Tatoo This
Amanda Wachob — Feb 14 – May 26, 2019 – MCA Denver Snow is white – it is true. To say it is true that snow is white, does not mean we can truthfully call snow white. Or me white. Put an abstract or semi-non-representational tattoo on this skin of mine and you will see…
After Effect:
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 –…
Rauschenberg : a 4-Block Walk in LA
– October 28, 2018 to June 9, 2019 BCAM, Level 3 LA County Museum of Art – Robert Rauschenberg’s ¼ Mile Painting ‘Painting relates to art and life’ — according to several art sources, Robert Rauschenberg said this. To accomplish it, he included real things in his painting, so I have been told. Adding an object…
Arp – First Dada
– Nasher Sculpture Center – September 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019 Descending the staircase to the lower level of the Nasher Sculpture Center, you are centered on the gallery in front of you. Like walking into the sunset, you can’t help but notice it, and now, autumn 2018, this gallery is filled with sculpture so…
Dali: Poetrics
– of the Small, 1929–1936 – Meadows Museum at SMU – Dallas – September 9-January 6, 2019 Small Paintings by Salvadore Dali Portrait of a Woman: 1934 The Fish Man: 1930 Cardinal, Cardinal!: 1934 Cardinal, Cardinal!: velvet mat Gala and the Angelus: 1933 The Angelus: 1932 Spectre of the Angelus: 1934 The Ghost of Vermeer…
Tara Donovan
Field Work – MCA Denver – September 22, 2018–January 27, 2019 Images from Tara Donovan: Field Work wall of straws, view to index card totems detail of index card totems Mylar ribbon jungle detail of Mylar circles on wall Mylar circles on wall straw structures and pin drawing tar paper pile Works of chance. Bone…
Protest Quilts
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, November 2018 I drove across Kansas, up into Nebraska and on to the Missouri River. We rode our bikes along the creek that I grew up near, when it was a stinking puddle next to railroad tracks and the Interstate. We rode a bike path that is half my age at best.…
Clyfford Still Painting
A Daughter’s Eye/A Daughter’s Voice – Sep 14, 2018–Jan 13, 2019 – Several galleries of the Clyfford Still Museum have been curated by Still’s daughter Sandra and are part of the current exhibition which will run through January. I walk into the middle of it and into the middle of a performance the museum calls…
Rembrandt – Printmaker
100 prints from 350 + years ago Ballcap and fedora from Bally of Hollywood 2018, and Rembrandt’s cap – Denver Art Museum – Sept. 15, 2018 to Jan. 6, 2019 There are more than 100 prints from 350 years ago from one of the most prosperous countries on earth – the Dutch Republic – and…
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,…