2018 Exhibitions

Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum

February 1—March 24, 2018Drawings from CU Art Museum made from the 1200s to today are featured in this exhibition, curated by a team of graduate students in CU’s museum practicum seminar. Draw Me In encourages close looking and conversation. As viewers study techniques employed by artists working in a variety of media, they are asked to engage with traditional conceptions about the art of drawing in order to come to a deeper understanding of the practice. How has drawing been defined and valued by different...

Millie Chen: Four Recollections

Millie Chen is the CU Art Museum’s 2018 artist-in-residence. As part of this biennial residency program, artists are invited to mine CU Boulder’s creative and intellectual resources to create new artwork while interacting with faculty and students. Millie will be in residence September 11 through October 12, 2017, and the exhibition Millie Chen: Four Recollections will open February 1, 2018 and remain on view until July 21, 2018.Millie Chen: Four Recollections features a new installation conceived during he...

Spring 2018 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions

Spring 2018 Master of Fine Arts Thesis ExhibitionsRound one on view April 7—19, 2018Opening reception Friday, April 6, 5—7 p.m.Artists included:Meghan Chase, Melissa Sclafani, Laura SmithRound two on view April 28—May 12, 2018Opening reception Friday, April 27, 5—7 p.m.Artists included:Yasmin Mazloom, Aaron Treher, Jonathan Welsh, Rachel Wright

Art in Action: The Process of Design

Art in Action: The Process of DesignMarch 27—September, 2018This 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. These prints by Josef Albers, Fayga Ostrower and Chryssa served as inspiration for student designs for a prospective building intended to s...

Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye

Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye On view July 19—November 17, 2018  In this series, Daisy Patton uses American postmortem photography as a substratum for her paintings. These photographs are intended to commemorate the deceased and offer solace to those grieving. In the photographs Patton selects, ornate funeral parlor interiors and elaborate trappings—floral arrangements, religious symbols and decorative rugs—overwhelm the presence of a body.Patton enlarges found black-and-white postmortem photographs tak...

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies

July 19, 2018—June 8, 2019Documenting 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. Alongside works from the University of Colorado Art Museum's permanent co...

Florian Hecker: Synopsis/Seriation

Florian Hecker: Synopsis/Seriation  September 6—December 22, 2018Synopsis/Seriation is a constellation of four computer-generated sound pieces. 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.Working with synthetic sound, the human listening mechanism and the experiential qualities of audition, Hecker’s installation produces subjective se...

Fall 2018 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Featuring artists: Lucero Aguirre, Alex Ferrante, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Julia Klema.