DMA – Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood painting of house

Hockney-like people paintings March 24, 2019 through July 14, 2019 Big and in my face the scene could be just behind my eyelids in any sunny room in any sunny warm but dry climate. I can feel myself there peaking through fronds of houseplants obscuring my vision to the outside. And at the same time,…

Sterling Ruby: Nasher Sculpture

Sterling Ruby at Nasher Sculpture Center

February 2, 2019 – April 21, 2019 We’ve been watching the British TV show where an art dealer tries to prove through various investigations that an old famous-looking painting or drawing is really that of someone famous so that it can make its owner a lot of money – Fake or Fortune. The sculpture Sterling…

Tatoo This

Amanda Wachob tattooing in the MCA Denver library

Amanda Wachob — Feb 14 – May 26, 2019 – MCA Denver Snow is white – it is true. To say it is true that snow is white, does not mean we can truthfully call snow white. Or me white. Put an abstract or semi-non-representational tattoo on this skin of mine and you will see…

After Effect:

Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting

Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting – MCA Denver Feb. 15 – May 26, 2019 A few paintings by the canonized artist Georgia O’Keeffe hang with new paintings in the clean modernist galleries of the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. The premise of the show is that the contemporary artists have learned something from O’Keeffe –…