All in Review

We The People

We The People

Meca'Ayo Cole
Review

Nari Ward: We the People at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) features selected sculptures, multi-media works, and large-scale installations from the span of Jamaican-American artist Nari Ward’s career. The exhibit was curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, the Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and has previously shown at the New Museum in New York and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. We the People arrives in Denver as though planned to coincide with current Black Lives Matter events, immigration anxieties, and pandemic news

Flora

Flora

Livy Snyder
Review

The American-Swiss artist duo of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, usually referred to as Hubbard / Birchler, offer a dip into the archive with their recent exhibition Flora at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. While exploring the scholarship of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Hubbard / Birchler discovered much to their surprise the life and artwork of Denver-native Flora Mayo hidden within a small footnote. Previously labeled as one of Giacometti’s lovers, Hubbard / Birchler’s Flora aims to expand the lost work and curious history of Mayo in a reconstruction of narrative space and time.

Spirit Resonance

Spirit Resonance

Srishti Sankaranarayanan
Review

Guest curated by Sarah Magnatta, Spirit Resonance celebrates the medium of printmaking and features six artists who channel their energy to create poignant, primarily abstract works. The artists—Taiko Chandler, Catherine Chauvin, Marie-Dolma Chophel, Angela Craven, Jade Hoyer, and Sangeeta Reddy—use collagraphy, lithography, monotypes, and screenprinting to open up a personal conversation with viewers through evocations of nature, language, and the emotion of color, form, and design.

Dearly Disillusioned

Dearly Disillusioned

Mary Voelz Chandler
Review

Featuring work by four artist/curatorial groups—Birdseed Collective, Hardly Soft, Odessa, and Pink Progression—the aim of Dearly Disillusioned is to commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S. (although notably this is not the centennial for all women) and to expand on the Womxn’s March mission to end inequality and discrimination based on gender identity. Throughout the exhibition, the four segments draw upon societal and environmental concerns, championing shared power, celebrating the vote for women across the country, and the rule of law applicable to all people in equal measure.

Imprint and 528.0

Imprint and 528.0

Jillian Blackwell
Review

To celebrate Denver’s Month of Printmaking this March, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is the place to go if you want to see a dizzying assortment of prints. The two exhibitions on display, Imprint: Print Educators of Colorado and 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition, showcase works that demonstrate a plethora of printmaking techniques—many using a variety of materials outside of paper—and even include a few installation pieces. Everything from engraving, intaglio, and lithographs to screenprinting, woodcuts, and more are on display in these wide-ranging surveys.

Near in the Distance

Near in the Distance

Sara Sisun
Review

Near in the Distance, the annual resident artist exhibition at Redline, is the first show in the Afrofuturism series. It includes eighteen current resident artists and recent alumni who respond to the theme authentically and responsibly. Some artists use the prompt as an opportunity to explore the topic of possible futures more generally, while others choose to engage directly with issues of white privilege, gentrification, surveillance, and social justice.

Maybe Blue

Maybe Blue

Valeria Serrano Vélez
Review

Despite the sizable number of creative graduates who have called and continue to call Boulder, Colorado home, there is a notable lack of alternative spaces in the city where local artists and curators can show their work and experiment with new ideas. A new residential arts space called Maybe Blue is slowly changing this.