Past Exhibitions

Yumi Janairo Roth

In Transition

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. More...

Wang Jing

A Taste of China - guest curated by Dr. David Raddock

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 at Columbia's East Asian Institute. More...

Susan Lee-Chun

Versus

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. More...

Hiroshi Watanabe

Ideology of Paradise

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. More...

Weather Report: Art & Climate Change

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SEPTEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 21, 2007 -- "Weather Report: Art and Climate Change" is an exhibition curated by internationally renowned critic, art historian, and writer Lucy R. More...

Mary Ehrin

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 -- Ehrin found inspiration for her art in her early experience with the fashion industry. Her new large-scale paintings of the landscape, both natural and artificial, present sensual surfaces which invite an examination of our relationship to the physical environment. More...

Alan Feltus

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2007-- Feltus' work is inspired by medieval art, the Renaissance, and surrealiism He counts as some of his strongest influences Giotto, de Chirico, and Balthus. His formal paintings take the viewer into a tantalizing visual narrative where gesture, gaze, and object express volumes of inscrutable emotion. More...

Lani Irwin

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 -- Following a trip to Assisi, Italy in 1977, Irwin began to focus her art along the themes of early Italian painting, such as surface pattern and the intricate spatial relationships inherent to Renaissance frescoes. More...

David Zimmer

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 -- Installation artist David Zimmer exhibits a new series of his intriguing sculptures that manage to be simultaneously retro and futuristic. This new work combines a Victorian sensibility with post-modern technology. More...

Halim Al-Karim

Passage to Sumer

Born in Najaf, Iraq Halim Al-Karim is a refugee living in Amsterdam. His work reflects the notion that our existence is not our destiny. Al-Karim's art is not an example of the brutality he has survived but the outward representation of the sublime dreams of his own inner world. More...

Kris Cox

New Work

Colorado artist Kris Cox will exhibit a body of abstract paintings exploring the symbolic notions of time. Produced as a combination of calculated, objective measures Cox also investigates the potency of materials such as putty and asphalt. More...

Christopher Morris

My America

Over the past 20 years photojournalist Christopher Morris has concentrated the greater part of his work on war, having documented more than 18 foreign conflicts. In 2000 Morris started producing a series of work, "My America," while covering the first and second administrations of President George W. More...

DJRABBI

Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)

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. More...

Jimi Billingsley

Transit Glyphs

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. More...

Univeristy of Colorado College of Architecture

Symbiote Design

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. More...

Terry Maker

Revival

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. More...

Woodcut Prints from Shark's Ink

Out of the Woods

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. More...

Ligia Bouton

hybrids

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. More...

James Surls

A Cut Above

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. More...

Rebecca DiDomenico

Mica Chamber

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. More...

Tracy Krumm

New Work

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. More...

Emmi Whitehorse

Language Imagined

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. More...

Patricia Bramsen

Accomplices

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. More...

Virginia Maitland

Risky Places

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. More...

John Matlack

Maps

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. More...

Martha Russo

hold

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. More...

Carson Fox

Louche

SEPTEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 31, 2005 -- American artist Carson Fox originates from the hometown of William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi and currently resides in Trenton, New Jersey. Fox's work is produced from a heritage of American Southern gothic and folk art tradition, which relies heavily on the imprint that individual experience has on the artist. More...

Ana Maria Hernando

Sueno con Despertarme

SEPTEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 31, 2005 -- Ana Maria Hernando was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado. The work in this exhibition, on canvas, paper and cloth, is the culmination of many years exploring the theme of flowers. More...

Tsehai Johnson

Fields

SEPTEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 31, 2005 -- This July has been a busy month for Denver-based artist Tsehai Johnson. Along with finishing a new exhibition, Fields, for BMoCA, Johnson was put into the political hot seat for a body of work loosely based on sex toys produced in 2000. More...

Alfredo De La Rosa

Biography: Aging and the Grammar of Death

JUNE 24 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2005 -- This exhibit is a conceptual installation of 128 digital images about aging, but also dealing with the effects of cultural memory on personal memory. To achieve this he graphically tackles such issues as gender and sexual politics, race, and religion. More...

Casey McGlynn

Have you seen this person?

JUNE 24 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2005 -- Originally from Canada and now residing in Brooklyn, McGlynn's Have You Seen this Person is an autobiographical exploration of the personal in contemporary culture. McGlynn describes the process of creating these works as an unmasking, and the works themselves as having emerged from an extremely difficult time in his life. More...

Shinique Smith

FULL-ON!

JUNE 24 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2005 -- Inspired by gestures of wrapping and marking and the resourcefulness of urban dwellers to create imaginative worlds from leftover materials found on the street, New York based artist Shinique Smith's installations bridge the boundaries between painting and sculpture. More...

John Buck

Prints & Sculpture, 1980 - 2005

APRIL 1 - JUNE 11, 2005 -- John Buck is both sculptor and printmaker. Buck explores the expressive possibilities of woodblock printing through innovative techniques and provocative imagery inspired by the daily news, his own sculptures and nature. More...

Kristin Imig

Photographs: A 5 Year Survey

APRIL 1 - JUNE 11, 2005 -- In this body of work, done over the past 5 years, Imig bridges the gap between documentary photography and portraiture. Taken in New York, Paris, India, and Africa, these black and white photographs capture specific moments in time, reflect cultural politics of place, and provide revelatory insights into the human condition. More...

Jen Lewin

Unfolding

APRIL 1 - JUNE 11, 2005 -- Interactive sculptor Jen Lewin focuses on the dynamic relationships between the digital and physical worlds. As computer technology advances, Lewin stretches the boundaries of these relationships through live video processing, LED technology and MIDI sound. More...

Kim Turos

Mirage

APRIL 1 - JUNE 11, 2005 -- Landscape and installation artist Kim Turos' current work involves a process of combining elements collected from contrasting ecosystems with remnants from the urban infrastructure and sculpted objects made from natural as well as synthetic substances. More...

Hank Brusselback

The Man of the Year

JANUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2005 -- This exhibition is a sequel to Brusselback's Crying Presidents, the series of expressionist paintings and sculptures that suggest the possibility of change and compassion in the hearts of powerful wartime leaders. More...

Frances Charteris

Dear Ling,

JANUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2005 -- Frances Charteris is a visual artist currently residing in Boulder , Colorado . Reflecting an inter-cultural and eclectic background, she works in various media. As a result of traveling widely, she is preoccupied with roots, family, and community, and the shifting ground of identity. More...

DRAWING SHOW

THE DRAWING SHOW

JANUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2005 -- BMoCA's latest submission-based exhibit features work that represents both traditional and non-traditional approaches to drawing. The Drawing Show was curated in mid-January from actual work by guest curators Michael Chavez and Bill Amundson. More...

Urban Hamid

51 Days in Baghdad

SEPTEMBER 10 - JANUARY 16, 2005 -- Urban Hamid is an independent videographer, photographer and international journalist who recently returned from Iraq . Hamid's photos depict his own first-hand experiences of the war and the aftermath. More...

Todd Siler

a.r.t. strings

SEPTEMBER 10 - JANUARY 16, 2005 -- The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in partnership of The Museum of Outdoor Arts, will premiere a new body of work by Denver artist Todd Siler. More...

Chris Tanner

Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar

SEPTEMBER 10 - JANUARY 16, 2005 -- East Village-based artist Christopher Tanner says he has always been enchanted by fairy tales, particularly the Wizard of Oz, which he connects with his memory of seeing Judy Garland drunk on TV in a sequined dress. More...

Encounters/Encuentros

Encounters/Encuentros

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 31, 2004 --
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Phyllis Bramson

When the Body Speaks Its Mind

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 31, 2004 -- Phyllis Bramson's unique collage paintings are meditations about pleasure, trauma and the difficulty of being. Her world is a utopia in which creatures ? not only men and women, but also black rabbits, big naughty cats, snowmen, clowns and Asian ladies in winter parkas all live and play together in some dreamy pink paradise sprinkled with magic glitter. More...

Hank Brusselback

Crying Presidents

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 31, 2004 -- Please see Hank Brusselback's website for more information and pictures.
www.bufflecake.com
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Kyoung Ae Cho

FIBER ARTS 2004

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- The beauty that Kyoung Ae Cho's work attains is a source of considerable pleasure as well as a locus of attention promoting a feeling of centeredness in the viewer ? an experience that continues to be desired by many though it is increasingly rare in a culture spinning with information and spectacle. More...

Lia Cook

FIBER ARTS 2004

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Lia Cook is currently Professor of Art at California College of Arts and Crafts and Chair of the Textile Department. She works in a variety of media; usually combining weaving and painting, photography and digital technology. More...

Virginia Davis

FIBER ARTS 2004

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Virginia Davis works with ikat weaving and other resist techniques, both as an internationally exhibited studio artist and from technical, historical, and ethnographic perspectives. Her awards include a Fulbright to India and several individual Visual Artist grants from the NEA (including a residence at the Cite International des Artes, Paris ) and the New York State Council for the Arts. More...

Ann Hall Richards

10 Meditations

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Ann Hall Richards is a full time studio artist residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota . She has been using techniques of papermaking and hand weaving to create sculptural vessels and wall constructions for the last 15 years. More...

Sue Hammond West

FIBER ARTS 2004

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Sue Hammond West is a painter and mixed media artist with a hunger for experimentation. She combines art making with the energy of Buddhism and Yoga philosophy. More...

Jen Lewin

Interactive Installation

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Interactive sculpture artist Jen Lewin's Ribs contain virtual strings made of light that retain and magnify the same tactile principles of real strings. Principals of velocity, MIDI technology and human interaction combine to create a variety of sounds. More...

Leah Bradley

MILASH RESTROSPECTIVE

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- When I begin a new painting, I often spend hours arranging the simple household objects, moving them a fraction of an inch closer to or farther from one another. More...

Buff Elting

MILASH RESTROSPECTIVE

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Recent and upcoming exhibits of Elting's work include William Havu Gallery, Denver; Lydon Fine Art, Chicago; The Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. More...

Claire Evans

2004 Milash Award Winner

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Claire Evans moved to Boulder in 1954. She moved into a studio in downtown Boulder and began painting portraits. Contacts with galleries and art consultants followed, and the studio gradually evolved into what is now called Art/Work/Space, shared by seventeen artists working independently.

The paintings, mostly oils, have gone from rather stark construction sites in the seventies to sunlit window sill still lifes in the eighties. More...

Ernest Porps

MILASH RESTROSPECTIVE

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Ernest Porps is a native of Chicago , IL . His education includes a Bachelor and Masters degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois ( Urbana ) and a Masters degree in Fine Arts (painting) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. More...

Robert Spellman

MILASH RESTROSPECTIVE

JUNE 4 - AUGUST 16, 2004 -- Since 1993 Spellman has been teaching painting, drawing and watercolor both privately and at Naropa University in Boulder , Colorado , where he is currently chairman of the visual arts
department. More...

Nicholas Hondrogen

Natural Selection

MARCH 12 - MAY 16, 2004 -- Nicholas Hondrogen's Natural Selection is an ongoing series of paintings that explore elements of chance, randomness and causality. The paintings use neuroimaging technology to formulate a visual language that creates interior portraits of the mind. More...

Kim Turos

Concept Drawings

MARCH 12 - MAY 16, 2004 -- Collective and personal memory are at the heart of the work of Kim Turos, whose former career as a landscape architect and marriage to the physicist John Gilleland have led her to focus on the increasingly delicate symbiosis of nature and society. More...

Charles Wooldridge

Paradigm and Paradox

MARCH 12 - MAY 16, 2004 -- The simplicity of Charles Wooldridge's installations belies the complexity of the message. Nothing is perceived fully in any space in time. His boxes are an example of how things can be opposites in formation and design but be the same in a sense of agreement. More...