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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

Art in Action: The Process of Design
This project was curated by students in the Program in Environmental Design as part of Marianne Holbert’s Advanced Design Lab 2, a Senior Architecture Studio. Prints from the CU Art Museum are paired with interpretive designs by students to demonstrate how art can be a creative catalyst and a tool for learning. On view March 27—September, 2018 at the CU Art Museum.

ON VIEW

Millie Chen: Four Recollections 
Millie Chen: Four Recollections features a new installation conceived during her artist-in-residence at CU Boulder alongside three large-scale drawing installations created between 2015 and 2017. Significant events of injustice and social unrest reshape Millie’s memory of her formative years. On view February 1—July 21, 2018 at the CU Art Museum.

UPCOMING

Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye encourages bereavement rituals and supports a public discourse on how we approach loss in American society. In this series, Daisy Patton uses American postmortem photography as a substratum for her paintings. Given the immersive scale of Patton’s tableaux, viewers participate as mourners, both for those who have died and for our own movement toward death. On view July 19—November 17, 2018 at the CU Art Museum.

UPCOMING

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—May, 2019 at the CU Art Museum.

UPCOMING

Florian Hecker: Synopsis Seriation is a constellation of four computer-generated sound pieces by German artist Florian Hecker. Their display system comprises a suspended architecture of loudspeakers, cables and acoustic panels that differentiate auditory environments, creating distinct but overlapping spatial layouts for audiences to experience. On view September 6—December 22, 2018 at the CU Art Museum.