Fernández / Smithson
July 5 to Oct 28, 2024 — In the middle of the American West, the Great Salt Lake lies as a memory of a time before the mountains lifted when this land was covered by ocean. In 1970, Robert Smithson, a New Jersey artist, drew a spiral pathway in this great lake with rocks. He…
Going with the Flow –
We chose to walk – not drive – to the Santa Fe River in the backyard of the galleries on Canyon Road, and watch artist, Basia Irland, release ice blocks in the shape of books into the flowing river.
Disarm!
DIRECT ACTION — SITE Santa Fe — Pedro Reyes Feb 3 to May 1, 2023 On Friday night, April 28, we sat in the entry gallery at SITE and listened to Leticia Gonzales play her violin, and then one of the violins made out of guns by Pedro Reyes. We faced the musician and the…
Art Making in Full Nature
Plein Air : Susanna Battin, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, iris yirei hu, KB Jones, Hillary Mushkin, Sterling Wells, Paula Wilson Plein air is an art term for taking your paints and canvas out into nature and making art in the presence of your inspiration. The artists in this show each have was of using this…
Max Cole: Endless Journey
My response at the second viewing, post opening night, of this work. Please do not touch, mind Returned, not re-enacted. Yesterday, a dead end in the last room of paintings All made In the current year. Hand drawn lines like a penmanship exercise Obviously, communication from an isolated working human The dead end room flocked…
Eco Poetics – MCA Denver
— August 28, 2022 – Clarissa Tossin Falling from Earth Miranda Lash, senior curator From June 3 to Sunday, August 28, 2022, the work of Clarissa Tossin occupied the second floor of the MCA Denver. Falling from Earth , the name of this exhibition, is a collection of artwork resulting from Tossin’s exploration of the…
Purring Monsters
Guadalupe Maravilla: Purring Monsters with Mirrors on Their Backs On view from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, August 28 at MCA Denver Guadalupe Maravilla is a Salvadoran American artist who lives in New York and practices what he calls sound healing rituals – using sound – and assembles naturally occuring elements into sculptures he calls…
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 –…
Casa Tomada
SITE Santa Fe – NM – August 3, 2018 to January 6, 2019 – Casa Tomada is the title of this exhibition, we are told by its curators, and a short story by Julio Cortázar about a long-in-the-family home taken over by mysterious forces that drive the dwellers out room by room until the family…