2021 Exhibitions

Kate Petley: Staring into the Fire

Kate Petley: Staring into the FireAugust 17—December 18, 2021Kate Petley: Staring into the Fire brings together a new body of work composed of abstract photographs and works on canvas. Petley’s will to transform and mesmerize guides her image-making process. Sculptures assembled from castaway materials such as cardboard and colored gels are placed into intensely lit arrangements and photographed. Corrugated and pitted surfaces undergo a startling shift when presented as photographs or printed on canvases. H...

Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance

Tim Whiten: Tools of ConveyanceAugust 17—December 18, 2021Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance surveys 40 years of Whiten’s works on paper and objects related to his mark making practice. His pictorial language of gesture refers to and reveals physical and spiritual inscriptions people make on the world and on each other. In his body of work Whiten draws attention to different states of consciousness associated with rhythms of everyday work and activity. He is in dialogue with transformations reflected in tradit...

Spring 2021 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

The Spring 2021 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition features artists: Alejandra Abad, Cali Banks, Samantha Bares, Joelle Cicak, Dalton Frizzell, Dallas Guffey, Emily Irvin, Robert Martin, Shelby McAuliffe, Chelsea Taylor, Emily Van Loan, and Mikey Yates.  A virtual exhibition of the works can be viewed at https://www.colorado.edu/artandarthistory/mfa-virtual-exhibition-spring-2021