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…
Tara Donovan
Field Work – MCA Denver – September 22, 2018–January 27, 2019 Images from Tara Donovan: Field Work wall of straws, view to index card totems detail of index card totems Mylar ribbon jungle detail of Mylar circles on wall Mylar circles on wall straw structures and pin drawing tar paper pile Works of chance. Bone…
Clyfford Still Painting
A Daughter’s Eye/A Daughter’s Voice – Sep 14, 2018–Jan 13, 2019 – Several galleries of the Clyfford Still Museum have been curated by Still’s daughter Sandra and are part of the current exhibition which will run through January. I walk into the middle of it and into the middle of a performance the museum calls…
Rembrandt – Printmaker
100 prints from 350 + years ago Ballcap and fedora from Bally of Hollywood 2018, and Rembrandt’s cap – Denver Art Museum – Sept. 15, 2018 to Jan. 6, 2019 There are more than 100 prints from 350 years ago from one of the most prosperous countries on earth – the Dutch Republic – and…
New Territory
Landscape Photography Today – Denver Art Museum – June 24 -Sept 16, 2018 – Some technically, difficult-to-make photographs hang on the tall museum walls along with some photos I know would be physically hard to take, along with some that are here by a whisper of good luck. Matthew Brandt – Lake Isabella CA TC2,…
Art & Clyfford Still
DENVER — Clyfford Still Museum SEP 29, 2017 – JAN 21, 2018 Red attracts attention. Blue recedes. A horizontal line is a horizon: the space between sky and the surface where we are. See any image and think back. Go back through personal and current associations with that image, and keep going back. Does every…
MiTierra – Denver
Denver Art Museum – March – October 22, 2017 – I walk straight through this exhibition like I was walking across the long bridge into that border town, a little afraid for my kids watching them like a mother hawk, knowing that they would be so easily attracted to all the colorful things in stalls…
Moving Space
Denver – On Nov. 5, the building that was Vance Kirkland’s studio was lifted from its foundation and began its move – whole – to a new foundation on the campus of the new Kirkland museum. Our video – Moving Space – gives a quick view of the 1911 building making the 10-block trip. In…
Bodacioussss with Frank Stella
Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – Oct. to Jan 2017 Instead of using his easel to prop up a window on the world, Kandinsky used it to support a windshield moving through the universe. –from Working Space by Frank Stella. I went to the MCA to take a second look at a show of 20…
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…