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Installation view of Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers, in the CU Art Museum, on view June 24 - October 22, 2016, Photo: Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado

Installation view of the exhibition Keeping it Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multimedia Representation, in the CU Art Museum, on view February 3 – May 12, 2012, Photo: Jeff Wells, © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese (1797 – 1858) and Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese (1786 – 1865), Suma, 1853, from the series Furyū Genji [The Fashionable Genji], woodcut on paper, 14 x 9 ¾ inches, Gift of Helen Baker Jones, in memory of her father, James H. Baker, former President of CU (1892-1914), CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 67.333.18, Photo: Jeff Wells, © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

 

 

ON VIEW

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies is the first in a series of exhibitions and programs in 2018/19 presenting the historical scope of documentary strategies shared by artists and scientists in their study of climate. Often their study involves recording change. The exhibition unites historical and contemporary materials to demonstrate connections between artistic production and scientific discovery. On view July 19, 2018—June 8, 2019 at the CU Art Museum.

ON VIEW

Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future) considers how our observation of natural worlds is influenced by measures of time and representations of form. From the tectonic to the technological, from the single-celled to the systemic, environments exist in a state of flux that can be studied and interpreted by a scientist or an artist. On view at the CU Art Museum February 7—July 20, 2019.

ON VIEW

OBJECT:COLOR brings together seven artists’ works that are unified by the use of basic compositional elements—line, shape, and color—to influence the viewer’s experience of the artworks’ physical limits and their relationship to surrounding space. On view at the CU Art Museum March—September, 2019.

UPCOMING

Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams brings together four installations in which Adams addresses the continued efforts of the United States government to both displace and assimilate indigenous peoples. On view at the CU Art Museum June 6—November 2, 2019.

UPCOMING

Body Language: Picturing People considers how the pose, the gesture and the body in motion are used by artists to convey meaning. Figural artworks from the CU Art Museum’s collection are brought into conversation across cultural geographies and historical eras. On view at the CU Art Museum July 18, 2019 —June 2020.