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…
Guido’s Buried Light
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…
Laura Shill Phantom Touch
Denver – Museum of Contemporary Art FEBRUARY 20, 2016 – JULY 3, 2016 Why art that moves us into a room through tubes of stuffed pink satin? Why are these hanging in strands, thick ones, like a beaded curtain? Why no sound of clicking beads? Just the fat strands quiet, and pressing with less touch…
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…
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…
Retrospective Reflecting
A James Turrell Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, BCAM, Level 2 and Resnick Pavilion May 26, 2013–April 6, 2014 Turrell, the artist who is still working inside the old meteor crater outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, was talked about when he first arrived in town like a crazy man is discussed — with a…
Fred Sandback
Precise Lines DENVER – October 18, 2011 Fred Sandback’s work is at the Museum of Contemporary Art until the 23rd of October. Until then the museum is filled with lines drawn in yarn — big lines, very precisely drawn in acrylic yarn. A line pulls you into the main floor gallery and points to a…
Temporary Services
Looking at contemporary art can sometimes be like going to a movie and saying, “what did we just see?’ Confusing. And frustrating. Did the filmmaker just not give enough information or is it me? And we can feel the same way about art, but more easily assume it’s us. It’s our own lack of ability…