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…
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…
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…
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…
Site Santa Fe – retelling old shows
Santa Fe, New Mexico – March 19 – May 22, 2016. Terry and Jo Harvey Allen take turns telling stories from giant video projections from both sides of gallery room of which the central wall – the one you walk toward on entrance – is occasionally occupied by a man whose back is to us,…
Frottages
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now Houston: Sept 11, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016 The deMenil Collection in Houston filled their whole current exhibition space with rubbings. Frottages is the title in French, which makes the activity sound like something exotic enough to fill such a prominent museum. The Menil’s changing exhibition spaces…
Marilyn Minter – MCA Denver 2015
OCTOBER 2015-JANUARY 31, 2016 To see decades of an artist’s work – the Marilyn Minter show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver – it’s hard not to feel like you’ve been friends your whole life. You just forgot to call. For me, Ms. Minter is the older girl that lived next door –…