2006
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Revival / Terry Maker
NOVEMBER 3, 2006 – JANUARY 27, 2007 – One of Colorado’s most innovative artists will exhibit a new body of work that is an attempt to wrestle with faith, the supernatural and its inevitable intersection with our daily lives. The aim of the work is to articulate the symbolism, power and mystery of the journey [...]
Symbiote Design / University of Colorado College of Architecture
The museum is pleased to be exhibiting a select group of student work from the University of Colorado, Boulder, College of Architecture. Rick Sommerfeld, Senior Instructor for the CU Architecture Department has curated a sampling of the most innovative pieces produced in 2006. The aim of this exhibit is to explore furniture design in a [...]
Transit Glyphs / Jimi Billinsley
NOVEMBER 3, 2006 – JANUARY 27, 2007 – New York artist Jimi Billingsley’s photographic series “Transit Glyphs” contextualizes window graffiti on the elevated train lines of Brooklyn and Queens. Photographing through scratched, etched and marked subway windows, he captures the beauty of the urban landscape, ultimately merging place and meaning.
Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) / DJRABBI
NOVEMBER 3, 2006 – JANUARY 27, 2007 – “Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)” a ten-minute DVD art-loop uses source material from the writing, images, recordings, and other psychogeographical wanderings of arch-Situationist and French philosopher Guy Debord. The art work is composed by members of DJRABBI, a digital art collective of political activists, and [...]
A Cut Above / James Surls
AUGUST 11 – OCTOBER 14, 2006 — James Surls is an internationally recognized artist, formerly from Texas, who lives and works in Colorado. He creates sculptures in wood and metal, as well as drawings and prints, using abstract figurative imagery derived in part from primitive mythologies of the American Southwest. His works have been shown [...]
Hybrids / Ligia Bouton
AUGUST 11 – OCTOBER 14, 2006 — Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ligia Bouton’s video based works emphasize performance. Within the medium of performance Bouton reenacts simple ideas such as, body language, personal space, everyday tasks and makes a parody from their repetitive nature. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country and recently, was [...]
Out of the Woods / Woodcut Prints from Shark's Ink
AUGUST 11 – OCTOBER 14, 2006 — This exhibition features a select group of exquisite woodcut prints by such notable artists as, Betty Woodman, Red Grooms, John Buck, Hiroki Morinoue, Roy De Forest, and others. All works were created at Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Colorado in collaboration with Master Printer, Bud Shark.
Shark’s Ink is a [...]
Language Imagined / Emmi Whitehorse
MAY 12 – JULY 29, 2006 — Born and raised on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico, Emmi Whitehorse, in her abstract paintings, elegantly fuses the physical and metaphysical, natural and cultural, modern and traditional. Trained in the techniques of modern painting, she consistently and effortlessly infuses each piece in subject matter drawn from [...]
New Work / Tracy Krumm
MAY 12 – JULY 29, 2006 — Tracy Krumm’s work is composed using the exploration of traditional trades of both men and women. Questioning gender-specific techniques of crochet and blacksmithing, Krumm integrates these processes using heavy industrial metal that supports net made of minute lace pattern. The lyrical balance of organic shapes, forms and layers [...]
Mica Chamber / Rebecca DiDomenico
MAY 12 – JULY 29, 2006 — Mica Chamber, Rebecca DiDomenico’s site-specific installation is made up of more than 10,000 rectangles of mica, covering 10,000 black and white images representing a variety of life, from personal to universal, from particular to general. The chamber represents the visual strata of life, a unique cross-section of an [...]
Hold / Martha Russo
JANUARY 13 – APRIL 15, 2006 — Sculptor, ceramicist Martha Russo pushes the boundaries of her medium. Molding paper-thin ceramic forms and putting them in awkward and unnatural positions, makes the viewer understand fragility in the purest sense. Russo’s installation “Nomos” that will be displayed at the museum is made from thousands of organically shaped [...]
Maps / John Matlack
JANUARY 13 – APRIL 15, 2006 — “These paintings and monotype/drawings are made up of layers that are built up, scraped off, and crisscrossed into sliding planes of color. They refer to aerial landscape patterns and tectonic geologic strata, as well as rural industrialism, industrial tourism, the power grid, and a certain latent spirituality. They [...]
Risky Places / Virginia Maitland
JANUARY 13 – APRIL 15, 2006 — Since the age of twelve, Virginia Maitland has never wavered from the life of a full-time painter. She was educated in the 1960s at the distinguished Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and moved to Boulder in 1970. In 1979 she lived and painted in a loft in [...]
Accomplices / Patricia Bramsen
JANUARY 13 – APRIL 15, 2006 — A veteran of the Boulder community art scene, Patricia Bramsen’s new works will astound viewers old and new with her dedication to perfecting her artistic hand and voice. Her narrative paintings portray women in vignettes originating from the artist’s own subconscious, giving viewers the power to create interpretations. [...]
