NORTH GALLERY: Through November 15, 2009

The Family Stage: Photographs by Janet Delaney, Todd Hido, and Cecil McDonald Jr.

"The Family Stage" immerses the viewer in the complexities of family dynamics, the simplicities of humdrum objects, and the sometimes turbulent, often sublime, rhythms of home. In addition to the featured works, a survey of "snapshot" albums will show how the presentation and preservation of family photographs has evolved over the centuries. For more information click here

Janet Delaney: "Four Hands" Type C print

SOUTH GALLERY: Opening November 12, 2009

John Edward Thompson: Colorado Modernist

John Edward Thompson (b. 1882) was a pioneering artist who served on the DU faculty from 1929 to his death in 1945. This exhibition is curated by current DU School of Art & Art History (SAAH) students and features painting, sketches and drawings by Thompson from DU's permanent art collection and other regional collections, including those of the Harbaugh family and of Deborah and Warren Wadsworth. For more information click here

Above: (left) J.E. Thompson, Solitude. 1941. (right) Untitled (Study of Paris Rooftops). N.D.

UPCOMING JANUARY 2010

Cliff Evans: "Citizen"
Three channel HD video installation

Still from "Citizen: (2009)

Exhibition Calendar

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Contemporary Art Colorado

The CAC is an informal association of thirteen contemporary art organizations formed for the purpose of advancing contemporary art in Colorado. To visit the site click here.

Gallery Publications

“Transforming Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection" 64 pages, softcover. Exhibition catalog. $15 donation.

Jonas Burgert: "Enigmatic Narrative” 80 pages, hardcover, fully illustrated. Published on the occasion of the September 2008 collaboration between the Denver Art Museum, the MCA Denver, and the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery. Introduction by Dan Jacobs; essay by Christoph Heinrich. SOLD OUT

"On the Road in the Soviet Empire: Semyon Fridlyand Photographs" 72 pages, softcover, color and black-and-white. Exhibition catalog published in conjuction with "On the Road: Photography of the Soviet Empire;" (March 2008). $15 donation.

"Paul Soldner Ceramics: A Master Teacher at Work" 68 pages, softcover, color. Exhibition catalog (January 2009). $20 donation.

"Negotiating Reality: Recent works from the Logan Collection" 64 pages, hardcover. Exhibition catalog. $15 donation.

Banner photo: William O'Connor. Transforming Traditions installation at the Myhren Gallery