88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

  • Part of May 2010 by

    Mierle Ukeles: Garbage and Ritual

    Mierle Laderman Ukeles has performed as an artist for 40 years, setting up her work as situations that show the overlooked civic sanitation worker. Ukeles spoke at the Santa Fe Art Institute May 10.  The Denver-born New Yorker cited the freedom of her “kin,”  20th-century artists Pollock, Duchamp and Rothko, as inspiring her to become an artist. Ukeles, 71, said the “epiphany” of recognizing that motherhood was maintenance work stimulated More …

  • Part of Jan 2010 by

    Colorado Watch List 2010

    1. The Denver Biennial of the Americas happens July 1-31, and “The Dissolve” SITE Santa Fes 8th International Biennial opens June 20. Two very different takes. SITE has established itself institutionally by hosting a prominent contemporary art biennial, and this year the curators are next generation Rob Storr proteges: Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco. The kunsthalle will be transformed by starchitect David Adjaye and the all-video-creating artists are some of More …

  • Part of Oct 2009 by

    Site Santa Fe Biennial of 2010, Described

    Site Santa Fes eighth biennial, “The Dissolve,” harkens a glorious return to the imaginal the retinal and the animated –via a show being nimbly co-curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco. Lewis is being vetted for a new post as deputy director of the NEA; Belasco is a curator at the Jewish Museum. Both worked with Robert Storr on Our Grotesque, the SITE Santa Fe painting show-biennial of 2004. Lewis More …

  • Part of May 2009 by

    Bud Shark’s Inkers

    Printmaking is a very fine art. Whether lithography, monoprints, woodcuts, or chine collé, the act of making a print is often painstaking, detailed and precise. To get the results an artist is looking for often requires intense collaboration with a master printmaker. Artists from around the world venture to a small printmaking studio in Lyons, Colorado to work with just such a master-Bud Shark-a printer unafraid to challenge the assumptions More …