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…
Protest Quilts
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, November 2018 I drove across Kansas, up into Nebraska and on to the Missouri River. We rode our bikes along the creek that I grew up near, when it was a stinking puddle next to railroad tracks and the Interstate. We rode a bike path that is half my age at best.…
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,…
Jay DeFeo – Aspen
Jun 29-Oct 28 – The Ripple Effect – Artists are often asked who inspired them. The premise of this show is that Jay DeFeo was an artist who did that inspiring for many. DeFeo created a ripple effect and it flows through the work of about a dozen contemporary artists included in this show with…
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…
Biennial Alert – Review 2016
SITE Santa Fe — To prepare ourselves for a new biennial exhibition at SITE we send up a short conversation with Margarita Cabrera regarding her project called “Space in Between” that was featured in the 2016 exhibition. SITE opens a new biennial August 4, 2018. Since I interviewed Ms. Cabrera she’s shown this project in…
Bell and Video Matters
— Harwood Museum of Art — Taos, NM — Opening June 9 – I grabbed for the pencil – the sign said “Do Not Touch!” — so I was not really going to touch. Was I? When I got close, the pencil rose off the paper and scared me. You can watch my video and…
Gibson Like a Hammer
Denver Art Museum – Colorado – May 17 – August 12, 2018 Jeffrey Gibson is a New York artist having his first major museum show in Denver that includes 57 objects made since 2011. These objects include paintings, sculpture and what I’d call tapestries. The show is curated by the Native Arts curator at the…