2017 Exhibitions

Fall 2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition on view December 9听- 21.听Artists featured: Schuyler DeMarinis, Benjamin Stockman, Matthew Vivirito, Marie Williams.

ARGUSEUM: Curating the Controversial

ARGUSEUM: Curating the ControversialNovember 16, 2017鈥擣ebruary 3, 2018This exhibit was curated by Thora Brylowe鈥檚 First-Year Seminar students as part of her class "Saving the World: Museums, Collections, and Archives". Over the course of the semester students learned why and how people and institutions collect and display artifacts. For this exhibition, the class, under the guidance of the art museum staff, thought carefully about the concerns public museums face as they display objects of controversial ori...

Fall 2017 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition on view November 10 - 30.听Artists featured:听Joanna Bugajska,听Peter Cullum,听Michael Foster,听Jennifer Shenk, Matt Smith, Christin听Turner.

Faculty Exhibition: 2017

Faculty Exhibition: 2017August 17鈥 December 23, 2017Opening reception 5鈥7 p.m. Thursday, September 7, 2017Faculty Exhibition: 2017 celebrates the creative work of faculty at the 麻豆影院 whose scholarship and teaching is grounded in an art-making practice. CU Art Museum brings together works by faculty from across campus to showcase the collective creativity of CU faculty artists for campus and community audiences. Ceramics, film, multimedia and sculptural installations, painting, phot...

Elemental Forms

Elemental FormsJuly 15, 2017鈥揗ay 12, 2018Minimalism, Conceptualism and geometric abstraction prevail in听Elemental Forms. Works by midcentury Modernists Annie and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer and Ellsworth Kelly are combined with those of later Minimal and Conceptual artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt and Frank Stella. LeWitt鈥檚 early structure,听3 Part Set D听(1966鈥69) offers a turning point for the exhibition, foregrounding the artistic exploration of systems and concepts that do...

Spring 2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Artists featured: Linsey Dodaro, Jamie Jaye Fletcher, Beth Fonseca, Adeline Jadot, Shir Kampeas, Drew Mathisen, Truitt Parrish, Logan Reynolds, Jadrian Ueji, Eva Weinberg, Natasha Zoghlin.听

Spring 2017 Master of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition

Artists featured: Erica Day, John DeFeo, Corrina Espinosa, Ben McQuillan, Carissa Samaniego, Adam Sekuler, Britland Tracy, Lilly Zuckerman.听

Home: American photography at the CU Art Museum

Home: American photography at the CU Art MuseumMarch 2 - July 15, 2017Is home 鈥渨here the heart is鈥? Is it a building, a landscape or a state of mind? Drawn from the photography collection of the CU Art Museum, Home investigates how American photographers working from the late 1800s to today have engaged with these questions. Through a presentation of landscapes, family photos and candid portraits visitors are invited to consider central themes of the exhibition, including environment, nostalgia and family.W...

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly WomenFebruary 2 - June 24, 2017Raucous physical humor and over-the-top visual comedy are foregrounded in this exhibition of British caricatures and satires made in the late 1700s. Bawdy humor was frequently deployed in popular images to deprecate the political follies and social foibles of royals, politicians, entertainers and men and women of fashion. This form of humor was especially cutting when used to critique the behavior of accomplished women whose growing prominence a...