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 PathosIn 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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