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Despite his busy schedule, Matt Magee graciously sat down with us to discuss his latest exhibition, Black and White, on view through 17 May 2025. In this interview, we uncover the history of Magee's relationship with asemic writing (a wordless, open semantic form of writing), get a taste of his multimedia works, and survey the breadth of his printmaking network. We are pleased to share this rare opportunity to learn more about one of the Southwest's most prolific printmakers.

 Black and White is an exhibition of monochromatic works by Matt Magee pulled from Tamarind Institute, Woolworth Publications, Manneken Press, Obee Editions, and the artist’s studio. Together, these works show the development of Magee’s mark making since 2019 and touch on climate change, the practice of asemic writing, and Magee's ever-expanding network of collaborators. Read the foreword to the exhibition written by Spencer Linford, communications, and preview works from the show in their curatorial context. Black and White is on view at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art from 2.28.25 to 5.17.25. 

 

Steven Campbell is a natural storyteller, but his works aren't as easygoing and open as he is. An artist, educator, and master printmaker, Campbell has dedicated his life to plucking, then refining, artistic visions from the collective subconscious. Whether he is working on a collage or painting, or helping his students understand what it means to think like an artist, Campbell approaches life with a creative intuition borne from a decades-long career in the arts. The characteristic immediacy of his process parallels the philosophical sentiment that underlies Kierkegaard's infamous maxim: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Like living, creating art requires constant action and is an active process whose intent is easier understood with distance and the passage of time.
 
Track the inner workings of one of Santa Fe's most curious minds in this winding interview that outlines Campbell's artistic process and latest exhibition, The Tyranny of Small Things.

Learn more about Empire by Robert Cottingham, a serigraph of the historically significant Empire Theater where Rosa Parks sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Nathan Budoff's first showcase with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art explores the relationships between flora, fauna, and space. Read statements about the showcase from Budoff and gallery communications director Spencer Linford. Budoff's showcase is on view at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art through 31 August 2024.

Nathan Budoff is a Puerto Rico-based painter, muralist, and printmaker from Massachusetts whose artworks frame the relationships between flora, fauna, and space in unexpected ways. His artist statement delves into the ethos behind his most recent body of work.

Recognized today as one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) began his artistic career as an outcast. Tamayo's contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros ostracized Tamayo for his apolitical stance and preoccupation with aesthetics. But social isolation failed to deter Tamayo from his pursuit of developing a fundamental, universal, and distinctly Mexican visual aesthetic.

Enrique Figueredo is a Venezuelan-American artist whose work examines globalization, immigration, economics, and religion through the patterns, designs, motifs, and symbols associated with ancient civilizations, the colonization of the Americas, and mythology. Drawing on the disconnect between personal experience and established historical narratives, Figueredo cultivates a figurative space where communities may freely engage with history. His newest kinetic sculpture Viajes de la Gran Flota Blanca (Voyages of the Great White Fleet) 1899-  is an inquiry into the induction and visualization of circular time, the repetitions of history, and the mixing of the past, present, and future.

 

 

“That’s the thing about printmakers,” Kylee Aragon says. “They’re never satisfied. There’s this constant push to make a print that isn’t like your last.”