Erin Averill

1 month ago | southwestcontemporary.com | Lauren Tresp |Erin Averill

New Mexico’s fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations. Textiles have always existed at the intersection of art and technology. Cotton and wool fibers were some of the earliest known databases. Pre-Columbian Incas used knotted strings, known as quipu, for sophisticated, quantitative record-keeping.

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.

Jul 19, 2024 | southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Erin Averill

Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum in Taos unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now a panel of experts is meticulously reshaping it. “They were not artists, these early Spaniards, at least not in the accepted sense of the word,” wrote Mabel Dodge Luhan for The Arts magazine in 1925, in an essay about New Mexican devotional artists known as santeros.

May 24, 2024 | southwestcontemporary.com | Maggie Grimason |Natalie Hegert |Steve Jansen |Erin Averill

Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artist studio tours across New Mexico illustrate the enduring power of creative exchange—and give visitors an insider's view of the artistic process. Field Report2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico "Come for the aliens, stay for the art!" sums up the compelling reasons to visit Roswell, New Mexico—a mecca for UFO culture and contemporary art.

May 24, 2024 | southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Erin Averill

Tracing their deep roots in New Mexico, the founders of Maida Goods and / shed reclaim daily life as an artistic, spiritual, and historical practice. Industrialization and façades of progress have attempted to render work and life, people and nature, past and present as silos devoid of historical context. Maida Branch (Ute, Pueblo, Genízara) and Johnny Ortiz-Concha (Taos Pueblo/Hispano) are redefining life, work, and art as spiritual practices interwoven with the land and people they come from.