Exhibitions
Truth or Consequences Contemporary exhibits a wide variety of art from a diverse range of local, regional and national artists. Below you will find a large selection of varied artworks from the wearable to the cerebral.
Past
- May 9th–May 21st, 2026 First Exit
-
NMSU BFA & MFA Student Show.
Allie Hale, Andrew Williams, Angelina Lopez, Asa Lambert, Celeste Croteaux, Chantay Herrera, Chung-Fang Chang, Danny Joe Rose II, Ezekiel Martey, Gracie Kyle, Ivan Esparza, Jacob Gyamfi, Lei Maslian, Melise Butler, Meredith Rose, Trevor P. Jackson, Yvette Michalak, Zoe Char.
- April 11th–May 6th, 2026 What Hands Do
-
A show by Jeannie Ortiz, a body of new works in new mediums. Opening reception April 11th, 2026. Jeannie writes:
‘What Hands Do’ is a body of work that I have been working on for the past year. It is a deeply personal journey brought to life through watercolor paintings, printmaking and pit-fired ceramic sculpture.
I started painting for the first time, with watercolors, last spring-summer. Most of the 150+ watercolor paintings that I created over the summer of 2025 were bound into two handmade books with wooden covers, sewn in a Coptic style binding. I do believe that the hand-bound book ‘Vessels’ is surely one of my favorite things I have ever created.
Last summer I also scratched 17 intaglio plates of plants, from life, from places that I hold dear. These intaglio prints are studies of plants from northern New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming that I worked on printing over the winter and spring ’25-26. One set of these prints was also bound into a large format book entitled ‘What are The Colors of the Place You Love Most in This World.’ A handful of these intaglio prints I adorned with watercolors, and some with foil-stamped text.
There is also a sculpture component to this installation - ‘An Offering’. Ceramics was my first love. Pit-firing clay pieces was something that I did for the first time in high school and studied more deeply in college. With great joy, in the last year I have been drawn back into this form of creating. This installation is a meditation on deep time, lineage and loss. The installation includes an assembly of ceramic pieces, some functional, some purely sculptural, along with a collection of 15 glass marbles that I commissioned Joshua Cravens to make with my Dad’s ashes.
All of these works come together in a study of what it means to be a floating body in this world, to be both deeply connected to and completely severed from our past. It is a meditation on new connections to understand one’s body through the act of creating and connecting to the non-human world.
- February 14th, 2026 Tatsuya Nakatani Bow Show
- A special one night event during Art Hop showcasing the stunning bows of the great percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani.
- November 14th, 2025 Women of Consequences
- Release party, 6–8pm at the gallery main space. Agile Meteor Press no. 4.
- October 9th–12th, 2024 of fog, by Melissa Haviland
- "While making multiples of Elizabeth, the "of fog" artworks began to contemplate the power of objects in our lives and in reiterating ideas, the coldness of capitalism, and the healing power of making." To learn what an Elizabeth is, visit melissahaviland.com.
- autumn 2024 Weaving
- More about this show is coming.
- opened February 24th, 2024 Home
-
The inaugural exhibition of Truth or Consequences Contemporary at 312 Main, opened with a Grand Opening Ceremony on the Saturday night of MeTeORiC 2024 — dance performances by Abigail Flora, Cydney Wilkes, Jeannie Ortiz, Avi Burg, Chris Slate and Joshua Cravens, poetry by Lucas Beau Leone, and a performance by Hieronymus Bogs. Work exploring the idea of home through dance, music, stone, paint, fiber, drawing, installation, photography, metal, ceramic and glass, by Priscila Spitler, Olin West, Hills Snyder, Nice Condo, Weshoyot Alvitre, Emily Spykman, Gary Cunningham, Felix Morello, Sarah Rosenthal, Reed Rische, Lucas Beau Leone, Alida Mataczynski, Thomas Phillip Laidig, Scott Horn, Petro Hul, James O'Connell, Colette Webster, Kyle Parker Cunningham and Jeannie Ortiz.
Welcome to the inaugural show in this new space and our new identity: Truth or Consequences Contemporary. This is the fourth iteration of art space we’ve run in TorC over the proceeding dozen years. While previous spaces focused on a small cast of in house artists, this new venture examines various universal themes through art, performance, sound, words, film, and community.
This first year’s theme is “Home”; starting this new endeavor in our 12th year in TorC really drives home the fact that this oasis is our home. The art on view herein explores aspects on the concept of home: from the dishes we eat off of to the urns we keep our ancestors in. This exhibition became a deeply personal and introspective meditation on our personal history while concurrently allow us to investigate the way we will present art in the future.
Home is something we all search for and if lucky, even if for brief moments, we are allowed to exist in the bliss of home for some time.
- Future Relics
- More about this body of work is coming. The work in the shop.
Before 312 Main
We were showing art in this town for a long time before we found this building (the history page has the whole story). At Desert Archaic on Broadway the walls changed every month for the Second Saturday Art Hop, for more than a decade, hundreds of installations of paintings, “an alternate reality where time and space melt to merge with the hyper consciousness,” as we wrote in 2019. A few of them:
- 2019 Tomorrow
- A site specific installation of some 250 paintings on found and repurposed materials, with found objects and stone sculptures. Shown at Desert Archaic and at NMSU, Las Cruces.
- January–February 2018 Olin West: Selections from the Tabbed Series
- Ten years of Olin West's tabbed paintings, 2005–2015, "a metaphysical musing on color, variation and repetition." This series was his departure from plein air painting into the metaphysical world of the abstract.
- Winter 2022 Thomas Phillip Laidig
- Stone sculptures. His work in the shop.
- 2021 Modern Ancient
- An art exhibition in the form of a book, by the two of us. It was the first and only title from Desert Archaic Press, and we released it with a performance, a film, adornment and an art installation.
On view
There is always work up in the gallery: handloom, sculpture, intaglio, painting, printmaking, art clothing, adornment and knives, and books from Agile Meteor Press.
The calendar has openings and events, and the shop has work for sale.