Orozco 2016
Aspen Art Museum – July 29th – Dec. 18, 2016 Why paintings? Why make paintings that look like those made before? Why expend the energy to make, apply and remove paint and gesso, to harvest wood or fibers just to add more paintings to a world with a crisis of over-consumption. And why live in…
Adam Pendleton
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver – July 15 – Sept. 25, 2016 – Becoming Imperceptible — Just the blacks of B&W photographs covered a few walls when the MCA Denver opened on July 15th with a party, a party not everyone standing in line was able to join. It was crowded with colorfully dressed folks and when…
Guido’s Buried Light
Set Up – Installations by Guido Ignatti – MCA Denver – July 1 to Sept. 11, 2016 What am I missing? I can’t read the poetry on the wall – can’t know if it would move me. I can’t even google it because no words are clear enough to search on. And knowing that is…
Women of Abstract Expressionism
June 12th through September 25, 2016 – Denver – If you watch our Intro to Women of Abstract Expressionism, you can feel the power and beauty of Abstract Expressionism. Add to this the knowledge that Abstract Expressionism was the first American movement to received international acknowledgement. Take it from me personally, when I saw a…
Laura Shill Phantom Touch
Denver – Museum of Contemporary Art FEBRUARY 20, 2016 – JULY 3, 2016 Why art that moves us into a room through tubes of stuffed pink satin? Why are these hanging in strands, thick ones, like a beaded curtain? Why no sound of clicking beads? Just the fat strands quiet, and pressing with less touch…
Brian Bress: MCA Denver
Denver — FEBRUARY 20, 2016 – JULY 3, 2016 — From T minus 10 years to something good. These photographs are pretty representative of Bress’ work – his most recent work – which captured my eyes for longer than was good for them. The image in the background – let’s call it the secondary layer…
Marilyn Minter – MCA Denver 2015
OCTOBER 2015-JANUARY 31, 2016 To see decades of an artist’s work – the Marilyn Minter show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver – it’s hard not to feel like you’ve been friends your whole life. You just forgot to call. For me, Ms. Minter is the older girl that lived next door –…
Hume’s Guillotine – Environmental Sculpture
August, 2015 Breckenridge International Festival of Art Is does not make ought – that’s the gist of Hume’s Guillotine, a philosophical law that prefers moral law over natural law. Environmental issues are enormously complex in the Western U.S. and today, industry and tourism both want of piece of the landscape. Often things are left as…
Formalizing the Camouflage of the Homeless
Denver – Now?Now! – Marcelo Cidade: these blankets have a obvious front and back. An elaborate texture hints they’re made from a mix of materials. According to the artist, they are the byproducts of recycling in São Paulo, Brazil, where Mr. Cidade lives. They’re used as insulation in the construction industry, sold as packing blankets…
Face to Face – Denver & Mexico Studio Swap
Vis-à-vis @McNichols Building July 15- July 26 Four artists and months of work fill the third floor of the McNichols building in a show called Vis-à-vis. There is plenty of physical space between the works, and it is pleasantly filled with the conceit that two artists from Denver would swap studios with two artists from…