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Unmissable Gems at Miami's Art Fairs
Susan Wick | Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic December 6, 2024 Read on Hyperallergic Read more -
Which Artists Are Everywhere in U.S. Museums?: Justin Favela is one of five figures that speak to our cultural moment
Justin Favela | Ben Davis, Artnet News September 19, 2024 'Museums right now continue to be very focused on elevating minority voices—this is probably the central theme here. A rhetoric... Read more -
These artists capture the landscape in radically different ways
Desire Lines | Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post June 9, 2024 'The West was built on landscape paintings. Those early vistas captured by 19th-century artists — depicting towering mountains, rolling plains,... Read more -
Paolo Arao's "Devotion"
May 7, 2024 'The lyricism of Devotion plays out in textile drawings where geometric patterns are hand stitched into appliquéd patchworks in a... Read more
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Susan Wick's "Through an Open Frame" Named a Must-See Show This Spring
Susan Wick | Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post February 19, 2024 'Susan Wick has been producing inventive and adventurous work for 50 years now. The artist, who splits time between Denver... Read more -
Artist Sarah McKenzie went to prison for her latest works
Sarah McKenzie | Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post February 12, 2024 'McKenzie is known — and has exhibited — far and wide for her precision renderings of built spaces, like residences,... Read more -
Paolo Arao Receives 2023–2024 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
February 1, 2024 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides financial resources to emerging and established artists so they may focus on their work. Funding can... Read more -
Linda Nguyen Lopez Awarded United States Artists 2024 USA Fellowship
January 24, 2024 USA Fellowships are annual unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States. Artists and... Read more
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Justin Favela in the Wall Street Journal's Review of Untitled Miami 2023
Justin Favela | Brian P. Kelly, The Wall Street Journal December 6, 2023 'At David B. Smith Gallery , Justin Favela ’s tissue-paper-on-board works drew on his Chicano heritage, translating the sentimental 19th-century... Read more -
Yvette Mayorga's Pink Confections Pack a Punch
Yvette Mayorga | Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue September 19, 2023 '[The] works predominate with punchy pink and are grounded in her personal and familial histories as a child of Mexican... Read more -
Margarita Cabrera and Justin Favela Roll Into Denver in "Desert Rider"
Desert Rider: Dreaming in Motion, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO July 14, 2023 See a brand new piñata piece by Justin Favela and an installation of cascading Hummers from Margarita Cabrera in Desert... Read more -
Justin Favela brings his inventive piñata-style art to three major Denver galleries this summer
Justin Favela | Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post June 26, 2023 'Like most of Favela's piñata pieces, [Ghostin'] is full of fantasy, running floor-to-ceiling and overwhelming viewers with shapes and texture.... Read more
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Yvette Mayorga in Latina Magazine's NADA Roundup
Yvette Mayorga | Dulcina Abreu, Latina Magazine June 7, 2023 'The West articulates an intentionally darker veil, using black instead of pink while continuing her acrylic-piping mark-making and theatrically framed... Read more -
ARTnews: The Best Booths at NADA New York 2023
Yvette Mayorga | Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews May 19, 2023 'It’s impossible to miss Denver-based gallery David B. Smith’s presentation of multidisciplinary artist Yvette Mayorga. The booth is hot pink... Read more -
The Queer Dynamics of Paolo Arao’s Recent Works
Paolo Arao | Joshua Ware, Southwest Contemporary April 4, 2023 'Due to the elasticity of the fabric, the stitched lines between swatches bend and warp as they are pulled both... Read more -
Gabriel Sanchez paints his young Cuban friends making their way through troubled times
Gabriel Sanchez | Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post April 3, 2023 'Human Rights Watch, the international nonprofit organization that monitors the way governments treat their citizens around the globe, sums up... Read more
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Yvette Mayorga and Maryam Yousif at the Museum of Arts and Design
Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY March 18, 2023 Presenting the work of contemporary artists alongside artists of the Funk Art generation, this exhibition examines the legacy of humor,... Read more -
Penelope Umbrico at The Modern
"I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen," The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX March 1, 2023 'For I’ll Be Your Mirror, I thought about the appropriation of online content as a kind of found object and... Read more -
The Denver Art Museum Acquires Work By Hangama Amiri
Hangama Amiri, "Henna Night/ Shabe Kheena" March 1, 2023 We're thrilled to announce the placement of Hangama Amiri's Still-Life with Jewelry Boxes and Red Roses from her summer 2022... Read more -
The Denver Art Museum Acquires Work by Maryam Yousif
Maryam Yousif, "Mishwar" March 1, 2023 We're thrilled to announce the placement of Maryam Yousif's Desert Cinema, A Reflection from her fall 2022 exhibition with the... Read more
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Amber Cobb at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
"Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO February 24, 2023 This show celebrates 15 years of Denver institution RedLine Contemporary Art Center's artist residency program. Cobb's Hello, My Little Love... Read more -
An Artist Puts Kabul in a New Light (With Lipstick and Manicure)
Hangama Amiri | Ted Loos, The New York Times February 9, 2023 'The images in her colorful fabric wall hangings are drawn from the past—partly based on her memories of being a... Read more -
Anna Valdez at the Asheville Art Museum
Too Much is Just Right, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC February 2, 2023 Created for this exhibition, Valdez's Snake Vase with Taxidermy Alligator Head takes its place among works expanding the vocabulary of... Read more -
Justin Favela's Fantasía/Fantasy
January 27, 2023 Justin Favela: Fantasía/Fantasy, A Decade of Practice 2011-2021 documents ten years of Favela's vibrant art practice, surveying work in painting,... Read more
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Carnegie Museum of Art Acquires Work by Linda Nguyen Lopez
November 11, 2022 We're excited to announce our placement of Linda Nguyen Lopez's Grey Ice Dust Furry with Lobster Rocks into the collection... Read more -
Justin Favela at the Mingei International Museum
"Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration," Mingei International Museum, October 28, 2022 'The exhibition Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration is one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional... Read more -
Justin Favela and Yvette Mayorga at the New Mexico State University Art Museum
"Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium," New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM September 30, 2022 'Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium, is the first exhibition to pair 19th–20th century retablos from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection... Read more -
The Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires a Sculpture by Linda Nguyen Lopez
"This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.c. July 27, 2022 We're so honored to have placed Linda Nguyen Lopez's Blue/Purple Ombré with Rocks into the collection of the Smithsonian American... Read more
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At NADA, a Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics
Gustav Hamilton and Linda Nguyen Lopez at NADA NY | Martha Schwendener, The New York Times May 5, 2022 'Two things can be found everywhere at NADA New York in Lower Manhattan: painting and ceramics. This makes sense, since... Read more -
Justin Favela at the Phoenix Art Museum
"Desert Rider," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ April 24, 2022 'Desert Rider explores the sociopolitical realities and imaginative interpretations of automotive and skateboarding subcultures through diverse works by local Arizona... Read more -
Linda Nguyen Lopez's Solo Exhibition at the Springfield Art Museum
Linda Lopez: Long Lost, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO March 1, 2022 'Linda Nguyen Lopez (b. 1981, Visalia, CA) is a first-generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her unexpected porcelain... Read more -
Sarah McKenzie: Interim
Dan Beachy-Quick, Artforum February 1, 2022 'McKenzie gives us the museum in its candid moments, the transience between open hours and installations, empty of others and,... Read more
