Janice Jakielski’s current work is an investigation of perception, communication and experience. The body dressings she fabricates facilitate perceptual shifts for the participants of her objects. By disrupting or enhancing the senses, the objects make possible an exaggerated self-awareness, a break in the normalcy of daily experience.  With these body objects Jakielski is creating more...

Agustin Lucho Pozo began his studies in his native country of Chile at Universidad de Chile, Escuela de Bellas Artes. He then moved to Los Angeles in 1968, and later traveled throughout the United States spending time in New York and New Jersey, and hiking every national park in the continental United States. His travels acquainted him with the vastness more...

In the land of Supersize, America is known for its unbridled sense of scale: the scale of our continent, economy, industry, architecture, fast food, and monster trucks. The theme of this exhibition is based on scale and the crucial role that it plays in artistic expression. It is the scale of ambition, psychology, history, and technology that informs the viewer’s experience in the gallery. more...

Artist Ted Kuykendall, who was born December 5, 1953, died on October 5, 2009 in Roswell, New Mexico at the age of 56. This handwritten quote hung on the wall of Kuykendall’s studio: The face of truth remains hidden behind a circle of gold. more...

Between Heaven and Earth features 21 photographers from the Roswell Museum and Art Center’s archival and photography collections, celebrating not only the visual record of the photographers and their work but also the development of photography as a historic record and the meteoric rise of photography as an art form in the 20th century. more...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Art Project (FAP) put many Americans back to work during the tumultuous Great Depression. For those individuals gifted in the visual arts, the WPA provided for their families and created an American aesthetic that has become a part of our national identity.
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There is an austerity of life in the eastern plains of New Mexico and West Texas—the geographic region that the Spanish called the Llano Estacado. The landscape of the West and our relationship to the land is a rich source of material for authors, songwriters, poets, and artists.
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This exhibition features the work of noted artists and artisans who lived and worked in northern New Mexico, especially around the art colonies of Santa Fe and Taos. Some of the most prominent New Mexico modernists are featured including Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Victor Higgins, Jozef Bakos, and B.J.O. Nordfeldt. more...

Peter Hurd (1904-1984) was raised in Roswell where his father worked a small ranch southwest of town. Roaming the countryside as a youth on horseback earned Hurd an intimate understanding of the hills, prairies, and arroyos that configured the surrounding landscape. These experiences helped shape his artistic sensibilities and cemented his personal bond with the landscape and people of New Mexico. more...

In 1898, a teenage Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945), captivated by the realism of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, “…imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars.” more...

Aston, who was born in Iowa in 1918, developed a keen interest in the West during time spent on his family’s various ranches. When nearly forty, he began casting bronzes, using his collection as prop material for the creation of sculptures portraying poignant moments in the history of the American West. more...