2012 Exhibitions

Fall 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Fall 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts ExhibitionDecember 8–21, 2012Artists featured: Alysia Davis, Nick Gagnon, Garrett Henry, Sarah Johansen, Andrew Odlin and Jacob Vasquez.

Fall 2012 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

Fall 2012 MFA Thesis ExhibitionNovember 10–29, 2012The works of Abby Bennett, Ryan Everson, Chase Folsom, Nicholas O'Brien, Joanna Powell and Summer Ventis focus our attention on constructed landscapes, which challenge assumptions about what is interior versus exterior, or what constitutes our ideas of the pastoral, of home, or of childhood. These sculptural installations, or “imagined spaces,” act as theater sets or backdrops for actions that are about to unfold, or as disrupted narratives. All these works...

Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Painting Collection

Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Painting CollectionSeptember 7–December 22, 2012Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Painting Collectionfeatures over 40 paintings exploring the enduring relationship of painting to luminosity and spaces that exist at boundary’s edge. The places depicted in these paintings draw attention to often unnoticed everyday life experiences ranging from twilight to fields of monochrome to depictions o...

Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of British Art

Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of British ArtSeptember 7–October 27, 2012Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art features David Hockney’s first major print series, A Rake’s Progress (1961–63), alongside the 1735 series by William Hogarth that inspired it.Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, director of the CU Art Museum, and Catherine Labio, associate professor of English.This exhibition is generously supported in part by the HBB Fou...

Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography

Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of PhotographySeptember 7, 2012–July 10, 2013Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography dives into remembrance and memory, the gaze and the female body, and 19th-century conventions and techniques as they continue to be used and referenced in the works of contemporary artists. The exhibition includes a selection of 19th-century hand-colored photographs, cartes-de-visite, stereoscopic albumen prints, ambrotypes and da...