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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: February 10, 2010 |
DU Alumni: Past and Future
Teal Art Gallery (Breckenridge)
February 13 - March 5, 2010
- Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13th from 4-8pm
Teal Art Gallery is hosting a singularly unique art exhibition of DU Alumni on Saturday 13th of February. Artists from different graduating years, but similar educational experience, are coming together to show their art in a single exhibition. Already, the diversity of this show is making it a show that you won't want to miss. The unique personalities of University of Denver artists, and their more recent experiences shaping who they have become, will make for a positively fascinating evening of art, life and discussion.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet, and see and buy the art of these successful artists.
Featured Artists: Pat Aaron, Mark Brasuel, Cynthia Friedlob, Wendi Harford, Jennifer Hope, Joan MacDonald, Ray Maseman, Ira McMahon, Kathryn Oberdorfer, Michelle Rollman, Lindsey Stouffer, Elaine Tack, Honoring the art of Russel Bay McLayer
Teal Art Gallery
211A N. Main St.
Breckenridge, CO 80424
970.453.4020
http://tealartgallery.com
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: February 03, 2010 |
Point A: A Place to Start
GOCA 121 (Colorado Springs)
(from the press release)
POINT A: a place to start is the first exhibition scheduled at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs’ (UCCS) new downtown gallery, GOCA 121. This exhibition is the starting point for an ongoing discussion on contemporary art and culture, facilitated by UCCS. We don’t presume to know where these conversations will take us, we simply offer a place to start. POINT A features distinct installations by DeLane Bredvik, Corey Drieth and Izumi Yokoyama.
Each installation is a response to communal spaces and social conventions, both in content and design. The architecture of the space and the viewer’s physical relationship to the work creates a forum to discuss the content of each work. POINT A invites visitors into deliberately constructed environments in order to engage with the concepts each artist introduces. From the vapid allure of pop culture, to the battle between individuality and conformity, to a gently constructed personal narrative on family and play, POINT A challenges the viewer to first question and then articulate their place in each installation, by responding intellectually to content and physically to space.
GOCA has partnered with the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (COPPeR) to present FEEDBACK, an opportunity for gallery visitors to participate in regional cultural planning efforts. The exercise asks visitors to respond to four questions about cultural opportunities, institutions, ideologies and practices in Colorado Springs. Responses from the project will not only inform future exhibitions at GOCA 121, but will also be valuable components to COPPeR’s cultural strategic planning efforts. More information about the planning process is available at www.coppercolo.org.
GOCA 121 was made possible by generous support from Nor’wood, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and GOCA members. For more information on the Gallery of Contemporary Art, visit http://www.galleryuccs.org/ Special thanks to COPPeR and NOSH for providing refreshments for the public reception.
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The University offers 30 bachelor’s degrees, 19 master’s and five doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 8,500 students annually.
ARTIST STATEMENTS
DeLane Bredvik | Art communicates knowledge about reality by utilizing a form of cognition that it not quantifiable. We feel, as well as think about a work of art. Consequently, a viewer may understand something new when looking at art, but not be able to describe it. This ephemeral process of feeling, thinking and understanding is the foundation for my work. A few months ago I read the ancient Greek play Bacchae by Euripides. Phrases describing the chorus, such as “Statuesque immobility,” “external simplicity,” and “a relatively static chorus,” captured my attention. The chorus “served to represent the broad foundation of timeless and popular views of life and to provide a background for motivation and commentary or advice on individual actions.” Even in the relatively open and free society that most people in the United States enjoy, there is still the continuous presence and pressure of society to conform to an ideal. The emergence of our character remains fluid and continuous. We understand who we are through daily association with things we come in contact with and those things that repel or attract us. Individuality and spiritual self-knowledge emerge despite the presence of a collective force that compels us to conform.
Corey Drieth | When I make installations and sculptures I am typically interested in the metaphorical use of common materials and objects. Placing slightly manipulated versions of these objects into the gallery context gives the viewer a opportunity to reconsider and expand on their meaning. For Point A, I will be exploring my ambivalent feelings about popular culture…the beauty, humor, spectacle, and exhausted vacancy of it. Ultimately, I hope to create spaces that sparkle and shine, but spaces that are also subtly malevolent or sad. Drieth is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Izumi Yokoyama | My work is always inspired by nature’s ephemeral and fantastic phenomena as well as the social activities that engage with them. I enjoy watching each season’s theatrical scenes such as cherry-blossom petals swirling in spring, lightning bugs dancing around in summer, red leaves softly fluttering down in fall, and snowfall in winter. Growing up in the northwest part of Japan, where snow was my playground, I have always dreamt of building Kamakura, an igloo-like snow house. Neighbors used to gather together to build snow houses for their children. They lit candles inside snow houses as kids sang songs and ate their favorite rice cakes inside. While we still enjoy seasonal gifts of nature, the activity of building Kamakura has become uncommon for today’s children. The installation for Point A illustrates moments of such fragile beauty and that reflects the importance of family gathering. Yokoyama was born in Japan and earned her MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
GOCA 121
121 S. Tejon, Suite 100
South Tower, Plaza of the Rockies
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Mon-Fri: 10am - 8pm
http://www.galleryuccs.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: February 03, 2010 |
Extreme Ice Survey: The Photography of James Balog
Smokebrush Gallery (Colorado Springs)
February 5 – March 26, 2010
- Opening Reception: First Friday February 5th from 5-8pm
- First Saturday Hours: March 6th from Noon-5pm
 James Balog - Extreme Ice Survey, Ice In Disko Bay, Greenland
The Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) brings art and science together with stunningly sublime photographic imagery and time-lapse animations illustrating the rapid changes happening to Earth's glacial ice. It is at once visually captivating, educational, and compelling. And it is the perfect beginning to Smokebrush Gallery's 2010 programming.
EIS is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occurring on the Earth's glacial ice. James Balog and his EIS team have specially customized and installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia.
Mr. Balog recently presented his work at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009, was featured on the cover of National Geographic and was recently appointed as the ECO-Ambassador to SAMSUNG for the Vancouver Olympics, and his one-hour documentary will release this Spring on PBS's NOVA. These credentials merely support the value and timeliness of this contemporary image-maker's work. Although the science world has given Mr. Balog more attention than the art world at this point, the work itself shares no exclusive borders with either world and certainly stands up on its own in the gallery and museum settings.
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 111
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: January 03, 2010 |
38 Degrees Latitude… Crossing the Lines
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center - Hoag Gallery (Pueblo)
January 9 - April 24, 2010
 Justin Reddick - The Naked Player Reddick is one of the members of "38 Degrees Latitude" a group creating new works specifically for this exhibit
(from the press release)
Crossing the Lines: Exploring American Values through the Lens of Contemporary Art consists of all new works by the collective artists of 38 Degrees Latitude. The exhibit examines a wide assortment of past and present events and issues that have helped define and change American values. The artists of 38 Degrees Latitude intend to document and interpret through their own lens the significance of these events. A variety of media/mediums are used to depict some of the topics of mental illness, corporate America, art/culture, music, war/politics, prostitution, greed, the Obama administration, women’s rights, and poverty.
38 Degrees Latitude is a collective group of seasoned contemporary artists who have come together in hopes of igniting a spark within the local art scene in and around southern Colorado. Their primary mission is to give the community something unique, powerful and relevant to experience. Furthermore, 38 Degrees Latitude wants to give emerging artists a place to be seen and heard.
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
Hoag Gallery
210 N Santa Fe Ave
Pueblo, CO 81003
719.295.7200
Tue-Sat: 11am - 4pm
http://www.sdc-arts.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: December 16, 2009 |
NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
December 19, 2009 - March 7, 2010
- Opening Celebration: Friday December 18 from 5-7pm
- Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
 William Wegman - Chip
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: December 09, 2009 |
Kris Martin and Claire Fontaine
Aspen Art Museum
December 10, 2009 to January 24, 2010
- Public reception with the artists: Thursday, December 10 from 6-8pm
- Claire Fontaine exhibit continues until January 31 in the Upper Gallery
 Artist collective Claire Fontaine - 2009
(from the press release)
The Aspen Art Museum is proud to present the first U.S. museum solo exhibition to feature an entirely new body of work by Belgium-based artist Kris Martin, and first U.S. museum exhibition of Paris-based collective artist Claire Fontaine.
Martin’s exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, January 24, 2010 in the AAM Lower Gallery; Claire Fontaine’s After Marx April After Mao June in the AAM Upper Gallery through January 31, 2009.
Kris Martin creates objects in which the ideas and the materials are carefully refined to explore and emphasize time— its passage and its relationship to faith, aging, and to our self-conception and sense of mortality. Martin’s AAM exhibition features eight large, human-height boulders, their apexes marked by tiny paper crosses. This shift of scale and perspective turn the rocks into mountains, their cracks into crevasses and their highest points into symbols of arduous accomplishment. Also included is Martin’s artist book, Idiot (2005). Printed to resemble a pocket bible, the book consists of Martin’s hand transcription of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1868 novel The Idiot in which he has replaced the name of the book’s protagonist with his own. In so doing, the work becomes both an unconventional self-portrait and an extreme act of adulation in which Martin identifies with Myshkin's desire for spiritual transformation. In addition to conventional distribution, the book has also been placed in hotel rooms throughout Aspen, including: the Annabelle Inn, Hotel Aspen, Hotel Durant, Hotel Jerome, Hotel Lenado, Innsbruck Inn, Limelight Lodge, The Little Nell, Mountain Chalet, Molly Gibson Lodge, Mountain House Lodge, the St. Moritz, St. Regis Resort, Aspen, and Sky Hotel.
Founded in 2004, Claire Fontaine works in such diverse media as neon, video, sculpture, painting, and text to create neo-conceptual art that interrogates the very position of the artist within culture at large. Through her practice, she questions the political impotency that characterizes much contemporary art today. The title of the exhibition, After Marx April After Mao June, is taken from a slogan that appeared on a wall in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 during the political and cultural revolution that took place there that year. The exhibition includes the work Passe-Partout (Aspen-Leurre), (2009), a sculpture composed of handmade lock-picks associated with fishing flies, lures, and hooks used in the rivers of Colorado, as well as a neon sign, mounted on the exterior of the AAM that reads Foreigners Everywhere in the Ute language. * Foreigners Everywhere belongs to a series of Claire Fontaine works in different languages that refer to the fact that the concept “foreigner” is dependent on context. The light emitted from the neon serves as a silent reminder of a time when the woods were inhabited only by the indigenous native “Indians”—a time before colonization.
Kris Martin was born in 1972 and is based in Ghent, Belgium. Solo shows include P.S.1, MoMA, New York (2007). Group shows include Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2007); Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (2007); and Of Mice and Men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006). Kris Martin is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are presented by the Questrom Lecture Series.
Claire Fontaine is Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, whose recent exhibitions include Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München; They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Lucky In The Misfortune, Maison Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam; Feux de Détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Claire Fontaine is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are presented by the Questrom Lecture Series. * The Utes are an ethnically related group of Native Americans now living primarily in Utah and Colorado. The native Ute language belongs to the Numic division of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages and is a dialect of Southern Numic. However, most current Utes speak only English.
Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street
Aspen, CO 81611
970.925.8050
http://aspenartmuseum.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: November 29, 2009 |
Eco-Art Market
Smokebrush (Colorado Springs)
December 4 – December 23, 2009
- Opening Reception: Friday December 4 from 5-8pm
 Chase DeForest, Garden Hose Basket, Woven garden hose with zip ties
(from the press release)
Eco-Art Market - A Gift Market Unlike Any Other!
Join us First Friday, December 4 from 5 to 8pm for the opening reception of our unique approach to the holiday gift market. Our Eco-Art Market features all Colorado-made, eco-friendly, one-of-a-kind decorative, wearable and functional artworks priced & sized for today's gift giver. All work is made with a better world in mind. 100% of the proceeds support Colorado artists and your local Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts. The market continues through December 23. See extended shopping hours listed below. The well-made and exciting eco-minded work of over twenty Colorado artists comes together in one amazing gift buying market at the Smokebrush Gallery this December!
- Chris Behm (Co Spgs) – Repurposed bicycle part belts and jewelry for men
- Janet Burgar (Co Spgs) – felted fleece purses, pocket books, eyeglass holders, cell phone holders, and jewelry
- Juanita Canzoneri (Co Spgs) – Recycled glass ornaments, knitted video tape purses
- Jocelyn Childs (Denver) – Repurposed vinyl banner tote bags and reusable fabric gift wrap
- Chase DeForest (Denver) - Garden Hose Baskets and Hose Clamp Jewelry
- Jimmy Descant the Rocketman (Salida) – Assemblage artwork
- Elisabethan LLC (Paonia) – Upcycled fabric wearables
- Lin Fife (Co Spgs) – Upcycled fabric Tunics
- Jennifer Ghormley (Denver) – Recycled printmaking paper journals & sketchbooks
- HJ's Hats (Cresed Butte) – Upcycled fabric hats for hipsters
- Sarah Hope (Co Spgs) – Upcycled material jewelry
- Deanna Hood (Denver) – Assemblage jewelry
- Keith Jive (Denver) – Graffiti on found object artwork
- Kellybeth Designs (Denver) – Upcycled credit card/gift card jewelry
- Liz McCombs (Denver) – Assemblage and ceramic artwork
- Daisy McConnell (Co Spgs) – Encaustic (beeswax) paintings
- Holly Parker (Co Spgs) – Burlap & Beeswax paintings, wine bottle pendant lamps
- Ryan Rosburg, Community Carbon Project (Denver) – Beer/vodka bottle tumbler/rocks glasses
- Kat & Bob Tudor (Co Spgs) – Found object sculptures
- LuDel Walter (Co Spgs) – Handmade paper ornaments and embellished gourds
- Barb Ziek (Co Spgs) – Hand dyed, Hand Felted Alpaca Wool wearables & objects
Gallery Admission: FREE – But donations are graciously accepted - Even a $5 Helps Keep Us Alive!
Extended Holiday Hours:
- Fri. Dec. 4, 5pm – 8pm
- Sat. Dec. 5, 12pm – 5pm
- Sat. Dec. 12, 12pm – 5pm
- Sat. Dec. 19, 12pm – 5pm
- Monday – Friday (Dec. 7 – 23), 11am – 6pm
Smokebrush is located in the Depot Arts District under the Colorado Avenue Bridge
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 111
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: September 09, 2009 |
Bold: Photography by Diego Lama
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - Steiner Gallery
September 11 – December 6, 2009
(from the press release)
This series of six panoramic photographs from Peruvian artist Diego Lama were taken in Lima in 2007. The large format works featuring dramatic, theatrical atmospheres emphasize a contrast between the bodies and the perfectly organized spaces. Solitary figures seem out of place in various stylized areas. Lama describes the series as a testimony about the cultural politics in Peru. The spaces he chose to photograph are all part of cultural institutions of restricted access.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: September 09, 2009 |
Personal Paradise: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape Painting
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center - El Pomar Gallery
September 11 – December 6, 2009
- Artist Panel: Saturday, October 3, 11am
- Curator’s Tour: Tuesday, November 17, 6pm
 Julia Fernandez-Pol - Cerebro
If you missed Julia Fernandez-Pol's excellent show at van Straaten Gallery back in 2008, the trek down to the springs is well worth the effort to catch up with her latest work featured as part of the CSFAC's Personal Paradise: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape Painting. Pol's dense colors are lavishly slapped layer upon layer on canvas forming organic, rorschach-esque visions of flowers, animals, landscapes and the human anatomy (see "Cerebro" above, a distinct peek into the literal and figurative mind.)
Also on display is the work of Montana based Theodore Waddell whose work can be seen here in Denver at Visions West in LoDo, along with Eric Perez from Mexico and Native American artist Kay WalkingStick. - KLH
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: September 02, 2009 |
Lasting Legacy: A Selection of Recent Gifts to the FAC Collection
FAC Modern (The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center's downtown annex)
August 10 - November 15, 2009
- Opening Celebration: Friday September 4th from 5-8pm
Roberto Matta - Untitled lithograph
Unfortunately the FAC Modern no longer has Saturday hours, so plan on a midweek sojourn to take in this exhibit, or an email campaign demanding at least one weekend viewing before the show closes in November! - KLH
(from the press release)
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s art collection began with a gift. Beginning in the 1930s, major gifts of Hispanic and Native American art from Alice Bemis Taylor and Modern American art from Elizabeth Sage Hare formed the foundation of the FAC’s permanent collection. Since then, gifts of art have constituted a majority of the FAC collection through today with the recent gift of 50 works from the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection.
To celebrate the generosity of our donors, the FAC will showcase our most recent gifts from the past two years in Lasting Legacy: A Selection of Recent Gifts to the FAC Collection, at the FAC MODERN from Aug. 10 – Nov. 15, with an Opening Celebration on Sept. 4 in conjunction with the First Friday Art Walk. Admission is free to the general public; the MODERN is open Monday – Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This exhibition will feature works – most on view for the first time – from artists Joe Baker, Herbert Bayer, Agustín Bejarano, Thomas Hart Benton, Scott Fraser, Jessica Freyre-Cuebas, Roberto Fabelo, Quintín González, Joel Grey, Carlos Guzmán, Carlos Hoyos, Diego Lama, Jason Lujan, Roberto Matta, Yasbel María Pérez, Robert Polidori, Louis Recchia, Boardman Robinson, William Scharf, Brett Weston, Randy L. White, as well as selections from the recent gifts from William T. Tutt and the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection.
Highlights include:
- Adam Fuss (Untitled, 1997, manipulated photograph), Don Hazlitt (Sunset, 1989, mixed media on canvas), and Sylvia Plimack Mangold (Untitled, 1988, woodcut on vegetable parchment paper), gifts from the Vogel Collection
- Ave Convertida Echando Vuelo (2006, xylography) by Jessica Freyre-Cuebas, a gift from the artist
- Cat, two contemporary works on paper by Native American Joe Baker, a gift from Theodore Waddell
- An Iris Print on Crane Museo Paper, Brioni (Artist’s Proof), by Academy Award winning actor Joel Grey, a gift from the artist
- A 1990 Sol LeWitt gouache on paper, Untitled; a gift from Werner Kramarsky
- Three color lithographs by Chilean artist Roberto Matta, a gift from Roberto Agnolini
- Gwen Laine’s photo-based installation work, Silent Origin III, from 2008, a gift from the artist
- Longtime New Yorker, former guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one-time Mark Rothko studio assistant, William Scharf contributes Storm on the Wind Beach, a gift from the estates of Douglas S. McKelvy and Francine S. McKelvy
- Jason Lujan’s mixed media Apache Ma.K. series, a gift from the artist
- A selection of several retablos and bultos, gifts from William Thayer Tutt
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - FAC Modern
Plaza of the Rockies, First Floor
121 S. Tejon St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5581
Mon-Fri: 10am-4pm
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: September 01, 2009 |
Greg Block
Smokebrush Gallery (Colorado Springs)
September 4 – September 25, 2009
- Opening Reception: First Friday, September 4 from 5-8pm
 Greg Block - Kinetic sculpture "Machine for Twisting the Stem Off an Apple"
(from the press release)
Greg Block's machines are an exploration of the evolutionary and biological relationship between humans and technology. The result is a provocative exhibition of marvelous machines, unexpected diagrams and luscious paintings. His work is somewhat of a hybrid between Rube Goldberg, Leonardo, and a vegetarian Soutine. Greg graduated from Colorado College this year with a BA in Biology and a minor in Art. His artwork displays an acuity featuring the best of both art and science.
Opening night features live music on the dock and machine demonstrations by the artist.
Greg Block will also teach a two-day workshop on PHOTOVOLTAIC GARDEN LANTERNS September 26 & 27 as a part of our B.I.G. Idea Workshops program. Get hands-on experience with photovoltaics to make your own solar powered lantern! Just $120 for this two-day workshop, including supplies. Call Smokebrush Gallery to register by Sept. 18: 719.444.1012. A full description of the B.I.G. Idea Workshops program can be found at www.smokebrush.org.
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 111
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: August 08, 2009 |
The Masters ReMastered
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art - Main Gallery
July 31 - October 24, 2009
- Artsist include: Bill Amundson, Jack Balas, David Bierk, Earl Biss, Mihail Chemiakin, Anne Connell, Gary Emrich, Fazli, Wes Hempel, Ken Iwamasa, Komar & Melamid, Yigal Ozeri, Leonid Sokov
- Stacy Nick's review from the Fort Collins Coloradan: New MOCA exhibit reinterprets the classics
 Yizal Ozeri - Ladies in Blue Emerging - 1999
The Masters ReMastered explores the appropriation of images from well-known works of art by contemporary artists. The artists in this exhibition question our notions of originality and authorship and demonstrate how images from art history can be used to create new meaning and redefine our relationship to the past.
Fort Collins MoCA
201 S College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.482.2787
http://fcmoca.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: August 05, 2009 |
Fred Tomaselli
Aspen Art Museum
August 1 - October 11, 2009
 Fred Tomaselli, Fungi and Flowers, 2002 Mixed media, resin on wood, 48 x 36 inches
(from the press release)
Beginning with a free public reception with the artist at 3:00 p.m., on Saturday, August 1, 2009, the Aspen Art Museum is proud to announce the debut of internationally celebrated American artist Fred Tomaselli’s largest museum survey exhibition to date—featuring a curatorial selection of the artist’s two-dimensional work from the late 1980s to the present.
Organized by the Aspen Art Museum, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and curated by AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Fred Tomaselli will be on view at the AAM through Sunday, October 11, 2009, and then travel to the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, (February 6 – June 6, 2010), and New York’s Brooklyn Museum (October 8, 2010 – January 2, 2011). A fully-illustrated color catalogue with texts by David Shields, Linda Norden, Ian Berry, and Zuckerman Jacobson is being produced on the occasion of the exhibition.
In addition, Tomaselli will be the first artist to be simultaneously represented in a solo exhibition at the AAM and celebrated as an Aspen Award for Art honoree. The 2009 award will be presented to Tomaselli by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson on Friday, August 7, 2009, during the museum’s annual artCRUSH summer benefit event. Tomaselli is the fifth recipient of the award, given each year to an internationally respected artist that has exhibited, or is scheduled to exhibit, at the AAM. Tomaselli’s work was previously featured at the AAM as part of the museum’s 2006, twenty-five-artist group exhibition, Having New Eyes. The annual Aspen Award for Art award has been presented at the artCRUSH summer benefit since the debut of the event in 2005.
Fred Tomaselli
Ever the idiosyncratic collector, Fred Tomaselli amasses pills, herbs and other drugs, along with a range of images—plants, flowers, birds, anatomical illustrations—cut from books and organized by color, to create multilayered baroque paintings that encompass elements of the real, the photographic, and the painterly. Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions—like quilts and mosaics—Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing, psychedelic patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions. Born in Santa Monica, California in 1956, and raised in Southern California, Tomaselli’s influences can be traced to both by the manufactured unreality of theme parks, and the music and drug counter-cultures of Los Angeles during the 1970s and 80s.
Fred Tomaselli’s solo exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, SITE Santa Fe, Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, and the Rose Art Museum. His work has also been included in numerous international group exhibitions, including the 2001 Berlin Biennale, the 2002 Liverpool Biennial, the 2004 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial. He currently lives in New York.
Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street
Aspen, CO 81611
970.925.8050
http://www.aspenartmuseum.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: August 05, 2009 |
Scott Johnson
Smokebrush (Colorado Springs)
August 7 - 28, 2009
- Opening Reception: Friday August 7 from 5-8pm
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Ave, Suite 111
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: July 01, 2009 |
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
May 30 - August 16, 2009
 Fernando Botero - Smoking Woman (1987)
At the risk of disparaging the hippie art poster exhibit at the DAM, the Colorado Springs FAC has without doubt upped the ante on Colorado's summer scene and mounted a notable exhibit by Colombian artist Fernando Botero that is ambitious (the large bronze sculptures must weigh in at several tons) and complete, covering the artist's work from the late 1950s up to the 21st Century in a variety of media including pencil/pastel, marble, bronze and large scale oil on canvas. The exhibit features the artist's signature portraits distorting his subjects into massive walls of flesh along with a variety of "day-in-the-life" vignettes, some of which are rather innocently violent, all of which flirt with an air of mystery; even the seemingly benign still lifes betray hidden intrigue (for example the 1970 "Pineapples.") On display until Sunday August 16. - KLH
Click here for some pictures from the exhibit...
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: June 27, 2009 |
Three Cups of Tea
Art Center of Estes Park
June 26 - August 2, 2009
(from the Art Center's website)
Featuring the artwork of:
- Susan Anderson (Clay, Mixed Media)
- Suzie Bogard (Clay, Painting, Mixed Media)
- Candace Newlove (Clay, Mixed Media, Fiber)
These three women artists entitled their show "Three Cups of Tea" based on their responses to Greg Mortenson's book of the same title and his extraordinary work to build schools for girls in remote areas of central Asia. From their hearts to their hands, their artwork is created with a desire to increase awareness of community both locally and globally. All proceeds from their show will be donated to Mortenson's Central Asia Institute.
Art Center of Estes Park
517 Big Thompson Ave
Estes Park, CO 80517-9661
970.586.5882
Open Daily: 10:00 to 5:00 pm
http://www.artcenterofestes.com
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: June 14, 2009 |
Through Warhol’s Lens and Warhol's Flowers
Colorado State University Art Museum (Fort Collins)
June 26 – September 25, 2009
(from the website)
The museum is proud to present two exhibitions focused on the work of Andy Warhol. Through Warhol's Lens highlights a recent gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation Photographic Legacy Program of photographs by legendary Pop artist Andy Warhol. To compliment the vibrant summer display in the University's Annual Trial Gardens, Warhol's Flowers features works on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum.
Colorado State University Art Museum
1400 Remington Street
Fort Collins, CO 80523
970.491.1989
Tue - Sat: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
http://www.artmuseum.colostate.edu
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: June 14, 2009 |
Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center (Pueblo)
May 30 - August 1, 2009
 Roy Lichtenstein, part of the Guild Hall exhibit at Pueblo's Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
Don't miss this rare opportunity to take in the works of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Chuck Close as part of an outstanding traveling exhibit highlighting a 100 year tradition of artists working in the Hamptons. "Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts" started in NYC and is on a US tour that winds through Pueblo bringing over 70 works by 61 artists who found solace sneaking away from NYC to create in the idyllic beach communities of East Long Island. - KLH
Edie Adelstein's Colorado Springs Independent review of the exhibit: Collaborative Wealth
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
Helen T. White Galleries
210 N Santa Fe Ave
Pueblo, CO 81003
719.295.7200
Tue-Sat: 11am - 4pm
http://www.sdc-arts.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: June 14, 2009 |
ReMaterial
Smokebrush (Colorado Springs)
July 3 - 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday July 3 from 5-8pm
 Barb Ziek, Untitled Tomato, Felted Alpaca wool with tomato accoutrements
(from the press release)
Join us First Friday, July 3 from 5pm-8pm for the opening reception of ReMaterial, a group invitational exhibition highlighting exceptional works of art made from repurposed materials. The exhibition continues through July 31.
ReMaterial is an exhibition of beautiful and functional works created from materials that would otherwise be recycled, end up in a landfill, or created from things of nature. Enjoy first-rate assemblage works by Kim Sayers-Newlin, recycled glass mosaics and crocheted video tape vessels by Juanita Canzoneri, gorgeous gourds by LuDel Walter, paintings made from sand & other natural objects by Audrey Gray, a gigantic trash monkey puppet by Ryan Ballard, quirky 3D assemblages by Craig Cantrell, and graceful felted wool works by Barb Ziek.
Opening evening features interactive recycled art making and live "recycled" music on the dock with Bob Tudor and Kat Tudor!
KIM SAYERS-NEWLIN will teach an Assemblage Art Workshop July 18 & 19 as a part of our B.I.G. Idea Workshops program. More to come on the workshop under separate cover. A full description of the B.I.G. Idea Workshops program can be found at www.smokebrush.org.
Gallery Admission: FREE – But donations are graciously accepted - Even a $5 Helps Keep Us Alive!
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 111
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: May 28, 2009 |
The Visual Art of Mark Mothersbaugh: RUGS! RUGS! RUGS!
NOWhere Limited Gallery (Nederland)
May 30 - June 28, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday evening, May 30th from 4 - 8pm
The artist will be in attendance via live video conference after 6:30pm
Mark Mothersbaugh - Jihad Detecto
(from the press release)
NOWhere Limited Gallery in Nederland, Colorado is pleased to announce a solo exhibit of fine art by Mark Mothersbaugh. The exhibit features a dozen stunningly designed area rugs, each depicting a scene from the artist's vast and vivid imagination.
Mark Mothersbaugh, well-known as a founding member of the innovative band DEVO, has been creating artwork in many forms for more than 3 decades. His love of visual art began in childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind. His first correctional glasses offered the young Mothersbaugh a new view of the world, fueling a lifelong infatuation with imagery and illustrations.
Mark's recent visual artwork has been largely inspired by his 30-year habit of creating handmade postcards to send to friends from various stops on DEVO tours. This obsession has evolved into a visual diary that currently yields the artist 1-25 new images per day. These images have served as the basis for the artist's critically acclaimed solo shows of the 80s/90s as well as for his "gallery tours" which have been occurring at art venues throughout the globe since 2003.
With DEVO, Mothersbaugh's most recognized music project, the artist showcases his artistic abilities to millions of fans. Through their films, videos, costumes, LP covers, stage shows, and printed materials, Mark Mothersbaugh and DEVO forever altered commonly held preconceptions of how a rock band can function in popular culture.
More information about Mark Mothersbaugh can be found at his web site: Mutato Visual, http://www.mutatovisual.com
NOWhere Limited Contemporary Art Gallery
1 W. First St.
Wolf Tongue Square
Nederland, CO (West of Boulder)
Hours: Weekends 12-6pm or by appointment
http://www.nowherelimited.com
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: May 20, 2009 |
 No Sound: New and Rarely Seen Silent Film and Video
Aspen Art Museum
May 23 - July 19, 2009
Public reception: Thursday, July 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
(right) Paul Pfeiffer, Morning after the Deluge, 2003
(From the press release)
Beginning May 23, 2009, in the museum’s Upper Gallery, the Aspen Art Museum is proud to present the group exhibition No Sound, a mix of silent avant-garde film, rarely exhibited early video works, and recent film and video moving-image work by three generations of artists working in both Europe and the United States. Silent film and video works create a space unmoored from time and temporal experience. Whether by direct aesthetic choice or technological necessity, the removal of sound pushes the viewer towards an almost hypnotic focus. No Sound includes a number of films and videos that explore stillness, action, and our relationship to the natural and unnatural elements of the world around us, and features work by Doug Aitken, Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Guy Ben-Ner, Trisha Donnelly, Nancy Graves, Henrik Håkansson, David Noonan, Paul Pfeiffer, and Diana Thater.
On Thursday, June 18, 6:00 p.m., visiting guest John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will join AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson for a conversation about the exhibition, and on July 14, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a performance of musical scores to works in the exhibition by Aspen Music Festival and School student composers and musicians under the direction of Sydney Hodkinson, conductor of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. No Sound will be on view through Sunday, July 19, 2009.
No Sound is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are presented by the Questrom lecture Series.
The Aspen Art Museum is a globally preeminent non-collecting institution that presents the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society.
AAM MUSEUM HOURS:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 6:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays
AAM ADMISSION IS FREE courtesy of John and Amy Phelan
http://www.aspenartmuseum.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Posted: April 28, 2009 |
The Lights are On: Artgasm
Gallery of Contemporary Art
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
May 1 - June 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm
(from the press release)
The Lights Are On: Artgasm is the annual Visual and Performing Arts exhibition highlighting work from 2009 graduating seniors. The exhibition is planned and executed from start to finish by the visual art students as part of their professional development course and is the culmination and sampling of work from 19 students working in sculpture, drawing, painting, digital media, video, and photography.
The gallery is located in the northwest corner of the Science Building’s upper level. During openings, normal campus parking restrictions are suspended for lots 1 and 3. Otherwise visitors can park in the Visitor’s Lot or metered spaces.
Gallery of Contemporary Art
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
P.O. Box 7150
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
Gallery Hours: T - F: 12 – 6 PM, or by appointment
719.262.3567
http://www.galleryuccs.org
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