Category: arts journalism
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WPA-Style Posters Reflect Mesa Verde Style from Arts Perspective Magazine
It was Doug Leen who created the Square Tower image for Mesa Verde National Park in 2006, a poster done in the WPA style, but an original Leen design. Leen visited Square Tower, which has been closed to guests since about 1940. Square Tower is the tallest Ancient Puebloan structure and what the park wanted…
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What Do Chinese Women Artists Want? Panel at CU Boulder Spotlights Bicultural Exchange
Charles Dukes is an American photographer living in Beijing. It was he and James Surls who came up with the idea to have a collaborative exhibition and explore why being a woman artist comes with built in obstacles. Obstacles Segraves suggested we no longer have in America. Huh?
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Notes on a Quiet Life: Robert Benjamin at Denver Art Museum from HuffPo
Robert Benjamin’s photographs are post it notes from a quiet life lived and practiced. The father, husband, photographer shares his Chromogenic color prints for the first time in this exhibit at the Denver Art Museum that is not to be missed.
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What’s missing from Colorado’s “Best of…” lists when it comes to visual art
I’m more interested in what is unique to Colorado and not just some rehashing of the latest trends in contemporary art. Art happens everywhere in the state, not just on the Front Range.
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Dena Schuckit Profile from Art Ltd. Magazine
Schuckit grew up in San Diego, went to college in Santa Cruz then moved briefly to New York before settling in San Francisco, and a thirteen-year career as a master printer at Crown Point Press. Today she lives in London, where in 2008 she completed her MA in painting at Central Saint Martins College of…
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Liberators at Museo de las Americas
Here is a video of the Liberators exhibit on display through September 26, 2010 at Museo de las Americas in Denver. The video originally appeared on adobeairstream.com.
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Face to Face at DAM: Portraits up Close as seen on adobeairstream.com
Face to Face is not merely a show about the many ways to draw a face, that’s oversimplistic. It’s an exhibition of work that challenges identity and representation, filled with the work of subjects portraying subjects with all their fractured and complex elements. By looking at these images we know more about the artist, the…
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Dena Schuckit: The Garden is a Raging Sea essay for David B. Smith Gallery
Though not a realist, Schuckit’s categorizing of headline imagery is similar. She creates a raster of images and allows them to produce a rhizome of new impressions. The scale of these average-sized paintings is large, perhaps larger than life, as indicated by the tiny human figures in the bottom foreground of Aerial Event 2, which…
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Energy Effects and Objectophillia on adobeairstream.com
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to…
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Denver Arts from Art Ltd. Magazine July/Aug 2010
Everything you wanted to know about the Biennial of the Americas and more happening in Denver this summer.
Leanne Goebel 