Summer 2013
CUT AND PASTE
June 13 – September 15, 2013
Contemporary collage art by
Jesse Ash
Tyler Beard
Alicia Ordal
Stas Orlovoski
Adam Parker Smith
Judy Pfaff
Jeff Raphael
Mario Zoots
Collage as a form of artistic expression dates back as far as images on paper could be cut out, reassembled, and affixed to a support. With the wide distribution of printed images in the 20th century, the technique was discovered as a way to reference and comment on modern life and current events. The ease with which images can be taken out of their original context to create a new statement has amused and inspired artists for generations. The Dadaists employed it to comment on the irrationality and horrors of war, while the Surrealists appreciated the ability to randomly arrange the cut up parts to facilitate new associations. With its overtones of opposition and political protest, the cut-up messiness of ransom notes became the preferred look to carry the do-it-yourself and no-future attitudes of the 1970s punk movement.
With the availability of computers, graphic programs, and the endless and immediate supply of images through the Internet, digital collage replaced the need to physically manipulate paper and ways of manipulation evolve in step with the development of new digital tools. But many artists today are rediscovering the physical aspects of printed source material. Appreciating texture and colors and the implied date and place of creation as an additional dimension, contemporary artists often identify sourcing these images as part of the creative process.
Cut & Paste at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art presents work ranging from paper collage to large-scale sculptural work and multi-media installations by Colorado-based, as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed artists.
Fall 2013
WOMEN, ART AND TECHNOLOGY
curated by Deanne Pytlinski, Ph.D., Metropolitan State University of Denver
for Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
October 3, 2013-January, 2014.
Women, Art and Technology critically examines the role of gender in technology through the lens of contemporary women artists. In the twenty-first century as digital media increasingly permeates every level of our lives, what is the relationship between gender and technology? Is our period one of utopian embrace of social networks, enabled by technology? What is the relationship of the body to technology? This exhibition continues an examination of gendered frameworks for technology and art in the 21st century, and will include art by women who engage in and ultimately challenge the uncritical celebration of utopian claims for benevolent globalized technologies.
The exhibition includes historically significant artists from the first generation of video art as well as emerging artists responding to the latest articulation of a widespread media consciousness. It focuses on artists who specifically subvert a masculinist bias in technology and science. The subversion may be through an overtly “feminized” technology or a critique of the forms of power supported by technology.
