Returning to Taos always feels like returning home, and this desire to belong to a community that continues to grow and gentrify and push my artist friends to the brink of their ability to survive there makes me feel guilty. In my article, I write about this guilt, connected to the history of Western expansion and exploitative modernist art-making in the region.
Tag: Southwest Contemporary
The Moniker Monk of Jeffery City, Wyoming
Land Art in a Wyoming Uranium Mine Ghost Town
Read about Denver’s Inaugural Month of Video in Southwest Contemporary
The Secret Lives of Inanimate Objects
Come Corrupt, Come As You Are to Junk Drawer
Southwest Contemporary Art Review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake” at Denver’s Understudy
Art review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake,” an AI-generated art installation and psychotherapeutic shelter, at Denver’s Understudy gallery. Here’s an excerpt from my latest review: Pondering the word “intake,” the Oxford Dictionary states: “a location or structure through which something is taken.” Considering Grabowska’s academic background in architecture and cultural anthropology, their interest in shelter notably… Continue reading Southwest Contemporary Art Review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake” at Denver’s Understudy