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
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.

Artist Karen Kilimnik reimagines the world of ballet and theatre through paintings, collages and set designs.
 
DENVER (Thursday, January 17, 2013) – The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) presents a solo exhibition of acclaimed American artist Karen Kilimnik. Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre continues Kilimnik’s longstanding fascination with classical and romantic story ballets and historical theatre. Dance Rehearsal will be on view at MCA Denver from March 2, 2013 through June 16, 2013.
 
Featuring over 30 works from the late-1980s to the present, Dance Rehearsal features Kilimnik’s many diverse styles and mediums – from figurative drawing to mixed media installations, collage, photography, and video, as well as more recent forays into set design and choreography. Throughout Kilimnik’s career she has reinterpreted sources ranging from fairy tales, mysteries, books, TV shows and ballets. The exhibition highlights her longstanding engagement with both Old Master paintings and the ballets of the 17th and early 19th-centuries. Her works reimagine historical figures and suggest parallels to contemporary pop culture.
 
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre is organized by the Mills College Art Museum and supported by the Joan Danforth Art Museum Endowment. The exhibition is curated by Melissa E. Feldman.
 
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre opens to the public Saturday, March 2 with an all-day celebration coinciding with the museum’s monthly Penny Saturday event. On the first Saturday of every month, admission to the museum is just 1¢. There will be activities celebrating the exhibition throughout the museum.
 
Also this season, Denver artist Tyler Beard will present a new body of collaged sculptures and paintings in the Whole Room. Playing with color relationships, geometric forms, and incongruous content, Beard offers a pared-down visual vocabulary that is both quirky and sophisticated. The exhibition runs February 8 through April 7, 2013.