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Arizona's art scene heats up when the weather cools down. Chart a fall road trip through every must-see show, festival, and art experience. The post Fall Road Trip: The Art Season is Just Starting in Arizona appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
As Trump “reviews” the Smithsonian and NEA rules shift, New Mexico arts groups are weighing whether to reject state grants tied to federal funding. The post Could Rejecting State Art Grants Be the New Anti-Trump Resistance? appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
In a single 1978 acquisition, the Museum of International Folk Art grew by 100,000 objects—and effectively adopted their fervent and eccentric collector. The post Obsession at the Museum: Unpacking Alexander Girard’s Gargantuan Santa Fe Exhibition appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Discover multidisciplinary artist Tlacaelel's one-man performance "Yo Soy Joaquín" at Taos Center for the Arts, September 20-21, 2025. The post Patricio Tlacaelel Trujillo y Fuentes: A Life in Motion appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Change is afoot in the metro Phoenix gallery scene due to closures, mergers, and redevelopment plans. The post What’s Up With Phoenix’s Latest Gallery Scene Shuffle? appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Catch Truth or Consequences's Second Saturday Art Hop, and the opening of RioBravoFineArt's Border Artists group exhibition, on September 13, 6-9 pm. The post The Border Artists Collective of Southern New Mexico Exhibits in Truth or Consequences appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
New Mexico–based artist Suzanne Sbarge's two-month residency in Ogden begins September 2025, featuring new collage and installation work exploring nature and consciousness, culminating in a solo exhibition November 7, 2025–January 11, 2026. The post Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Suzanne Sbarge as Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Southwest Contemporary: OBSESSION foregrounds artistic fixations, revealing loops, patterns, and intensities that define Southwest culture.| Southwest Contemporary
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
Abstract painter Agnes Martin sought isolation in New Mexico to stoke her obsessive practice. She found vibrant community. The post Queen Agnes 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
Artists Stephanie Leitch, Angela Ellsworth, and Nancy Rivera use materially obsessive processes to reflect on the mythos of Utah. The post The Medium is their Message: Compulsion and Identity in Zion 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
After years of building maze-like monuments to queer love, Texas-based painter Eli Ruhala is at a crossroads his practice. The post Eli Ruhala: Post Obsession 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
Beneath the glitz of Park City's skiing and film scenes, underground culture abounds—including a cowboy speakeasy, hidden Banksy murals, and subterranean scuba diving. The post Field Report: Park City 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
For Cande Aguilar, the hand-painted signs of the Rio Grande Valley define contemporary painting more than museums do. The post Obsession: Cande Aguilar 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
Experience New Mexico's living history with this immersive, two-day cultural tour bundle. Explore Acoma Pueblo's Sky City and UNESCO World Heritage Site Chaco Canyon with expert local guides.| Southwest Contemporary
Now in a new, state-of-the-art location in Oklahoma City’s Horizons District, Exhibit C Gallery is the largest tribally owned art gallery in Oklahoma, showing works by Chickasaw and First American artists.| Southwest Contemporary
Stakeholders reflect on the removal of an "Innovation" category at Traditional Spanish Market, and what it means for experimental artists.| Southwest Contemporary
Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In a new exhibition, she channels warnings—and hope—through digital personas.| Southwest Contemporary