Month: March 2007

Barry X BallImages courtesy of Barry X Ball Studio andSalon 94, New York Left: torture prevalence compels victim-as-wounded-yet-resolute-iconoclasm-survivor portrait(Lucas Michael, soldiering on – 3mm)2000 – 2006Mexican onyx10-5/32 x 5-3/8 x 6-9/16 inchesCourtesy: Barry X Ball Studio and Salon 94, New YorkRight: Plucked from The Standard Model and elevated again, The Holy Shroud of Nature calls…

Photos courtesy of Open Shutter Gallery. Michael A. Shapiro’s work in “Oui” at the Open Shutter Gallery is all untitled. His work captures the connection between Paris and its people. Shapiro’s and Deborah L. Nelson’s work take an intimate look at Paris. The show runs through April 12. Photographers bring view of France to Open…

Conceptual art at DAC makes social statement “Pleasure Saddle,” by Annie Strader, is part of theshow “Intersections: Artifice & Matter” at theDurango Arts Center. The traveling show features thework of four female artists. A “Pleasure Saddle” adorned with ruffles of pink ribbon hangs from the center of the gallery at Durango Arts Center. Pink pantyhose…

“Spirit Mother,” by Michael Naranjo sits at the entrance of Mercy Regional Medical Center Mercy Regional Medical Center has won one of four annual awards from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts. Mercy was chosen for the Workspace Award recognizing “exceptional design that advances business objectives.” The center was chosen over finalists Pinnacol Assurance…

Alan F. Houston wrote to me today pointing out what he perceived as mistakes in yesterday’s article on the Classic Landscapes. “There is mistaken identity in the review (Herald, March 9, 2007) of the traveling exhibition now at FLC’s Southwest Center. In no way was Moran’s Mount of the Holy Cross related to the designation…

Images Clockwise from left: “Mountain of the Holy Cross,” Thomas Moran (1890); “Aspen Trees,” Gordon Brown (2007); “Ruins of Central City,” Vance Kirkland (1935); “Autumn Eve, Buckley Lake,” John Encinias (2007) “Topography in art is valueless,” said Thomas Moran, a landscape painter who specialized in the West. “I place no value upon literal transcripts from…