Suffering the River of Fundament
TAKING THE FUN OUT OF FUNDAMENT Denver – July 18, 2015. Beautiful images on a big screen in a palatial opera hall could have been a wonderful way to spend a Saturday night. For six hours last night I had the opportunity to see some, but watching the film River of Fundament became more like…
Now What? Artwhat in the Biennial of the Americas 2015
The current show – Now? Now – at the MCA Denver seems to be a hodgepodge of jiggery-pokery made by artists from all over the Americas. Being the flagship exhibition for the Biennial of the Americas, it must include many: countries, artists, types, ages, and thus pieces, in a limited space. Fill the MCA with…
Joan Miro at Denver Art Museum
: Insight & Imagination; March 22 to June 28, 2015 Denver — “I painted in a frenzy, so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go.” – Joan Miró, 1978 A while ago, a young artist friend of mine told me “The avant-garde…
Michaël Borremans – Dallas Museum of Art
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…
Andrea Modica – Human Being
At the Fulginiti Pavillion Gallery for Bioethics at the University of Colorado Medical Campus Denver – Photographs of skulls dominated by intense detail: the cracks that we know existed when we were infants reappear after death. After nearly a century in the ground the bone still shows evidence of being alive with elaborate texture like…
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…
Mark Mothersbaugh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Myopia: a retrospective of a Devo founder Oct. 30, 2014 – April 12, 2015 Denver – The tickets for the opening gala or members preview were as pricey as a walk-up lift ticket, so we waited until all the hoopla was over to see the show Myopia at the Contemporary. I expected the show to…
Judy Chicago Retro at Redline
Enter Redline – a contemporary art space in Denver – and swim through years of work by Judy Chicago, who having reached the grand old age of 75 is this year being feted with several retrospectives across our country and whose name is by now known to people who have some knowledge of contemporary art;…
James Nares : Street – Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha – June 21 to September 21, 2014 – James Nares video engulfs you as you step inside the Contemporary Artists Project gallery – an open and not- claustrophobic smaller gallery cut out from the big temporary exhibitions space. The video sucks you in like a dream. You are watching from the point of view…
MCA Denver & Aspen Art Museum – Just Do It
Ernesto Neto – Gratitude – June 6 to Sept. 7, 2014 – Aspen Art Museum Matt Barton – I Think I Feel Something – July 25 to Oct. 5, 2014 – MCA Denver Located somewhere between a good science fair and a carnival, two art exhibitions are offered to the fair citizens of the state…