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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Lauren Tresp |Joshua Ware
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery. Salt Lake City, Utah | art.utah.edu/faculty-list/joshua-grahamSalt Lake City sits upon the eastern shoreline of the Great Salt Lake, while the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrh Mountains surround it in every other direction.
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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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Jul 23, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Natalie Hegert |Joshua Ware
I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection. I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public ArtJune 6 – August 25, 2024Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, ColoradoIn many regards, applying to public art projects can be a bit of a crapshoot.
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May 17, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Joshua Ware
The Town of Vail and artist Danielle SeeWalker saw very different messages in her G is for Genocide painting, sparking the abrupt cancellation of her long-planned artist residency. VAIL, CO—On the morning of May 9, Denver-based artist Danielle SeeWalker received a phone call from Kathleen Halloran, the deputy town manager of Vail, Colorado.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Lauren Tresp |Joshua Ware
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures. Denver, Colorado | anneyoncha.com | @anneyonchaPeatlands—or terrestrial wetlands in which moisture prevents organic material from fully decomposing—ensure that the large swaths of prehistoric landscape underneath them remain preserved for several millennia.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Lauren Tresp |Joshua Ware
Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection. Mesa, Arizona | potlucktheatre.com | @potlucktheatreIn 1970, Henry Maslow revised his then twenty-seven-year-old Hierarchy of Needs to include Aesthetic Needs, which he nestled after Cognitive Needs and before the need for Self-Actualization. To his mind, the pursuit of aesthetic desires and ideals was a late-stage motivation within human existence and experience.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Joshua Ware
Ronald Rael, who was born and raised in the San Luis Valley, harnesses the inherent contradictions and juxtapositions between heritage and digital-build practices in his 3D-printed adobe works.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Joshua Ware
Crestone Ziggurat, once a private sanctuary for meditation, is a peculiar monument nestled along the edge of the San Louis Valley and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southeast Colorado. As one winds through the switchbacks and undulations of an unpaved, dirt road lined with scrub brush and low-lying coniferous trees outside of Crestone, Colorado, a small yellow structure can be seen in the distance atop a modest foothill.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Natalie Hegert |Joshua Ware
Denver artist Trey Duvall combines digital, mechanical, manual, and natural tools in order to explore a multitude of concepts in his durational installation RETURN/SWEEP. Trey Duvall: RETURN/SWEEPAugust 18-October 14, 2023Rule Gallery, DenverA small motor powering flanged wheels rolls along a metal track screwed into the drop-ceiling panels of Rule Gallery in Denver, Colorado.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Joshua Ware
Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives. Plumbing and drainage are banal and mysterious aspects of our built infrastructure: a network of hollow cylinders—mostly hidden from human eyes—that transport water, waste, and other fluids between locations. Important? Yes. But commonplace and forgotten until they malfunction.
