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Egyptian Artist Wael Shawky wins Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award
Egyptian artist Wael Shawky wins Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award. Art Writer Leanne Goebel recalls his controversial participation in SITE Santa Fe’s Lucky Number Seven biennial.
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My Response to Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) about Arts Funding
Art Writer Leanne Goebel responds to a letter she received from Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) on the state of Arts Funding. Goebel is a board member with Arts For Colorado and her response appeared in their April newsletter.
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Jason Thielke–Zero-Zero–Exhibition Essay for David B. Smith Gallery, Denver
Zero-Zero exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver features work by Jason Thielke. Art Writer Leanne Goebel explores the artist’s growth and shift in this exhibition essay.
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The Bloody Past – and Hermann Nitsch’s Ecstasy | Adobe Airstream
Art Writer Leanne Goebel reviews Hermann Nitsch and Bloodlines at MCA Denver, curated by Simon Zalkind.
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Cole Sternberg, I was here for just a moment, at David B. Smith Gallery, Denver
Cole Sternberg explores the conflict between science and religion in his abstract multi-media art. This essay was written to accompany the “I was here for just a moment” exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
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Vessels of Light and Color from Arts Perspective Magazine
Trefny Dix and Bengt Hokanson relocated their glass hot shop to Durango, Colorado. The two fine artists create cast-glass sculptural and mixed media works as well as a line of production blown glass vessels.
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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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Laura Ball for David B. Smith Gallery
Fabulous forces are encountered in the paintings of Laura Ball. Her heroines have entered the region of supernatural wonder. For Ball, as for Joseph Campbell, a hero is a person in the world who encounters another person, a god or a guide, or has a traumatic experience, and thus begins a journey. Her watercolor paintings…
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Ryan McLennan for David B. Smith Gallery
McLennanʼs graphite and acrylic artworks are at once primal and fundamental while also being deeply contemplative, yet simple.
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Isca Greenfield-Sanders & Marc Brandenburg in Denver
Since the advent of photography, visual artists have taken to using photographic images as raw data they then translate from film or digital file to their chosen medium. With the death of film upon us, more and more contemporary artists seem to be exploring what that means. Currently on view in Denver are two such…
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