A long wait at the DMV, while my 17-year-old son took his driving test, was interrupted by a tweet on my Blackberry. It was Tyler Green sending a link to Blake Gopniks recent Washington Post article about Gopniks visit to Lightning Field (above). Gopnik wrote that the setting of Lightning Field, near Quemado, New Mexico, is “a classic patch of sagebrush-covered land, set on an empty plateau 7,200 feet high. More …
Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, curator Ingrid Schaffner and associate curator Jenelle Porter have brought together 22 artists spanning 4 generations of “significant” works. One of those artists is Betty Woodman, a former ceramics teacher at the University of Colorado. Woodmans ceramic sculptures are in the collection of the Denver Art Museum and on More …
Sometimes the container is far more beneficial than just what is actually into the After you contemplate Valentine’s day, what comes to mind? For many individuals, it’s hearts and you may chocolates. A heart-shaped field regarding delicious chocolate candy is a pleasant present toward Valentine’s day. Do you actually contemplate all of them since a beneficial collectible aside from getting psychological well worth? Lyn Theurer, out of Winona, indeed did More …
Design Lab at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art last Friday night presented entries including a tornado house fantasy design for windy midwestern cities, an urban backyard chicken coop with implications for the biological clock of the chickens, and “intriguing innovations in form” across visionary built and unbuilt projects in furniture, lighting and architecture. (Design Lab was part of the Santa Fe Interior Designers Presents weekend of events, with sponsorship by Creative More …
On June 30, 2011 I received a request for proposals and call to artists from Nora Burnett Abrams, associate curator at MCA/Denver, for a joint Colorado exhibition to be held at MCA and the Aspen Art Museum that is now under way. Artists were asked to submit their CV, a 250-word artist statement and up to eight images or video samples. The call stated that curators would select works in More …
Visual Rhythm at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA) eases viewers into the world of experimental film, video and digital art—an experience that can be immersive. The exhibition links recent directions in new media art to earlier artistic explorations—primarily those of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003). Brakhage is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-experimental cinema; he liked to call his work poetic film. “In the More …
Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings by Still brought more than $114 million. The paintings, consigned by the city of Denver to raise money for the new Clyfford Still Museum, brought a better return than the auction house estimated and a bigger windfall than the city imagined. Yet one man’s windfall is another man’s warning. Critics of the More …
We live in a world filled with cool products and great design. I love my iPhone, desire an iPad and remain happy each day when I walk into my office and sit down in front of my sleek iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse. Everything works. I don’t have to worry about daily software updates to protect my security or have my PC crash on me as frequently as it More …
On Sunday morning if you were watching “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” you would have heard the bells of ancient (25-year-old) contemporary art history tolling. Gary Bauer of “Our American Values” (“protecting life, marriage, faith, and freedom” is the tag line), offered up that when back in the 1980s an artist suspended a crucifix in “a vat” of urine, Christians didnt “riot.” Maybe no, but the body blow to culture More …
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks will be presented in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver from Oct. 15, 2010, through Jan. 16, 2011. New York painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders was presenting solo shows as a college undergrad, sold a painting to the Guggenheim and was profiled in Vogue – all by 25. But when the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver came knocking, a unique More …
PAPER Last month I encountered Myung Ursos work at Patina Gallery. A Korean artist, her work incorporates paper, particularly mulberry paper, cocoon silk, the rare weft of sponge. She has the habit of making what appear to be pockets in jewelry to be worn, so that a section that folds, so as to lie flat against the skin, again encloses. Pockets a little riffle of another thing, an anemone-like cluster More …
When Paola Santoscoy met Adam Lerner in Autumn 2008, she had no idea that the encounter would lead her to Denver to curate a portion of the Biennial of the Americas. At the time, she was a student in the Curatorial Practice MA program at the California College of the Arts. Lerner was still the director of the LAB at Belmar. They talked about the artist Melanie Smith with whom More …