Month: May 2012
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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