Category: contemporary art

  • Month of Photography Denver from adobeairstream.com

    Month of Photography Denver from adobeairstream.com

    MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout the city, the suburbs and the region spanning from mid-March to mid-April 2013. Just a few of the exhibitions that are not to be missed: The Reality of Fiction at Redline curated by MoP organizer…

  • John McEnroe in Art Ltd. Magazine

    John McEnroe in Art Ltd. Magazine

    john mcEnroe by leanne haase goebel Mar 2013 An abandoned mining area above the town of Ward, Colorado, inspired John McEnroe’s most recent body of work, Half Life, currently on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, in a solo show thematically connected with four other artist’s solo shows, under the curatorial title: “Object | Nature.”…

  • Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women from adobeairstream.com

    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.

  • Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review from adobeairstream.com

    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…

  • Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped from adobeairstream.com

    Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped from adobeairstream.com

    Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now living in California, the artist began his artistic exploration into the language of cartography as an undergraduate by reconstructing the States of America via maps. Albeit, maps that were condensed, reshaped and revised based upon his experience…

  • William Stoehr, “Icons,” at Space Gallery in Denver

    William Stoehr, “Icons,” at Space Gallery in Denver

    William Stoehr’s paintings of women’s faces are Amazonian. The canvases on view in ICONS at Space Gallery are seven feet tall. It’s as if the women are staring into your soul with their large, basketball-sized eyes positioned at eye-level for the average human viewer. Laine, Destiny and Priscila all come to life in metallic acrylic…

  • Trine Bumiller, In Medias Res: New Paintings at Zg Gallery

    Trine Bumiller, In Medias Res: New Paintings at Zg Gallery

    The essay I wrote for Trine Bumiller’s exhibition at Zg Gallery in 2012: In Medias Res, Latin for “into the middle of things,” conveys an in-between period, an in-between region, whether literal or philosophical, between reality and the remembered, chance and the predetermined, abstract and the imagined. “I’ve been working with the organic and inorganic…

  • Gregory Euclide Limited Edition Book, 2011

    Gregory Euclide Limited Edition Book, 2011

    Here is my contribution to the lovely limited edition book produced by David B.Smith Gallery for Gregory Euclide. Some copies are still available at the gallery. 13 x 9 inch landscape | 96 pages, 119 color images | pencil signed and numbered by Euclide | hardcover edition of 500 Written contributions from Michael Chavez, Michael…

  • M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement from adobeairstream.com

    M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement from adobeairstream.com

    In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest season prevailed. It’s an idea we still see purported in films and on TV, but in reality, these events are disappearing as the populations of small, rural communities dwindle. However, in Byers, on the eastern plains of…

  • Visual Extirpation in the Paintings of Armin Muhsam

    Visual Extirpation in the Paintings of Armin Muhsam

    There is a visual mystery to the sparse landscapes painted by Armin Mühsam. The works are austere, yet achingly beautiful, capturing the light and shadows of what might be America or a place entirely fictive. Some paintings feature landscapes with odd industrial objects, structural forms, mechanical or concrete foundations, tanks or overpasses without visible human…