Bill Amundson, Riva Sweetrocket, Colin Livingston and Bruce Price have all been juried into the exhibition "Icebreaker: Best of the RINO district" at the Ice Cube co-op gallery, up the street from Plus Gallery on Walnut Street, look for the giant smoke-stack and beautifully restored brownstone around 33rd street.
Kate Petley opens a wonderful solo exhibition featuring her latest works in resin and mixed media along with some of her past installation oriented works at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming.
Susan Meyer has mounted her most recent installation at the exhibition at New Haven's Artspace, in the New Haven Center for Contemporary Art. Read what one recent art blog had to say about the work at http://irhinoceros.posterous.com/instructions-to-scottie-beam-me-up
And Finally, Dave Yust is featured in "100 Years of Colorado Art from the Kirkland Museum Collection"," opening on Thursday at the Arvada Center for the Arts. No historical show of Colorado art would be complete without Dave. Here's a statement from the artist regarding his work in the exhibition.
Since the early 1960’s my artworks, primarily, have been about trying to resolve the dichotomy of combining geometric and biomorphic/organic imagery. The black and white painting here, Circular Composition #44 (Change in Scale #28) was biased toward geometric imagery and was completed in 1972 --- just a few months before I began working on the related 10 feet in diameter black and white painting for the Denver Art Museum.
This painting was part of a 13-year long series of nearly 150 paintings and prints that focused primarily on symmetry and how it can function in painting. The 3rd dimension was necessary to enable the use of light and resulting shadows to help divide the painting into two pairs of symmetrical shapes. The singular (and unique) white shape above the 3-dimensional ridge is a residual shape --- and, I feel, it must be just as purposeful as the symmetrical shapes. One must solve a visual problem and, hopefully, create a visual dilemma as well.
Whereas using color is one of my life’s joys --- certain paintings, because of their inherent simplicity (and lack of complexity) are, ultimately, best realized in black and white.
Plus Gallery is also currently featuring one of Yust's earliest circular paintings from 1969 in our auxiliary space at the gallery.
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