Current Exhibitions

Bunny Conlon Modern & Contemporary Art Gallery:

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Warhol & Friends
September 27, 2024-July 19, 2025


The University Art Museum is pleased to announce Warhol & Friends, a group exhibition featuring selected artworks from the NMSU Art Museum's Permanent Art Collection. Showcasing images emphasizing replication and repetition, this exhibition investigates the aesthetics of collaboration, connectivity, and intervention between artists, their images, and the viewers. Drawing from notions of commodity fetishism, abstract expressionism, and a diverse array of image and printmaking methods, this collection of work functions as a shift in context, accommodating a reconsideration of the artist’s visual language of the familiar world. Alluring and glamorous, Warhol & Friends transforms the Bunny Conlon Modern & Contemporary Art Gallery, inviting the viewers to contemplate the relationship of the images to the contemporary world. Exhibited artists include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Esther K Smith and Dikko Faust, and more. This exhibition is curated by Dr. Jess Ziegenfuss, in collaboration with NMSU Art Museum Collection’s Curator Courtney Uldrich. 

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Warhol & Friends
27 de septiembre del 2024 - 19 de julio del 2025

El Museo de Arte de la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México se complace en anunciar Warhol & Friends, una exposición grupal que presenta obras de arte seleccionadas de la Colección de Arte Permanente del Museo de Arte de la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México. Mostrando imágenes que enfatizan la replicación y la repetición, la exhibición investiga la estética de la colaboración, la conectividad y la intervención entre los artistas, sus imágenes y los espectadores. A partir de nociones de fetichismo de las mercancías, expresionismo abstracto y una amplia gama de métodos de crear imágenes y grabados, esta colección de obras funciona como un cambio de contexto, acomodando una reconsideración del lenguaje visual del mundo familiar del artista. Cautivadora y glamorosa, la exhibición Warhol & Friends transforma la Bunny Conlon Modern & Contemporary Art Gallery, invitando audiencias a contemplar la relación de las imágenes con el mundo contemporáneo. Obras incluyen a Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Esther K. Smith, y Dikko Faust. Esta exposición está curada por la doctora Jess Ziegenfuss en colaboración con la curadora de la colección del Museo de Arte de NMSU, Courtney Uldrich.

Mayores informes sobre esta exposición próximamente.

 


Contemporary Gallery:

Juried Student Show 2025

2025 Juried Student Show
March 21, 2025 - April 12, 2025

The NMSU Art Museum is proud to present the 2025 Juried Student Show (JSS), which will take place in Devasthali Hall on the NMSU campus. Each year, the University Art Museum (UAM) showcases an extraordinary array of artworks created by undergraduate and graduate students, demonstrating a diverse range of materials, techniques, and concepts. This highly anticipated exhibition not only celebrates the remarkable talent and dedication of our students but also draws a large and enthusiastic audience, fostering strong community engagement.

This year we are excited to announce Carlos Rosales-Silva as our juror. Carlos Rosales-Silva: Border Destroyer, is a monumental mural project currently on display at the NMSU Art Museum, installed in the Mullennix Bridge Gallery. Drawing from modernism’s roots in Indigenous design and traditional Mexican material culture, Rosales-Silva connects varied cultural and ecological iconography from the border region within this textured mural, blurring the lines between architecture, landscape painting, and abstract art.

Please join us for the opening reception of the JSS on March 21st from 5:30-7:30pm, with the awards ceremony beginning at 6pm. 

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Click here to access this year's selected works

Mullennix Bridge Gallery:

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Carlos Rosales-Silva: Border Destroyer 
September 27, 2024-March 8, 2025

In "Border Destroyer," El Paso-born, NY-based artist Carlos Rosales-Silva transforms UAM’s Mullennix Bridge Gallery with a site-specific mural critiquing unjust land boundaries and border control. Drawing from modernism’s roots in Indigenous design and traditional Mexican material culture, Rosales-Silva connects varied cultural iconography from the border region within this textured mural, blurring the lines between architecture, landscape painting, and abstract art. Over a two-day visit in Spring 2024, Rosales-Silva instructed painting students in the NMSU Department of Art, prompting them to respond to their local environment. The resulting collaborative works will be integrated into the mural depicting the liberating force of art and education against militarized border enforcement.

Carlos Rosales-Silva, received his Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and is currently represented by both Sargent's Daughters in Los Angeles and New York City, and Ruiz-Healy Art gallery in Texas. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Mexico, with recent shows at NYU, Texas Tech, Penn State, and Beverlys, in NYC. Currently, he's completing a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, after previous residencies at Abrons Art Center, Residency Unlimited in NY, and Artpace in San Antonio, Texas.

Image Credit: Fighand, 2022, Powder-coated aluminum
Photo credit: Lawrence Elizabeth Knox

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Carlos Rosales-Silva: Border Destroyer
27 de septiembre de 2024- 8 de marzo de 2025

En “Border Destroyer,” el artista Carlos Rosales-Silva, nacido en El Paso y afincado en Nueva York, transforma la Mullenix Bridge Gallery de la UAM (University Art Museum) con un mural específico para el sitio que critica la injusticia de los límites territoriales y el control de la frontera. A partir de raíces modernistas de diseños indigenas y material tradicional de la cultura mexicana, Rosales-Silva conecta una iconografía cultural variada de la frontera dentro de este mural texturizado, desdibujando las líneas entre la arquitectura, la pintura de paisajes y el arte abstracto. Durante una visita de dos días en la primavera de 2024, Rosales Silva instruyó a estudiantes de pintura en el Departamento de Arte de NMSU, animándolos a responder a su entorno local. Los trabajos colaborativos resultantes se integrarán en el mural que representa la fuerza liberadora del arte y la educación contra la vigilancia fronteriza militarizada.

Carlos Rosales-Silva recibió su maestría en bellas artes de la School of Visual Arts y actualmente está representado por Sargent’s Daughters en Los Ángeles y Nueva York, así como por la Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery en Texas. Ha exhibido extensamente en los Estados Unidos y México, con exposiciones recientes en NYU, Texas Tech, Penn State, y Beverlys en la ciudad de Nueva York. Actualmente, esta en una residencia en el Bemis Center en Omaha, NE, después de residencias interiores en el Abrons Art Center, Residency Unlimited en Nueva York y Artpace en San Antonio, Texas.

Mayores informes sobre esta exposición próximamente.

 


Margie and Bobby Rankin Retablo Gallery:

Retablo

Trinities of Heaven and Earth 
Opening Date: March 21st, 2025 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: March 21st, 2025-March 7th, 2026

The University Art Museum (UAM) is delighted to announce the opening of Trinities of Heaven and Earth, an exhibition exploring two central themes in Catholic iconography and Mexican culture: the Holy Family and the Holy Trinity. The exhibition will open on March 21, 2025, at 5:30 pm in the Margie and Bobby Rankin Retablo Gallery, and will be open until March 7, 2026.

Drawing from the UAM’s extensive collection of over 2,200 Mexican retablos, Trinities of Heaven and Earth explores the spiritual and cultural importance of these sacred images. Retablos, small devotional paintings traditionally displayed in Mexican homes, served as vital expressions of Catholic faith and values within the household. The imagery of the Holy Family conveys blessings related to family life, while depictions of the Holy Trinity invoke divine guidance. Together, these themes explore the connection between sacred devotion and earthly life, bridging the divine and the domestic

Trinities of Heaven and Earth 
Apertura: 21 de marzo del 2025
Fechas de la exposición: 21 de marzo del 2025 - 7 de marzo del 2026

El Museo de Arte de la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México (UAM) se enorgullece en presentar Stone, Glass, Light, Silk: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition, con obras de los candidatos a la Maestría en Bellas Artes: Alfred Gyasi, Elham Sabri, Johanna Typaldos y William Morée. Esta exposición se inaugurará el viernes 25 de abril y estará abierta hasta el 10 de mayo del 2025.

Mostrando la culminación de su investigación y desarrollo artístico en la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México, esta exposición destaca una amplia gama de materiales y medios, desde cerámica y tela hasta fotografía y joyería.

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