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 –…
Formalizing the Camouflage of the Homeless
Denver – Now?Now! – Marcelo Cidade: these blankets have a obvious front and back. An elaborate texture hints they’re made from a mix of materials. According to the artist, they are the byproducts of recycling in São Paulo, Brazil, where Mr. Cidade lives. They’re used as insulation in the construction industry, sold as packing blankets…
Face to Face – Denver & Mexico Studio Swap
Vis-à-vis @McNichols Building July 15- July 26 Four artists and months of work fill the third floor of the McNichols building in a show called Vis-à-vis. There is plenty of physical space between the works, and it is pleasantly filled with the conceit that two artists from Denver would swap studios with two artists from…
Michaël Borremans – Dallas Museum of Art
March 15, 2015 to July 5, 2015 As Sweet As It Gets Painter Borremans will develop like Simon Shama’s narrative of Rembrant – having mastered old master painting he’s going to let politics creep in: fish on the table – of the poor, an ugly begermister. What symbols, attitudes juxtapositions will he use? I don’t…
Andrea Modica – Human Being
At the Fulginiti Pavillion Gallery for Bioethics at the University of Colorado Medical Campus Denver – Photographs of skulls dominated by intense detail: the cracks that we know existed when we were infants reappear after death. After nearly a century in the ground the bone still shows evidence of being alive with elaborate texture like…