Review: The Powers Art Center: Worshiping at the Altar of Jasper Johns
Visiting an exquisite private art collection nestled in the Colorado Rockies devoted to Jasper Johns, Emilie Trice wonders: is his work relevant in this day and age?
Sep 12
Visual Art
Sep 07
Review: Jorge Rojas: Material Witness at Granary Arts
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist.
Sep 02
Review: Patrick Dean Hubbell: Tack Room Challenges Representations of Indigenous Peoples
Patrick Dean Hubbell’s exhibition Tack Room at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe serves up a powerful discourse that challenges the representation of Indigenous peoples.
Aug 30
Nancy Rivera’s Laborious Practice Pulls a Thread Between Her Art-Making Process and Her Immigration Experience
Salt Lake City artist Nancy Rivera illustrates the immigrant experience in a series of complex and time-consuming embroideries.
Aug 29
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s Modernized Trompe L’Oeil Nods to the Canon’s Victors and Antiheroes
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Iteratives at Rule Gallery in Denver subverts and reinforces historical permutations of beauty.
Aug 26
Alex Branch
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
Aug 26
Rapheal Begay
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."
Aug 26
Review: Wo/Manhouse 2022
New MexicoReviewVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Wo/Manhouse 2022 reconsiders the relationship between gender and domestic spaces on the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal feminist installation Womanhouse in Belen, New Mexico.
Aug 26
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
Aug 26
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
Aug 26
Kuzana Ogg
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg, a Los Alamos, New Mexico artist represented by Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe and K Contemporary in Denver, creates work governed by the aesthetic principles of balance and restraint.
Aug 26
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Contour of Feeling at the Denver Botanic Gardens introduces Colorado audiences to immense, organic cedar sculptures and other large-scale works by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Aug 26
Beth Krensky
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
Aug 26
Studio Visit: Steven Yazzie
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist Steven Yazzie (Diné, Laguna Pueblo, European ancestry) thinks of his art studio as community and land rather than an insular space bound by four walls.
Aug 26
Jorge Rojas
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas's multidisciplinary approach to art and performance spotlights issues of interpretation, institutional critique, and the role of cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication in the world.
Aug 26
Review: Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric at SITE Santa Fe
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state.
Aug 26
The Yucca People of the Southwest
PhotographyVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
In The Yucca People, writer Tyler Stallings and photographer Naida Osline contemplate the desert and land use through the lens of the Yucca plant.
Aug 26
Anh-Thuy Nguyen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
Aug 26
Luna Galassini
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
Aug 26
Nick Larsen
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
Aug 26
Review: A Country is Not a House
ReviewArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A Country is Not a House at ASU Art Museum grapples with the U.S.-Mexico border and capitalist notions of public and private life.
Aug 26
Review: Air
ReviewUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The exhibition Air considers Salt Lake City's rising air pollution and the impacts of climate change on the environment and social justice.
Aug 26
Gilmore Scott
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.
Aug 26
Hills Snyder
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
Aug 25
Fall for These Southwest Art Exhibitions in Fall 2022
Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Aug 24
Eugene Newmann: Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects
Eugene Newmann, a pioneering artist of the New Mexico abstract art scene, presents Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.
Aug 23
Work in Progress with Austin Uzor
Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.
Aug 22
Review: Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail at the Denver Art Museum
In Denver Art Museum’s Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail, Latin American millennial artists transform narratives rooted in collective memory and the virtual realm of cyberspace.
Aug 19
Brenda Kingery Debuts New Paintings at Glenn Green Galleries
Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw Nation) is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world, now showing at Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe.
Aug 17
Merry Scully, Longtime Santa Fe Curator and Arts Worker, Heads West
Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California.
Aug 16
Self-Determined Explores the State of Contemporary Native and Indigenous Art
In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.
Aug 15
“Making Art is Like Making Pizza; Layers, Baby!”: Inside the VHS Vic Universe
Utah video artist VHS Vic (Victor Blandon) shows his audience how to find magic in the mundane, the goofy in the serious, and the artistry in making a pizza.
Aug 12
Meet Zara Kriegstein, the Forgotten Artist Who Spearheaded Santa Fe’s Most Embattled Mural
The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.
Aug 11
Review: Urban Pop Goes Awry Despite Local and International Talents
Urban Pop in Bountiful, Utah offers a unique opportunity to see big names, but the exhibition fails to situate artists within the movements to which the show claims they belong.
Aug 09
Mandelman, Ribak, Cooper, Namingha: Two Utah Venues Examine the Legacy of the Taos Moderns
Southern Utah Museum of Art and Modern West exhibit concurrent shows in Utah examining the legacy of abstract expressionism in the Southwest, featuring Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak and contemporary arts Shalee Cooper and Arlo Namingha.
Aug 08
Secret Gardens and Meditative Art Spaces in Colorado
Art meets nature in four Colorado gardens and outdoor installations—creating space for meditative contemplation and divine catharsis at Aspen Art Museum, Chatfield Farms, Greenbox Arts, and the San Luis Valley.
Aug 05
Review: The African Diaspora Experience for Women at Phoenix Art Museum
Five emerging artists explore experiences of the African Diaspora in And Let It Remain So, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that assesses family, home, displacement, identity, and Black representation.
Jul 28
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.
Jul 26
Review: Borna Sammak: america, nice place Tackles U.S. Cultural Touchstones
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
Jul 25
Emily Margarit Mason Recontextualizes Photographs Past a Single Moment
Emily Margarit Mason challenges the limits of the still image by placing photos into alternative settings—whether baking one into a cake or rearranging another into an abstract collage.
Jul 22
Ya La’ford’s Survey Renews Perspectives of the American West
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.
Jul 21
Review: Forgotten Artifacts Imagines Post-Humanity Via Ancient Metals
In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.
Jul 20
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
