Terry Maker and Jane Hammond at MCA Denver

I hadn’t been to the MCA since before the DNC so decided to head over this previous weekend to check out the Terry Maker exhibit that was opening to the public with lectures by the artist, as well as the other openings I’d missed.

Maker is a Colorado local and the installations on-view through January 18th, demonstrates a certain gesture of manufacturing representations of nature, the Garden of Nineveh and honeycomb, specifically. Maker exhibited at the signature, Robischon Gallery, about a year ago, also displaying an interest is emphasizing process as an aspect of content, in addition to form.

Another highlight is the current Jane Hammond exhibit in the photography gallery. Hammond’s process includes collaging to create a certain surrealist quality. These photographs are rather like Max Ernst’s collage novel, Une Semaine de Bonte, revolving themes of violence, decadence, landscape, and sexualization. Some of Hammond’s photographs carry the same quality of sensuality and disturbance characteristic of Ernst’s.

Fourteen days until Damien Hirst opens, but who’s counting?

For more info about MCA exhibit see www.mcadenver.org, pictured: Terry Maker, "Garden of Nineveh"