Year: 2010
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On adobeairstream.com
CU Boulder Gets New Museum Visual Arts Complex joins museum, education functions
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Enrique Chagoya Controversy in Loveland
I wrote this piece for the Huffington Post about the controversy over Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals” at the Loveland Museum. The truck driver from Montana, Kathleen Folden pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and received 18 months probation. Colorado Councilman May Want To Explore Why Art “Turned Him On.” Also on Huffington Post,…
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Christina Empedocles ‘As Evidenced…’ at David B. Smith Gallery
Christina Empedocles excavates her own life through drawings, currently on display at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
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Dena Schuckit Profile from Art Ltd. Magazine
Schuckit grew up in San Diego, went to college in Santa Cruz then moved briefly to New York before settling in San Francisco, and a thirteen-year career as a master printer at Crown Point Press. Today she lives in London, where in 2008 she completed her MA in painting at Central Saint Martins College of…
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Liberators at Museo de las Americas
Here is a video of the Liberators exhibit on display through September 26, 2010 at Museo de las Americas in Denver. The video originally appeared on adobeairstream.com.
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Face to Face at DAM: Portraits up Close as seen on adobeairstream.com
Face to Face is not merely a show about the many ways to draw a face, that’s oversimplistic. It’s an exhibition of work that challenges identity and representation, filled with the work of subjects portraying subjects with all their fractured and complex elements. By looking at these images we know more about the artist, the…
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Dena Schuckit: The Garden is a Raging Sea essay for David B. Smith Gallery
Though not a realist, Schuckit’s categorizing of headline imagery is similar. She creates a raster of images and allows them to produce a rhizome of new impressions. The scale of these average-sized paintings is large, perhaps larger than life, as indicated by the tiny human figures in the bottom foreground of Aerial Event 2, which…
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Ed Ranney New World Landscapes at DAM and Brendan Tang at Plus Gallery
Leanne Goebel writes about Edward Ranney at the Denver Art Museum and interviews Brendan Tang for adobeairstream.com.
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Energy Effects and Objectophillia on adobeairstream.com
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to…
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Nude Alterations by Marie M. Vlasic on adobeairstream.com
Vlasic does more than just capture the likeness of the individual and their essence. Part of her art, is in selecting interesting, unique and fascinating people. She prefers those who have life experience and unusual personalities. “Pretty people aren’t as interesting,” Vlasic said. Another important element of this work is that she has consciously selected…
Leanne Goebel 