CSU MFA exhibit

Got the chance to see CSU's Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibit a few days ago. If you're in the N Colorado/ Ft Collins area, I recommend checking it out.

There was one artist in particular I especially liked: Eli Marco Hall, who did a video series that depicted his use of typography on various public spaces. He use shadows on walls, rocks, even firearm pock marks in concrete to illustrate several personally relevant phrases ('you're not me', 'cancer consumed her', etc). The best part wasn't the design of the typeface or the sayings themselves, but the theater of their production and disintegration caught on time-lapse film. Seeing the film in the gallery gave me a perspective that I wouldn't have gotten if I saw the work in person, or even it's construction real-time.

Unfortunately, I couldn't take photos in the gallery so you'll have to see it in person.

Carbondale's Art aRound Town

Just got back from Carbondale, CO to install the Ambiguous Family in Carbondale's Art aRound Town exhibit.  It'll be there for a year at 3rd & Main, so swing by and check it out.

I also had the opportunity to meet and trade secrets with some very talented sculptors who were also in the exhibit:

Casey Cooper
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Casey and a few buddies from Texas drove this thing up and over Colorado mountain passes in a marathon trip to get it out to the show, and it was one of my favorite pieces.  He welds sheet metal together and then inflates it using compressed air to give his sculptures a very interesting industrial/organic feel.  The scale of this particular one was especially impressive as was the light and shadows that play across the surface depending on the time of day.

Michael Dunton
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Michael is out of Castle Valley and does some very painstaking and beautiful work with illuminated stone and steel.

Shohini Ghosh
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Suzanne Kane
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Michael Lindsey
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Gary Mitchell
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Kevin Schaffer (detail)