The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs from adobeairstream.com
Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Matisse and David Hockney. Edward Hopper chose a train car filled with mostly empty dark green chairs, focusing on a blonde female figure for his painting “Chair Car.” An exhibit currently open at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Art in Pagosa Springs, called “The Chair” hearkens back to these traditions. But the subject of the work is not just the brown leather chair from the artist’s home that sits in the middle of the gallery.
Making Treasure from Trash: Reclamation at Center for Visual Art from adobeairstream.com
Reclamation speaks to the human need to overcome consumption, to subvert capitalistic messages and to focus on the still, quiet voice at the creative core.
Regan Rosburg: The Understory exhibition essay for David B. Smith Gallery
Regan Rosburg is inspired by the humble network of life that proliferates on the forest floor, in the shade, beneath the canopy of trees that sore above, blocking out the precious sunlight. The artist collects objects and insects from the deciduous forest of Northeastern Tennessee where she lives on a small farm with her fiancé. Regan left her native Colorado for Tennessee a little more than a year ago. Sheʼs inspired by her surroundings and the sound of her rooster talking to his hens. These recent works created for “Understory” reflect how those changes in her life are influencing her creative work.
Patrick Mcfarlin at Goodwin Fine Art in Denver
Mcfarlin began exploring this body of work in 2008, inspired by the obituary postings in Art in America’s Annual Guide. He was initially struck by how the lives of these art-world celebrities were reduced to a two-line sentence.
Libby Lumpkin Picks Urbane and Quirky Art for New Mexorado from adobeairstream.com
This kind of juried exhibition provides the opportunity to better know some of your scattered neighbors—to learn more about all those loners, hippies, socialites, cowpokes, scientists, and retired generals living at the end of some dirt road, some of whom are developing as artists, and a couple of whom might actually be waiting for that space ship, Lumpkin said.
Margaret Neumann at Rule Gallery from adobeairstream.com
Review of Margaret Neumann’s, “As I Once Knew It,” at Rule Gallery in Denver by Art Writer Leanne Goebel.
Dikeou Collection in Denver a Quirky Find from adobeairstream.com
Art Writer Leanne Goebel reflects on a recent trip, discovering the Dikeou Collection in downtown Denver. She wrote about it for adobeairstream.com.
Dario Robleto–War and ‘Life Instinct’ in Memento Mori
Art Writer Leanne Goebel reviews Dario Robleto’s ‘An Instinct Towards Life’ at MCA/Denver. The review was originally published on adobeairstream.com.
Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!
Denver Art Museum ends its first exhibition ever of electronic media, Blink! on May 1. The exhibition, curated by Jill Desmond, includes 55 works, 40 from the DAM collection.
Kris Lewis at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver
Kris Lewis paints fiction. His portraits are of characters — mysterious, unreal figures often the amalgamation of multiple sources. They are strong, yet fragile; happy, sad, seductive, isolated. There is a story behind each portrait that only the artist knows, but the figures convey an emotion, spark the imagination, and tell a tale that manages to speak universally to each viewer.
