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John McEnroe in Art Ltd. Magazine
john mcEnroe by leanne haase goebel Mar 2013 An abandoned mining area above the town of Ward, Colorado, inspired John McEnroe’s most recent body of work, Half Life, currently on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, in a solo show thematically connected with four other artist’s solo shows, under the curatorial title: “Object | Nature.” … Read more
Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women from adobeairstream.com
This appeared on adobeairstream.com on International Women’s Day. Here are ten artist’s I think should be more well-known. They are all currently working in Colorado. They just happen to be women.
Innovation in Art Criticism from adobeairstream.com
This piece was recently picked up by ArtsJournal. Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than … Read more
Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger from adobeairstream.com
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on Paper was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Schutz’s bright works have been compared to ones by John Currin, … Read more
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa from adobeairstream.com
In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as part of Embrace! a site-specific exhibition that celebrated the unique (and controversial) architecture of the Daniel Libeskind designed Hamilton Building. The … Read more
Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review from adobeairstream.com
Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, makers and creators to continue doing what matters, what has meaning and follow (for lack of a less clichéd word) their passion. While Colorado seemed to spin out of control with tragic forest fires and horrific shootings … Read more
CU Art Museum Sends “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes” To New York from adobeairstream.com
The image is horrific. Dozens of men lie dead in a barren, muddy landscape. A silver, snow-filled trench winds off into the distance and dark clouds texturize the sky above. A woman in a heavy coat wails over a body in the foreground. Another women to the left is bent over, head hanging, body curling … Read more
Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped from adobeairstream.com
Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now living in California, the artist began his artistic exploration into the language of cartography as an undergraduate by reconstructing the States of America via maps. Albeit, maps that were condensed, reshaped and revised based upon his experience … Read more
William Stoehr, “Icons,” at Space Gallery in Denver
William Stoehr’s paintings of women’s faces are Amazonian. The canvases on view in ICONS at Space Gallery are seven feet tall. It’s as if the women are staring into your soul with their large, basketball-sized eyes positioned at eye-level for the average human viewer. Laine, Destiny and Priscila all come to life in metallic acrylic … Read more
Trine Bumiller, In Medias Res: New Paintings at Zg Gallery
The essay I wrote for Trine Bumiller’s exhibition at Zg Gallery in 2012: In Medias Res, Latin for “into the middle of things,” conveys an in-between period, an in-between region, whether literal or philosophical, between reality and the remembered, chance and the predetermined, abstract and the imagined. “I’ve been working with the organic and inorganic … Read more
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From adobeairstream.com- The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2 May 16, 2013Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s lurid catalog of the excesses of the 1980′s. It sounds ...David D'Arcy
- The Truthiness Show, Part 3: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak On Art and More Real Life May 11, 2013During the months that AdobeAirstream has worked at or virtually near to Minneapolis Institute of Arts to create three podcasts engaging audience responses to the contemporary art show, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, life ...Ellen Berkovitch
- SITE Santa Fe Announces Biannual Series on Art of the Americas, Tilts on North-South Axis May 9, 2013“A radical rethinking of SITE’s signature exhibition,” and a “reimagined series,” were just two of the phrases that SITE Santa Fe Phillips director and chief curator Irene Hofmann used on Monday night at the Farmer’s Market ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Darius Brubeck Plays Benefit Concert for Humankind Foundation May 3, 2013On May 5th in Santa Fe, jazz pianist Darius Brubeck will play a concert, “Darius Brubeck and Jazz Friends,” to benefit Humankind Foundation. The Humankind Foundation was founded by Santa Fe R.N. Kristin St. Clair in ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Michelle Wilmot, The Desert Warrior, Practices Art as Combat Healing April 23, 2013What do you call an Iraq woman combat veteran – yes, Virginia, there are some – who speaks seven languages, has been featured in a documentary and a book, paints and sculpts, and is exhibiting her ...Lily Casura
- Tribeca – Big Men, Big Oil, Big Money April 22, 2013Big Men (at the Tribeca Film Festival) drills away at the exploitation of the oil riches of two African countries – Ghana and Nigeria. Is that wealth a resource curse — a characterization that’s used widely with ...David D'Arcy
- Contemporary in Santa Fe: Kris Cox at LewAllen April 19, 2013Kris Cox is a Basalt, Colorado painter whose first solo show in Santa Fe, Failure, runs through April 28th at LewAllen Galleries’ Railyard location (1613 Paseo de Peralta). The show engages examples from three bodies of ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Trust the Audience. MIA Viewers Respond to “More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness” April 17, 2013It was my great pleasure this year to be invited to go to Minneapolis Institute of Arts in residency, to capture audience interviews around the opening of the contemporary art show, “More Real: Art in the ...Ellen Berkovitch
- White Snake Ritual Performance Animates Parse Gallery in NoLA April 15, 2013On view at Parse Gallery, through April, is an interactive ritual and healing art performance, presented by artists Amanda Stone and VnessWolfCHild. Parse Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and artist situation space in New Orleans, as ...Rachel Avena Brown
- ArtPlace Announces America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places April 10, 2013Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town ArtPlaces for 2013. The twelve communities on the list were chosen based upon per capita numbers of arts ...Leanne Goebel
- The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2 May 16, 2013
