Category: ART

Jeremy Moore won best of show in the 46th annualJuried Student Exhibition at the Fort Lewis College ArtGallery with “Similar Disparity.” Fort Lewis College art students score hit after hit I didn’t have high expectations for the juried student exhibition at Fort Lewis College gallery. Student work is often filled with imitation and mimicry, aspirations…

Seven fellows were selected to participate in the 2007 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program. This impressive and select group will spend three weeks together in Los Angeles exploring ways to strengthen the role of arts journalism. The Fellows and Senior Fellow for 2007 are: KURT ANDERSEN, novelist, radio host, columnist. Andersen is author of…

Left: “Anasazi Stairs,” by Tim Davis from Colorado Springs. Right: “Fiddler on the Roof,” by Barbara Rosner of Pagosa Springs. Two of the 30 images by 26 local photographers that will be on display at the Open Shutter Galleryfrom Wednesday through April 11. Art is meant to be seen. Even photography, a form that we…

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…

Durango artist curates exhibit at Lost Dog in search of ‘fearless’ art Images:“What?!” by Thaddine Swift Eagle; “Winter Pressing 2003-04” by Mary Ellen Long; “Black Cloud” by Mary Ellen Morrow. February 23, 2007By Leanne Goebel | Special to the Herald The painter Tirzah Camacho is frustrated by the redundancy of stylized western art and what…