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
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: Barnaby Furnas
Hey kids do you like violence? How about bloody carnage on canvas? Tonight head over to the MCA to view the visceral paintings of Barnaby Furnas, the 31 year old New York artist who creates mural sized battles between the figurative and abstract. Furnas' first major notoriety came for ecstatic battle scenes, gory and celebratory shootouts between variously exploding American civil war era icons, such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. His most recent paintings have done away with any human reference aside from that most vital fluid of life, blood. In these large-scale paintings, which often stretch the entirety of a room, and then some, and can take weeks' ju...Read more