Art & Art History News - April 25, 2023

Join us today for the opening of our Art History Thesis Showcase!!
Reception: Tuesday, April 25​ from 2:30 to 4:00 pm
Visual Arts Complex, 1st Floor Lobby

This exhibition highlights our Art History graduate students’ thesis work. Please join us at the reception in celebration of the accomplishments of Emily Berkes, Mattie Hough, Lexi Peterson, and Shawn Simmons. Learn about their fascinating scholarship while enjoying some tasty afternoon refreshments. 

The exhibition will be on view from Monday, 4/24 to Friday, 4/28. It is curated by Rachel DeNagy, a graduate student in the Art History track of the Museum and Field Studies program.

Image Credits: Top row, left to right: Tao Aimin, River of Women, detail, 2023; Institute of Queer Ecology, Still from Metamorphosis, episode 1, “Grub Economics,” 2020; Gu Wenda, United Nations - Babel of the Millenium, 1999. Bottom row, left to right: Melody Melamed, The Book of Skin: Shangri-La, three-panel detail, 2021; Christi Belcourt, The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014.

TONIGHT!! Tuesday, April 25 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and takes the form of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she studied at The Cooper Union (BFA 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA 2007). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships: The US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria (2003-4), the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. Selected exhibitions include SECCA (2015), Storm King Art Center (2016), the ICA Boston Foster Prize Exhibition (2019-20), and Ríos Intermitentes, a group exhibition curated by Magdalena Campos-Pons as part of the Havana Bienale (2019). In 2021 she will have a solo exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was an artist in residence. Halvorson’s work and practice have been written about extensively and she is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University and lives in western Massachusetts.

Join us for the openings of the MFA Thesis Exhibitions this spring. Come for art, hors d'oeuvres, and community! Free and open to everyone.

Artists: Andy DiLallo, Samira Hemmat, Marcella Marsella, Madeline Plumley

Round Two
On view April 29–May 13

Opening celebration:
April 28, 4–6 p.m.

CU Art Museum
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Spring 2023 MFA Conversants
Wednesday, May 3 at 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Join us for an in-gallery conversation with Geoffrey Shamos, director of Myhren Gallery and Curator of University Art Collections, and Master of Fine Arts thesis students.
Free and open to everyone.