But my personal favorite is just a little show: Lisa Michot's Eek! A Mouse!, at Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, features a whimsical series of works blending digital photography with Michot's trademark sculptures — in this case, a world of mouse characters created from papier-mâché. She took the tiny mice — businessmen mice and Buddhist monk mice and kayaking mice and others — and photographed them on location, from the streets of New York City to the Denver Art Museum, with myriad stops in between. And though she says she's really a shy person, Michot even began dressing as a mouse herself — her way, perhaps, of blending into the woodwork while she posed and shot the photos.
"I thought it would be a fun and humorous way to make light of modern art and of the way people are with their cell phones and hyperactivity," Michot says. "The mouse is kind of a hyper animal that way — always running." How true, though everyone's favorite grouping will surely be the "Where's Ward" series starring an itty-bitty Ward Churchill rat proselytizing in front of pertinent area sculptures.
All is forgiven. Eek! hangs on the wall at Spark through the end of September, and there's a formal reception next Friday from 6 to 9 p.m.; for details, call 720-889-2200 or visit www.sparkgallery.com.
Sept. 6-30, 2007
