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Posted: February 24, 2010 |
James Balog: Multi-media presentation / Q&A about the Extreme Ice Survey
Coronado H.S. Auditorium (Colorado Springs)
Thursday March 4th, 2010 at 7:00pm
 Photographer James Balog
(from the press release)
Please join us Thursday, March 4th at 7:00pm at Coronado High School for a rare opportunity to see renowned Boulder photographer and scientist James Balog give a compelling multi-media presentation on the Extreme Ice Survey (the largest ground-based glacial study yet). This speaking engagement will take place at Coronado High School's new auditorium, 1590 West Fillmore Street. Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors listed below, the Speaking Event is FREE and Open to the Public. His exhibit is on display in Smokebrush Gallery through March 26.
Mr. Balog has a particular interest in engaging in dialogue with the Colorado Springs community specifically about Creation Care, a Christian perspective of being environmental stewards to the Earth. This subject may be approached in the March 4th presentation and/or Q&A session.
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.
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 Environmental Ambassador to Samsung at the Winter 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.
This Event is Generously Sponsored By: Catamount Institute /The Leopold Fund, The C.S. Independent, Smokebrush Foundation, Extreme Ice Survey, Kat Tudor Yoga
These activities will take place on property that Smokebrush Foundation has licensed from Colorado Springs School District 11.
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Posted: July 30, 2009 |
No doubt it's a bit of a hike south to Pueblo, but should your travels take you down I-25 this weekend, do not miss the opportunity to see the excellent "Guild Hall" exhibit at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, highlighting the work of dozens of name brand artists associated with the East Long Island arts organization (closing this Saturday August 1.) While the Guild Hall exhibit is probably as much of a blockbuster as one might expect in Pueblo County, I was very impressed by the other galleries in the Sangre de Cristo, which is virtually overflowing with interesting art:
- Denver's Kirkland Museum is represented with an outstanding grouping of some towering Colorado figures including Paul Kauvar Smith, Edward Marecak, Dale Chisman, Dave Yust, Mary Chenoweth and 6 solid works from Vance Kirkland himself via "Colorado Moderns" (through August 9)
- Denver artist Virginia Maitland has a variety of fine works on display (through August 22)
- "The Warhol Experience" brings Andy's Silver Clouds installation along with a comfy couch and an introduction to his famous Screen Tests featuring the likes of Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper and Lou Reed (through August 15)
- "Pueblo Moderns" offers up the work of two excellent local artists Meghan Wilbar and Ann Yaegar (through August 22)
Click here for some pix...
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
210 N Santa Fe Ave
Pueblo, CO 81003
719.295.7200
Tue-Sat: 11am - 4pm
http://www.sdc-arts.org
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Posted: July 29, 2009 |
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Loveland Museum/Gallery
May 30 - August 16, 2009
 Wayne Thiebaud - Bakery Case
Loveland Museum/Gallery
503 N. Lincoln Ave
Loveland, CO 80537
970.962.2410
Mon: closed
Tue/Wed/Fri: 10am-5pm (Thu until 9pm)
Sat: 10am-4pm
Sun: Noon-4pm
2nd Friday: 6-9pm
http://www.ci.loveland.co.us
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Posted: July 27, 2009 |
If you missed Louis Recchia's 2009 Zip37 exhibit, you can always make the trek down to Colorado Springs where his 1984 work "The Spirit and the Muse" is on display as part of the Fine Art Center's permanent collection.
  Louis Recchia "The Spirit and the Muse" 1984, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org |
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Posted: December 10, 2008 |
Christo - "Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado" - 1999
The Federal Register is not typically known as a must read for the latest art news, but earlier this year, the official record of the US Government published a public notice pertaining to the Christo and Jeanne-Claude public artwork "Over the River" planned for installation over the Arkansas River near Salida. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on the work with "Interested parties" needing to submit
comments in writing to the BLM on or before
December 15, 2008. Check out Christo's Over the River website at http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/otr.shtml.
The address for comments is:
Field Manager, Royal Gorge
Field Office
Bureau of Land
Management
3028 East Main Street
Canon City, CO 81212
Need more info? Contact Joe
Vieira at
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
, or by
phone at (719) 269–8708.
Click here for the full text of the Federal Reserve notice.
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Posted: December 03, 2008 |
Light of Hope - Art Auction & Performance
Smokebrush Foundation (Colorado Springs)
Friday December 5, 2008 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Exhibit runs until December 17, 2008
Hope for Darfur - Shepard Fairey
(from the press release)
ART AUCTION
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE EVENT
AND
COLLEGE ARTISTS EXHIBITION
Bid on artwork from the professional exhibit of Colorado and LA artists, and the college exhibit!
The exhibition of regional college artists was created
in response to their viewing the Light of HOPE
exhibit and the film, The Devil Came On Horseback,
is displayed amongst the professional Light of HOPE exhibition as it continues through December 17.
Join us for the special performance event including
new compositions by Karen Peace with over 12 other performers including music, dance, swords & more!
FEATURED PERFORMERS:
Crystal Bliss, Blooming Bush Women, Tall City, Heidi Cooper, Sarah Hope & Hillary Studebaker, Grass It Up, Jae Knowles, Karen Peace, Bob Tudor, Kat Tudor, Brendan Woodard, and Gushikawa Sword Dancer.
Presented in collaboration with
The I.D.E.A. Space at Cornerstone Arts Center.
Proceeds benefit Smokebrush & H.O.P.E. L.A.
(about the exhibit)
Uniting the collaborative spirit of artists of various disciplines from Colorado and California by
interpreting photos by two HOPE Collective Artists
taken during their visits in Sudan. This inspirational exhibit brings awareness to Darfur and related ongoing issues there, while creating an awareness in each of our own abilities to become agents of change.
HOPE Artists LA
Brandon Boyd (of Incubus), Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, JD (John Davis), Shepard Fairey, Ryan Gall, Kenny Harris, Andrew Jones, Amir Magal,
Rebecca Rogers, Andi Scull, and Studio No. One.
Smokebrush Network of Artists
Don Goede, Lance Green, Barbara Grover,
Marc Huebert, Erin Jones, Holly Parker, Chris Price, Lindsay Ray, Douglas Rouse, Tylan Troyer,
Bob & Kat Tudor, Lorenzo White, Brett Wilson.
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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Posted: November 12, 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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Posted: October 15, 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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Posted: August 06, 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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Posted: July 22, 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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Posted: July 02, 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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