made in colorado 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, May 20 from 5-8 pm
Made in Colorado is back! Highlighting the diverse and groundbreaking art being made in Colorado, this biennial exhibition celebrates the many creative and insightful artists of the Centennial State. The exhibition will take place in CU Denver’s Emmanuel Art Gallery and the CU Denver Experience Gallery. Continuing the tradition of inviting outside jurors to experience the incredible art being made in Colorado, this year’s jurors will be internationally renowned curators Kerry Brougher and Nora Halpern
Featuring artworks by Michael Agyepong, JayCee Beyale, Matthew Bollinger, Trine Bumiller, Al Canner, Sandra Ceas, Albert Chong, Amber Cobb, Christopher Coleman, Bailey Constas, Sarah Darlene, Alissa Davies, Gregg Deal, Nicholas Emery, Sasha de Koninck, Gregory Ellis, Suzanne Faris, Tobias Fike, Tom Finke, Levi Fischer, Charis Fleshner, Melissa Furness, Eric Hagemann, Matthew Harris, Chelsea James, Margaret Kasahara, Paul Kenneth, Rian Kerrane, Sammy Lee, Sally Mankus, Laura Merage, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Katelyn Odenheimer, Kevin Oehler, Kyoko Ono, Jennifer Pettus, Jay Phillips, Noah Phillips, Gretchen Schaefer, Danielle SeeWalker, Brenda Stumpf, Mak Tucker, Floyd Tunson, Emilie Upczak, Belgin Yucelen
MEET THE JURORS
Kerry Brougher is Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and an independent curator and writer focusing on art, film, and media. He is the Founding Director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, where he worked with Renzo Piano on the design of the building. For fourteen years, Brougher was the Chief Curator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C, where he also served as Deputy Director and Interim Director. Before the Hirshhorn, Brougher was the Director of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford in England (now known as Modern Art Oxford) and was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles during its formative years.
Along with significant retrospectives and projects by artists such as Tacita Dean, Robert Irwin, Yves Klein, Wolfgang Laib, Maria Nordman, Ed Ruscha, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Jeff Wall, Brougher is known for his numerous thematic exhibitions, many focusing on film and media, such as Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945; Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art; Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950; Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900; The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image; and Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950. While at the Hirshhorn, Brougher acquired numerous works for the museum, including 39 minimal and conceptual pieces from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's collection, and initiated a focus on acquiring film, video, and photography. He commissioned filmmaker Jordan Belson’s last work, Epilogue, and Doug Aitken’s monumental SONG 1, a 360-degree moving image projection onto the Hirshhorn’s circular facade. Brougher, who has received numerous awards for his exhibitions and publications, was Co-Artistic Director of the 5th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
Nora Halpern Art historian, educator, and curator Nora Halpern has spent her public and private life advocating for art, artists, and social justice. Since 2001, she has been a vice president at Americans for the Arts, focusing on arts policy convenings and engaging individual thought leaders to advance the arts and arts education across America. She is co-founder of Street Scenes: Projects for DC, a public art program that provides access to the broadest possible audience by utilizing the city as a gallery space. Raised in New York City, Halpern began her career in Los Angeles as the Frederick R. Weisman Collections Curator and Founding Director of Pepperdine University’s art museum. She was a Los Angeles Human Relations Commission member and received the Mayor’s Award of Merit for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Halpern has taught and lectured internationally. Among her publications is the recent Putting the Arts to Work: 15 Years of National Arts Policy Roundtables, 2006-2020. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including a Yoko Ono retrospective in Venice, Italy. Halpern has served on the boards of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, ArtTable, PS Arts, and Scholastic’s Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, among others. She was appointed to the Arts Commission of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Halpern received her BA and MA from UCLA and was awarded a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Curatorial Studies from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program.
Image credits
(above) Sammy Lee, Innards #2, 2023, Suitcase compartments, Hanji, acrylic varnish
(below) Melissa Furness and Rian Kerrane - Thicket; Tobias Fike - Bird Whistle; Melissa Furness - Fair Game, Sammy Lee - Innards #2; Gregory Ellis - You are Waiting…Should You Be Waiting?, Matthew Bollinger - Duality with Tiresias; Eric Hagemann - Grain Silos (left), Silo Complex (right); Sasha de Koninck - Untitled
