On seeing the Forest for the Trees
An environmental sculpture BRECKENRIDGE – July 4, 2012 With the grueling Firecracker 50 Bike Race set for the Fourth of July, dozens of riders were training hard on the days leading up to the event, and many were wondering about a bunch of dead lodgepoles dancing around the woods next to the Moonstone Trail –…
Material Abstraction – Art and Current Events:
DENVER – June 3, 2012 – Material Abstraction, at Robiscon Gallery from May 17 through June 30, 2012, shows this gallery has a knack for putting artworks together in a way that each compliments the others. The very compatible paintings by Lisa Stefanelli and sculptures of Linda Fleming in their main gallery look as if…
More American Photos MCA
DENVER – March 30, 2012 – I don’t expect photography never to play tricks on me. I enjoy qualities of illusion – and formal composition – in a photo just as much as I enjoy those qualities in a painting. But, I also value the ability of photography to offer me some information about a…
Robert Adams
Photographs at the DAM Robert Adams’ photographs at the Denver Art Museum are the spitting image of ones we’ve taken as young people exploring rural Colorado and beyond in the ’70s and ’80s. Or, more accurately, my imagined version of my photos. His are B&W and make the jarring primary colors of the commercialism of…