Ice Cube Gallery
3320 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
303-292-1822
Shows run: May 31st – June 22nd, 2013
Hours: Thursday and Saturday noon – 5 pm; Friday noon – 9 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 5 – 9 PM
 
Two Art Shows Opening May 31st, 2013.
Suchitra Mattai –“ The Freshness of Mourning”
And
Jerry Morris with De Lane Bredvik – “Pendent Tendencies Too”
 
image: Good Sense, acrylic and water color on paper, 24 x 28”
“The Freshness of Mourning” by Suchitra Mattai
 
“The Freshness of Mourning” explores themes of memory, loss and identity through images of waste and decay in our natural and built environments. Inspired in part by the poem “Man on a Dump” by Wallace Stevens, these works on paper and wood celebrate that which is decorative in the discarded and seek to re-appropriate the sightly in what is unsightly.
 
“Pendent Tendencies Too” by Jerry Morris and De Lane Bredvik
Art can use beauty to seduce and beguile, sometimes employing light flirtation, other times awe and passion to inspire thought and action. While installation artists have an infinite pallet to employ to achieve goals of societal subversion, our work and our quest for the sublime finds discipline through the productive art-making process that balances strong conceptual frameworks and a romantic love of materiality. Successfully compelling art may cause the suspension of preconceived expectations, and encourage new ideas and thinking. Jerry Morris and De Lane Bredvik share this passion and aspiration to realize work with potential to sway thinking about issues of our day that hang in the balance.

Ice Cube Gallery is pleased to announce: “Shhhhh” Featuring Julie Puma, Alexa Lutz, and Casey Colwell
Ice Cube Gallery 3320 Walnut Street Denver, CO 80205 303-292-1822 www.icecubegallery.com
Show runs June 28 – July 28, 2013 Opening Reception, 6/28 - 5 – 9 pm
Normal gallery hours: Thursdays noon – 5 pm Fridays noon – 9 pm, Saturdays noon – 5 pm
Julie Puma, Alexa Lutz, Casey Collwell:
“Shhhhh” is an exhibition exploring ideas of privacy, personal history and secrets. Julie Puma, faculty at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design will be displaying photography centering around the theme of dualities in pre-teenagers. Alexa Lutz a full time student in the fine arts department at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design will be presenting drawings based on the idea that nothing is private. She is exploring the history and privacy issues around the ownership of the social security number.
Casey Colwell, also a full time student in the fine arts department at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design is displaying mixed media narratives based on family history.

Electromagnetic Transformations
Linda Graham
Ice Cube Gallery 3320 Walnut St., Denver, CO 80205
June 27 - July 20, 2013
Gallery talk First Friday Gallery Hours
Friday, June 28, 7 PM July 5, 12-9 PM 12-5 PM Thursdays, Saturdays 12-9 PM Fridays
Ice Cube Gallery is pleased to present work in plexiglas with projections by local artist and new member Linda Graham in the exhibit Electromagnetic Transformations.
“Linda Graham’s work has shifted from a focus on sculptural clay work to new media installations that take on a host of materials from projection to Plexiglass. These media installations engage with concepts of the microcosm to the macrocosm, from cellular structure to interstellar elements,” Cortney Stell.
The pieces on display in Electromagnetic Transformations explore the fascinating properties of plexiglass when exposed to various light wave lengths. In Multiverse 3, a projection cast onto a bent sheet of yellow plexiglass creates the illusion of three dimensions and shows a change in the wave length when light travels across the curved surface. In Illusive Reality, the fluorescent edges are highlighted when exposed to ultraviolet light that can’t be seen until the wave length is reduced to the visible range when a photon is released. The almost transparent plexiglass panels reflect and transmit light to create a complexity of images. Membranes Collide plays with the nearly invisible panel of plexiglass viewed straight on but with enhanced visual interest in the glowing fluorescent edges.
The advancement of the technology of telescopes and measuring instruments, using different wave lengths to
highlight different objects, has led to an explosion of information about what the cosmos contains. They have
found methyl formate which gives raspberries their smell! And what I find in the work I have been making lately is
a representation of what I have been pondering: wormholes, multiverses, alternative realities.

Beverage Counselor with Bartender-in-Residence
Wednesday Nights
June–August
5–9PM
Denver’s top bartenders drop by to counsel campers on the art and craft of a tasty cocktail. Each beverage counselor will create signature drinks on the outdoor rooftop bar on Wednesday evenings from 5–9PM

MIXED TASTE SUMMER SERIES 2013: TAG TEAM LECTURES ON UNRELATED TOPICS
NEW SERIES BEGINS JUNE 2013 WITH TOPICS RANGING FROM ZOMBIES TO TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Now back at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
 
DENVER (May 14, 2013) – Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics returns once again to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) every Thursday from June 6 through August 29, 2013. This year’s lineup includes 12 weeks of intriguing topics ranging from Zombies & Raw Milk Cheese to Tyrannosaurus Rex & Lucha Libre, with new speakers as far-flung as local filmmaker Alexandre Philippe paired with goat farmer Julie Schondel to chief curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Dr. Scott Sampson paired with Mexican wrestler Delta Jr.
 
This year, Mixed Taste returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art, where lectures will take place in the Whole Room, with refreshing alcoholic (and nonalcoholic) beverages and tasty snacks.
 
As always, Mixed Taste rules remain the same. Mixed Taste’s unique format features two seemingly unrelated topics presented by two speakers; the first speaker speaks for 20 minutes, then the second speaker covers a separate topic for another 20 minutes. This is followed by a question-and-answer session on both topics, at the same time. During the first part of the program, speakers are not allowed to make connections between topics, whereas during the Q & A, anything can happen.
 
With 12 weeks of learning and entertainment, every Thursday evening is sure to be extraordinary.
 
COMPLETE 2013 MIXED TASTE SEASON
 
June 6 Zombies & Raw Milk Cheese
(Alexandre Philippe & Julie Schondel)
 
June 13 Honky Tonk & Paper Recordings
(Halden Wofford & Alexis Madrigal)
 
June 20 Comedic Opera & Vulcan Steel
(Central City Opera & Joe York)
 
June 27 Houdini & Déjà Vu
(Amazing Dave Elstun & Anne M. Cleary, PhD)
 
July 4 NATIONAL MIXED TASTE HOLIDAY
 
July 11 Sinkholes & Wormholes
(Jonathan White & Andrew Hamilton)
 
July 18 Draft Beer & Draft Urbanism
(Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford & Paul Andersen)
 
July 25 Fiscal Cliff & Cliff Diving
(Tracy Mott & Casa Bonita Cliff Divers)
 
August 1 YBAs & UFOs
(Nora Burnett Abrams & Bryan and Baxter)
 
August 8 Refrigeration & the Austrian Avant-Garde
(Nicola Twilley & Patrick Greaney)
 
August 15 Sandhill Cranes & Performance Enhancing Drugs
(Chris Pague & Annie Skinner)
 
August 22 Game Theory & Moonshine
(Jason Marden & Matthew Rowley)
 
August 29 Tyrannosaurus Rex & Lucha Libre
(Dr. Scott Sampson & Delta Jr.)
 
Times, Ticket Prices & Parking
 
Location:
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
1485 Delgany St.
Denver, CO 80202
 
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is located at 1485 Delgany St, at the corner of 15th and Delgany. Parking is available across 15th Street in the parking garage. Parking is $3 after 4PM and weekends (no validation needed). $6 two-hour parking validation is available at the front desk all other times. HEART Club members receive two-hour complimentary parking validation.
 
Reception: 5:30PM
Program: 6:30PM
 
Tickets $20 / $15 Members
Mixed Taste Members Only Season Pass $165
 
Tickets for the lectures are available for purchase at mcadenver.org or by calling 303 298 7554 x200.
 
Mixed Taste is sponsored in part by MCA Denver’s Director’s Vision Society Members and Colorado Creative Industries. We also thank the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.
 
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Eduardo Sarabia: Tainted, on view through June 9, 2013
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre, on view through June 26, 2013
Ladies Fancywork Society and MCA Denver’s Teen Council: Yarniverse!, on view through June 30, 2013
Critical Focus: Maya Gurantz, on view through June 23, 2013
 
ABOUT MCA DENVER
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) is a non-collecting institution acting as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange, and dialogue. In 2007, eleven years after its founding, the museum opened a new David Adjaye-designed building in Lower Downtown Denver. MCA Denver presents exhibitions featuring local, national and international artists, as well as offering ongoing public programs that explore the relationship between art and contemporary life. MCA Denver has a robust youth program, with a focus on teens. In 2009, The Lab at Belmar merged with MCA Denver.
 
MUSEUM LOCATION, HOURS AND TICKET PRICES
MCA Denver is located at 1485 Delgany on the corner of 15th Street and Delgany, in Denver, CO. The telephone number is 303 298 7554. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday NOON–9PM, and Saturday & Sunday 10AM–5PM. The museum is closed on Monday. General admission to the museum is $8 for adults, and $5 after 5PM. College (with student ID), senior (65+) and military are $5. MCA Denver offers $3 admission to teens (13–18), $1 admission to children ages 7–12, and FREE admission to children under the age of 6. Members always FREE.
 
Media Contact: For more information, interviews and images, please contact Sarah Baie at: sarahb@mcadenver.org or 303 298 7554 (ext 202)

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ANNOUNCES SUMMER CAMP WITH ADULT DRINKS AND LATE NIGHT SUMMER HOURS
 
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is open late on summer nights with new programs, special drinks and a whole weekend dedicated to introducing your parents to difficult ideas like conceptual art.
 
DENVER (Thursday, May 2, 2013)—The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) is thrilled to present SUMMER CAMP WITH ADULT DRINKS, a new season of late night programming in the museum’s beautiful rooftop garden and café. Every weeknight all summer long the museum’s galleries and café will be open until 9PM. Grown-up “campers” are invited to acquaint themselves with camp offerings during the Summer Camp Orientation Party on May 31, to visit MCA Denver’s Beverage Counselor with Bartender in Residence on Wednesday evenings, to clap along with Music Night with Super Friends Music Alliance on Friday evenings and to bring their folks to the museum for Parents Weekend on August 24 and 25. These evening programs will take place from June through August. Admission is FREE for museum members (resident campers) and just $5 for non-members (the pups).
 
“Summer time is simply the best time to enjoy MCA Denver’s roof top garden and café,” said Sarah Kate Baie, director of programming and chief of fictions, “We want grown-ups throughout the Denver area to combine the unbridled fun they associate with summer camp with the great exhibitions we have on display. And, of course, we hope their parents will join us on Parents Weekend to see what they have been up to all summer.”
 
Beginning on May 28, 2013, in conjunction with SUMMER CAMP, MCA Denver will extend its operating hours late into the evening so visitors can experience the museum, enjoy a cocktail and relax in the summer air. MCA Denver will be open Tuesday through Friday from NOON–9PM and Saturday and Sunday from 10AM–5PM.
MUSIC NIGHT with Super Friends Music Alliance
Fridays Nights
June–August
6–9PM
Denver musicians, who’ve never played together before, get together for rousing one-time musical performance. James Yardley, formerly of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, curates these improvised, unrehearsed arrangements.

MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER TO PRESENT FOUR NEW SOLO EXHIBITIONS THIS SUMMER IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE 2013 BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS
 
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver presents new exhibitions by artists Guillermo Kuitca, Tatiana Blass, John McEnroe and Gaspar Libedinsky in conjunction with the 2013 Biennial of the Americas, an international festival of art, culture and ideas.
 
GUILLERMO KUITCA: DIARIOS
JUNE 21–SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Members Preview | Friday, June 21 from 6–8PM
Public Celebration | Saturday, June 22 from 10AM–5PM
 
TATIANA BLASS: ELECTRICAL ROOM
JULY 16–SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
Members Reception | Wednesday, July 17 from NOON–5PM
Public Opening | Wednesday, July 17 from 5–2 AM
 
JOHN MCENROE
JULY 16–SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
Members Reception | Wednesday, July 17 from NOON–5PM
Public Opening | Wednesday, July 17 from 5–2 AM
 
GASPAR LIBEDINSKY: PRODUCTOS CASEROS
JULY 16–SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Members Reception | Wednesday, July 17 from NOON–5PM
Public Opening | Wednesday, July 17 from 5–2 AM
 
DENVER (Wednesday, May 8, 2013)—The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) presents the remarkable work of four artists from throughout the Americas with four solo exhibitions opening this summer. With these exhibitions, MCA Denver will serve as the lead cultural partner in the 2013 Biennial of the Americas, an international festival of art, culture and ideas, which kicks off with an inaugural forum on July 16, 2013 and runs through Labor Day. The Biennial will bring together leaders from politics, business, education and the arts in a cross-cultural experience of forums and exhibitions, celebrating the artistic, intellectual and political spheres of the Americas.
 
GUILLERMO KUITCA: DIARIOS
MCA Denver presents a new solo exhibition by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca. Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios features a series of drawings in which the artist stretched discarded canvases over a table from his parents’ garden. He then spent periods of time marking their surface with intentional and accidental doodles, drawings and notations. The Diarios, a name given to the works by the artist, are overtly personal, combining together phone numbers, titles of paintings, email addresses, blank spots where books sat, lists and collaged elements that record the ebb and flow of life. The canvases record all of the artist’s normal studio activity, resulting in a final work that is a hybrid of intentionality and chance. To complement the exhibition, a video of the most current Diario being made in Kuitca’s Buenos Aires-studio will be projected as part of the show.
 
Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios opens to the public on Saturday, June 22 with an all-day celebration. There will be activities relating to the exhibition throughout the museum and admission will be just 10¢. Diarios will be on view at MCA Denver in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Photography Gallery and the Chris & Lu Law Gallery from June 21 through September 15, 2013.
 
Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios is curated by Brett Littman and organized by The Drawing Center, New York. The exhibition and its accompanying publication are made possible in part by Bettina and Donald Bryant, Jr., Charles Van Campenhout and Risteard Keating, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Solita and Steven Mishaan, Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky and an anonymous donor. Guillermo Kuitca was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he continues to live and work.
 
TATIANA BLASS: ELECTRICAL ROOM
Brazilian artist Tatiana Blass will present new work opening during the inaugural week of the 2013 Biennial of the Americas. For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Blass will create a new, site-specific installation for MCA Denver. Titled Electrical Room, the installation will occupy both the Congdon Family Gallery and the Vicki & Kent Logan Promenade. Hundreds of cords and plugs will wind through the Congdon Family Gallery, creating a tangled web of material. The cords will all come together at a fixed point on one wall, penetrating the wall and seeming to provide power to a dense installation of audio-visual equipment in the adjacent gallery. Piled in a seemingly haphazard manner, the screens and monitors nonetheless feature video and sound in such a way that, collectively, all the elements compose a single narrative.
 
Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Tatiana Blass: Electrical Room will be presented in the Vicki & Kent Logan Promenade and the Congdon Family Gallery from July 16 through September 29, 2013. The exhibition is sponsored in part by MCA Denver Director‘s Vision Society members Nina & Min Sohn. Tatiana Blass was born in 1979 in São Paulo, Brazil, where she continues to live and work.
 
JOHN MCENROE
Denver-based artist John McEnroe presents a new, site-specific work for the Fries Family Atrium as well as an exhibition of sculpture and other works to be presented in the Mary Caulkins & Karl Kister Gallery and the Joseph Crescenti Family Gallery.
 
To create the sculpture, which will fill the Fries Family Atrium, McEnroe manipulates a polymer to resemble monumental drips of paint. Sheer and light, this large-scale installation will include stalactite forms that course through the open spaces of the museum. The installation will be complemented by other sculptural works in the Mary Caulkins and Karl Kister Gallery and the Joseph Crescenti Family Gallery.
 
Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, John McEnroe will be presented in the Fries Family Atrium, the Joseph Crescenti Family Gallery and the Mary Caulkins & Karl Kister Gallery from July 16 through September 29, 2013. John McEnroe was born in 1968 in Independence, Missouri. He lives in Golden, Colorado and works in Denver.
 
GASPAR LIBEDINSKY: PRODUCTOS CASEROS
Also in connection with the Biennial of the Americas, MCA Denver welcomes the first United States solo show of Argentinian artist and architect Gaspar Libedinsky.
 
Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Gaspar Libedinsky: Productos Caseros will be presented in the Whole Room from July 16 through September 15, 2013. Gaspar Libedinsky is also a curator for Draft Urbanism, the Biennial of the Americas’ 2013 exhibition. Gaspar Libedinsky was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Buenos Aires, London and New York.
 
MCA Denver will celebrate the openings of Tatiana Blass, Gaspar Libedinsky and John McEnroe on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 with a Members’ Artist Luncheon from 11:30AM–1:30PM and Members Preview from NOON–5PM. The public opening and celebration will take place from 5PM–2PM, with 10¢ admission.
 
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Eduardo Sarabia: Tainted, on view through June 9, 2013
Critical Focus: Maya Gurantz, on view through June 23, 2013
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre, on view through June 23, 2013
Ladies Fancywork Society & MCA Denver Teen Council: Yarniverse!, on view through June 30, 2013
 
ABOUT MCA DENVER
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) is a non-collecting institution acting as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange, and dialogue. In 2007, eleven years after its founding, the museum opened a new David Adjaye-designed building in Lower Downtown Denver. MCA Denver presents exhibitions featuring local, national and international artists, as well as offering ongoing public programs that explore the relationship between art and contemporary life. MCA Denver has a robust youth program, with a focus on teens. In 2009, The Lab at Belmar merged with MCA Denver.
 
MUSEUM LOCATION, HOURS AND TICKET PRICES
MCA Denver is located at 1485 Delgany on the corner of 15th Street and Delgany, in Denver, CO. The telephone number is 303 298 7554. Museum new summer hours are Tuesday through Friday NOON–9PM, and Saturday & Sunday 10AM–5PM. The museum is closed on Monday. General admission to the museum is $8 for adults, and $5 after 5PM. College (with student ID), senior (65+) and military are $5. MCA Denver offers $3 admission to teens (13– 18), $1 admission to children ages 7–12, and FREE admission to children 6 and under. Members always FREE.
 
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Media Contact: For more information, interviews and images, please contact sarahb@mcadenver.org or 303 298 7554 (x202).

GUILLERMO KUITCA: DIARIOS
MCA Denver presents a new solo exhibition by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca. Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios features a series of drawings in which the artist stretched discarded canvases over a table from his parents’ garden. He then spent periods of time marking their surface with intentional and accidental doodles, drawings and notations. The Diarios, a name given to the works by the artist, are overtly personal, combining together phone numbers, titles of paintings, email addresses, blank spots where books sat, lists and collaged elements that record the ebb and flow of life. The canvases record all of the artist’s normal studio activity, resulting in a final work that is a hybrid of intentionality and chance. To complement the exhibition, a video of the most current Diario being made in Kuitca’s Buenos Aires-studio will be projected as part of the show.
 
Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios opens to the public on Saturday, June 22 with an all-day celebration. There will be activities relating to the exhibition throughout the museum and admission will be just 10¢. Diarios will be on view at MCA Denver in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Photography Gallery and the Chris & Lu Law Gallery from June 21 through September 15, 2013.
 
Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios is curated by Brett Littman and organized by The Drawing Center, New York. The exhibition and its accompanying publication are made possible in part by Bettina and Donald Bryant, Jr., Charles Van Campenhout and Risteard Keating, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Solita and Steven Mishaan, Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky and an anonymous donor. Guillermo Kuitca was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he continues to live and work.