Mindy Bray: The Geography of Looking from adobeairstream.com
Mindy Bray’s ink and gouache works on stretched paper explore the physical and psychological experience of landscape. Images of mountain environments are reduced to fragmented fields of shape and color that resemble screenprints, and require a slow reading but an expansive awareness. The show closed yesterday at Rule Gallery in Denver, where five large paintings … Read more
Yves Saint Laurent: 40 Years of Fashion, Yes, at Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Fashion as art is nothing new. The first exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a living artist happened in 1983 when Diana Vreeland organized Yves Saint Laurent for the Costume Institute. In 2011, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beautybecame the best attended exhibition in the Met’s history. The populism of fashion … Read more
Place-less-ness in Suburbia at GOCA Colorado Springs from adobeairstream.com
The downtown annex of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Artis featuring Phil Bender, Christopher Coleman and Michael Salter, Michael Whiting exploring the cultural phenomenon of conformity and sameness found in the American suburbs otherwise known as “placelessness”. According to the press release: “As people increase their mobility, they identify less … Read more
Art Feasting in Santa Fe from adobeairstream.com
Place: Santa Fe. Time: A crisp winter’s evening the end of February 2012. It isn’t snowing, the air is dry, cool, as I walk around the plaza, and up on Canyon Road wearing a coat–no hat or gloves are needed. It’s pleasant. I’m with my cousins from Texas and a friend from New York. We’ve … Read more
Robert Mangold, Colorado Sculptor, from adobeairstream.com
An impressive array of Robert Mangold’s artistic oeuvre, from 1955 to the present, is on view at The Arvada Center. The artist, born in Indiana in 1930, joined the Air Force in 1949 and then graduated from Indiana University with a Masters of Fine Arts. While still a student, Mangold attended the 1955 International Design … Read more
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Trine Bumiller Profile from Art Ltd. Magazine, March/April 2012
Big Bang 2012 Oil on panels, attached 36″x 54″ Photo: courtesy Zg Gallery, Chicago Trine Bumiller’s background in printmaking is evident in her paintings: wood panels combined together like building blocks to create a composite form of square and rectangular shapes. On each panel, a different organic, flat, geometric element suggests nature or botany. The … Read more
Clyfford Still: Influential Maverick from Arts Perspective Magazine
In 1944, Clyfford Still did something that no known painter appears to have done before him. Using thick, black pigment he troweled a large canvas (105 x 92 1/2 inches) with a palette knife, then cut that textured black field with a deep red wound forming the outline of an almost organic shape. Vivid yellow … Read more
The Six Degrees of Ed Stasium from Arts Perspective Magazine
“I’m not the Smithereens. I’m Ed.” Ed Stasium said this nearly an hour into our interview when it was clear he was not just any Ed, but Ed the award-winning music producer, engineer, mixer. Our conversation had wandered tangentially down a few pathways of his life and work. The walls along the stairs that lead … Read more
Doodle 4 Google – At Three Western Museums from adobeairstream.com
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. On February 25, 2012, from 1-4 p.m. students of all ages can drop by the Discovery Center and doodle around during this special event. Students nationwide, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are … Read more
Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac from adobeairstream.com
During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal Cassady between 1947 and 1950. For those who haven’t read it, Denver is an important setting for the characters, … Read more
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From adobeairstream.com- Oscar, A Co-Production, To Premiere at Santa Fe Opera’s 2013 Season May 25, 2012When the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season gets under way , its big ticket will be the world premiere on July 27th of Theodore Morrison’s new opera, Oscar, based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Morrison ...Ellen Berkovitch
- New Mexico Experimental Glass Fellows Address Waste Through Art May 24, 2012Let’s talk about New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (NMEGW)—an innovative, non-profit organization founded by artist Stacey Neff in Santa Fe. The goal of NMEGW is to introduce, through workshops, hot glass to artists that don’t work ...Katy Crocker
- Saul’s Universe – Pard Morrison at James Kelly May 23, 2012Pard Morrison’s sculptures, currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Phantom Limbs, defy cubic assembly. Each spread of colorful squares unfolds from a central square. Perspectival lines sometimes look like preliminary childhood box constructions—four sides ...Hannah Hoel
- AMoA-Arthouse Texas Prize Winner Announced May 22, 2012As of May 18, 2012 AMoA-Arthouse announced its Texas Prize winner Jeff Williams—University of Texas faculty member. Jeanne Claire van Ryzin of Austin 360 reports that the Texas Prize will be a triennial award from this ...Katy Crocker
- Attendance Records Releases Benefit Album May 21, 2012Last Thursday, some of my favorite local bands gathered at the Mohawk for an Attendance Records benefit/CD release party. Over the last six months, The Sour Notes have been telling me about their specific participation in ...Don Simpson
- Well Somebody Has Discovered a Cash (Sea) Cow May 17, 2012I have too much data inbound at any time and here is proof. I was working on some email interactions where I am basically bargaining with various publicists on all the coasts (publicists live on coasts ...Groovey
- SXSW-Award Winning Film Dragonslayer, Worthy or Worthless? May 16, 2012Nick Schager of Slant Magazine wrote of Dragonslayer in his review, “…it’s a film that makes a strong, if unintentional, case for the pathetic emptiness of the punk-rock life.” If Schager had seen past the main ...Katy Crocker
- Placemaking in Santa Fe: Are We Artists or Monkeys? May 15, 2012About seventy people gathered on May 10th to hear Creative Santa Fe’s presentation on affordable live/work spaces for artists. With the mysterious arrival of Artspace, Creative Santa Fe’s initiative to enliven Santa Fe felt a little ...Hannah Hoel
- Creative Santa Fe: Coals to Newcastle? May 14, 2012Four speakers for Creative Santa Fe’s inaugural “Imagined Futures” IF event, told a New Mexico History Museum auditorium full house on Saturday that: Tourist towns are “brands.” Attention to historic architecture can make a place a ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Friends of Anton Hold Charity Auction. Sebastian Junger Discusses War Reporting. May 11, 2012On May 15th in New York, top auction house Christie’s holds a first time-ever dedicated photojournalism auction. It’s a charity event organized by Friends of Anton dot org to benefit South African photographer Anton Hammerl’s three children. Hammerl was ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Oscar, A Co-Production, To Premiere at Santa Fe Opera’s 2013 Season May 25, 2012
