12January2012December 3, 2019
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Jeffrey Keith – Faculty Triennial 2012

Above: Jeffrey Keith, “Gone”, Oil on birch, 2011. Though influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, Jeffrey says he is more strongly drawn towards the figurative work of California painters. In the early 80s, Jeffrey transitioned towards a more abstract style himself, feeling that it provided a deeper level of expression. Color theory is central to Jeffrey Keith’s work. Experimentation earlier in his career with complicated color problems led to a simplification of his process. He did away with brushes and now works with assorted blades and scrapers, working off linen (or board in this case) set on low trestles. More and...

09January2012December 3, 2019
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Kevin Curry – Faculty Triennial 2012

Kevin Curry is an adjunct in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver and teaches classes in Sculpture, 3D Approaches and Concepts. He writes: “My work involves a mapping of sorts, a multidisciplinary collection of history and storytelling that reflects the looked-over, passed-over, hidden and forgotten parts of our culture and lives. The aesthetic codification of language and information are key elements as I chronicle the lost and discarded, the preserved and the relished.” He plays with reality by factoring the viewer’s distance into his pieces. Sometimes what appears ‘true’ from far away is not...

07January2012December 3, 2019
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Lawrence Argent – Faculty Triennial 2012

Above: pieces by Lawrence Argent It’s impossible to stroll around downtown Denver without bumping into the work of DU sculpture professor Lawrence Argent. After all, Argent is the artist behind Denver’s famous blue bear – properly titled I See What You Mean. On the DU campus, Argent’s Whispers celebrates the open pursuit of learning through lecture, debate, and dialogue. Based on 3D digital scans of the faces of several students in Argent’s classes, its over-sized limestone and bronze lips appear closed and mute. As one approaches the sculpture, however, voices of actual lectures and public events on campus emerge softly from concealed audio...

06January2012December 3, 2019
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Susan Meyer – Faculty Triennial 2012

  Susan Meyer is a lecturer in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver. Through complex sculptural installations, she creates fanciful habitats from materials, such as acrylic, steel rods, aluminum and wood. These environments, suggestive of architectural models, are inhabited by scale models of the human form, which are shown interacting with other figures or alone in an apparent state of boredom. By creating this laser-cut models based upon digital drawings, Meyer explores the themes of tensions between the communal ideal and individual concerns as well as the stress between nature and human constructions. She...

04January2012December 3, 2019
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Jessie Paige – Faculty Triennial 2012

Paige writes: As an artist, it is my compulsion to express what seizes my thoughts. I am concerned/consumed with the human condition: how we relate, how we live, and the beautiful complexities that are intrinsic to life. I make photographs to understand the world in which I live – both the internal and the external – and to find answers to questions all the while discovering more questions to ask. Recently, after having lived through an extended period of great personal loss, two children have delightfully entered into my life and I have been asking myself, “What is family? What...

02January2012December 3, 2019
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Lauren Mayer – Faculty Triennial 2012

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 newest work, she has been exploring the realtionship between furniture and the body. Mayer writes: “I am intrigued by the routines and habits that surround the things with which we live and how those routines are cerebrally and tactilely manifest in the real and made...