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.
August 29, 2022
Visual Art
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch
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.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay
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."
August 26, 2022
New MexicoReviewVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Wo/Manhouse 2022
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.
August 26, 2022
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
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.
August 26, 2022
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-Nuclear Art
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Kuzana Ogg
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.
August 26, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling
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.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Beth Krensky
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
August 26, 2022
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Studio Visit: Steven Yazzie
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.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Jorge Rojas
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.
August 26, 2022
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric at SITE Santa Fe
Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state.
August 26, 2022
PhotographyVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Yucca People of the Southwest
In The Yucca People, writer Tyler Stallings and photographer Naida Osline contemplate the desert and land use through the lens of the Yucca plant.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Anh-Thuy Nguyen
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Luna Galassini
Luna Galassini, an artist based in Truchas, New Mexico, explores historical narratives of extraction in New Mexico through sound art.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Nick Larsen
Nick Larsen, an artist from Nevada living in Santa Fe, works in the no-man’s land between fictional archaeological inventory and autobiography.
August 26, 2022
ReviewArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: A Country is Not a House
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.
August 26, 2022
ReviewUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Review: Air
The exhibition Air considers Salt Lake City's rising air pollution and the impacts of climate change on the environment and social justice.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Gilmore Scott
Diné artist Gilmore Scott’s dynamic and vivid geometric paintings of Bears Ears and monsoon thunderstorms are tied to his land and culture.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder
Hills Snyder, a Magdalena, New Mexico artist, creates works on paper inspired by road trips and small towns in middle America.
August 26, 2022
Fall for Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2022 Art Guide
Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
August 25, 2022
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.
August 24, 2022
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.
August 23, 2022
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.
August 22, 2022
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.
August 19, 2022
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.
August 17, 2022
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.
August 16, 2022
“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.
August 15, 2022
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.
August 12, 2022
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.
August 11, 2022
