Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger from adobeairstream.com
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on Paper was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Schutz’s bright works have been compared to ones by John Currin, … Read more
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa from adobeairstream.com
In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as part of Embrace! a site-specific exhibition that celebrated the unique (and controversial) architecture of the Daniel Libeskind designed Hamilton Building. The … Read more
Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review from adobeairstream.com
Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, makers and creators to continue doing what matters, what has meaning and follow (for lack of a less clichéd word) their passion. While Colorado seemed to spin out of control with tragic forest fires and horrific shootings … Read more
Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum and has curated nine exhibitions there since 1989, including Inspiring Impressionism, El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection and Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums. Becoming Van Gogh … Read more
Vincent Van Gogh and Clyfford Still – Painterly Reinventions Explored in Denver from adobeairstream.com
David Anfam has spent 40 years of his life studying Clyfford Still. On September 14, he gave a lecture at the Denver Art Museum about an exhibition that opened that same day at the Clyfford Still Museum—“Vincent/Clyfford.” The exhibit explores threads between the work of Still and Vincent Van Gogh. (DAM is opening a Denver … Read more
William Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM from adobeairstream.com
The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of William Morrow as the Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. The press release sent out late morning on Friday, August 31, states that the museum concluded an extensive international search with his hiring. Morrow’s first project for the museum will be to join the … Read more
Men of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca from adobeairstream.com
The Fuse Box Gallery on level four of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building is all angles with slanted walls and sloping ceiling, as designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. A walk-through installation conceived by artist Laleh Mehran interacts with Libeskind’s angles by placing a large, black, acrylic cube near the far end of the long, … Read more
Abstract Angus – Theodore Waddell at Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Theodore Waddell arrived in New York to study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the early 1960s, a decade after abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell began changing the art world. Artists of Waddell’s generation, 10 years into AbEx’s reach and ahead of pop, were either reacting against the theories … Read more
Silencing my Linear Self: Richard Tuttle on the Spiritual in Contemporary Art from adobeairstream.com
Rational thought is overrated. Structured. Ordered. Sequential. Converging to find that one right answer. This was not the process shared by the artist Richard Tuttle during his Logan Lecture at the Denver Art Museum in March. Some would not define it as a lecture or a talk, but instead the ramblings of a non-linear thinker. … Read more
