Maggie Grimason

1 month ago | southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Maggie Grimason

Santa Fe–based artist Edie Tsong explores lineage through repeated strokes of ballpoint pen, revealing the spaces where our inner lives overlap to create new shapes. Santa Fe, New Mexico | edietsong.com | @plain_song_The home is the ultimate seat of the local, the distillation of everything that is outside of one’s door.

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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.

1 month ago | southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Maggie Grimason

Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art. Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and DialogueSeptember 7, 2024–March 2, 2025Albuquerque MuseumMy little sister was not keen to go to the museum. Who can blame her? It seems many exhibitions aren’t created with attention to the measure of enjoyment they might give, but only their patent ability to teach you something.

Sep 6, 2024 | southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Maggie Grimason

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm. Aurora, Colorado | Long Beach, California | christinenguyen.art | @seamoonsheBoth art and science are about looking. They require slowing down, taking in the details, and finding pathways to new knowledge through what simply is.

Sep 6, 2024 | southwestcontemporary.com | Natalie Hegert |Maggie Grimason

Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale. Yucca Valley, California | Marfa, Texas | willsbrewer.comIntention alters our understanding of the world. It’s what makes California California, for example, instead of a boundless expanse of land. It distinguishes a city park from private land, a piece of public art from the décor of a corporate lobby.