2008
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The Science Club / Erika Wanenmacher
September 26-December 27, 2008
Wanenmacher is widely recognized for her ongoing interest and intrigue in the conflict between nature and culture with a large body of her work derived from New Mexico’s atomic history. As a multi-media artist, Wanenmacher moves seamlessly between her contemporary use of audio and video to woodcarvings, hand-stitched quilts and the re-appropriation [...]
In and Out of Time / Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection
Background September 26-December 27, 2008 Exhibition curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum The exhibition In and Out of Time: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection will investigate the cultural, aesthetic, and social aspects of video art as an evolving and significant form of artistic production through selections from the [...]
About Us / Mark Addison, Curator
“About Us” is art about who we are and how we live.
This exhibit shows work “About Us” in a broad range of media. The art dates from the 1970s to now. There are well-known artists and not-so-well-known artists. They come from four continents and from Colorado.
Artists included in this exhibition are:
Laylah Ali
Ricky Armendariz
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The Look of Nowhere / Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson installation “The Look of Nowhere” investigates the way language can obscure what it tries to name, losing sight of what it means to convey. He states, “I believe words cast shadows and images are buckets, riddled with holes. This is to say there is a certain blindness inherent in the processes of naming [...]
Jezebel / Carla Gannis
Carla Gannis’s Jezebels rail at the mythology, history and stereotypes that have shaped and defined femininity within our collective unconsciousness for many generations. This archetype is not a single woman but a compilation of multidimensional characters playing in turn the nonconformist, social beauty, revolutionary, wanton sex goddess, victim and superhero. Using appropriated iconography from classic [...]
Ideology of Paradise / Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan and currently living in Los Angeles. His photographic series The “Ideology of Paradise” turns its lens to the richness of North Korea, a country that is self-described as paradise. His understanding of the country was colored by stories of the political kidnapping of Japanese nationals, the governmental abuse [...]
Versus / Susan Lee-Chun
Susan Lee-Chun was born in Seoul, Korea in 1976 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is a performance-based artist currently living in Miami, working in an interdisciplinary manner. BMoCA is featuring her “Versus” series, an integrated project including photographs, video, and installation, that investigates alter egos: Sue and Sioux. These characters represent two sides of [...]
A Taste of China / Wang Jing
BMoCA is happy to host guest curator Dr. David Raddock, who is an expert on China and one of the first scholars to publish on Chinese avant-garde art. With a doctorate in Chinese Studies and Political Science from Columbia University, David taught Asian Politics at the University of Texas and intermittently worked as Research Associate [...]
In Transition / Yumi Roth
Yumi Janairo Roth was born in Eugene, Oregon and raised in Chicago, Illinois and Reston, Virginia. One side of her family hails from the Philippines while the other side can be traced to the early American settlers, positioning Roth as both subject and agent of colonialism. Her work as an artist is not rooted separately [...]
