13December2011December 3, 2019
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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 and faces in the old photographs from 1917, Roddy  began to feel a connection to what he saw and decided to travel to North Dakota looking for ways to further develop a response project to Nina and her pictures. “Cell Phone Landscapes #s 1, 2...

12December2011December 3, 2019
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Mindy Bray – Faculty Triennial 2012

Mindy Bray is an adjunct in that School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver, currently teaching 2D Foundations. As a visual artist, Bray creates visual fields engineered to challenge the way the brain tries to categorize information. The reason for causing the viewer to enter a state of mental struggle stems from the idea that she wants to “leave the mind in a state of suspension between recognition and non-recognition,” says Bray. To assemble these works, the process mirrors that of the brain as it decodes the visual significance of the images. By forming a system...

New York Diary
07December2011December 3, 2019
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New York Diary

Senior Gallery Assistant and Grad student extraordinaire Anna Estes reflects on the fall Curatorial Practicum trip to NYC… This October, the Curatorial Practicum class at DU, taught by Dan Jacobs, took a field trip to New York City. It was an art-tastic weekend, full of studio visits, galleries tours, and museums. For many of the students, it was also their first trip to the city; as for those of us who had been before, the trip was a new way to experience New York. It was exciting to meet artists, see their studios, and also see some of the greatest...

02December2011December 3, 2019
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Faculty Triennial

Say what you will about the shoulders of giants, behind every great DU art student is an outstanding faculty member. Continuing the efforts of the Myhren Gallery both to document and to stimulate Colorado’s art history, we are pleased to feature the incredible and diverse talents found at the head of each and every class here in the School of Art and Art History. The Myhren Gallery presents a sampling of current work by all the faculty of the School of Art & Art History. The Faculty Triennial exposes aspects of the rich dialogs in contemporary art. Themes such as the art/science interface,...

Practicum Dikeou Collaboration
02December2011December 3, 2019
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Practicum Dikeou Collaboration

This fall, DU’s Curatorial Practicum class had the exciting opportunity to work with local artist, publisher and collector Devon Dikeou. An innovative conceptual artist, Dikeou has been active in both the Denver and New York contemporary art scenes for years. Practicum students collaborated with artists Nils Folke Anderson, Lucky DeBellevue, and Dikeou herself to facilitate three installations at the Dikeou Collection. In mid-October, the Curatorial Practicum ventured to New York City. On top of  a day spent in studio with Folke Anderson, DeBellevue and Dikeou, highlights included a visit to rural Pennsylvania’s West Collection, a tour of one of Grey Advertising, and...

06September2011December 3, 2019
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Changing Landscapes

The eighth in a continuing series of Student Curatorial Projects features nineteenth-century French and American paintings and prints from the University of Denver Art Collections, supplemented by loans from private collections. A coordinated display of several related paintings and drawings takes place at the Denver Art Museum. Changing Landscapes features a little-known work by Camille Corot, a late Albert Bierstadt landscape donated in 1890 by the artist, and a George Inness canvas from a private collection. The rising regard for landscape painting in the late 19th century was associated with a deep curiosity for simple country living, seen as an...