Photography – Experimental Style
New Mexico Museum of Art – July 23, 2022 – January 8 2023 Transgressions & Amplifications: Mixed Media Photography of the 1960s & 1970s January 15, 2023 I was fascinated by this organized collection of work — mixed media, yes, and very mixed — that I read as a cry from fifty years ago from…
Art Making in Full Nature
Plein Air : Susanna Battin, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, iris yirei hu, KB Jones, Hillary Mushkin, Sterling Wells, Paula Wilson Plein air is an art term for taking your paints and canvas out into nature and making art in the presence of your inspiration. The artists in this show each have was of using this…
Cowboys – Beautiful
Pictures from the Exhibition Kenneth Tam “Silent Spikes” At the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art from May 13, 2022 to February 5, 2023, this exhibition of Kenneth Tam includes three beautiful photographs of cowboys. They look like friends in their black and white images. On the video screens behind you they are beautifully engaged in…
Poetry Crawling the Walls
Three Exhibitions at MOCA Tucson And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight This morning, standing over myself as one does A kind of poverty to be born from nothing I got you some images. I got you some images. Reading the backside of one of them Like the raw to nourish, you have…
Max Cole: Endless Journey
My response at the second viewing, post opening night, of this work. Please do not touch, mind Returned, not re-enacted. Yesterday, a dead end in the last room of paintings All made In the current year. Hand drawn lines like a penmanship exercise Obviously, communication from an isolated working human The dead end room flocked…
Eco Poetics – MCA Denver
— August 28, 2022 – Clarissa Tossin Falling from Earth Miranda Lash, senior curator From June 3 to Sunday, August 28, 2022, the work of Clarissa Tossin occupied the second floor of the MCA Denver. Falling from Earth , the name of this exhibition, is a collection of artwork resulting from Tossin’s exploration of the…
Purring Monsters
Guadalupe Maravilla: Purring Monsters with Mirrors on Their Backs On view from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, August 28 at MCA Denver Guadalupe Maravilla is a Salvadoran American artist who lives in New York and practices what he calls sound healing rituals – using sound – and assembles naturally occuring elements into sculptures he calls…
Three Women Protest Artists
New Mexico Museum of Art. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith. October 19, 2021-June 19, 2022 I’m writing this for my friend who couldn’t get to see the show before it closed June 19. Here’s a video of Mildred Howard’s train. We waited, and so will you. What I want to…
Helen Pashgian: Presences
SITE Santa FE – January 2022 In 2021, Helen Pashgian made some luminous sculptures that fill a room with a specifically colored light. In order to keep you in the room, she has set the room lights on a dimmer that goes from its brightest to very low lighting in a five minute cycle. These…
Oscar Muñoz – Retrospective
Like many retrospectives, chronology dictates the flow of the work and we start with intense figure drawings in black and white. Learning to draw in school is learning illusion and acquiring an ability make marks on a page look like full round life-like forms. These drawings show the Muñoz can do just that. What else do we see that fools us? Step along through this show and we will find out