Press
Coverage
Travel + Leisure · August 18th, 2026
America’s Best Small Spa and Wellness Town Has Hot Springs Resorts, Public Bathhouses, and a Healing Waters Trail, by Evie Carrick. A guide to our little hot springs town, and they sent people our way as a “creative vortex,” which is the name we gave it ourselves.
Afar · July 22nd, 2026
Sled Down Sand Dunes, Soak in Hot Springs, and Taste Fiery Chiles on This 3-Day, 459-Mile New Mexico Road Trip, by Sophie Friedman and Adam H. Graham. A road trip across New Mexico that says to time your visit for Art Hop and bounce between the galleries, us included.
Pasatiempo, the Santa Fe New Mexican · November 7th, 2025
Better for verse: word comrades get support from a pair of fellow artisans, about Women of Consequences and our publishing imprint, Agile Meteor Press.
Smithsonian Magazine · June 9th, 2025
The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2025 picks Truth or Consequences as one of the 15 best small towns in the USA, and names us for our paintings, handloom works, clothing and our community printmaking space.
Sierra County Citizen · February 14th, 2025
The MeTeORiC Festival is back, by John Johanek, on the 2025 festival, which we put on with Hieronymus Bogs.
Southwest Contemporary · March 1st, 2024
Jeannie Ortiz: Living Histories, by Lauren Tresp. Jeannie was a featured artist in Vol. 9, Living Histories, a profile of her weaving, her wild harvested dyes and her family’s history in this desert.
Sierra County Sentinel · February 22nd, 2024
Artistry Unleashed, by Steven Mull, about our new space at 312 Main, the week of the grand opening.
Sierra County Citizen · February 13th, 2024
MeTeORiC Event in TorC February 23 – 25, by John Johanek, on the festival weekend when we held the Grand Opening Ceremony of Home, on the Saturday night.
Southwest Contemporary · May 26th, 2023
Field Report: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, by Bethany Tabor, about Desert Archaic, written just as we were moving into a bigger building downtown.
KRWG Public Media · October 18th, 2019
Sierra County and Truth or Consequences Happenings, about the very first MeTeORiC, with Desert Archaic as one of its venues.
Main Street America
Our facade signage installation was made possible through the National Main Street Backing Small Business Grant.
THANK YOU to everyone who has written about us. If you wrote something and it isn’t here, please let us know.
Press kit
For writers, editors and curators. Everything here is free to use when you write about the gallery, just give us credit. If you need something else, bigger files, or want to come visit, email us at intentionallyconfusing@gmail.com.
At a glance
| Name | Truth or Consequences Contemporary (TorC Contemporary) |
| Founders | Jeannie Ortiz and Kyle Parker Cunningham |
| Address | 312 Main Ave, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico 87901 |
| Building | The Luchini Electric Building, 1916 |
| Opened | February 24th, 2024, at 312 Main. The project started in 2012, at Mud Mountain Studio |
| What happens here | Exhibitions, the Community Etching Press, Agile Meteor Press, performance, workshops, and the MeTeORiC festival |
| Web | torc.art · shop at shop.torc.art |
| Social | Instagram @torc.art · Facebook @torc.contemporary |
| Contact | intentionallyconfusing@gmail.com |
About the gallery
In a sentence. A gallery in the middle of nowhere obsessed with understanding optimal ways to use art in the transmission of lived emotions from one human being to another.
In a paragraph. Contemporary art space focusing on experiment and experiential works. We bring cutting edge projects to life in the strange vortex which is Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Handloom, sculpture, intaglio, painting, printmaking, art clothing, adornment, knives, and books.
At length. Truth or Consequences Contemporary is the physical space we occupy in our minds. A refuge for the arts supporting a laboratory to answer the questions of “what is relevant as we move into this new world.” It is the continuation of a fourteen year project in TorC NM. We have had four distinct iterations of this space so far: first with Olin West at Mud Mountain Studio and 100th Monkey Gallery, followed by Seba the hip hop party world art factory which then morphed into Desert Archaic, a creative vortex in the oasis. Truth or Consequences Contemporary is the culmination of everything we’ve learned over the past decade and more, and takes rural art to international levels.
The whole story is on the history page.
The founders
Jeannie Ortiz is a New Mexico based artist who spends her days entangled in the threads of weaving, adornment making, sculpture and intentional movement through the vast beauty of this natural world. Natural fibers, lovingly dyed, are the substance that come to life on her loom. Found stones are at the heart of potent wearable talismans that she brings to life. The act of creating has been a daily practice for her since childhood, it is an expanding exploration of what it means to be a human, in this place and in this time. Her handloom and adornment works are collected globally. jeannieortiz.com
Kyle Parker Cunningham was born in Wyoming, raised in Montana, and now resides with his partner Jeannie Ortiz on the banks of the Rio Grande at the edge of the great expanse of Gila Wilderness in Truth or Consequences, NM. On a singular canvas the world is framed as he sees it today, as it was yesterday, and as it could be tomorrow, merging archaic images with the technologies of the future. He paints, printmakes, sculpts and binds books. kyleparkercunningham.com
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Credit: Truth or Consequences Contemporary.
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