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…
Guido’s Buried Light
Set Up – Installations by Guido Ignatti – MCA Denver – July 1 to Sept. 11, 2016 What am I missing? I can’t read the poetry on the wall – can’t know if it would move me. I can’t even google it because no words are clear enough to search on. And knowing that is…
Much Wider than a Line
SITE SANTA FE – July 16, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017 – SITEline 2016. The boundary of a place, generations of a people, time – all these are much wider than, say, a pencil line. But borders, family trees and time are often drawn with single lines. The 2016 biennial exhibition at SITE Santa Fe,…
Instruction Manual
– SITElines 2016 – SITE Santa Fe – Santa Fe, NM – This complex show includes more than 30 artists and several conceptual ideas that require some background to fully appreciate and understand. So I’ve made this extra guide with some of the curatorial notes for the biennial titled Much Wider than a Line. Marta…
Stella Retrospective
– Ft. Worth – July 2016 – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – “Das Erdbeben der Chili is one of the most recent paintings, and next to it … one of the earliest,” I overheard a tour guide say to her group standing at the first painting in the retrospective of Frank Stella’s work at…
Joel Shapiro
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Tx – May 7, 2016 – August 21, 2016 – The play of light in this space is worth the trip and so are the sculptures by Joel Shapiro. Add to this the shadows cast upon and from this minimalist sculptures. Just add rain.