Michael Heizer’s City prompts considerations of obsession, scale, and legacy through the lens of land, labor, and the weight of inherited ambition. The post Empires of Dirt: Michael Heizer’s <i>City</i> appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Three New Mexico–based artists—c marquez, Susan York, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa—reflect on their relationship with the material that has defined their practice. The post Material Monogamy: Three Creators Find Their <i>Prima Materia</i> appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Working in her Phoenix studio, artist Gloria Martinez-Granados creates works countering the nation’s anti-immigrant obsession. The post Gloria Martinez-Granados: Borderless Creative appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Lisa Frank, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, offers up a rainbow-bedazzled mirror to the emptiness of the American dream. The post All Vibes Must Die: Industry and Virality in the Lisa Frank Warehouse appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
The republication of Robert Adams’s The New West evokes reflections on what it means to intimately know the subject of renowned photographs. The post A Newer West: Ruminations on Robert Adams’s Front Range Imagery appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Texas-based artist Erika Jaeggli on her first descent into a cave—and the all-consuming passion it unearthed. The post “We’re Inside a Body!”: An Interview with Artist and Caver Erika Jaeggli appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
For Southwest Contemporary's Obsession issue, we asked arts leaders in our community about their current art obsessions. The post SWC Crowdsource: What is Your Current Art OBSESSION? appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Phoebe Shuman-Goodier’s photography marks her sculptural collaborations with her father, and a shared obsession with transforming a junkyard into art. The post Phoebe Shuman-Goodier Transfigures Trash into Tender Monuments of Care and Possibility appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 12: OBSESSION, curator and guest juror Rafael Fonseca finds a surprising scope and range of artistic obsessions. The post Guest Juror Raphael Fonseca on OBSESSION appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Multimedia artist Luca Berkley (AKA Jack Lope, Jenn Deere, and Piper Pelligrini) critiques narratives surrounding white American ranching through cheeky yet reverent performance, online as well as on stage. The post Obsession: Luca Berkley appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition. The post Obsession: Taylor Engel appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained. The post Obsession: Justine Kablack appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance. The post Obsession: jesse lovell appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Santa Fe–based artist Hilary Nelson plays between image and object, with their sculptural experiments centering around an obsession with the back jack The post Obsession: Hilary Nelson appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies. The post Obsession: Karl Orozco appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Salt Lake City–based artist Carol Sogard obsessively collects and catalogues the remains of a world in crisis, wherein action, if not optimism, may be an obligation. The post Obsession: Carol Sogard appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing. The post Obsession: Philip Gabriel Steverson appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Netflix's Obsession is an erotic thriller with moments that will leave your jaw on the floor with stellar performances from the cast.| But Why Tho?