DENVER'S MUST-SEE ART EXHIBITS:
Spring/Summer 2011
From a virtual journey to Renaissance Italy to beautiful Native American sculptures, the upcoming months in Denver are filled with great art exhibits.
Native Roots | Modern Form: Plants, Peoples and the Art of Allan Houser
Denver Botanic Gardens
May 1-Nov. 13, 2011
www.botanicgardens.org
The Denver Botanic Gardens’ outdoor sculpture exhibit, Native Roots | Modern Form: Plants, Peoples and the Art of Allan Houser, features more than 20 bronze works created by American modernist Allan Houser (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994). This pioneering personality opened doors for future generations of Native artists, and is one of the most important American artists of the 20th Century. Don't miss this opportunity to see Houser's works in the unparalleled setting of the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy
Denver Art Museum
April 10-July 31, 2011
www.denverartmuseum.org
Take a virtual journey through Renaissance Italy. The 50 artworks on view will allow visitors to experience such Italian art centers as Florence, Venice, Milan and Siena. See the innovative ways each city’s artists responded to the new Renaissance impulses coming from Tuscany.
Marvelous Mud
Denver Art Museum
June 11-Sept. 18, 2011
www.denverartmuseum.org
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Through the Ages. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativity, science and industry over time and around the globe. The museum-wide exhibition explores one major medium and illustrates its diversity and history through fascinating stories that span time and geographic location.
15 Colorado Artists - Breaking With Tradition
Kirkland Museum
May 5-July 11, 2011
www.kirklandmuseum.org
Form your own opinion about the modernist movement in Denver when Kirkland Museum of Decorative & Fine Art’s exhibition, Fifteen Colorado Artists: Breaking with Tradition opens. Original artwork of the founding members of the Denver Artist Guild , some from their first exhibit launched in December of 1948, will be on view. Never-before-seen vintage photos of the artists and reproductions of the newspapers where much of the modernist debate in Denver was hashed out will also be displayed.