Don’t count me among the biggest fans of what’s called “street art,” a loose category that runs the gamut from graffiti to wall murals, with the former often being used to vandalize the latter. Vandalism isn’t the biggest problem with street art, though; the key issue is that it almost…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
Denver artist Gwen Laine is one of the four artists selected to help celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Foothills Art Center in Golden (see review, page 46). But she’s also completely taken over the Carson/van Straaten Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) with her solo, Passing Through. The…
Foothills Art Center marked its fortieth anniversary last Friday, and to honor that milestone, the institution is presenting XL: Forty Years on the Frontier of Art, which runs through the end of the month. The main exhibit features a quartet of contemporary artists, while an ancillary show, Foothills Founders: A…
As everyone knows, Andy Warhol (seen in a Jamie Wyeth portrait) was one of the most important artists ever. Less well-known was his private career as a writer. Every day, Warhol recorded his activities in diary entries, and it was only after he died in 1987 that the contents of…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
You’d have to have been living under a rock to not have noticed the early-21st-century museum-building boom that’s been going on in Colorado over the past couple of years. There’s the Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum, the addition to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the incredible…
Sculptor Bob Mangold moved to Denver with his wife, Peggy, about fifty years ago and helped to lay the groundwork for the contemporary sculpture scene here today. At the time, sculpture was a fairly undeveloped medium compared to painting, printmaking and even ceramics. There are still many more painters than…
Director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Cydney Payton has scoured the world looking for exciting cutting edge art. Her latest pick is Israeli-born Berlin-based artist Omer Fast whose solo opens tonight in the New Media Gallery on level one. Fast is a conceptual artist who’s interested in…
Alternative spaces often feature the work of emerging artists, and that, of course, means their offerings are a mixed bag, and most often, the shows aren’t very good. But Spark, the oldest of the city’s artist-cooperatives is different with most of its members being artists with decades-long careers under their…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
Cydney Payton, outgoing director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver (1485 Delgany Street, 303-298-7554, www.mcadenver.org) has been something of a one-woman show, overseeing just about every aspect of the place (see column, page 43) for years. And in addition to all of her other duties, she lines up…
The Project Space at MCA Denver, where artists-in-residence are ensconced, has rapidly become one of the state’s most prominent venues — not just because of the high quality of the offerings here, but also because those offerings are often the work of Colorado artists. Since its launch last year, the…
One of the outstanding educational programs at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200, www.arvadacenter.org) is in the field of ceramics. The center offers classes and workshops about clay that are geared to either children or adults, and sometimes both. In a few weeks —…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
The Robischon Gallery (1740 Wazee Street, 303-298-7788, www.robischongallery.com) is currently featuring Tattoo Detour, one of two solos in town by Jack Balas (see review, page 45), but there’s a good deal more happening at the gallery as well. In the center space is William Lamson: Experiment, which is the East…
Jack Balas has built a national reputation the hard way. He lives in a small town in northern Colorado, and his style is a very idiosyncratic version of post-pop that’s often messy and crammed with incongruous imagery and text. And if that’s not enough, his chief subject matter — the…
Bonfils is one of the biggest names in the history of Denver; it belongs to the family who owned the Denver Post for many decades during the early to mid-twentieth century. And though she always said that she had lived in the shadow of her father, Frederick, Helen Bonfils –…
Bedroom Paintings. Painting is making its umpteenth comeback right now, having been declared “dead” over and over. Of course, the truth is that painting never died since artists refuse to cooperate and won’t let go of the form; neither will collectors and curators. In a way, this is the setup…
In 2005, Switzerland’s premier photo institution, the Musée de l’Elysée (www.elysee.ch) in Lausanne, celebrated its 20th anniversary by organizing an exhibit called Regeneration: We are all photographers now, which showcased the rise of amateur photography in the digital age and its inevitable mutation into its own full-fledged art form. The…
One of the weirdest twists in the art world over the past few decades has been the way artwork with recognizable subjects has gone from being the most traditional aesthetic pose to being at the forefront of experimentation. Of course, I’m not referring to sweet and sappy depictions of animals…
Michael Chavez, curator at the Foothills Art Center (809 Fifteenth Street, Golden, 303-279-3922, www.foothillsartcenter.org) has put together a marvelous group show called Artists in Residence: Anderson Ranch. As indicated by that title, the exhibit is made up of works by artists who teach or who’ve had residencies at the world…
