sculpture

The Brad Kahlhamer exhibit recently opened at the MCA Denver, featuring two mixed media-pieces from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna and a totem-pole sculpture from the Logan Collection. Kahlhamer combines rock n’roll with landscape, spirituality with a raw sexuality, gritty realism with dreaming-life. Recurring motifs of provocatively clothed women (though never quite nude), death and American identity create a combined imagistic effect of vertigo. Form seems to occur two ways simultaneously for Kahlhamer: kaleidoscopically and vertically.

The Spring 2008 Show opened at Vertigo last night, featuring photographs by Richard Peterson and Bob Coller Jewett and stone sculptures by Scott Davis. Peterson exhibited a series of double-print photographs, half of which were fully developed and the other half consisting of the same images developed by solarization (a technique invented by ManRay that creates a reversal effect of positive and negative space in black and white film).