Category: arts journalism
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The Systematic American Landscape
“There is perhaps no central theme to American national identity than the land. Over the years, it has served as a wellspring of aesthetic beauty, spiritual sustenance, and economic opportunity.” Thus reads a wall sign at the Corcoran Gallery of Art beneath the title “Nature as Nation: 19th Century American Landscapes from the Collection.” The…
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Nobody reads what you write; why bother?
It was a sunny August afternoon in 2012. I sat with a friend on a relatively empty Denver restaurant patio under a green awning. We drank terrible, sticky-sweet mojitos and talked. My friend, an older man, a cellist, and a retired Merrill Lynch Investment Banker, was planning a trip to Rome, Prague, and Paris. At…
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The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017
LAND & SEA ART Aspen artist Celia Gregory fuses her love of nature with community. When designing the Aspen Institute during the mid 1950s, Herbert Bayer honored the Bauhaus philosophy of merging design and the living world in one holistic creation. But it is Bayer’s earthen works, “Earth Mound” (or “Grass Mound”) and “Marble Garden,”…
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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Elizabeth Ferrill
Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.
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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Ajax Axe
Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.
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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Brian Colley
Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.
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Finding a Way to Write About Art
What is asked of me as an art writer and critic today, is not why I became an art writer and critic. In this time of great transition in media, art and business, there are more media venues than ever filled with everything from drivel to genius. More and more people are writing about art…
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Is Gender Bias in Denver Arts in Transit — Or Fixed? from adobeairstream.com
When I first read Ray Mark Rinaldi’s review of “The Transit of Venus” exhibition at RedLine, I was astonished at the biased perspective of this major voice for art in Denver. He labeled the show “the girliest art exhibit . . . ever seen in Colorado.” But, to be fair, his first sentence, “At the risk…
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Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview
A Denver Art Preview. From a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture with abstract line, the first few months of 2014 reveal a span of new art shows in Denver, worth viewing between football games, snowboarding trips and waiting in line at the marijuana shops. The Transit of Venus:…
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Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women from adobeairstream.com
This appeared on adobeairstream.com on International Women’s Day. Here are ten artist’s I think should be more well-known. They are all currently working in Colorado. They just happen to be women.
Leanne Goebel 