Latest Release: ‘Julio Galán: Performative Transgression’ by Teresa Eckmann

June 12, 2024

Teresa Eckmann, UNM PhD Art History alumna, studied under emerita Associate Professor of Chicano Art, Holly Barnet Sánchez. Currently serving as Associate Professor of Contemporary Latin American Art at UT San Antonio, Eckmann has recently released her second book titled “Julio Galán: The Art of Performative Transgression” published by UNM Press. In this publication, Eckmann explores Julio Galán’s complex production and artistic process.

https://colfa.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/eckmann-teresa.html

“This is a very welcome book, and a model of how to approach a (near) contemporary artist. Eckmann’s achievement is all the more impressive since until now there has been no serious English-language art-historical discussion of Galán.” -Rubsinstein
Check out review by Raphael Rubinstein, New York-based critic and poet at >

Julio Galan book cover

jaune quick to see smith in the tamarind workshop

Honoring the Legacy of Jaune Quick-to-see Smith Panel Discussion led by Art & Ecology Professor and Author Subhnakar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee, a professor, photographer, writer, curator, and scholar of environmental humanities. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities at UNM.

Principal Art Lecturer, Jessamyn Lovell, Featured in LENSSCRATCH

Jessamyn Lovell is a gender-fluid artist and licensed private investigator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They hold a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, an MFA from California College of the Arts, and are currently a Principal Lecturer at the University of New Mexico.

Bad Bunny x UNM Alum Eric-Paul Riege

As Bad Bunny’s cultural influence continues to expand, we revisit his 2019 collaboration with Eric-Paul Riege during the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at ICA Miami. Grounded in Diné weaving traditions and the philosophy of hózhó - beauty, balance, and goodness - Riege’s regalia for epr embodies ancestral knowledge, performance, and the meaning of hó𝘭ǫ́: to exist.