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Art & Art History News - April 25, 2023

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MA showcase exhibition

Art ​History Thesis Showcase​

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.

Josephine Halvorson artwork

Josephine Halvorson: Visiting Artist Lecture

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.

CU MFA thesis announcement

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions - Spring 2023

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.

DU

The Front Range Art History Symposium

Saturday, April 29 from 8:15 AM to 2:30 PM
Hosted by the University of Denver
Location: Grand Forum Central (Rm 1700) Community Commons 2055 E Evans Ave Denver, CO 80210

Kristin Enright and Lexi Peterson will represent our Department!!

Faculty News

Brianne Cohen, Don't Look Away

Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art History

Don't Look Away
Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe

Published by Duke University Press, May 2023

In Don’t Look Away Brianne Cohen considers the role of contemporary art in developing a public commitment to end structural violence in Europe. Cohen focuses on art activism of the early twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated against precarious peoples. Exploring the work of German filmmaker Harun Farocki, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and the art collective Henry VIII’s Wives, Cohen argues that their recursive art practices offer a more sustained counter to the violence undergirding the public sphere than do artworks premised on immediate rupture. Their art reflects on a variety of flashpoints of violence and vulnerability in Europe, from the legacy of the Holocaust to Islamophobia and rising anti-immigrant sentiment. Because this violence has often cultivated fear-based publics, Cohen contends that art must foster ethical and civil relations between strangers across physical and virtual borders. In contrast to art-critical practices that privilege direct action in contemporary art activism, Cohen advocates for the imaginative, messier, often more elusive potential of art to change mindsets and foster a nonviolent social imaginary.

Link to Duke University Press

Department Announcements

AAH graduation

Art & Art History Graduation

Friday, May 12 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Visual Arts Complex, Plaza — in front of the building
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Opening Reception: Friday, May 5 from 4 to 6 PM
Visual Arts Complex

Artists: Jared Green, Jimmy White, Tory Harris, Sabrina Wanamaker, Vance Wood, Remy Biggs, Gavin Warner, Brandon Temple, Jeremy Baxter, Maren Curtis, Reagan Tucker

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