Category: ART
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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,…
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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…
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Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver) from adobeairstream.com
William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a Houston-based artist who paints using a complex painting machine and proprietary software designed by the artist. He is represented by Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, which reported to Artdaily that they sold out of all of Betts…
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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.…
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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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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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Doodle 4 Google – At Three Western Museums from adobeairstream.com
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. On February 25, 2012, from 1-4 p.m. students of all ages can drop by the Discovery Center and doodle around during this special event. Students nationwide, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are…
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Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac from adobeairstream.com
During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal Cassady between 1947 and 1950. For those who haven’t read it, Denver is an important setting for the characters,…
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