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Written by Ken Hamel
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Juried Student/Alumni Exhibition
Victoria H. Myhren Gallery on the University of Denver campus
January 10-February 28, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, January 10, 5-8 pm
Work by Viviane Le Courtois - Photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
The Myhren Gallery at DU consistently has intersting work on display, and the current Student and Alumni exhibit is a great showcase for the offbeat sculpture of artist Viviane Le Courtois. Her "Single Sock Fossils" features a sprawling platform of gym socks deceptively oozing fired porcelain, with the deception coming from the whiteness of the glaze which hints at socks that are in actuality burnt off during the firing process. What is left are the fossil-esque remnants of the footwear.
Also on display are the glass and iron sculptures of alumnus Milton Tomlinson who attended the school when it was under the helm of Mel Strawn, who helped Tomlinson get a rare assistantship under ceramics prof Mynard Tischler. Tomlinson uses a variety of traditional techniques to form his glass including plaster and sand casting, with the baroque orbs set within the framework of forged metal creations.
Click here for some pictures from the opening...
From the DU website:
All current and former students of DU’s School of Art & Art History were invited to submit recent work in any media for selection by jurors Lisa Tamiris Becker, director of the CU Art Gallery, Boulder, and Dan Jacobs, director of the Victoria H Myhren Gallery at DU.
Selected artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Julie Anderies, Julia Brucker, Phillip Faulkner, Kimberly Graham, Robert Gratiot, Joseph M. Hutchinson, Eric Ianuzi, Mary Beth Koszut, Viviane Le Courtois, Cassandra Lillard, Laurel McMechan, James Milmoe, Kelly Monico, Heather P.N. Richardson, Alexandro Rojas-Sanders, Stacey Sotosky, D. Milton Tomlinson, Matthew Welton, E. K. Wimmer.
Victoria H. Myhren Gallery
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