Work in Progress with Patrick Dean Hubbell
Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné), who works from his family homestead on the Navajo Nation, creates artworks that reference how Diné people think about natural elements.
Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné), who works from his family homestead on the Navajo Nation, creates artworks that reference how Diné people think about natural elements. By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings. By Joshua Ware
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, considered a regional hub for the art of photography since 1963, recently moved into new and improved quarters in Denver's Golden Triangle cultural district. By Deborah Ross
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe—Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico—features never-before-shown work by the internationally celebrated artist. By Maggie Grimason
Art Santa Fe's 2023 program features a focused look at several cutting-edge artists and a series of outstanding projects by leading galleries and institutions. By Art Santa Fe
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La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration. By Ania Hull
Celebrating its 23rd edition, Art Santa Fe features a curated selection of international exhibitors featuring one-of-a-kind works for sale in a gallery-style venue July 14–16, 2023. By Art Santa Fe
Modern Desert Markings at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas showcases contemporary takes on classic Land Art works by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Jean Tinguely. By Steve Jansen
Ogden Contemporary Arts’s second artist in residence Eric J. García invites us to scrutinize the principles upon which American history and identity are based in a dazzling and multifaceted artistic project. By Scotti Hill
Bobbi Walker, owner and curator of Walker Fine Art, blends aesthetics with business in her downtown Denver space that seeks to recast the “commercial gallery” stigma. By Kara Mason
Will Bruno, who lives and works at an off-grid cabin in Abiquiú, New Mexico, connects the natural and unnatural landscapes of modern life within his paintings. By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, or MARS, a Phoenix-based artist collective, became an inclusive home for Chicano and Indigenous artists starting in the 1970s. By Robrt Pela
Jessica Kinsey heads a small but growing team at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, a Cedar City institution that aims to replace culturally insular stereotypes with a community focus. By Scotti Hill
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In From Source to Mouth, artist Erin Elder takes a multifaceted, community-sourced approach to researching Monument Creek in Colorado Springs. By Sage Behr
Arizona Biennial 2023, a six-month showcase at the Tucson Museum of Art, includes sixty-seven works by fifty-six artists selected by curator Taína Caragol. By Lynn Trimble
Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s first career retrospective at MCASD presents a rich body of work by the celebrated Arlington, Texas-based artist, who is committed to the complexity of stories from the U.S.-Mexico border. By Justin Duyao
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Harwood Museum of Art has lived multiple lives as library, artist crash pad, and world-class art center. The Taos cultural gem now celebrates its centennial. By Steve Jansen
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Hernan Gomez Chavez, an artist and activist, makes work about his personal history along the borderlands of the U.S.-Mexico border. By Joshua Ware
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Benjamin Winans's sculptural works contend with the impact of Christian nationalism within national memory and the artist’s own lived experience. By Scotti Hill
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Kirsten Angerbauer creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences and installations constructed of site-specific designs, sound art practices, and new media. By Joshua Ware
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Kaitlin Bryson works at the intersections of art, community, ecology, and social justice to create works that reframe concepts of decay while elevating the experience of transformation. By Lynn Trimble
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Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity. By Maggie Grimason
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As a photographer, curator, and small business owner, Cougar "Ndoi" Vigil integrates multiplicities of perspectives into his work about Indigenous narratives, perspectives, and knowledge systems. By Maggie Grimason
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New Mexico artist Jennifer Thoreson calls on her own religious experiences as she examines the complex relationships between belief systems and human behavior. By Lynn Trimble
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While a soak in the healing waters is essential, the magic of Truth or Consequences really comes alive when visiting the town’s art galleries and shops downtown. By Bethany Tabor
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Apolo Gomez’s series Exodus fuses the commonplace with something more curious, yielding presentations that seamlessly cohabitate together. By Maggie Grimason
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Patina Gallery’s Mindful Meditations series offers insight on craft, beauty, and the human element of art. By Maggie Grimason
David Brothers of SLC evokes dark, dingy worlds through the derelict sets he builds. Photos from his latest project, Peed Upon, offer a dire caricature of our current times. By Alexander Ortega
Language in Times of Miscommunication presents work by eighteen artists illuminating the mercurial interplay between opinion, fact, and fiction. By Erin Joyce
Moab Arts Reuse Residency program in Utah, which attracts worldwide artists to make pieces out of rubbish, challenges the concept of detritus and trash. By Emily Arntsen
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas. By Thao Votang
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career. By Kim Stringfellow
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Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe. By Lauren LaRocca
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace. By Gina Pugliese
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art. By Lynn Trimble
Utah Valley University is set to open a new museum inside of an old manor. The debut super exhibition, The Art of Belonging, centers BIPOC voices with connections to Utah. By Alexander Ortega
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea explores the erasure of Black, LGBTQ+, Indigenous American, Asian American and Latinx culture through contemporary art. By Bianca Velasquez
Abstraction in Albuquerque: Six Artists at the Inpost Artspace—more than a half-decade in the making—materialized after a co-curator spotted a 1991 poster inside of a now closed warehouse. By Steve Jansen
Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily) exhibition at UMOCA comprises a series of untitled mixed-media pieces that explore the relationship between light and land. By Parker Scott Mortensen
A-Z West, Andrea Zittel’s decades-long art experiment presently stewarded by High Desert Test Sites near Joshua Tree, investigates the architecture of everyday life by stripping items to their most basic components. By Justin Duyao
As Utah faces the evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah artists are finding ways to orient themselves in disaster by considering the relationship between disability and environment. By Parker Scott Mortensen
At SITE Santa Fe, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes proves that sometimes sculptors can both make activist statements and focus on sculptural fundamentals, with stunning results. By Janet Abrams
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art showcases the forward leaps of eighteen artist alumni from RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s residency program. By Gina Pugliese
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