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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Camille LeFevre
A group of white New York painters blended modernist and Native-inspired aesthetics. Space Makers at the Heard Museum pairs them with historical and contemporary Native artists. Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American ArtNovember 8, 2024–March 2, 2025Heard Museum, PhoenixNot much is Indigenous in Indian Space Painting, a style developed by a group of white New York painters studying at the Art Students League in the late 1940s.
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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Jessica Fuentes
Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence. Dallas, Texas | lettucelook.com | @lettucelookAntonio Lechuga’s Dallas studio is overflowing with stacks of plastic-wrapped cobijas, the warm fleece blankets—sometimes featuring stately lions, serene deer, lavish floral prints, or the reverent Virgin of Guadalupe—that are a staple in many Latinx homes.
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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Maggie Grimason
Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, “feeling for tension.”Albuquerque, New Mexico | maxcsorenson.com | @maxcsorensonIn Leaves/Traces (2024), Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson arranges dried leaves—oak, willow, cottonwood, sycamore, and more—in planar fashion. Against the white gallery wall, the straight lines of their arrangement and the ink on their skins come into sharp focus.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Alejandra Lara
Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects. eri king: Scripted SpacesNovember 15–December 13, 2024Available Space Art Projects, Las VegasIf you have ever attempted to see hidden images in an autostereogram—like the illusions in the 2D images from the popular ’90s book series Magic Eye—and couldn’t master the optical trick, fret not.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara
Southwest artist residencies with deadlines falling in winter 2024-25 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Winter deadlines are approaching, so it’s time to cozy up with a comfy blanket and a favorite warm beverage and submit those residency applications.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara
Southwest artist residencies with deadlines between fall 2024 and winter 2025 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Fall and winter deadlines are approaching, so it’s time to cozy up with a comfy blanket and a favorite warm beverage, and submit those residency applications.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mundonuestro.mx | Alejandra Lara
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En la sociedad actual hemos normalizado un ritmo de consumo cada vez mayor. Desde alimentos hasta objetos tecnológicos, pasando por prendas de vestir, y cosméticos, entre otros, nuestra demanda no cesa. Esta tendencia, impulsada en parte por el aumento poblacional, tiene un doble filo. Si bien impulsa la economía, también trae consigo diversos daños ambientales ocasionados por los procesos de manufactura y transporte.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Joshua Ware
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture. Sam Grabowska: Haptic TerrainSeptember 28–November 09, 2024Leon Gallery, DenverThree days before the opening of Sam Grabowska’s (they/them) solo show Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery in Denver, Colorado, I watched Coralie Fargeat’s new film The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Camille LeFevre
Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund returns to the storm-swept ravine that birthed his latest show—and explains what a squirrel stick is—in an intrepid studio visit. A studio visit with Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund necessitates hiking up the steep, gravel Mt. Elden Lookout Road, then along the single-track Down Under Trail above a ravine in Coconino National Forest. I carry my water bottle in one hand and phone open to my recording app in the other; our trek includes a conversation.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Alejandra Lara |Erin Averill
At Smoke the Moon, two exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous artists consider histories of specific geographies and foster a dialogue countering today’s apocalyptic cynicism. When The Earth Was Young/REDHORNAugust 16–September 22, 2024Smoke the Moon, Santa FeOutside, it was scorching. Peak summer in Santa Fe: another year of record-setting temperatures. My steps zigzagged to dodge fallen plums fermenting on the sidewalks of Canyon Road.
