Nick Cave at the Denver Art Museum
Contemporary visual art is usually not concerned with craftsmanship, said William Morrow, the curator of contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, while asking Nick Cave why his work on view at the DAM was so well crafted. Mr. Cave said the works are made with a concern for quality because that is how he…
On seeing the Forest for the Trees
An environmental sculpture BRECKENRIDGE – July 4, 2012 With the grueling Firecracker 50 Bike Race set for the Fourth of July, dozens of riders were training hard on the days leading up to the event, and many were wondering about a bunch of dead lodgepoles dancing around the woods next to the Moonstone Trail –…
Material Abstraction – Art and Current Events:
DENVER – June 3, 2012 – Material Abstraction, at Robiscon Gallery from May 17 through June 30, 2012, shows this gallery has a knack for putting artworks together in a way that each compliments the others. The very compatible paintings by Lisa Stefanelli and sculptures of Linda Fleming in their main gallery look as if…
Walter deMaria – deMenil Museum – Houston
Houston – Tx – November, 2011 Restored, old cars – three 1950’s Chevy – all the same except pieced by a different shape. All were on a pedestal, a big one. A chromed rod in the extruded form of a triangle, a circle and a square about 3 feet in diameter went through the…
Tony Cragg
Made for the Nasher Sculpture Center – DALLAS – November 10, 2011 The clean, sparse, naturally-lit sculpture center in Dallas, created by the 20th C. collectors Raymond and Patsy Nasher, shows Tony Cragg’s 21st C. sculpture like they were made for each other. Cragg’s work is slick and purposeful, but so detailed it could only…
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…
Pilgrimage to the Jetty
Smog and Spirals in Utah Winter February 20, 2008 WEST of CORRINE, UTAH – Thirty miles west of I-15, the Interstate that runs the length of the smog-filled valley blunted to the east by the Wasatch Range and polluted by Salt Lake City industry, cars and more cars running from Wyoming to Provo, we found…