Hume’s Guillotine – Environmental Sculpture
August, 2015 Breckenridge International Festival of Art Is does not make ought – that’s the gist of Hume’s Guillotine, a philosophical law that prefers moral law over natural law. Environmental issues are enormously complex in the Western U.S. and today, industry and tourism both want of piece of the landscape. Often things are left as…
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…
Suffering the River of Fundament
TAKING THE FUN OUT OF FUNDAMENT Denver – July 18, 2015. Beautiful images on a big screen in a palatial opera hall could have been a wonderful way to spend a Saturday night. For six hours last night I had the opportunity to see some, but watching the film River of Fundament became more like…
Now What? Artwhat in the Biennial of the Americas 2015
The current show – Now? Now – at the MCA Denver seems to be a hodgepodge of jiggery-pokery made by artists from all over the Americas. Being the flagship exhibition for the Biennial of the Americas, it must include many: countries, artists, types, ages, and thus pieces, in a limited space. Fill the MCA with…
Joan Miro at Denver Art Museum
: Insight & Imagination; March 22 to June 28, 2015 Denver — “I painted in a frenzy, so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go.” – Joan Miró, 1978 A while ago, a young artist friend of mine told me “The avant-garde…
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…
Donna Altieri – Ironton Gallery – Month of Photography
50 Years in Your Face – a photographic journal – Feb. 27 – April 4, 2015. Denver – Fifty years of taking photographs is a subject in itself, and a documentary – albeit in still frame – of Donna Altieri’s life and the subject of her one-woman show at Ironton Gallery. Called Fifty Years in your…
Mark Mothersbaugh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Myopia: a retrospective of a Devo founder Oct. 30, 2014 – April 12, 2015 Denver – The tickets for the opening gala or members preview were as pricey as a walk-up lift ticket, so we waited until all the hoopla was over to see the show Myopia at the Contemporary. I expected the show to…