The Desert was Red and Red the Dust was Raised is the current exhibit at the Las Cruces Museum of Art by five female artists who live and work in Las Cruces and El Paso - Sharbani Das Gupta, Zoe Spiliotis, Isadora Stowe, Laura Turón, and Amy Vensel. As colleagues, these artists have formed a community in their border region that affects their practice and imagery in varied ways.
The Desert was Red and Red the Dust was Raised takes abstraction as its foundation, and the literal landscape as the thing that connects all five artists - either as a reference, as language, or simply location.
The exhibit is on display through March 23, 2024 at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, and here to tell us about it is the show’s curator, Leslie Moody Castro.
Originally Broadcast January 13, 2024