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Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning September 5—December 21, 2019 Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning presents an in-depth look at materials and techniques used to create artworks. Inspired by the research of faculty and curators at CU, the exhibition is organized into four case studies. Each case study focuses...

Body Language: Picturing People July 18, 2019 —June 2020 This exhibition 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. Whether in presenting...

Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams June 6–November 2, 2019 Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams brings together four installations in which Adams addresses the complicated history and present-day relevance of treaties negotiated between the United States government and indigenous peoples. Drawing from her Ojibwa, Lakota and European...

OBJECT:COLOR March—October, 2019 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. These artworks pay attention to elements and materials of composition that are often...