Kate Emlen MFA’77 will be showcased in Precarious Magic, through April 7th. Her Greensboro, VT exhibition features her Vermont and costal Maine paintings, skillfully melting the natural light and dark forests and ocean together. As Emlen states: “When I’m working, I’m not thinking. I let the rhythms within take over. When I stand back from the painting I look for motion …
Jordan Casteel, ’14 MFA, Returning the Gaze
Denver Art Museum presents Returning the Gaze by Jordan Casteel MFA’14. Denver-born, Harlem-based, Jordan Casteel’s works explore the human element of city life. Casteel focuses on the individuals and the pieces of everyday life that tend to be unseen. Casteel’s process follows an interesting method, starting with photography around neighborhoods, and real contact with the individuals, which is then transformed into …
Theaters of Fiction
Lisa Kerezi MFA’00, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art, is currently featured in Theaters of Fiction, a multi-artist exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art. According to the museum, Theaters of Fiction presents work by seven contemporary artists who have utilized a variety of means and mediums to explore themes of illusion, escapism, and artificiality through the physical space of the …
Arcadia
Emma Webster MFA’18 presents Arcadia at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles starting in February. Her oil paintings depict scenes of wildlife and nature, in a whimsical, yet sometimes dark fashion. The wispy oil pieces were inspired from a recent residency in Aspen, Colorado at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. According to the gallery, The show’s title Arcadia alludes to recycled …
Tacet
Ari Benjamin Meyers, MFA graduate, premiers Tacet, an installation of performances, which lack the ‘fundamental’ characteristics of music, sound, and movement. It’s title, Tacet, refers to the Latin word tacere, a playing instruction in music which cues the instrumentalist to pause and remain silent during a marked interval. In this work, “the visitor enters a staged situation rather than an …
John Boak YC’70 | Paintings
March 1 — March 31, 2019 Opening, Friday March 8, 2019 808projects, 808 Santa Fe Drive in Denver John Boak will be showing oil paintings and photographic digital paintings during the month of March. Boak has been working with photography in his paintings for many years. His recent oil paintings explore the position of the photograph in our perception of …
Jordan Wolfson MFA’91 / Solo Show
Jordan Wolfson to Exhibit Painting-Cycle/Installation in Solo Show January 31 – February 24 2019 OPENING: Thursday, January 31 | 6-8pm 808 Projects. 808 Santa Fe Drive, Denver Award-winning artist, Jordan Wolfson, will be exhibiting his first solo show in Colorado since 2009 at 808 Projects in Denver. The exhibition will present an abridged version of his series, “Song Cycle with Blue Cloth”, an …
Invisible Structures
FRANCO ART PROJECT is opening Invisible Structures, an exhibition of the works of Janna Avner ’12 and Richelle Gribble. According to the gallery, “Invisible structures convey the unseen organizing forces of greater sociological and ecological changes occurring in daily life. The paintings, prints and drawings of Richelle Gribble and Janna Avner yield hidden, interconnected forms, mappings and underpaintings, which dissolve relationships of …
The Socrates Annual 2018
Antone Könst MFA’14 and Virginia Lee Montgomery MFA’16 are featured in the 2018 Socretes Annual, an annual event held in the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. Könst’s featured work is Free Peddler, a “reimagination of the age-old trope of the transient salesperson.” Montgomery’s featured work is Sword in the Sphinx, “a resin-cast copy of a popular garden sculpture of Madame de Pompadour, …
Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities.
Shikeith MFA’18 is featured as one of many artists in the August Wilson Center/African American Cultural Center’s Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities. Shikeith’s contribution is a series of photos named The Language Must Not Sweat. The exhibition continues through March in Pittsburgh.