Purring Monsters
Guadalupe Maravilla: Purring Monsters with Mirrors on Their Backs On view from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, August 28 at MCA Denver Guadalupe Maravilla is a Salvadoran American artist who lives in New York and practices what he calls sound healing rituals – using sound – and assembles naturally occuring elements into sculptures he calls…
Three Women Protest Artists
New Mexico Museum of Art. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith. October 19, 2021-June 19, 2022 I’m writing this for my friend who couldn’t get to see the show before it closed June 19. Here’s a video of Mildred Howard’s train. We waited, and so will you. What I want to…
Helen Pashgian: Presences
SITE Santa FE – January 2022 In 2021, Helen Pashgian made some luminous sculptures that fill a room with a specifically colored light. In order to keep you in the room, she has set the room lights on a dimmer that goes from its brightest to very low lighting in a five minute cycle. These…
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
Lightening Field
September 20, 2021 Left at the Lightning Field in the afternoon, we knew someone would pick us up at 11 a.m. the next day. We’d just been driven on dirt roads for nearly an hour from the town of Quemado – rural western New Mexico. The Lightening Field is a land art piece conceived by…
San Francisco Post Covid
Hello and it’s good to be back where the art is unsafe and the interior art spaces are optimistically healthy and cautiously open. The San Fransisco MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) was closed for remodeling for a while, then closed for Covid, but had been on our list of best museums for art of the…
Drums at MOA Vancouver, British Columbia
Seattle Art – Outdoors
The largest most well-known sculpture in Seattle is the Space Needle built for the 1962 Worlds Fair. We took the monorail built for that fair, which feels a little dated today, out to the park surrounding this Eiffel Tower of Seattle. Another evening, we walked from our hotel to this landmark and over to the…
Portland Museum of Art
January 8, 2020 We flew into Portland and made out way to the Portland Museum of Art to see several things: one was a show of work by Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976) addressing the visual systems that perpetuate inequality and bias – with new and old images comparing the 50s and today as…
Monet: Truth in Nature
— October 21, 2019 until February 2, 2020 — Denver Art Museum I live in my own world of poetry and art. And what better friend for me to have in this world than the Denver Art Museum, just a 20-minute walk through beautiful Denver weather — one day 80℉ and the next day 14℉…