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.
Want to Dance?
#dancelab – Denver Art Museum, Denver, July 10 through Oct. 2, 2016 – Feels great to dance, right? But what do you look like dancing? The interactive installations at the Denver Art Museum this summer not only let’s you see your body in motion, but makes it art. Surrounded by sculptures and paintings and the…
Mabel Dodge Luhan & the Moderns
Harwood Museum of Art -Taos – June 10, 2016 – From Native Americans, the Spanish to Artists Modern & Post-Modern I have only lived in New Mexico for a month at a time at most, but visit often. It is like the family cabin from your youth that still influences you. My husband has memories…
Digital Art Surprise
Santa Fe, NM – The Art House – May 2015 – May 2016. A Frank Stella painting that changes color, a quilt of filmstrips, historical graphics generated by a plotter, and one that is continuously drawn on a computer screen – all these are part of an exhibition I stumbled upon in an old house…