Julian Schnabel in Aspen
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…
KAWS
What do we learn from repetition? KAWS WHERE THE END STARTS Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 22, 2017 Fort Worth – Three versions of the same image start a large exhibit of 2- and 3- dimensional work by KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Six different colors make three different combinations that…
Moving Space
Denver – On Nov. 5, the building that was Vance Kirkland’s studio was lifted from its foundation and began its move – whole – to a new foundation on the campus of the new Kirkland museum. Our video – Moving Space – gives a quick view of the 1911 building making the 10-block trip. In…
Bodacioussss with Frank Stella
Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – Oct. to Jan 2017 Instead of using his easel to prop up a window on the world, Kandinsky used it to support a windshield moving through the universe. –from Working Space by Frank Stella. I went to the MCA to take a second look at a show of 20…
Spanish Moderns
Meadows Museum, Dallas – October 9, 2016-January 29, 2017 – History in a city like Dallas is made up. The buildings are recreations of some other time, fictions that they actually would have been built had their predecessors not been built and made famous by their beauty somewhere else. They are not structures in the vibe…
Sticks & Stones in Steel and Paper
RiNo Denver – October 1-15, 2016 Sculpture and Drawings by Steuart Bremner Bremner has been making sculpture for 40 years, often in metal (various metals) and sometimes carved wood – in addition to making conceptual and more ephemeral art. He avoid mixing materials in these tangible works in order to make the clearest image possible.…
In Neon in the Night
Wish You Were Here – Scott Young at Rule Gallery September 23 – November 5, 2016 Denver – Rule Gallery has a new location at 530 Santa Fe Drive, in Denver, on the south end of the Santa Fe arts district. Excellent smells of asada from the street vendor on the corner hung with us…
Three Photographers
Pueblo, Co Sangre de Cristo Art Center – The last days of the big show of Ansel Adam’s photographs were flanked by two other local photographers: John Suhay, works from the 40s to recent time, and John Wilbur Clarence Floyd who shot Pueblo from 1880 to 1920. Three proscriptions – how it must be -…
Orozco 2016
Aspen Art Museum – July 29th – Dec. 18, 2016 Why paintings? Why make paintings that look like those made before? Why expend the energy to make, apply and remove paint and gesso, to harvest wood or fibers just to add more paintings to a world with a crisis of over-consumption. And why live in…
Adam Pendleton
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver – July 15 – Sept. 25, 2016 – Becoming Imperceptible — Just the blacks of B&W photographs covered a few walls when the MCA Denver opened on July 15th with a party, a party not everyone standing in line was able to join. It was crowded with colorfully dressed folks and when…