Oscar Muñoz – Retrospective
Like many retrospectives, chronology dictates the flow of the work and we start with intense figure drawings in black and white. Learning to draw in school is learning illusion and acquiring an ability make marks on a page look like full round life-like forms. These drawings show the Muñoz can do just that. What else do we see that fools us? Step along through this show and we will find out
New Territory
Landscape Photography Today – Denver Art Museum – June 24 -Sept 16, 2018 – Some technically, difficult-to-make photographs hang on the tall museum walls along with some photos I know would be physically hard to take, along with some that are here by a whisper of good luck. Matthew Brandt – Lake Isabella CA TC2,…
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 –…
Donna Altieri – Ironton Gallery – Month of Photography
50 Years in Your Face – a photographic journal – Feb. 27 – April 4, 2015. Denver – Fifty years of taking photographs is a subject in itself, and a documentary – albeit in still frame – of Donna Altieri’s life and the subject of her one-woman show at Ironton Gallery. Called Fifty Years in your…
More American Photos MCA
DENVER – March 30, 2012 – I don’t expect photography never to play tricks on me. I enjoy qualities of illusion – and formal composition – in a photo just as much as I enjoy those qualities in a painting. But, I also value the ability of photography to offer me some information about a…
Robert Adams
Photographs at the DAM Robert Adams’ photographs at the Denver Art Museum are the spitting image of ones we’ve taken as young people exploring rural Colorado and beyond in the ’70s and ’80s. Or, more accurately, my imagined version of my photos. His are B&W and make the jarring primary colors of the commercialism of…