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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.
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Innovation in Art Criticism from adobeairstream.com
This piece was recently picked up by ArtsJournal. Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than…
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Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger from adobeairstream.com
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on Paper was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Schutz’s bright works have been compared to ones by John Currin,…
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El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa from adobeairstream.com
In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as part of Embrace! a site-specific exhibition that celebrated the unique (and controversial) architecture of the Daniel Libeskind designed Hamilton Building. The…
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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…
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CU Art Museum Sends “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes” To New York from adobeairstream.com
The image is horrific. Dozens of men lie dead in a barren, muddy landscape. A silver, snow-filled trench winds off into the distance and dark clouds texturize the sky above. A woman in a heavy coat wails over a body in the foreground. Another women to the left is bent over, head hanging, body curling…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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