Denver Art Museum Gets Down and Dirty
This week marks the beginning of The Denver Art Museum's first ever campus wide exhibition based on one material, Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Every department in the Museum is involved from Design to Photography. In Director Christoph Heinrich's words, “Don't think pots”. The entire Summer is dedicated to activities and demonstrations surrounding the main exhibition. Activities include the Museum's Mud Studio where young and old can get hands on with clay as well as weekend demonstrations throughout the Summer. This weekend artist Bob Smith was on hand to perform Raku firing, an intense process that yields beautiful glazes, on the plaza in front of the Hamilt...Read more
The Dark World of Allison Schulnik
Upon loading Allison Schulnik's website, the first four headings emblazoned in highlighter yellow capital letters read "paint", "film", "thing" and "paper". The "thing" heading is surely an attention grabber, inviting fantasies of a direct link to a human-animal hybrid breeder's website. Sadly, clicking said link will not lead to the loving flippers of a half-man half-shark friend. But fortunately, it will unveil an exciting menagerie of other-worldly ceramic creations. These brilliantly textured figures all share the same haunting, hollow eyes that characterize most of Schulnik's work. Schulnik's portfolio features a cast of disturbing clowns, hobos a...Read more