Together Through as Within

Together Through as Within is curated by Leslie Moody Castro, independent curator and writer based in Mexico City and Inaugural Curatorial Resident at the Department of Art at NMSU. The exhibition features the work of staff and faculty within the Department of Art at NMSU, where each educator is also an artist, working to build their own practice and the practices of the generation of artists whom they mentor and guide.

Their work comes together in a new space, a building made for the collision of ideas and generations, of methods and mediums, and of the push and pull of criticism and acceptance. Moody Castro discussed the challenge of curating artists working across a broad range of interdisciplinary practices and allowing the work to converse in the gallery space. She stated, “There are a lot of conceptual conversations happening both in their work and practices around the landscape, commodification, meditation, water, nature, destruction, and pollution. These are obviously really broad topics, but they are being touched on in various nuanced ways.”

Participating artists include:

Christopher Bardey, Tauna Cole, Craig Cully in collaboration with Kelly Leslie, Brita d’Agostino, Maggie Day, Jeffrey Erwin, Motoko Furuhashi, Michelle Haberl, Carissa Samaniego, Rebecca Smith, Bree Lamb/Muscle Memory + Joshua R. Clark/Muscle Memory