Southwest Contemporary 12 New Mexico Artists to Know

Apolo Gomez’s Exodus follows its own rules—where the everyday and something stranger exist in seamless cohabitation. This ongoing Polaroid series, begun in 2021, largely features portraits of friends, lovers, and acquaintances stretched over beds, in full-body latex, in repose, or reaching for something just out of frame. In their tenderness and daring intimacy, they are a mirror. In every image bleached with flash, sculpted by shadow, or multiplied like a kaleidoscope, there is an honesty that is both familiar and rare.