Self-Portrait in a Complex Mirror
VICENTE TELLES CAREFULLY rolls open a storage cabinet, revealing a retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe that’s more than 200 years old. “Pedro Antonio Fresquís, he’s the one known as the first native New…
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Tag: Contemporary Art
See Harmony Hammond’s Art at SITE Santa Fe
THE MERE THOUGHT that ordinary materials—rags, metal grommets, bandages, straw, linoleum, and other utilitarian objects—could be used to make art elevates their mundanity. Galisteo-based artist…
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Five Women Artists to Watch
NEW MEXICO ART watchers already know Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nikesha Breeze, Rose B. Simpson, Szu-Han Ho, and Jennifer Nehrbass. Now, thanks to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the rest…
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Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
WHEN THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART opened its doors in 1917, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett (1885–1946) envisioned the downtown Santa Fe building—a swooping adobe example of then-new Pueblo…
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Back to the Indigenous Future
FIRED BY TEMPERATURES of more than 2,000 degrees, a warrior emerges from a monolithic portal adorned with Indigenous symbols. A blood-red bust faces the courtyard of the Inn and Spa at Loretto…
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Close Encounters of the Satirical Kind
AT SUNSET ON A WINTER EVENING just outside Roswell, Eric J. García is making good on a promise to take art out of the gallery. In the field behind his house at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence…
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Art, Trauma, and the Abeyta Family Legacy
BEYOND THE SANTA FE PLAZA, where history pulses and church bells ring, you climb the creaking steps to Tony Abeyta’s studio. As you ascend, the scents of oil paint, dust, and something like old…
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Debbie Long Lets the Light Shine In
DEBBIE LONG USES LIGHT AND TIME as tools for her art. Her crafted “light ships” grow from the tradition of land art, pulling inspiration from her Taos surroundings as well as her hometown of Gallup…
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A New Constellation
IN TERRI ROLLAND'S PAINTINGS, familiar features are pared back to their essential elements. A pale green shape resembles an adobe wall against a black background, while a blue rectangle cutout becomes…
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Emerald Tanner's Fine Art Focus in Gallup
Emerald Tanner enjoys highlighting contemporary artists in and around Gallup at Tanner's Indian Arts. Photograph by Brian Leddy. AS THE FIFTH-GENERATION OWNER of Tanner’s Indian Arts, Emerald Tanner…
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