Top Ten Colorado Art Happenings of 2011
It’s almost 2012, and 2011 was an incredible year for art in Colorado. Here’s the list of the best art events of the year. 1. Clyfford Still Museum Opening This museum was a long time in the making. Like the Rothko Chapel in Houston or the Georgia O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe, this Museum will make Denver into an artist’s new home. 2. Huma Bhabha at the Aspen Art Museum This exhibition has barely happened, opening on Dec 22, but it ranks high for 2011. Usually Bhabha does sculpture, but her works on paper hold a mysterious quality. The works seem classically modernist, and they involve a lot more than you w...Read more
Henrique Oliveira and Jessica Moon Bernstein at BMoCA
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opened a new show last Thursday which was long in the making. Henrique Oliveira, an artist from Brazil, took over the museum for a few weeks to construct a large wooden installation as well as hang some decent-sized acrylic paintings. The installation is the star of the show: it wraps around half of the main gallery on the first floor. The work looks like an abstract in Photoshop made tangible. It is striped, three-dimensional, and could be poppy if it weren't so subtly colored. The artist made a good choice when he subdued the colors of the installation. Any more color on such a huge work, certainly, would have been t...Read more
Face to Face: Beverly McIver
Right now in Colorado’s front range, more than a few eclecticly-curated art exhibitions have invested their concerns in portraiture and identity. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver is exhibiting The Face I had Before The World was Made, and the Denver Art Museum has installed its Face to Face exhibition, a collection of drawings from such artists as Lucian Freud, R. Crumb, George Grosz and local Colorado favorite, Bill Amundson. A show with the same title, the Face To Face exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, concerns the work of one artist: Beverly McIver. That there are so many faces at so many museums speaks of a renewed and optimistic inter...Read more