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8 Nature, wilderness, and landscape continue to be invested with an extraordinary significance pertaining to the American character and way of life. In her intimate paintings, Karen Kitchel lets us see and explore the wildness in our backyards and helps us focus on the human impact within the wild. That way wilderness, nature, and landscape are not separate from our lives. In her incredibly intricate paintings of the land, Karen Kitchel offers us a chance to truly see nature as it is, intertwined in our everyday existence, and charged with continual human use. In the three decades that Karen Kitchel has been painting landscape, she continues to wrestle with the natural, the authentic, and place as integral to her art. Her landscapes display and celebrate the various processes of invasive growth, change, and industry on the land. Additionally, she has subverted many of the visual customs that are so ingrained in traditional landscape such as a horizon line, overblown pictorial scale, timelessness, and a breathtaking view. Kitchel continually depicts the lack of horizon line, a diminutive scale, the human impact on land, as well as incorporating time and history, and nurturing a grandeur in the mundane, scraggly tufts of undergrowth. In visually turning our glance downward to what is under our feet, Kitchel never lets us forget that nature is developed and destroyed by our human activity and emotions. A Relative Condition: The Landscape Paintings of Karen Kitchel January 22- April 11, 2010 Full catalog produced by the NIC Kate Petley: The Spaces In Between January 22- April 11, 2010 Take-away brochure produced by the NIC Kate Petley emphatically states that she is not a painter. Though, on first glance, her panels, installations, and works on paper contain many painterly elements such as atmospheric color, reflection, drawn lines, and meaty brushstrokes. Her sculptural panels are entirely composed with different cut-out, collaged strips of film, photography, and more recently, graffiti elements that are layered within a thick coating of resin. Petley creates artwork that combines real and abstracted fragments from landscape, nature, and urban environments, utilizing a very time and labor-intensive technical process. Her artwork is concerned with perception, light and atmosphere—how we see and what emotions, memories, and states of being we attach to the environment surrounding us.
Allen True’s West May 1 - July 25, 2010 Public Programming 1. Lecture on Allen True by Alisa Zahller, Associate Curator,Colorado Historical Society 2. Lecture on 20 Years of Conserving Allen True’s Murals by Carmen Bria, Conservator, WCCFA Allen Tupper True (1881–1955) is regarded as Colorado’s premier native-born artist of the twentieth century. He viewed his favorite subjects—the American Indian and the West’s early settlers—as symbols of a proud though sometimes tragic history. True’s path followed three phases—illustrator, fine artist, and muralist. This exhibition explores all three, beginning with his earliest illustrations for books and magazines. True gained distinction as an illustrator between 1905 and 1915 when he studied under the master Howard Pyle and worked shoulder to shoulder with N. C. Wyeth. With the Taos artists from 1910 to 1917, True created easel paintings that earned him regional and national fame. He then distinguished himself as a muralist after World War I with works like the studies and large-scale mural on view here. His images decorated the walls of state capitols, libraries, schools, hospitals, businesses, and financial institutions in Colorado, Wyoming, and beyond. Allen True’s West presents the full range of True’s legacy. His talents were diverse, and his imagery evoked an entire era and a region’s multifaceted character. This exhibition was organized by the Denver Art Museum’s Petrie Institute of Western Art, Denver Public Library’s Western History and Genealogy Department and the Colorado Historical Society. A Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories May 1- September 12, 2010 This exhibition explores the cultural meanings of shoes, presenting imaginative and provocative objects of every size and craft medium. The exhibition will contain approximately 120 objects from over 100 artists from all over the U. S. plus Canada and Israel. The Perfect Fit explores the cultural meanings of shoes, presenting imaginative and provocative objects of every size and craft medium. This exhibition explores the shoe and its relation to art with work created since 2004. From the iconic images of Van Gogh’s well-worn muddied leather farmer’s boots to Andy Warhol’s glamorous, gem encrusted high heels, artists continue to designate the shoe as a symbol of station, power, and wealth. In this show, shoes express more than their role as footwear; they contain multiple meanings that speak to issues of gender, sexuality, race and class. This very contemporary exhibition that asks us to look at what shoes say about us, our values, institutions, preconceptions and civilization. This exhibition was organized by the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. 9
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