| Logan Lecture Spring Series 2010 |
| Posted: January 16, 2010 | |||
Logan Lecture Spring Series 2010: Artists on Art—EMBRACE!January 20 - June 23, 2010
 Rick Dula | Wednesday, January 20 Over the past eight years, Denver-based painter Rick Dula has turned his eye to the architectural sights of American landscapes and cityscapes, creating hyper-realistic works with an evocative, atmospheric quality. From the disappearing grain silos of the heartland to the fading factory buildings of larger cities, Dula captures the architectural majesty and decaying beauty of often overlooked structures. As seen in his monumental wall painting in the second floor atrium, the architecture of the Denver Art Museum has been a favorite subject of the artist. Tobias Rehberger | Wednesday, February 17 Tobias Rehberger, winner of the 2009 Venice Biennale’s prestigious Golden Lion, explores the perceived boundaries between the functional and the aesthetic in his boldly colored interactive installations. In Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson in the rain, located on the second floor, the artist created a maze from almost ten miles of vibrantly-hued bungee cords. In this work, that can be entered and explored, Rehberger sets up viewer interactions that spark investigations of meaning and purpose, and considers the intersection between functionality and art object. Rupprecht Matthies | Wednesday, March 17 German artist Rupprecht Matthies is fascinated by the common experiences that forge social groups. He utilizes words—the basic building blocks of human language—to convey ideas about the collective experiences of various communities. In his installation, ¿Being Home?, located on the first floor, Matthies displays words collected in workshops he held in Denver with recent immigrants from around the world. With the generous help of museum volunteers, he transformed them into a mixed-media installation of word sculptures. His process inspires interactions within a community and connections to a broader audience. Nicola López | Wednesday, April 21 Nicola López explores the collisions between the urban built environment and the natural world in intricate installations assembled largely from printed elements. An accomplished printmaker, López innovatively uses the medium to reference mass production and to “inject” her hand “back into the conversation.” Located in the Vicki and Kent Logan Gallery on the fourth floor, R.A.W., with its sprawling and congested network of highways, reflects López’s ongoing interest in investigating place and space, and mankind’s role in the contemporary world. John McEnroe | Wednesday, May 19 John McEnroe’s sensual, organic forms of molded and poured synthetic matter come from his decade-long experimentation with the formal possibilities of plastic media. McEnroe manipulates traditional painting techniques and applies them innovatively to his sculptural work—often blurring the line between the two. While process is crucial to his practice, composition remains the primary unifying element: “It’s a painter’s question, where to put things in space. . . what does it mean, what does it mean to everyone else?” McEnroe’s The Bathers is installed on the third and fourth floors of the atrium. Lawrence Weiner | Wednesday, June 23 As a celebrated founding member of the conceptual art movement of the 1970s, Lawrence Weiner has inspired several generations of artists to explore the parameters of the traditional art object. Weiner employs the immediacy and universality of language to break down the barriers of art-historical precedents by inviting the viewer to interpret the work from his or her own personally relevant contemporary reality—without the influences or pressures of historical reference. The lasting importance of his work was recently highlighted by a large retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Weiner’s work for Embrace! is located on the highest wall of the atrium. Individual lectures:
DAM Contemporaries invites you to an après-lecture reception with the artist immediately following the lecture at Mad Wine Bar. Enjoy conversations with some of the hottest artists working today, along with complimentary snacks and a cash bar. Mad Wine Bar is located in Martin Plaza (across from the Hamilton Building) 1200 Acoma Street, Suite B Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Denver, CO 80204 720.865.5000 http://www.denverartmuseum.org
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