EXHIBITION
Set course for Denver, Colorado!
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY JONAS CUÉNIN
The month of April this year is chock-full of photography events, as much in Europe, and France in particular, as it is in Denver, in the heart of the United States. Following the same principle as do Parisian venues, Denver galleries, museums, and art centers have joined forces to present a cross-section of the local scene, without forgetting to attract nationally known artists.
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Ryan McGinley, The Kids Were Alright
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
The Kids Are Alright © Ryan McGinley
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The Kids Were Alright features early photographs by photographer Ryan McGinley, whose pioneering, documentary-style approach captured the antics and daily activities of himself, his friends, and collaborators in lower Manhattan in the late 1990s. Occupying the entire second level of MCA Denver, the exhibition focuses on McGinley’s work from 1998 to 2003 [...]
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EXHIBITION
MoP Denver : Ted Tahquechi and Sophie Klafter, Bodies of Work
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Access Gallery in Denver featured last month two artists who have a very different approach to photographing the human body, Ted Tahquechi and Sophie Klafter, in an exhibit entitled Bodies of Work. Tahquechi’s photos are almost sensual in nature and speak to the fluidity and softness of the human form. Klafter’s photographs explore her personal anxieties around disability, femininity, and body image.
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Presence, Reflections on the Middle East features 12 artists living in the U.S. and abroad
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
I'm Sorry, I Forgive You (detail) 2002 © Arwa Abouon
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During the month of photography in Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) Center for Visual Art (CVA) presented an exhibition of more than 60 photo-based works that reflect the tension inherent in the presence, or absence, of people in a place, whether in their native land or abroad. The artists, all who are affected by the Middle East diaspora of the past 20 years [...]
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Basquiat Before Basquiat – East 12th Street, 1979-1980
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
East 12th Street, 1979-1980 © Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980 series, who was on view last month at MCA Denver, includes the entire cache of works made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during the year he lived with his friend Alexis Adler in a small apartment in the East Village, in New York. This archival material provides insight into the artistic life of Basquiat before he was recognized as a prominent painter in the early 1980s.
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Stacey Steers, Edge of Alchemy
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Edge of Alchemy © Stacey Steers
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Centered within the multifaceted exhibition of sculpture, collage and still photography works, Stacey Steers’ newest work, entitled Edge of Alchemy, is a handmade film in which the famed historical actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are each seamlessly appropriated from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse.
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Penelope Umbrico, Range
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Range, by New York based artist Penelope Umbrico, considers an analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation. For this project, Umbrico focuses on iconic images of mountains in various online and print media such as Aperture’s Masters of Photography book series. Utilizing myriad iPhone apps [...]
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FESTIVAL
MoP Denver : Jamie Knowlton, Will you be coal, or will you be waves
UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Portland based photographer Jamie Knowlton’s new body of work features large-scale tableaus that encourage the viewer to look more closely at the mirage of a fixed moment, of the impossibilities of a fixed state, and of photography as a renegade against linear time. The artist strives to activate the language of accumulation and of symbolic rhyming in order to reiterate the movement of every day meaning-making personified in every human.
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