Santino Gonzales: Adobe Signals and UFO Wonder at Fort Garland and Harwood Museums

Key facts

• Santino Gonzales is an artist from Los Lunas, New Mexico.
• He is showing new site-specific works in the group exhibition 'Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros' at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center and Harwood Museum of Art.
• The exhibition runs from June 27, 2026, to February 28, 2027.
• His works include 'The Disc at Taos (for Nana),' an adobe sound mirror inspired by the Very Large Array and acoustic defense technologies.
• He created 'Skyharp' for the exhibition, installed on the Commandant's Quarters at Fort Garland.
• His practice combines adobe construction and audio wave transmissions.
• He has created a crop circle with his father ('a brief history of crop circles', 2021) and an aeolian harp from an adobe mold ('adobe harp', 2025).
• His artist publication 'Variations on a Beam' (2023) was published by Deep Time Press in an edition of fifty.
• Gonzales is inspired by UFO lore and late-night paranormal radio, particularly 'Coast to Coast'.
• He describes his work as about sending signals and the gesture of reaching out.
• He is not interested in solving mysteries but in preserving wonder.
• The article was published by Southwest Contemporary.