CURRENT EXHIBIT
The Icebreaker3 Opening Reception has been rescheduled to celebrate RiNo’s Second Saturday events, February 11th 5-9 pm.
We hope you can all make it! Also, a bonus event has been added for anyone who can come:
Coffee with the artists on Friday, February 10th at 2:30 pm.
The jury process is complete with 66 pieces accepted from more than 500 pieces submitted for review. Juror Gwen Chanzit found the decision challenging due to the overall strength of the submitted work with the limited space available.
It is our pleasure to announce the artists who will be exhibiting in the Icebreaker³ Show at Ice Cube Gallery February 2-25, 2012:
• Kelton Osborn -Thresher
• Theresa Anderson – McFairlane and battleships, Apostate memories conflate pleasure.
• Colleen Baz – abominable & sugar lips
• Pattie Lee Becker – What I Thought Was Once Mine is Now Ours
• Sharon Bond Brown – Connie’s Good Day (triptych) & The Family Portrait
• Carol Browning – Simple Truth
• Christine Buchsbaum – more or less absent
• Amelia Carley – Seen between the work
• Mary Cay – Playing in the Dark & Leaving the Wall
• Karin Davis – untitled
• Joellyn Duesberry – Playground Triptych, Morrison Colorado & Thumper
• Wendy Franzen – Mensurate
• Thomas Gargan – Dreaming
• Susan Goldstein – Evolution & Dolly
• Linda Graham – Reflection #1 & Reflection #2
• Jill Renee Grant – Alley Canvas, RiNo
• Robert L. Green – Pall Bearers
• Jane Guthridge – The Space Between & The Space Between 4 & The Space Between 1
• Maureen Hearty – Color Field in Metal
• Adam Holloway – Supercell & Lunar Lake
• Alane Holsteen – Try to Praise the Mutilated World
• Peter lllig – Action Painting
• Deborah Jang – Moone Dance
• Jennifer Jeannelle and Rebecca Vaughan – The Pikes
• Brad Jeske – Trinity
• Euikyung Kim - In a landscape 1
• Kathy Knaus – Grable
• Wendy Kowynia – Paper House 3
• Chip Lynch – Two Eleanors
• Kai Mazurczyk – Untitled (Lacticifers)
• Irene Delka McCray – Wrapped
• Adam Milner – Letters To People That Should Never Read Them
• Susannah Mira – Serial Set
• Heather Billing Munoz – Cute as a Cupcake & Hunter Gatherer
• April Noble – Corrasion
• Daniel Peterson – Slugopolis & Eviction
• Lisa Purdy – Solidarity Rebuilt
• Zach Reini – Edge Painting #1
• Lydia Riegle – Audacity
• Bonnie Ferril Roman – Continuum/Interrupted Conversations
• Mai Wyn Schantz – Split Wood: Walnut & Split Wood: Pine
• Annalee Schorr – Cube Tower
• Sarah Wallace Scott – Your Failure
• Katharine Smith-Warren – Sextet
• Sally Stockhold – Diane Arbus Photographing the Doppelganger Twins
• Sigri Strand – Right Before My Eyes
• Ray Tomasso – Red Line Fever
• Tyler Vorhees – The Lector & The Log Driver
• Patrice Renee Washington – Value Study #1 & Homogenization (Value Study #2)
• Casey Wittier – A Moments Breath
• Jacquelyn Woodley – I Can See My Backyard From My House
Juror’s Statement
It’s a testimony to the strength of Denver’s art community ̶ that my task as juror of this exhibition was to select from many hundred entries. What a task! Not only was there great quantity of submissions ̶ there was also extraordinarily high quality. I am happy to have worked by a blind jury process: selecting simply by viewing each anonymous work (as a digital image). Not having artist names attached to submissions liberates a juror from consideration of professional standing, residence, age, race, or gender. When the list of selected artists was published, I was delighted to see both many familiar and many unfamiliar names. While this arduous process always means that many fine examples don’t make a final cut, in this case, honing the group for even this spacious gallery required eliminating many first quality works. It was particularly difficult, at the end, to cut an additional 20 percent of what I had chosen in order to make a presentation that would respect the integrity of each individual work of art. An unusually large number of monumental works were submitted; in a few cases, the sheer scale prohibited proper installation here.
A juror’s primary responsibility is to select the strongest work that will shape a quality exhibition. For me, this potency is determined by a combination of factors that may include technique, original concept, and/or strong composition. Sometimes there is something indefinable that brings you back to look and to re-look. Compelling work has no boundaries or regimen; it may be realistic, abstract, serious, humorous, self referential or contextual, of a singular medium or mixed media. Please join me in congratulating the exhibiting artists. I hope you will find the work as compelling as I do.
Many thanks to Ice Cube Gallery for inviting me to engage in this process.
Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art
Denver Art Museum
