Visual Art

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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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. 

Lynn Trimble • August 26, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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. 

Hills Snyder • August 26, 2022

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. 

Tyler Stallings • August 26, 2022

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.

Thao Votang • August 26, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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.

Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022

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.

Lynn Trimble • August 26, 2022

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.

Scotti Hill • August 26, 2022

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.

Natalie Hegert • August 26, 2022

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. 

Hannah Dean • August 26, 2022

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Steve Jansen • August 25, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Eugene Newmann, a pioneering artist of the New Mexico abstract art scene, presents Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.

Pie Projects • August 24, 2022

Studio VisitTexas

Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.

Laura Neal • August 23, 2022

ReviewColorado

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.

Emilie Trice • August 22, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

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.

Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden • August 19, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

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.

Steve Jansen • August 17, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.

Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe • August 16, 2022

NewsUtah

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. 

Bianca Velasquez • August 15, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

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.

Jordan Eddy • August 12, 2022

ReviewUtah

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.

Scotti Hill • August 11, 2022

SponsoredUtah

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.

Southern Utah Museum of Art • August 09, 2022

TravelColorado

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.

Emilie Trice • August 08, 2022

ReviewArizona

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. 

Lynn Trimble • August 05, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

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.

Bethany Tabor • July 28, 2022

ReviewTexas

Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.

Laura Neal • July 26, 2022

EssayNew Mexico

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.

Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • July 25, 2022

NewsUtah

Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.

Steve Jansen • July 22, 2022

ReviewNevada

In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.

Laurence Myers Reese • July 21, 2022