N. Dash and Water

N. Dash and Water at SITE SANTA FE … Oct. 6, 2023 – Feb. 5, 2024 My second time in five days, into the widened out gallery space and I walk up to a woman I didn’t know and ask what she thinks of the paintings. Days ago before I’d seen the works I was…

Agnes Pelton : Desert Transcendentalist

— OCTOBER 5, 2019 – JANUARY 5, 2020, at the New Mexico Museum of Art — We start our conversation, me and Agnes Pelton, with a joke: Room Decoration in Purple and Gray from 1917. If Pelton was with Duchamp at the 1917 show put on by the Society of Independent American Artists she might…

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 –…

Jay DeFeo – Aspen

Jay De Feo painting called Cabbage Rose

Jun 29-Oct 28 –  The Ripple Effect – Artists are often asked who inspired them. The premise of this show is that Jay DeFeo was an artist who did that inspiring for many. DeFeo created a ripple effect and it flows through the work of about a dozen contemporary artists included in this show with…

Art & Clyfford Still

Big Blue painting by Clyfford Still as seen from behind woman with red shoes writing in a blank book

DENVER — Clyfford Still Museum SEP 29, 2017 – JAN 21, 2018 Red attracts attention. Blue recedes. A horizontal line is a horizon: the space between sky and the surface where we are. See any image and think back. Go back through personal and current associations with that image, and keep going back. Does every…

Julian Schnabel in Aspen

Julian Schnabel at the Aspen Art Museum 2016-Jan 2017

Aspen Art Museum- Nov 4, 2016-Feb 19, 2017 – Aspen, Colorado   Five minutes into the first gallery of the show,  I started to think that I would have to have two of these paintings. One,  because you have to be really far away to understand and appreciate them. And two, because at that moment…

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…

John De Puy – Harwood Museum of Art

Red landscape painting -John dePuy

Taos – Saturday, February 13 – Sunday, May 1, 2016 John De Puy: Painter of the Apocalyptic Volcano of the World TO JOHN DE PUY Madman and seer, painter of the apocalyptic volcano of the world— Compañero, I am with you forever in the glorious fraternity of the damned. —Edward Abbey There is something about…

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 –…

Michaël Borremans – Dallas Museum of Art

post talk at Dallas Museum of Art between curator Jeffrey Grove and Michael Borremans

March 15, 2015 to July 5, 2015 As Sweet As It Gets Painter Borremans will develop like Simon Shama’s narrative of Rembrant – having mastered old master painting he’s going to let politics creep in: fish on the table – of the poor, an ugly begermister. What symbols, attitudes juxtapositions will he use? I don’t…