Above: Lauren Mayer, “There is no room for me to rest in a thief” In much of Lauren’s work, she explores memory, trace, and metaphor through furniture, as can be seen in the piece for this year’s Triennial, “There is no room for me to rest in a thief,” a chair made of porcelain. In her...
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Mia Mulvey – Faculty Triennial 2012
Above: Mia Mulvey, Sylvae, 2012 Faculty Triennial Installation View Mia Mulvey received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Denver. Her ceramic sculptures are influenced by the intersection between art and science, its history, advancements, and tools, continually inspire her. Mulvey writes: While technique is not the...
Catherine Chauvin – Faculty Triennial 2012
Catherine Chauvin is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Denver, where she teaches printmaking and drawing. In recent years, her work has dealt with the Earth’s landscape – what people do to sculpt landscapes, their failure to return the landscape to its original state, and their...
Sarah Gjertson – Faculty Triennial 2012
Above: Sarah Gjertson, “Relics” Sarah Gjertson, Associate Professor in Studio Art in the School of Art and Art History, teaches studio art courses, as well as advanced seminars. A versatile artist, Gjertson works in a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, installation and works on paper. Through these many ways of expression, she seeks...
Deborah Howard – Faculty Triennial 2012
Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor of Drawing in addition to her position as the Head of the Painting Department at the University of Denver. Howard has made pieces covering a variety of subject matter, including series about the Dead Sea Scrolls, child Holocaust survivors and shoes. Despite the apparent visual variety displayed by her...
Roddy MacInnes: Faculty Triennial 2012
Roddy began using the camera on his i-phone to take pictures while working on a photography project in North Dakota. The project started when, many years ago, he picked up two old family albums belonging to a woman named Nina Weiste at an antiques mall in Wheatridge, CO. After years of looking at the places...