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West of Center at MCA Denver

Thursday, December 22, 2011 | 3 years ago
Richard Kallweit The Ultimate Painting (a collaborative work between Clark Richert, Richard Kallweit, JoAnn Bernofsky, Gene Bernofsky and Charles DiJulio, 1966), 2011
Digital print, 5 x 7 inches
Image courtesy the artist 1/15
Clay Geerdes The Cockettes Go Shopping (1972), 2011
Archival digital print, 34 x 48 inches
Courtesy the Estate of Clay Geerdes 2/15
Roger Arvid Anderson Johnny, 1972
Archival pigment print, 18 x 27 inches
Courtesy the artist 3/15
Jack Fulton Zomeworks Bus (1973), 2011
Chromogenic print, 21 x 14 4/5 inches
Courtesy the artist 4/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in AmericaM, Drop Architecture: Drop City and Beyond, Natashas Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011.

Geodesic lattice includes photographs by Caroling Geary, Chip Lord, Clark Richert, Gene Bernofsky, Jack Fulton, Richard Kallweit and Roberta Price. 5/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Drop Architecture: Drop City and Beyond, Natashas Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011. 6/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Nomadic Experiments: Ant Farm Inflatables, Whole Room, MCA Denver, 2011.

View inside re-created inflatable structure, which features the following work:

Kelly Gloger
Ant Farm Inflatables (original footage of inflatable projects re-edited and refined by Chip Lord in 2006), 1969/1970
Film transferred to DVD, 23 min 7 seconds
Copyright Kelly Gloger and Ant Farm 1970, 2006. 7/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Expanded Cinema I: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird, Laura and David Merage Foundation Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011.
Featuring the following work:

Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Invisible Writing, 2011
High definition recording of live mixed media performance, 47 minutes
Courtesy the artists
Slides by Larry Janss, Jeff Perkins and Mike Pfau; films by David Lebrun and Peter Mays; liquids and transparencies by Amy Halpern, Shayne Hood and Michael Scroggins; and music by Miroslav Tadi
 8/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Expanded Cinema I: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird, Laura and David Merage Foundation Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011.
Featuring the following work:

Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Invisible Writing, 2011
High definition recording of live mixed media performance, 47 minutes
Courtesy the artists
Slides by Larry Janss, Jeff Perkins and Mike Pfau; films by David Lebrun and Peter Mays; liquids and transparencies by Amy Halpern, Shayne Hood and Michael Scroggins; and music by Miroslav Tadi 9/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Drop Architecture: Drop City and Beyond, Natashas Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011.

Featuring the following works in the foreground:

Clark Richert
Zometoy Model (Body-Centered Cube) (c. 1970), 2011
Plastic and wood, 15-inch diameter
Courtesy the artist

Steve Baer
Zometoy Prototype Construction Kit, n.d.
Wood and plastic parts, dimensions variable
Courtesy Clark Richert

Still from Joan Grossmans film in the background:

Joan Grossman
DROP CITY: Multiple Exposures, 2011
HD video projection on geodesic structure, 14-minute loop
Visual material courtesy Gene and JoAnn Bernofsky, Charlie DiJulio, Jane and John Fudge, Eric Gladstone, Richard Kallweit, Michael Krueger, Fletcher Oaks, Clark Richert, Kent Richert, BBC. Music courtesy Julia Crowe (Selskar music), Adam Rudolph (metarecords.com). 10/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Life Theater: The Cockettes & The Angels of Light, Karl Kister Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011. 11/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Social Encounters: The Dance of Anna Halprin, Joseph Crescenti Family Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011. 12/15
Ron Pollard Installation view of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, Social Encounters: The Dance of Anna Halprin, Joseph Crescenti Family Gallery, MCA Denver, 2011.

Installation view of:

Anna Halprin
Citydance Performance Score, 1978
Ink and marker on paper, 195 x 38 inches
Courtesy Anna Halprin 13/15
Richard Peterson HIBISCUS (GEORGE HARRIS III)
Scrapbook, 1966-68
Mixed media scrapbook, 8 x 10 inches (closed)
Private Collection 14/15
Richard Peterson HIBISCUS (GEORGE HARRIS III)
Scrapbook, 1966-68
Mixed media scrapbook, 8 x 10 inches (closed)
Private Collection 15/15

Though not part of an ambitious series of events like Pacific Standard Time, our own MCA Denver is participating in the same zeitgeist anyway, with West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977. The show, organized by director Adam Lerner and his wife and co-curator, Elissa Auther, sprawls throughout all three levels of the museum. Lerner and Auther also co-edited a scholarly catalogue on counterculture in the West, the scope of which is far greater than that of the exhibit.

Continue reading Michael Paglia's review of West of Center.
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