Julian Schnabel in Aspen

Julian Schnabel at the Aspen Art Museum 2016-Jan 2017

Aspen Art Museum- Nov 4, 2016-Feb 19, 2017 – Aspen, Colorado   Five minutes into the first gallery of the show,  I started to think that I would have to have two of these paintings. One,  because you have to be really far away to understand and appreciate them. And two, because at that moment…

Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton silkscreen print of Sol Lewitt's water imagery on reflextive material.

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

Guido Ignatti at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2016, No Matter Paintings

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…

Much Wider than a Line

SITE SANTA FE – July 16, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017 – SITEline 2016. The boundary of a place, generations of a people, time – all these are much wider than, say, a pencil line. But borders, family trees and time are often drawn with single lines. The 2016 biennial exhibition at SITE Santa Fe,…

Stella Retrospective

Frank Stella Retrospective - Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum

– Ft. Worth – July 2016 – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth  – “Das Erdbeben der Chili is one of the most recent paintings, and next to it … one of the earliest,” I overheard a tour guide say to her group standing at the first painting in the retrospective of Frank Stella’s work at…

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…

Women of Abstract Expressionism

June 12th through September 25, 2016 – Denver – If you watch our Intro to Women of Abstract Expressionism, you can feel the power and beauty of Abstract Expressionism. Add to this the knowledge that Abstract Expressionism was the first American movement to received international acknowledgement.  Take it from me personally,  when I saw a…