Engaging People: Eric and Heather ChanSchatz
Last Thursday at the MCA Denver, visual artists Eric and Heather ChanSchatz delivered a talk about their process. The talk was mediated by former Whitney museum curator David A. Ross, who during the audience question-and-answer session, determined that “Visual art in the 21st century is about how to engage people.” Engaging people is what Eric and Heather ChanSchatz are all about. Their collaborative art transcends the boundaries that often develop between the art world and, well, the rest of the world. In creating one of their ultra-lightfast silkscreen paintings, ChanSchatz will meet at length with different communities of people: their collabor...Read more
Art Opening: Looking For the Face I Had Before The World Was Made
Like six strangers locked in a room together, the work of six artists currently showing in the MCA Denver's exhibit: Looking For the Face I Had Before The World Was Made, attempt to find something in common to talk about. Approaching the conversation with disparate styles, and from differing locals and era's, the group is left to discuss their mutual choice of universalized subject matter - the unidentified human form. In their archetypal and often nondescript depictions of people and personalities, the six artists, William Stockman, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, A.G. Rizzoli, Sam Beckett, and Michaël Borremans, enter into a conversation hinged on generality in order to keep everyone eng...Read more
