri + Corrao presents Jen Pack at VOLTA
Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.
May 09
Review: Jae Ko: New Works at Robischon Gallery
Jae Ko’s artworks at Robischon Gallery in Denver address the Southwest’s drought conditions and the rise of water speculation in the futures market.
May 04
Artist Spotlight: Khang Pham-New
Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden.
May 04
Review: Nani Chacon: SPECTRUM at SITE Santa Fe
A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.
Apr 25
Judy Chicago Reprises 50-Year-Old Piece at a Donated, Small-Town House
Collectivity + CollaborationNew Mexico
Through the Flower in Belen, New Mexico is organizing a new installation with a collective of New Mexico artists to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse.
Apr 19
Work in Progress with Jeremy Thomas
New Mexico sculptor Jeremy Thomas uses inflation to create three-dimensional works of steel and canvas that explore air as a medium.
Apr 18
Review: David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin: Transcending Time and Space at UMFA
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin collaborate in a multimedia exhibition at UMFA featuring portals to connect us to lost loved ones and heal communal pain.
Apr 13
Nika Kaiser Builds the Beginning of the Climate-Changed End
In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon.
Apr 12
Meet Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist
Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21.
Apr 12
Work in Progress with Rochelle Johnson
Rochelle Johnson, an artist in residence at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center, is a figurative oil painter who imbues her work with messages about women’s beauty, the Black community, and the human condition.
Apr 11
Curator Profile: Julio César Morales Explores Cultural Differences at ASU Art Museum
Julio César Morales explores cultural differences as senior curator for ASU Art Museum in Arizona, drawing on his binational experiences to address social justice issues through collaboration.
Apr 08
Review: Pint-Sized Art Critics Weigh in on Clyfford Still
Collectivity + CollaborationColorado
A new hanging of Clyfford Still’s work, co-curated by a cohort of young children, presents "not just boring grown-up things" at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum.
Apr 07
Work in Progress with Mitsu Salmon
Salt Lake City artist Mitsu Salmon explores issues of racism, environmentalism, and sexuality. Her performance-based approach to a multi-disciplinary practice crafts an immersive experience between artist and viewer.
Apr 06
Sam Scott: New and Timeless Paintings
Santa Fe artist Sam Scott’s new body of work on view at Pie Projects, Mind/Mirror, is an invitation to peel back visual layers and a journey into the very essence of abstraction.
Mar 31
Review: Jesse Meredith: So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane
In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism.
Mar 24
SLC AIR Quality Report: Visits with Artists in Residence at UMOCA
UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program in Salt Lake City provides studio space and exhibition opportunities for Utah artists while enriching the local arts community.
Mar 22
Review: Breaking Up at Phoenix Art Museum
As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales.
Mar 22
Tom Kirby: Celestial Movement at Winterowd Fine Art
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.
Mar 16
Review: Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver.
Mar 14
Curator Profile: Suzanne Zeller of Foto Relevance, Houston
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.
Mar 11
12 Southwest Art Exhibitions to Check Out in Spring 2022
Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Mar 08
Work in Progress with Benjamin Timpson
Benjamin Timpson hand-cuts delicate pieces of ethically-sourced butterfly wings to create meticulous and moving portraits that explore trauma and healing while raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Mar 07
Good Grief: Theresa Chong, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Repositioning Grief
Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.
Feb 25
Collective Cosmos: M12 Studio on Rural Territories and Common Resources
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
Feb 25
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
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Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
Feb 25
Salt of the Earth: Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, Utah’s Contemporary Art Visionaries
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
Feb 25
Cherish Marquez
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Feb 25
Review: In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings by Cara Despain
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cara Despain’s exhibition In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at Utah’s Kimball Art Center confronted the pressing environmental and moral calamities of the American West.
