RioBravoFineArt Gallery Celebrates Twenty-Five Years with Three Exhibitions
RioBravoFineArt Gallery presents three new exhibitions with the Border Artists group, H. Joe Waldrum, and William Bertrum Sharp in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary.
RioBravoFineArt Gallery presents three new exhibitions with the Border Artists group, H. Joe Waldrum, and William Bertrum Sharp in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary. By RioBravoFineArt
Ambitious as always, Desert X delivered on its promise to diversify its pool of participating artists—at the expense of conceptual coherence. By Justin Duyao
New Mexico-based artist Kate Rivers debuts new work in an exhibition at Kay Contemporary Art at their Canyon Road gallery in Santa Fe. By Kay Contemporary Art
Tommy Archuleta’s debut poetry book Susto delves into the science and folklore of curanderismo to take readers on a magical and frightening journey through grief. By Kathryne Lim
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures. By Camille LeFevre
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction. By Joshua Ware
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process. By Lynn Trimble
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Ever wish your city had more arts funding? Learn how artists and arts allies in Phoenix are working to make it happen through the city’s budget process. By Lynn Trimble
In Pueblo, Colorado, a stacked and growing arts community supports high-quality arts programming that is accessible to everyone, including those who have fled unsustainable inflation in the big city. By Sage Behr
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Textile artist Paolo Arao explores queerness through his materials, line work, titles, and forms in his show A Selection of Recent Works at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver. By Joshua Ware
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Reflecting on Weather Report, Lucy Lippard’s 2007 exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, Paige Hirschey discusses how the field of eco art has changed. By Paige Hirschey
Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp's guide to museum and gallery exhibitions to see across the Southwest this spring. By Lauren Tresp
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge of Salt Lake City grapples with themes of isolation and belonging—in comic book-style works influenced by Korean folk art—in her ongoing Waterman series. By Scotti Hill
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known? By Natalie Hegert
The Gift, a creative and scientific immersive art installation at Colorado College, considers diverse social, cultural, and ethical perspectives in science. By Kara Mason
Vision and Sound brings work by African American artists in Arizona to the overwhelmingly white town of Sedona. By Camille LeFevre
The University of New Mexico Art Museum celebrates the exhibition Hindsight Insight 2.0 with a reception on March 31, 4-7 pm. By University of New Mexico Art Museum
Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo and Chippewa), a Pueblo potter and winner of a New Mexico Governor’s Award, conjures happy feelings through her human forms in ceramic. By Will Riding In
A new Art of the Skateboard USPS stamp series that includes work by Di’Orr Greenwood (Diné) will be dedicated this weekend as part of the 2023 Cowtown Phoenix AM skateboarding competition. By Lynn Trimble
Mesmerizing Flesh, Tamara Kostianovsky’s exhibition of textile sculptures, encapsulates a compelling, if harrowing contradiction between industrial violence and the beauty of corporeal and organic forms. By Scotti Hill
Tony Ortega, a prolific artist and longtime Denverite known for his acrylics, pastels, prints, and murals, observes and honors the city’s vibrant mix of Chicano, Mexican, and Anglo cultures. By Deborah Ross
Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa proposes an expanded definition of the landscape genre by assembling a transgenerational group of artists for this exhibition and film series. By Alana Wolf-Johnson
The Oak Street Alley Mural Festival in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood gives community members a chance to meet and talk with local artists whose live painting reflects diverse styles and themes. By Lynn Trimble
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, a first-of-its-kind retrospective now at the Denver Art Museum, celebrates Native culture while confronting settler colonialism. By Kara Mason
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Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region. By Edgar Picazo Merino
Hervé Télémaque's exhibition A Hopscotch of the Mind at Aspen Art Museum provides a career-spanning overview of a unique artistic voice dedicated to diverse materials, forms, and media. By Joshua Ware
The Horacio Rodriguez-curated exhibition and auction Boombox Benefit at UMOCA, a multi-artist showcase of ten ceramic pieces patterned from Rodriguez’s 1980s childhood boombox, aids ten different social justice-centric organizations. By Bianca Velasquez
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Summer Orr employs the ancient practice of dowsing to find sculptural materials for her project Geomancer. By Emily Arntsen
Bingo Studios, a pandemic project of artists Lance McGoldrick and Josh Stuyvesant that includes studios, a gallery space, and a fabrication shop, recently opened to fanfare. By Robin Babb
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Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite. By Joshua Ware
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The depletion of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a symbol of the state’s worsening water crisis and has, throughout the past few years, inspired a diverse array of artistic responses. By Scotti Hill
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Simone Johnson writes about her experience living between New York City and Arizona, while also highlighting her explorations of water and time in the Colorado River Basin. By Simone Johnson
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Between Life and Land: Material at Kimball Art Center stuns not by virtue of its star artists, but from those that highlight the wonder and horror of our natural world. By Scotti Hill
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Yvette Serrano's multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest. By Lynn Trimble
WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Laura Neal reflects on her earliest memories of water and the profound presence water has for humanity as a whole. By Laura Neal
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Chrissie Orr is an artist, activist, and the founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective whose work focuses on the interaction between, and integration of the natural and human worlds. By Joshua Ware
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Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
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Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs. By Camille LeFevre
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The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature. By Deborah Ross
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The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas. By Emily E. Lee
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Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism. By Steve Jansen
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