88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

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    Abstract Expressionist Women at DAM in Review

    The 2001 edition of The 20th-Century Art Book defines Abstract Expressionism as a post-World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. Ab Ex came to describe a specific group of primarily male artists committed to an expressive and profoundly emotional art that arched to individual ideals of universalism. So where have the Abstract Expressionist women been? Jackson Pollock is usually credited with revolutionizing art because of his More …

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    Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger

    Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on Paper was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Schutz’s bright works have been compared to ones by John Currin, Francisco Goya and Alex Katz. I would add Francis Bacon. However, the subject matter for More …

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    El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

    In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as part of Embrace! a site-specific exhibition that celebrated the unique (and controversial) architecture of the Daniel Libeskind designed Hamilton Building. The work is on view in the African art galleries, adjacent to the where the recent More …

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    Now Boarding: Fentress Architects and The Architecture of Flight

    Leanne Goebel interviews Curtis Fentress of Fentress Architects,  at Denver Art Museum. 

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    Phenomenal: Light Maestro James Turrell Paired with Colorado Sculptor Scott Johnson

    Trace Elements: Light Into Space by James Turrell pairs the internationally known light-and-space artist with Colorado College professor and sculptor Scott Johnson, at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Both artists work with light to create perception, and to compel viewers to think critically about what it is they perceive. Johnson’s works comprise a high degree of materiality, as well, as if to reinforce that whereas light may be infinite, earth devastated More …

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    Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac

    During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road  by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal Cassady between 1947 and 1950. For those who haven’t read it, Denver is an important setting for the characters, a destination that is more than a plot point. Kerouac’s On The Road was published More …

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    2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski?

    The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, and Becoming Van Gogh. One of these exhibitions will be the most well attended in DAM history. My prediction? Yves Saint Laurent, which opens March 25 and runs through July 8, 2012, will feature 200 haute couture garments, photographs, drawings and films will draw more crowds to Denver More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Robert Adams Photography at DAM: A Bodhisattva Sees the West

    Photographer Robert Adams is a bodhisattva to the American West: “I want to make accurate photographs of the western landscape. One goal is to show what’s gone wrong so we’ll change it. Another is to show what’s right so we’ll take some hope in it,” he wrote. Through Adams’s viewfinder, the West, the ideal and the desecrated, clarifies. When he began photographing in the 1960s and 70s, landscape photography was More …

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    Edward Ranney’s New World Landscapes: Shaping Culture

    Edward Ranney is a visual artist who has learned as much as he possibly can about ancient cultures and how they survive and continue to exist in contemporary society. According to Eric Paddock, curator of photography at the Denver Art Museum. Ranney who has been photographing for almost 50 years, creates images that hide or disguise the artists viewpoint. “They are clean, sharp images distantly related to minimalism and Western More …

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    Stephen Hannock, Painter-Conservationist New work installed at DAM

    A Stephen Hannock landscape is more than a painting, its a place of discovery, a dimensional plane that invites the viewer to jump in and join the narrative. Hes a documentarian who uses landscape painting to set a stage and tell the story of a place across time. “Im not Tony Gilroy,” he said via telephone from the Denver Art Museum where Mt. Blanca with Ute Creek at Dawn was More …

  • Part of Feb 2010 by

    New Video and Drawings Flaunt Dystopias

    Layers characterize work now on view in Denver by video artist Cliff Evans, and muralist-draughtsman Bill Amundson. One working in video, the other in drawing, both communicate that the collapse (of society?) is coming. Brooklyn-based artist Cliff Evanss exhibit, Citizen is on view at the Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver through February 21. This three-channel HD video installation is made from recognizable images and personalities culled from the More …

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    At Thornburg Campus, Contemporary Architecture Prizes

    The three winners of the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture shared a stage Thursday night in Santa Fe. Equally honored in the prize, endowed by Thornburg Charitable Foundation, were Chris Calott and Tom Gifford for Richmond Street Studios; Mark Baker, for Duranes Elementary School; and Kramer Woodard, a professor at University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, for Lot K, a single-family dwelling. All the projects chosen More …