CURRENT
Hostile Terrain 94 is a global participatory art project in collaboration with the Undocumented Migration Project. Our Boulder rendition of this exhibition seeks to memorialize migrants who have died crossing the US/Mexico border and start productive conversations about undocumented migration and the state of Colorado. The installation, created by anthropologist Jason De León, photographer Michael Wells, and artist Lucy Cahill, consists of 3,200 toe tags to be filled out by volunteers in advance of the exhibition. The tags represent the geolocated remains of people who have died in the Sonoran Desert while crossing from Mexico into the United States. Hostile Terrain runs from March 28 through April 25, 2022.
CURRENT
To Hear the Earth Before the End of the World is a light and sound installation organized around the five elements of earth, air, water, fire and aether. In the installation, Hamilton aims to induce emotional, contemplative, even hypnotic responses in visitors. A concentric ring of speakers will play long-form compositions of modulated noises found in nature and contemporary society interwoven with digital and instrumental sounds. LaMont Hamilton is the CU Art Museum’s 2022 artist-in-residence. On view February 3 – July 16, 2022 at the CU Art Museum.
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Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer (1900–1985) studied and taught at the Bauhaus, an art school in 1920s Germany that shaped art and design on an international scale. As a commercial artist and catalog designer in 1930s Berlin, he strove to communicate clear messages to mass audiences. At the same time, his experiments with surreal photomontage and sculpture reveal a more fantastical side to his work. Bayer claimed his art was apolitical, but he was a highly sought-after designer during the Nazi regime. Bayer moved to the United States in 1938 where he helped design the Aspen Institute in Colorado and made promotional materials for the Aspen Skiing Company. The works in this exhibition are by Bayer and chronicle his career from the Bauhaus to Aspen. On view through June 2022.
UPCOMING
How do museums build art collections? Lasting Impressions answers this question with a close look at the CU Art Museum’s collection of American prints. Among the first artworks acquired by the museum in 1940, prints continue to be a focus of the museum’s art collection. This exhibition features highlights from the museum’s 82 years of collecting prints, including new acquisitions on view for the first time. Exhibition on view July 14, 2022–June 2023.
UPCOMING
Onward and Upward: Sharks Ink celebrates the “Sharkive,” a collection that includes editioned prints, production materials (drawings, mylars and proofs), and shop correspondence and records from Shark’s Ink, a print publisher and lithography studio directed by Bud Shark in Lyons, Colorado. Over its 46-year history, Shark’s Ink has foregrounded collaborative printmaking, working with over 106 artists from the US and Europe. Shark’s innovative productions capture each artist’s distinctive style, earning Shark and his studio an international reputation. The CU Art Museum is pleased to showcase the Sharkive with a selection of over 50 prints and related production materials. Exhibition on view September 6, 2022–July 2023.
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