exhibit openings

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.

Marina Graves’ new exhibit is now open at The Northstar Brewery and Pub, featuring a series of landscape photographs. As a project that examines the intersections of urban construction with the natural world that determines how we build our cityscapes, Graves’ pieces are refreshingly non-judgmental and seem to invoke the artistic eye that traces and captures instead of critiques. Graves also has the keen sense of how shadow and light (momentary conditions, it should be added) can play-up the drama of organic geometry meeting human vision.