Richard Barnes Artist Talk

Richard Barnes Artist Talk

6 PM October 23, 2019 Join us in Vicki Myhren Gallery in for an evening with Richard Barnes and Rupert Jenkins!   Richard Barnes is a New York-based photographer who has spent over two decades photographing archaeological digs and natural history museums-both institutions of knowledge that seek to preserve the past and mark immutable boundaries around natural truths. The lecture will be facilitated by Rupert Jenkins, former director of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver (2009 – 2015). Jenkin’s association with Barnes spans three decades and includes several projects at San Francisco Camerawork and also at Redline, Denver. Jenkins is...

April 10 – Performance by Karen Finley

As part of the exhibition “F*BOMB” on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, renowned artist Karen Finley will perform her work “Believe.” Similarly to the personal artistic lineages explored in “F*BOMB,” Finley’s performance engages with her own influences and mentors. The performance is free and open to the public. Free parking available in Lot L. The performance will be held at Reiman Theater (Room 113) in Margery Reed Hall at the University of Denver. 2306 E. Evans Ave.Denver, CO 80208 Karen Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Born in Chicago, she received...

April 11 – Karen Finley in Conversation

Join us for a conversation between renowned artist Karen Finley and DU’s own Dean Sobel. As part of the exhibition “F*BOMB” on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, Finley and Sobel will discuss personal artistic lineages, feminist and performance art, and the culture wars. The event is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available in Lot L. Karen Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance,...

May 9 – Performance by Calista Lyon, “The Unknown and the Unnamed”

The Unknown and the Unnamed https://www.calistalyon.com/theunknownandtheunnamed The Unknown and the Unnamed uses projected images, live narration, interviews, and field recordings to reckon with the violence of historical and contemporary settler power in Australia. The performance shares a collective experience of loss, extinction, and the consequences of human action on nonhuman and human lives via the endangered Crimson Spider Orchid (Caladenia concolor).  This ongoing, multi-year research project began with my introduction to an Australian orchid collection created by self-described “recluse” and amateur botanist, Phillip Branwhite, who lived in Lyon’s family’s farming community in Tallangatta Valley, Australia. Lyon use oral histories drawn...

April 16 – Lecture by Calista Lyon, Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography

Shwayder Art Building, Room 119 Please join the School of Art and Art History for a lecture by Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography Calista Lyon. Lyon’s lecture, Rituals of Re-Connection: Unlearning Colonial Legacy, will provide an overview of her practice. Calista Lyon https://www.calistalyon.com/ Calista Lyon is an Australian artist based between Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Using an expanded photographic practice, she creates installations, performances and community-engaged projects that investigate ecological and social breakdown in our time of colonial-capitalist modernity. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Sydney Museum, Sydney, Australia; La Trobe...