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1994 Stories by Hart Hill

• BODY LANGUAGE

  published December 21, 1994

  The phrase "read you like a book" has some basis in fact: Most observers will agree that the human body can be read for meaning, much like a text.... More >>

• THE MURAL MAJORITY

  published December 14, 1994

  Years before LoDo was a dull gleam in a developer's eye, northwest Denver's Highlands neighborhood shone as the city's unofficial arts district.... More >>

• NATURE BOY

  published December 7, 1994

  Rivers have always presented a challenge for landscape artists. Their majesty, their mystery and, especially, their movement all resist a flat,... More >>

• GENDER FLEX

  published November 30, 1994

  The fad of pigeonholing art into politically correct categories has created a multitude of interesting genres. Some are lively and welcome... More >>

• MIRROR IMAGES

  published November 23, 1994

  Denver artist Louis Recchia's raucous, jam-packed style has changed only slightly since he burst onto the Denver art scene in the early Eighties.... More >>

• FINDERS' KEEPERS

  published November 16, 1994

  When Marcel Duchamp found an industrial bottle rack and proclaimed it art, he transformed fine art from an activity for a privileged few to one... More >>

• ALL TOGETHER NOW

  published November 9, 1994

  After a decade spent isolated in a Highlands barrio, Spark Gallery, the oldest of Denver's cooperative art spaces, gained a new lease on life two... More >>

• SCIENCE FARE

  published November 2, 1994

  To be an innovator in today's art world takes more than skill, knowledge and talent--it also helps to know how to focus an electron microscope or... More >>

• THE NAKED PRAY

  published October 26, 1994

  She stares out of the canvas at the viewer--at nothing. She seems frozen in a moment of deep anxiety, preoccupied with her thoughts. Who is she?... More >>

• PIECE OF THE ROCKY

  published October 19, 1994

  Among the Denver area's many opportunities for artists, the annual associateships at the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute are unique, offering... More >>

• ALL IN YOUR MIND

  published October 12, 1994

  Rejecting journalistic photography while investigating the uncharted neighborhood of the unconscious, three artists turn reality-based images into... More >>

• A PRESSING ENGAGEMENT

  published October 5, 1994

  The medium of printmaking still carries an Old World cachet--as well as equally exclusionary costs. The expenses involved in making a hand-pulled... More >>

• MIND OVER MATTER

  published September 28, 1994

  After fifty years of disrupting the art world, the formerly disreputable style called abstract expressionism has achieved a kind of... More >>

• UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM

  published September 21, 1994

  Given the current art-world trend to deconstruct every available style and medium, it was only a matter of time before the same... More >>

• TAKING IT TO THE STREETS

  published September 14, 1994

  Spontaneity, politics and confrontation marked much of the street theater and performance art of the Sixties and Seventies. And like many artists... More >>

• MAINLY ON THE PLAINS

  published September 7, 1994

  This state's prairie lands appear remote--spare, spacy, even boring. But Last Chance to Cope--photographs of Colorado's northeastern plains on... More >>

• SOUL SURVIVORS

  published August 24, 1994

  Artists Who Are Indian, the year-long exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, showcases strong new works of art, some exploring vital spiritual issues... More >>

• WASTED WORDS

  published August 17, 1994

  The siren call of stellar artists including Ed Ruscha, Red Grooms and David Hockney makes WORD, an exhibit at the Boulder Art Center, hard to... More >>

• SOCIAL FABRIC

  published August 10, 1994

  So-called fine-art quilts are nothing new. Pop-art guru Robert Rauschenberg invented his famous "combine" series in 1955 by sloshing paint on a... More >>

• GUYS AND DOLLS

  published August 3, 1994

  With about a zillion galleries in the West featuring Native American art, you'd think that many would have Native American owners or managers.... More >>

• PROMISES, PROMISES

  published July 27, 1994

  In Latin America, la promesa is a sacred concept: in order for your prayers to be answered, you must promise to give something in return. This... More >>

• LIFE'S A BEACH

  published July 20, 1994

  Denver has no better showcase for sculpture than Artyard, the outdoor gallery on South Pearl Street. The landscaped, paved and fenced garden area... More >>

• WORKING IN THE ABSTRACT

  published July 13, 1994

  In the art world, representations of the human body commonly symbolize perfection and beauty, an ideal. But occasionally the form depicted is... More >>

• WOMEN'S RITES

  published July 6, 1994

  The Fourth has come and gone, but the spirit of independence is amply demonstrated in three sparkling new art exhibitions by and about women. ... More >>

• EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY

  published June 22, 1994

  The old maxim that a picture is worth a thousand words takes on new significance when art incorporates text. The use of letters, words and... More >>