2016 Exhibitions

Fall 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Fall 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts ExhibitionDecember 2听- 17, 2016Artists featured: K.C. Gillaspie, Darla Pienciak, Parker D. Rush.

Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed Illustrations

Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed IllustrationsNovember 14, 2016 - June 24, 2017This exhibition was curated by students in the University of Colorado鈥檚 English course "Introduction to Media Theory in the Humanities". Over the course of the semester, students selected and researched prints from CU Art Museum鈥檚 collection, exploring print technology from the hand-press period, which began in 1450 with the invention of moveable type by Johannes Gutenberg and ended in the 1830s with the advent of me...

Fall 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition听November 5听- 17, 2016Artists featured:听Ariana Kolins, Emily Quinn, Roberta Restaino, Kim Shively.Ariana Kolins鈥 socially-engaged practice examines community exchange, emotional labor,听and representation. Through collecting mundane objects and enacting repetitive gestures, she records her experiences and questions the function of the archive, while advancing a convivial and laborious program. Emily Quinn鈥檚 large-scale paintings interiorizes the fragility of domestic spac...

Pioneers: Women Artists in 麻豆影院, 1898-1950

Pioneers: Women Artists in 麻豆影院, 1898-1950September 16, 2016 - February 4, 2017听This exhibition celebrates听the little-studied artistic contributions of women, who were the drivers of cultural life in the first听half of the twentieth century within Colorado, and听provides as an important case study听into the ways in which women contributed to the development of American art. Artists听include: Eve Drewelowe, Gwen Meux, Muriel Sibell听Wolle, and听Virginia True among others.听Curated by Kirk Ambrose, professor of a...

鈥婱ysterium Tremendum:听collecting curiosity

鈥婱ysterium Tremendum:听collecting curiosity.听A collaborative installation by Matt Barton and Scott Johnson.August 9 - December 17, 2016Mysterium Tremendum:听collecting curiosity听is inspired by the arrival of Shakespeare鈥檚 First Folio at CU-麻豆影院. The installation celebrates the important roles curiosity and wonder play in the pursuit of knowledge.听Mysterium Tremendum听presents听a 鈥渃abinet of curiosities鈥 that brings together materials from libraries, special collections, departments and research centers at CU...

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us ShakespeareAugust 9-31, 2016听First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, will be open to the public at the CU Art Museum August 9-31, 2016. The First Folio is the first complete collected edition of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. Compiled by two of Shakespeare鈥檚 fellow actors, it preserves 36 of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays. Without it, we would not have 18 of those plays, including Macbeth, Juliu...

Can You See Me Now?

ARTH 4919:听Can You See Me Now?July 25 - October 15, 2016By challenging stereotypes and confronting colonial histories the artists in this exhibition invite us to see the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples. In the works on view, they bring past events into the present, disrupting and augmenting histories of contact providing an alternate, Indigenous perspective. Jimmie Durham鈥檚 sculptural assemblage combines natural materials and found objects, reclaiming and connecting plastic and...

Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers

Ana Maria Hernando: We Have FlowersJune 24 - October 22, 2016This exhibition features new works in which Ana Maria Hernando contemplates the duality of the nocturnal life of flowers and their daytime existence. The exhibition expands upon Hernando鈥檚 repeated use of flower and circle imagery in her performances, poetry, drawings, collages, sculptures and large-scale installations.听During Hernando鈥檚 productive career, which spans more than 25 years, she has touched the lives of many people鈥攆rom the communitie...

Spring 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Gluten FreeApril 23 - May 7, 2016Artists featured: Jessica Akselrad, Emily Brent Bankston, Joy Bergeron, David Clay Bridges, Zoe Goldsmith, Anthony A. Kascak, Puttichai Kupadakvinij, Hanna Le, Katharine Lee Robbins, Daniel Louis Stolberg.

Spring 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Spring 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis ExhibitionApril 1 - 14, 2016"There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."鈥擶alter BenjaminTerry Campbell, Catherine Cartwright, Kellye Eisworth, Megan Gafford, Nicole Krou, Zak Loyd and Eric Stewart explore the rationale and irrationality of the current disquiet that pervades our time. In our postmodern, post-9/11, even post-human experience, the occurrence of crisis has become a break in the mundane, a way to mark time. Th...

Close Looking: details from our collection

Close Looking: details from our collectionPresented in the Theatre Gallery,听Liniger Building at听CU South DenverApril 5 - October 2, 2016听Presented as part of BMoCA at MackyJanuary 11 - February 29, 2016What makes a museum? For us at the CU Art Museum an important pillar is our collection of over 8,000 objects spanning human history. Each photograph in this exhibition is a highly magnified detail of an object听selected by a different member of our museum staff. These objects inspire us鈥攆rom small ancient coin...

Be Here Now: Conversations Between Objects

Be Here Now is the second exhibition in a series subtitled Conversations Between Objects, which provokes a dialogue between artworks that span different time periods and geographic locations.

Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into A Complex Racket

Janelle Iglesias is the CU Art Museum鈥檚 inaugural artist-in-residence鈥攁 program in which artists are invited to mine CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 creative and intellectual resources and collaborate with faculty and students to produce new artwork.

Life and Afterlife: Selections of Ancient Chinese Art from the King Collection

Life and Afterlife: Selections of Ancient Chinese Art From the King CollectionFebruary 12鈥揓une 25, 2016From elegant porcelain vessels enjoyed by the living to charming pottery statuettes created to serve the dead, this exhibition showcases artifacts dating to China鈥檚 prehistoric beginnings through its classic imperial dynasties. Gain insight into Chinese life as it evolved, as well as a better understanding of Chinese views of the afterlife.听听 听Curated by Virginia Bower, independent curator and adjunct asso...

Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan

Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo JapanOn view February 12 - June 28, 2016During the Edo period (1603鈥1868), the rhythm of the year included activities and events tied to the changing seasons. The Japanese expression shikioriori, or 鈥渟eason by season,鈥 describes these delicate changes in nature. This installation juxtaposes ukiyo-e prints鈥攍iterally 鈥淧ictures of the Floating World鈥濃 alongside selections from popular literature and comic poetry (senry奴), to show how people lived day to day, and s...