For our current exhibit, Learning to See Color, we had a special opportunity to collaborate with the Clyfford Still Museum. Our exhibit explores five questions concerning color – one of the most fundamental topics in the arts – and a primary interest to Clyfford Still himself. Among the characteristics that define Still’s paintings – dramatic textures, monumental scale, and jagged, vertical forms – the use of color is perhaps the aspect that contributes most substantially to the viewer’s experience. Still wrote tellingly about his use of color on several occasions. In spite of his extensive knowledge of color theory and the...

Friday, February 26, 2016, 10am – 12pm at Vicki Myhren Gallery To register for the symposium follow the below link and complete the form. We look forward to seeing you on the 26th! Register here In conjunction with Vicki Myhren Gallery’s Learning to See Color exhibition, a symposium at DU, co-sponsored by the Clyfford Still Museum, will feature distinguished guest speakers – artists, art historians, critics, and musicians – to explore the fasinating problems and challenges of the language of color. Moderated by Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, the panelists will address inquiries concerning color – one of the most...

Our new exhibit opens in just a week! In anticipation of the opening we are releasing the full list of artists on display in the exhibit. Charles Partridge Adams Josef Albers Bill Armstrong Milton Avery Madeline Bragg Jordan Casteel Enrique Chagoya Chen Wenling Andrew Clark Carmon Colangelo Renee Cox Nina Dietzel Arthur Garfield Dove Max Estenger J. Henry Fair Helen Motherwell Frankenthaler Terry Frost Tim Hahn Monroe Hodder Bayard Hollins John Hoppner Shawn Huckins Vance Hall Kirkland Ridgway Knight Rachel Lachowitz Marie Laurencin Cassandra Lillard Renluka Maharaj John Marin Thomas Monro Jenny Morgan Collin Parson Kate Petley Robert Rauschenberg Mario...

Please join us for an opening reception celebrating Learning to See Color. Opening reception: January 14, 5-7 pm This exhibition explores the underpinnings of color, with a particular emphasis on the shifting and elusive quality of the concept, in order to help the viewer see color in a richer and more complex way. Artworks drawn from the University Art Collections will be placed in dialog with works by regional and national contemporary artists. Selections from the University Art Collections’ pristine portfolio of color studies by Bauhaus master Josef Albers (Formations and Articulations) will provide a through-line, because this stunning collection of master...

Friday, February 26, 2016, 10am – 12pm at Vicki Myhren Gallery Register here. In conjunction with Vicki Myhren Gallery’s Learning to See Color exhibition, a symposium at DU, co-sponsored by the Clyfford Still Museum, will feature distinguished guest speakers – artists, art historians, critics, and musicians – to explore the fasinating problems and challenges of the language of color. Moderated by Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, the panelists will address inquiries concerning color – one of the most fundamental topics in the arts – and a primary interest to Clyfford Still himself.