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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
Free Third Saturday
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Saturday November 15, 2008 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Walt Kuhn at the CS FAC
Edie Winograde at the CS FAC
If you have yet to visit the revamped Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, well first off, you've missed some outstanding exhibits over the last year, but that said, with gas south of $2/gallon in various Denver environs and a new program featuring free admission on the third Saturday of each month, there's no excuse not to take in the FAC's notable permanent collection along with two interesting takes on historical visions of the West currently on display until early January 2009. "Walt Kuhn: An Imaginary History of the West" alongside "Place and Time: Reenactment Pageant Photographs" by Robischon Gallery photographer Edie Winograde contrasts the early 20th century modernist paintings of Kuhn's West along with 21st century photographs highlighting Winograde's 19th century Western subjects.
While you're down south, be sure to take in the "Mind the Gap" exhibit at the Gallery of Contemporary Art on the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
If you missed the
"Artists in Residence - Anderson Ranch at the Foothills Art Center" exhibit at Golden's Foothills Art Center, you'll have opportunity to catch another Anderson Ranch themed show at the Aspen Art Museum come October 30th, when "ARAC@AAM" will open to the public. Where the FAC show included a limited selection of artists from the Anderson Ranch stable of visiting artists and faculty, the ARAC@AAM show draws from a pool of over 250 submissions by former artists-in-residence, workshop faculty and visiting artists vetted by Dan Cameron, Director of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Art
Center, New Orleans, Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator at the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York, and Lauri Firstenberg, Director/Curator
of LAXART in Los Angeles. On display until December 7th.
Artists include:
Aldwyth, Laura Berman, Lisa K. Blatt, Phyllis Bramson, Emily Cameron, Squeak Carnwath, Theresa Chong, Roy Dowell, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Don Fritz, Arthur González, Chris Gustin, Harmony Hammond, Cherie Hiser, Benjamin Koch, Christine Lee, Jeffrey Marshall, Scott McCarney, Liliana Mejia, Willie Osterman, Lucy Puls, Michael Puryear, Milton Rosa-Ortiz, Buzz Spector, John Torreano, Edie Tsong, and Mark Tribe.
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Spirality
Smokebrush Foundation
October 3 - October 29, 2008Opening Reception Friday October 3 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Also open First Saturday October 4 from Noon - 5:00 pm
Kim Polomka, Spirality #11
SPIRALITY
Invitational Exhibition Exploring the Spiral as Structure, Symbol & Action
Artists include:
Lorelei Beckstrom, Susan Bowman, Christy Callaham, Sandra Ceas, Lin Fife, Langdon Foss, Audrey Gray, Frank Gray, Sarah Hope, Timber Kirwan, Yuriy Luzov, Steve Lynch, Kim Polomka, Lindsay Ray,
The Spiral Scouts, Spica Stolfus, Kat Tudor,
Beverly Weaver, Jeff Weihing.
Saturday, October 4 at Noon, in America The Beautiful Park, Smokebrush
will attempt to assemble a world-record breaking Yogic Spiral, a human
meditating spiral, as part of our programming around the SPIRALITY
exhibition. Find out more, and register at www.yogicspiral.com.
Also on display in The Chapel of Art
DOUGLAS ROUSE:
LET'S MAKE A DEAL!
Smokebrush Foundation
218 West Colorado Avenue, Ste. 102
Colo. Spgs., CO 80903
719.444.1012
Mon - Fri: Noon - 5pm
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
Designing Women of Postwar Britain
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
September 20, 2008 – January 25, 2009
Lucienne Day, Calyx, 1951
Designing Women of Postwar Britain: Their Art and the Modern Interior is an exhibition of works by three influential female artists, which will be displayed in the Fine Arts Center's El Pomar Gallery.
The art of textile design radically changed after World War II. Three women artists working in England in the 1950s were pivotal in this artistic revolution. The drab days of the War were suddenly washed with the light of the fresh, progressive designs by Lucienne Day, Marian Mahler and Jacqueline Groag.
Original artist designs with bold abstract patterns, inspired by Modern artists like Alexander Calder and Joan Miró, as well as the use of dramatic saturated color marked a dramatic departure from England’s conventional notions of interior fabric design. Designing Women showcases the stunning geometric and abstract designs of the three leaders with furnishing fabrics, hand-towels, and dishware in varied sizes and colors.
Day changed the direction of furnishing fabrics with her 1951 design, Calyx. The revolutionary design, introduced at the Festival of Britain, captured the spirit of the era and subsequently received the coveted International Design Award of the American Institute of Decorators.
Home Interiors
In the span of 20 years after World War II (1945-1965), Britain was transformed from a nation devastated by war to an affluent consumer society. This new prosperity became evident in the modernization and stylization of home interiors. Works by designers such as Day, Groag and Mahler made art accessible to the general consumer, contributing to the country’s spirit of renewal and defining a historical turning point in the development of international textile design.
Textiles were a crucial component of the domestic interior during this time, with new furnishings adorning the home with the vibrancy of beautiful textiles. Art and design came together to change the direction of the modern design industry worldwide. Britain held a preeminent position in textile design as home to leading manufacturers, wholesale firms, and many inventive and creative young designers like Day, Groag and Mahler. Their new genre of dynamic, abstract and whimsical works transformed the market by inspiring new product lines that were elegant and artistic, yet affordable. The distinct and innovative style of the works created by these women is still relevant to contemporary domestic interiors.
Exhibit curators Tariana Navas-Nieves and Shanna Shelby draw from the Denver collection of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III, whose passion for this unique area of design showcases rare and hard to find patterns.
Carrie Frasure of the Colorado Springs Independent: Design on a dime
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Mind the Gap: Noticing the Unnoticed
Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
September 12 - November 22, 2008Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 2008 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Featuring Artists Jared Lindsay Clark, Jennifer Danos, e-Xplo, John Pilson, Sarah Ross and Doron Solomons
I was able to stop by the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs this summer and was very impressed with the art department's new faculty member show featuring Matt Barton and his installation on the theme of found children's toys. This week, the Gallery will be kicking off a new show highlighting contemporary artists from across the US (and who have displayed around the world) on the theme "Mind the Gap." If you are in the Springs to perhaps see the last weekend of the Picasso etchings show at the CS Fine Arts Center (closing 9/14), be sure to stop by the GoCA.
Click here for the full press release...
Gallery of Contemporary Art
University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO
80933-7150
M-F 10-4 and Sat 1-4
719.262.3567
http://www.galleryuccs.org
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
Space Between Dreams: Art in the Spirit of Yoga & Meditation
Smokebrush Foundation
September 5 - 24, 2008Opening Reception Friday September 5, from 5 - 8pm
NOTE: Smokebrush features Saturday hours only once a month on the first Saturday of the month
Space Between Dreams at Smokebrush
Featuring artists Robin Anderson, Kay Beaubien, Christy Callaham, Tara Catalano, Holly Conlon, Paul Dahlsten, Holly Parker, Peace Project Ceramics, Regan Rosburg, Jim Shrosbree, Maja Sommersted, Kat Tudor, LuDel Walter, Brett Wilson.
Also on display in the Chapel of Art:
"MUSES, LADDERS and STORMS AT SEA"
- Expressionistic paintings by Lance Green
Smokebrush Foundation
Located under the Colorado Ave. Bridge in the Depot Arts District
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 102
Colorado Springs, C0 80903
719.444.1012
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 5pm
First Saturday of each month
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
Deborah Oropallo - "George" 2008
2 summer shows at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporar Art:
The Magnolia Tapestry Project features a variety of well known artists working in the medium of fabric; highlights include work by Deborah Oropallo (featured at Robischon back in October of 2007) and Chuck Close whose signature self-portrait really takes well to the medium.
On the 2nd floor is an exhibit titled "Patriotism: the Last Refuge" featuring works by Denver artist Tony Ortega as well as interesting photography by Christopher Morris whose lens penetrates his subjects, reducing them to icons of their environments which include churches, schools and political events in the DC area.
Both shows are on display until September 20th and if your travels take you to points north, the detour to FCMOCA is certainly worth the trip.
Michael Paglia's Westword Review of the tapestry exhibit
Fort Collins MoCA
201 S College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80524
http://fcmoca.org
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Sunday, 03 August 2008 |
Smokebrush Foundation
August 1 - August 27, 2008
In the main gallery
4th Annual ROLL Bike Exhibition
Quadrophenia: Fear of 4 Wheels
A Veritable Festival of Artistic Bicyclic Creations
Featuring Original Artworks About Bikes and Bike Life
Including Vintage, Custom and Motorized Bikes!
The Chapel of Art
Timothy C. Flood: "From All Sides"
An immersive environment reflective of personal
perspective and emotion, yet surprisingly tranquil.
Smokebrush Foundation
218 West Colorado Avenue, Suite 102
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
Mon-Fri: Noon - 5pm
First Saturday every month: Noon-5pm
719.444.1012
http://www.smokebrush.org
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Sunday, 03 August 2008 |
Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti
Nowhere Limited
August 2 - 23, 2008
(from the press release)
NOWhere Limited presents PROFONDO GIALLO: NEW PAINTINGS BY SCOTT LICKSTEIN, SAVE/PRODUCE: MIXED MEDIA BY ELISHA SARTI and the debut of MAKE ART/TAKE ART, a collaboration between the two artists.
PROFONDO GIALLO:
Scott Lickstein's Profondo Giallo project began as an obsession with movies, particularly those from the Italian pulp/horror film genre, known as Giallo. The artist, who studied video art under a professor from M.I.T., used a computer program to capture more than 20,000 individual frames from a vast assortment of movies on DVD. He then digitally combined and altered selected "stills" to form collaged images. Many of the Profondo Giallo images have previously been produced as prints and as purely digital art. For the latest version of the project, the artist rendered the digital mash-ups in paint, adding another layer of depth and strangeness to these striking compositions.
SAVE/PRODUCE:
Elisha Sarti's SAVE/PRODUCE features The World According to Gooogle, a new series of collages on canvas. The source images for this series were derived from Google Image searches for subjective words like "pretty," "worst" and "perfect." The resulting canvases read as a bizarre yet captivating "pictionary."
Also exhibited in SAVE/PRODUCE are Elisha's large scale paintings: ENVY(Printed Line) and SAVE/PRODUCE. These two 8 foot x 8 foot paintings depict imagery taken from the materials the artist used to build their surfaces: saved junkmail and paperboard boxes that once contained food or other goods. The pictures and symbols in these works are based on advertisements and marketing designs so the colors, shapes and phrases have a familiar quality. They are recycled images on recycled surfaces, transformed by scale and collage into something new.
MAKE ART/TAKE ART:
Make Art/Take Art is a collaboration between Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti and perhaps...you! For this project, the artists created 16 black ink drawings on collaged backgrounds as well as a stack of "blank" collaged surfaces. The drawings are displayed in a grid formation; the slot for each drawing on the grid is numbered. Interested parties are invited to take one of the exhibited drawings in exchange for their own drawing, which must be completed on site using one of the provided blank surfaces and black ink marker. The drawings on display will be constantly changing, so that a participant may take a piece that has not been drawn by Elisha or Scott but by a random participant. For the duration of the exhibit, each slot will also be available for sale online for $15 + shipping. Buyers of each slot will acquire whatever random piece occupies the slot number at the time of purchase.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti are the co-founders of NOWhere Limited, a contemporary art gallery and limited edition shop in Nederland, Colorado and online. This is the married couple's first 2-person exhibit together since 1998. More about the artists and NOWhere Limited can be found: http://nowherelimited.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=about_us
NOWhere Limited
Contemporary Art + Limited Editions
1 West First St, Wolf Tongue Square
Nederland, Colorado (near Boulder)
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
 The Aspen Jet-Set was not about to sit around and watch the DAM, the MCA, the Colorado Springs FAC and CU Boulder show up at the party with new togs, so the Aspen Art Museum's Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson today announced the selection of Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA) to design a new 30,000 square-foot facility for the institution. No info on dates but per the press release the proposed site of
the new museum is slated for East Main Street and South Galena making it much easier to get to than it's current location tucked away behind the Roaring Fork.
Kyle MacMillan's Denver Post article:
Museum aims for a showpiece
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
Heather Oelklaus 2008 Relief Portrait of Marilyn Monroe in Prescription Pill Bottles
I have to say my interest was not initially piqued when i saw notice of the "Life as Legend: Marilyn Monroe" exhibit at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, but I made the trek down based on: 1) the strength of the last few shows I've seen there, 2) the joy I always get while catching up with the FAC's notable permanent collection now housed in their wonderful new addition, and 3) the opportunity to take in a beautiful summer's day on the back roads down to the Springs on my motorcycle.
And while my overall impression wasn't as strong as it was for the truly incredible "Eclectic Eye" exhibit back in 07, "Life as Legend" is certainly worth the trip down, if not for the actual works on display then for the meditation on the question of what is this thing called Marilyn and why does it inspire artists' creations ranging from honestly innovative to commercial kitsch?
"Life as Legend" is billed as featuring "nearly 300 works of art inspired by the Hollywood Icon" and yes, there is Marilyn as far as the eye can see. I did find myself a bit bored with many of the cliche takes on the actress (to me Robert Indiana's portraits were exceptionally contrived, and the famous Warhol prints are so iconic as to be tiring) yet there are many surprises that elevate "Life as Legend" beyond the baseline hagiography I anticipated. Some of the stronger works include:
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Heather Oelklaus witty relief portrait of the artist using prescription pill bottles (pictured above)
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Eduardo Paolozzi's understated collage featuring all things 1960s modern, incorporating Marilyn subtly into the overall work
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Italian artist Mimmo Rotella's signature torn movie poster collage "Marilyn II" from 1979
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George Pusenkoff's 2002 "Marilyn: Last Portrait" which takes a computer screenshot of the LA coroner's autopsy report and enlarges it as a massive red and white silkscreen
I certainly wasn't expecting to see a Christo piece but sure enough the conceptual artist known for wrapping Berlin's Reichstag in fabric found a way to wrap covergirl Marilyn with twine and lipstick-red cloth. For me the strongest work was that of Corinna Holthusen whose untitled triptych contrasts 2 large "glamour" Marilyn-esque photographs with a digitally manipulated portrait of what appears to be Marilyn morphed into a showroom dummy complete with plastic hair waiting to be made up and put on display. The effect is creepy: a clever commentary on Hollywood's generic and artificial mass production of beauty. Quite honestly it was worth the trip just to see Holthusen's work. [Check out her website at http://www.corinnaholthusen.de.]
For the historically motivated Monroe fan, the show serves up a who's who of the many glamour photographers that documented the actress' life including Richard Avedon, Sam Shaw, Ernst Hass, Tom Kelley's famous nudes that no doubt brought a generation of young men to climax, Bert Stern's Vogue magazine portraits, Milton Greene's work for Look magazine and several others. Also on the photography front, Christopher Makos 1982 portraits of Andy Warhol dressed as Marilyn are displayed alongside Warhol's seminal Monroe silkscreens.
The show is open through July 6th, so if you can handle the MM overload and can quickly maneuver through the dross, there are some gems that make the trip down worthwhile. - KLH
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