Tag: Ed Ruscha
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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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Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac from adobeairstream.com
During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal Cassady between 1947 and 1950. For those who haven’t read it, Denver is an important setting for the characters,…
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2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski? from adobeairstream.com
The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, and Becoming Van Gogh. One of these exhibitions will be the most well attended in DAM history. My prediction? Yves Saint Laurent, which opens March 25 and runs through July 8, 2012, will…
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Roland Bernier artist profile from Art Ltd. magazine
Bernier intentionally did not affiliate with the early conceptual artists using text to make art, such as Ed Ruscha or Lawrence Weiner, or with Pop Art, for that matter. Bernier considers himself an original, unaffiliated with any movement or group. His work contains limited thematic content; one of the most striking elements of his practice…
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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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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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