Southwest Art News: May 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Artists Ride, and Reframe, the U.S. Railroad in The Other Side of the Tracks
Carried by the rails that their ancestors laid, rode, or resisted, nine artists challenge dominant histories of the Transcontinental Railroad in this multi-venue exhibition.
Reframing the Western Rail Experience: The Railyard Art Project Presents Herstory’s Women of the Rails
Uncover the hidden stories of the Women of the Rails through an illustrative mural project at Railyard Park in Santa Fe, on view through July 31, 2024.
Work in Progress with Ángel Faz
Ángel Faz’s studio practice centers around observation and research, unearthing the shrouded history of the land and those who inhabit it.
Call for Visions: Tell Us What the Future Will Bring
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Southwest Contemporary is entreating its readers to stop, take a moment, and imagine what a new world could hold.
The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum
The Biocrust Project reveals the importance of protecting the desert’s biocrust in the face of climate change in an immersive collaboration between art and science.
Pie Projects Presents Sam Scott: Deep Nature
Sam Scott: Deep Nature is on view through Saturday, May 18, with an artist talk on Saturday, May 11, at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.
Vladem Contemporary Announces Open Call for the Window Box Project
Vladem Contemporary at the New Mexico Museum of Art announces their annual Window Box Project Open Call for artists. Applications are open now through May 5, 2024.
Art at the End of the World: A Day at the Bombay Beach Biennale
The Bombay Beach Biennale along Southern California’s Salton Sea is an insurgent arts festival and ongoing ecological discourse.
Wading in the Shallows: The Conundrum of Cj Hendry’s Public Pool
Cj Hendry's Public Pool delights some and confounds others, as it celebrates Las Vegas pool party culture while ignoring serious realities of PVC manufacturing, drought, and the wealth divide.
How a Creative Couple in Arizona is Exploring South Phoenix History Through Photography and Poetry
Photographer Maria Nancy Thomas and poet Rashaad Thomas, a creative couple based in South Phoenix, are using their work to explore a region brimming with the histories of marginalized communities.
Diné Writer Brendan Basham Transmutes Words into Worlds
Diné artist, writer, and educator Brendan Basham approaches writing as he does life: as a process of transformation.
Interrogating our Performative Impulses at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
In Performing Self at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, seven multidisciplinary artists expand the concept of performance art with works that are extremely personal, even courageous.
How Can Mural Artists Take Steps to Protect Their Legal Rights?
Do muralists have a legal right to keep their work from being altered or whitewashed? Experts and artists in the Southwest discuss artist contracts and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
Andrew Alba’s New Works at Material Expose the Pain We Inherit
In a world replete with ecological catastrophe and political turmoil, the customarily inward Andrew Alba channels calamities into catharsis for his exhibition of new works at Material.
Francisco González Castro’s Durational Art Investigates, Illuminates, and Confronts Hegemonic Societal and Power Structures
Francisco González Castro: Does Not Say «I», But Does «I»: Bodies, Limits and Transgressions at the Coconino Center compiles a decade of the artist’s endurance work challenging social structures.
Memory and Meaning: Histories of Violence in Dallas’s Public Monuments
In this psychogeographic account, Emma S. Ahmad wanders the West End Historic District in downtown Dallas and considers how the various memorials reflect the shifting political landscape of the city.
Sofie Hecht, Through Archival and Original Photography, Catalogues the Shocking Impact of the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test on Living New Mexicans
Sofie Hecht discusses her project Downwind, a documentary photo album exploring the continued impact of radiation exposure on resident New Mexicans after the 1945 nuclear bomb Trinity Test.
Work in Progress with Nick Larsen
Nick Larsen, who gives a talk about his Nevada Museum exhibition this Thursday, explores an invisible history through collage by “pulling from what already exists to visualize something that doesn’t.”
Southwest Art News: April 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Southwest Contemporary Announces New Magazine Size
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Ta-da! Southwest Contemporary, a leader in arts and culture coverage in the Southwest, punches above its weight in a revamped print magazine!
How Commemorations to the Disenfranchised Have Forced a Reckoning with Utah’s History and Present
The narratives of the many racial and ethnic minorities whose experiences have indelibly shaped both Utah and American history deserve recognition and reckoning.