installation

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.