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COVERING GROUND –
On View Through August 28, 2010
In conjunction with Denver’s Biennial of the
Americas, Robischon
Gallery presents “Covering Ground,” a group exhibition of photography
and video installation by eleven regional, national and international artists –
including photographic works by two artists featured in the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Denver’s “Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the
Landscape of Glorious Excess;” Washington, D.C. artist Jim Sanborn and
Guadalajara-based Gonzalo Lebrija. Also invited are New York artists
Jeanne Liotta, William Lamson and the collaborative duo Gibson +
Recoder presenting video installation works along with Italian
photographer Guido Guidi, English-born Richard Pare exhibiting small and
large-scale photography alongside Colorado artists Chuck Forsman,
Kevin O’Connell, Gary Emrich and Gary Huibregtse. “Covering
Ground” addresses humankind’s complex relationship to the land and
shared sky – propelled by the primary quest to harness and channel its
natural energy resources. From the topical to the timeless; from the big
science of the nuclear age to observations of the ways in which we set
foot or make our mark on the planet, the exhibition offers a view of the
ground already covered and territory yet-to-be-pursued.
LINDA FLEMING AND KATY STONE AT ROBISCHON GALLERY – On
View Through August 7, 2010
The upcoming exhibition at Robischon will feature
new work by two
acclaimed contemporary American sculptors, Linda Fleming and Katy
Stone. Linda Fleming rose to international prominence in the 1980’s with
her complicated geometrical forms that comment on the physical
substructure of modernity. Her most recent work has retained the same
formal complexity, while shifting toward an aesthetic of organic
curvilinearity, rather than angular geometry. Her exhibition at Robischon
Gallery will feature small maquettes to large scale sculptural works in steel,
chrome, wood, and felt. Fleming has an equally influential pedagogical
legacy, instructing at Maryland Instituted College of Art, San Francisco Art
Institute, and as the chair of the sculpture department at California College
of Art.
Katy Stone has been exhibiting extensively in the U.S. since the late 1990’s,
including solo exhibitions at the Boise Art Museum and the Missoula
Museum of Art. She apportions and refashions the visual lexicon of the
natural world into complex, often brightly colored, sculptural installations,
objects and collages. The artist regularly employs archival Durlar, painted in
her sculptures, which complicates her massive formal arrangements with a
sense of delicateness and ephemerality. The artist produces works in
painted steel and painted aluminum.
Robischon is pleased to host both artists for their first solo exhibitions at
RG. The exhibition will be on view through August 7, 2010
Pinhole Photographs by DAVID SHARPE – On view through
September, 2010
Robischon Gallery will be programming small exhibitions
in the lobby at
1755 Blake Street in the coming months. We are currently presenting
Colorado artist David Sharpe featuring the artist’s distinctive pinhole
photographs from his Colorado “Eastern Plains” suite and California coastal
series entitled “Above Big Sur” and “Point Lobos.” Widely-recognized and
critically respected for his large-scale pinhole images of the West, Sharpe’s
technical means of image-making utilizes handcrafted cameras made from
humble oatmeal boxes and utilitarian tea cans to create his ethereal worlds.
While the artist works in both color and black and white, Sharpe’s
enveloping style and refined sense of subject exhibited here in black and
white offer opportunities for poetic narratives and introspection within the
artist’s emblematic landscapes. At times like dreams, Sharpe’s unique one-
of-a-kind photographs locate viewers within panoramic, contemplative
worlds as a means of exploring aspects of place both familiar and in flux.
ANN HAMILTON Creates Project for Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
The extension of the hand’s reach and the voice’s
call are early and
primary extensions of the body into space. If the call—with its ability to hail,
summon, or bestow a name—is the origin of speech, then perhaps the
hand—raised to touch, or signal at a distance—is its silent counterpart.
These two gestures form a call and response that provide the structure for
stylus, a project created by Ann Hamilton for the Pulitzer Foundation for the
Arts. Conceived in response to the Pulitzer’s mission to be both sanctuary
and laboratory, the installation is structured around live acoustic elements
and will be punctuated by participatory workshops which will occur
throughout the project. Stylus runs through January 22, 2011. For more
information visit annhamilton.pulitzerarts.org.
GARY SWEENEY HUMOR AND PATHOS AT BMoCA -- Opening June
11, 2010 from 6:30 to 8pm
Robischon Gallery artist Gary Sweeny will present
his signature
conceptual works in a solo exhibition titled Humor
and Pathos. In addition,
Gary will be participating in an Artist Talk at the museum on Saturday, June
12, starting at 7pm.
ANA MARIA HERNANDO INCLUDED IN Liberadores/Liberators of the
Americas AT MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS - June 24, 2010
- September
26, 2010
Veteran Boulder based multimedia artist Ana Maria Hernando
will
exhibit two installation works in the exhibition produced by Museo
for the 1st
Biennial of the Americas. The exhibition, curated by Maruca Salazar,
explores “a common link for all the Americas is the legacy of Liberators, the
visionaries who dared challenge Old World paradigms in pursuit of a New
World.” The Liberators Project Exhibition will showcase artists from
Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.
JOHN MCENROE Bathers Acquired by Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has acquired a number
of pieces from
the work Bathers of Robischon Gallery artist John McEnroe. Spurred by the
enthusiastic response of the Denver community and building on its
commitment to expand its collection with new works, the DAM will acquire
six site-specific installations from its recent exhibition Embrace!. For the
exhibition, the Museum commissioned 17 artists to create large-scale
installations in its Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building.
Works by Lawrence Weiner, Matthew Brannon, Charles Sandison, John
McEnroe, Rupprecht Matthies, and Rick Dula, which resonated strongly with
Museum visitors, will become part of DAM’s permanent holdings. Embrace!,
organized by Denver Art Museum Director and former Curator of Modern
and Contemporary Art Christoph Heinrich, was conceived to create a
dynamic dialogue between art and the Hamilton Building’s unique
architectural elements and to break down traditional barriers between the
artist and museum visitor. The exhibition was on view at DAM from
November 14, 2009 through April 4, 2010.
John McEnroe’s sensual, organic forms of molded
and poured
synthetic matter come from his decade-long experimentation with the formal
possibilities of plastic media. McEnroe manipulates traditional painting
techniques and applies them innovatively to his sculptural work—often
blurring the line between the two. While process is crucial to his practice,
composition remains the primary unifying element: “It’s a painter’s question,
where to put things in space. What does it mean, what does it mean to
everyone else?”
MCA Denver Presents “Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the
Landscape of Glorious Excess”
Through Mid-October, 2010
“Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape
of Glorious
Excess” is a large-scale, multi-artist exhibition exploring the relationship
between energy and aesthetic power. Expanding the definition of energy,
MCA presents a variety of ways that examines our relationship to energy
of all kinds. Featuring Washington DC-based artist Jim Sanborn’s full-size
recreation of a working model of the first atom-splitting particle accelerator
and his video projection Cloud Chamber along with 21 other artists hailing
from multiple countries including Mexico and Argentina, as part of Denver’s
first Biennial of the Americas city-wide celebration. “Energy Effects”
encourages visitors to re-examine their complex assumptions about energy
use through a variety of innovative artworks.
REBECCA DiDOMENICO at MCA Denver
October 1, 2010 – January 9, 2010
Rebecca DiDomenico’s upcoming exhibition features
a gallery
transformed into a cave of DiDomenico’s own design, filled with 60,000
shimmering mica scales pressed with preserved butterfly wings and
colorful pieces of trash. For DiDomenico, the trash and the wings meet at
the junction of the ephemeral and physical worlds. The jewel-like butterflies
quite literally turn into dust when they are touched. But the plastic is
ubiquitous, unable to decompose, its abundance transforms it into a feature
of the natural world.
Rebecca DiDomenico was born in Greenbrae, California.
She lives and
works in Boulder, CO. Her work has been exhibited at the Boulder Museum
of Contemporary Art, the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, and the
Denver Art Museum, among others.
NEWS ARCHIVE 2010:
ROBISCHON GALLERY ANNEX
Robischon Gallery has expanded its exhibition space
to include the
galleries at 1732 Wazee St. formerly occupied by Metropolitan State College
Center for Visual Art. A range of works from Robischon Gallery artists are
currently installed, culled from the gallery’s comprehensive inventory of
contemporary painting, photography and sculpture. For more information
regarding rental of this dynamic events space or to arrange a viewing,
please contact the gallery at 303.298.7788.
ROBISCHON GALLERY ARTISTS in “Embrace!”
The Denver Art Museum’s current exhibition of site-specific
installation
artworks by leading contemporary artists is closing Sunday, April 4, 2010
The exhibition includes works by internationally celebrated artist Jessica
Stockholder and regionally renowned artist John McEnroe, both of
whom were featured in concurrent solo exhibitions at Robischon Gallery in
2009.
A focal point of “Embrace!” is the sprawling
installation Wide Eyes
Smeared Here, Dear by Jessica
Stockholder. An accomplished artist
who is the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale University (she
earned her MFA there in 1985), Stockholder has been presented in
numerous American and international venues from the DIA Foundation to
White Cube Gallery, London. Her iconoclastic sculptures and monoprint
series based on the artist’s 2009 NYC Madison Square Park installation,
Flooded Chambers Maid, were featured in her exhibition at Robischon
Gallery. Stockholder’s monotypes exhibit an ingenious use of printmaking
materials, photographic images, and found materials in a format that
resembles her assemblage sculptural works. Her signature aesthetic
pervades in the prints, exhibiting a veneer of insouciant informality atop
calculated and systemic formal arrangements. The artist employs a laser
cutter to create complex curvilinear interlocking forms that become a ground
for her playful use of applied material and sophisticated use of hyper-
saturated color. The work that Stockholder produced for “Embrace!” is an
excellent example of the artist’s renowned sculptural installations. Wide
Eyes Smeared Here complicates and reevaluates the public and
presentational spaces of Libeskind’s interior. Watch
the Art 21 feature on
Jessica Stockholder and her work.
“Embrace!” also features The Bathers,
a series of sculptural works by
Robischon Gallery artist John
McEnroe. The installation is a continuation
of the formal and aesthetic considerations well known from the artist’s
public project National Velvet, from 2008. In The Bathers, McEnroe
continues his use of nylon, sand, and castable polyester to create lyrical,
abstract sculptural compositions that reconsider a ground-reliant orientation
for the sculptural object, are ambiguously suggestive of the human form.
The series of works following The Bathers were featured at Robischon
Gallery which provided an interesting counterpoint to his chromatically
restrained works in “Embrace!.” A site-specific, partial installation of The
Bathers will open at Robischon Gallery Annex on May 13th, in conjunction
with solo exhibitions by Linda Fleming and Katy Stone at Robischon Gallery.
For more information on John McEnroe and The Bathers of “Embrace!,” read
the feature article in the Denver Post by Kyle
MacMillan published Nov. 11,
2009.
“Embrace!” highlights the work of national
and international artists
including: El Anatsui (Nigeria/Ghana), Kristin Baker (U.S.), Matthew Brannon
(U.S.), Rick Dula (U.S., Denver), Katharina Grosse (Germany), Christian
Hahn (Germany), Nicola López (U.S.), John McEnroe (U.S., Denver),
Rupprecht Matthies (Germany), Tobias Rehberger (Germany), Charles
Sandison (Finland/U.K.), Dasha Shishkin (U.S./Russia), Shinique Smith
(U.S.), Jessica Stockholder (U.S.), Timothy Weaver + eMAD (U.S., Denver),
Lawrence Weiner (U.S.) and Zhong Biao (China).
LandEscape
Join Robischon Gallery artist Karen Kitchel,
and other notable artists,
scholars and curators, including Jennifer Price of UCLA and Lisa
Hatchadoorian of the Nicolaysen Art Museum, for a panel discussion
exploring “Our Constructions of Nature.” LandEscape: A Symposium on
Nature Landscape and Painting traces various philosophies concerning our
ever-changing connection to nature and the landscape. July 23 and 24,
2010 at Nicolaysen Art Museum. For additional information, please contact:
Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming at www.thenic.org
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