Jenna Maurice Investigates the Language of the Complicated Human Experience
Denver RedLine resident artist Jenna Maurice discusses how her relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas.
The Trail Ahead… How Artist Brian Norwood Helped Shape the Identity of Jal, New Mexico
Brian Norwood's sculpture The Trail Ahead..., erected in 2000, has created an identity for the small oil-and-gas town of Jal, New Mexico, much as the town created him.
Bill Gilbert’s Recent Ceramics: Clay as Earth, Form, and Function
Bill Gilbert’s ceramic works at the Anne Cooper Occasional Gallery share with us his relationship with the land and the “appendages” we employ in our experience of the world.
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Presents Programs as 2024 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, the UNM Department of Art's 2024 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will host an artist talk to discuss her unique painting techniques and hold an open studio event in Albuquerque.
Jennie Kiessling’s New Paintings Chronicle the War in Gaza, Day by Day
The Project Space of the Wright Contemporary features Jennie Kiessling’s compassionate offerings of diaristic abstract paintings, each referencing a night of war in Gaza.
Fair Deal: High Desert Art Fair’s New Take on an Old Format
An experiment in non-traditional exhibition spaces, the High Desert Art Fair breaks down the boundary between the gallery and the home, creating a radically immersive context for experiencing art.
Recollections of Juan Manuel Rena Niño, Juárez Portrait Painter
Patrick Kikut reflects on meeting and engaging with Juárez portrait painter, Juan Manuel Rena Niño in the early 2000s. Kikut exhibited his portraits at No Man’s Land Gallery in 2004.
Reno Museum to Steward One of the Country’s Largest Aboriginal Art Collections
Two major donations to the Nevada Museum of Art of Aboriginal and Native American artworks tie into the Reno institution’s capital expansion project.
Ogden Contemporary Arts Presents The Healing Palette of Mystical Mestizaje
Experience Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño's solo exhibition in Ogden, Utah. On view through April 21, 2024.
Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2024 Art Guide
From airborne sculptures unveiling alternate dimensions to place-based meditations on healing, these spring 2024 exhibitions reveal truths about the past and present to inspire meaningful engagement with an unfolding future.
An Essential Retrospective of Hopi Artist Duwawisioma at Tucson’s Andrew Smith Gallery
Duwawisioma’s (Victor Masayesva Jr.) retrospective exhibition Màatakuyma at Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson solidifies the Hopi artist’s importance in contemporary photographic and Indigenous artistic discourse.
Southwest Art News: March 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Living Histories
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.
Delilah Montoya: Redefining the Focus of Documentary Photography
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Delilah Montoya turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.
Venancio Aragon: Looking Back to Look Forward
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Navajo weaver Venancio Aragon's journey to revive and preserve Diné weaving amidst modern challenges and cultural appropriation.
Jeannie Ortiz: Living Histories
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history.
Tamara Burgh: Living Histories
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past.
Now With More Feeling: The Emotional Show at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus.
Modernware: The Allure and Tension in Defining Nampeyo, An Iconic Pueblo Potter, as a Modernist
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity.
Esther Elia: Living Histories
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
Anne Yoncha: Living Histories
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Retrospective Mines an Archeology of Memory in Phoenix
ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.