Bill Amundson returned to Colorado this week to deliver a Logan
Lecture at the Denver Art Museum in conjunction with the DAM
Contemporaries, regaling the packed, appreciative crowd with sordid
tales about sexy ceo's, self portraits, being nervous all the time,
landscapes, american personalities, his version of "graffiti"
through subverting the suburbs via the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, his
recent Denver-based commissions and other little-known aspects of his
long, illustrious career. Not necessarily by choice did Amundson leave
two years ago for his home-state of Wisconsin....it is Colorado where
his abilities and audience flourished, and his return to the state
this month also provides the opportunity for friends and the community
to celebrate in advance his upcoming 60th birthday. Bill claims that
he might put the self portraits on the back-burned for a while, but he
has provided the gallery with no less than four terrific works in that
vein, along with other select drawings such as the masterful "In
the Valley of the Job Creators," that allow us to all reflect on
one of the most genuine and generous figures in the contemporary art
world today.
Here are a few select images from the lecture, more of which can be seen on Plus Gallery's facebook page. We'd like to give a big thanks to the Denver Art Museum for hosting Bill and for supporting his works in their permanent collection this last decade, as well as everyone who has collected Bill in his "post-cherry creek" festival years. And a huge thanks to Bill for giving us another evening that will be long remembered.
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