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Third Front Range Student Art Exhibit

December 20, 2002 - February 7, 2003
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

The Gallery of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the College Advisory Committee of the Denver Art Museum and the UCCS Visual and Performing Arts Department present the thirs exhibition of the best art students from colleges across the Front Range. Twelve institutions are represented with onestudent from each undergraduate and graduate program. The annualexibition was previously mounted at the University of Denver in 2000 and Regis University in 2001.

The schools participating in this exhibition are Adams State College, Alamosa; Colorado State University, Ft. Collins; Metropolitan State College, Denver; University of COlorado,Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder; Colorado College, Colorado Springs; University of Denver, Rocky Mountain College of Design, Denver; Regis University, Denver; adn University of Northern COlorado, Greeley.

Each school’s faculty representative to the Denver Art Museum’s College Art Committee was charged with picking the student or students to represent their program. The selection criteria was determined by each participating school, but the Gallery of Contemporary Art requested that the artists be the student generally regarded as best and brightest.

Sixteen students have been selected, including four graduate students. The exhibition includes painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation work. The students were not limited in what they chose to include and were allowed to show as much or little as they wished. Consequently some chose to deliver an extensive body of work, and others a more mosdest selection.

The overall goal of this exhibition is to allow viewers to see what our region’s most gifted contemporary art students are creating. It is also hoped thatt the work will inspire other artists and the public by allowing a preview of what we might expect from artists soon to be working independently in their own art communities across the Front Range.

Exhibition support was contributed by the Institute of Museum and Library Srevices, a federal agency; Colorado Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado General Assembly; the CU Colorado Springs Student Government Association on behalf of the Student Body, Springs Magazine and the Gallery’s Membership.

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Project Face to Face

December 2-December 7, 2002
Opening Reception: Mon, December 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

On December 2nd, as a community contribution for world Aids Day (Dec. 1st), usually known within the art community as: “a day without art”, the Gallery of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Campus Activities Board at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is presenting Face to Face, a special one week exhibition of the work of Jason Dilly. The exhibition will remain on view free to the public from 10 to 4 daily Monday through Saturday, December 7th. An opening reception with the artist will take place Monday evening, the first day of the show, from 6 to 8pm.

The title of the show comes from the nature of the works produced by Mr. Dilly. The show features 22 plaster casts of the faces of a wide range of HIV positive people, mounted on panels at eye level, with small tape players hooked up to headphones. This system enables viewers to listen to each individual’s personal experience with a deadly disease. As a special feature of this show, Mr. Dilly will cast the face of an HIV positive student at UCCS and record her story to include with the others.

Other local organizations supporting the exhibition and it’s related daily programming at other locations on the UCCS campus are: Southern COlorado Aids Project; El Paso County Health Dept.; MOMS Group; Inside Out; UCCS Student Art Connection; Open and Affirming Group of the First Congregational Church; Planned Parenthood; UCCS Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association; and the Emmanuel Baptist Church AIDS Misssion.

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Get Rowdy

October 24-November 30, 2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.

On Thursday evening, October 24th at 7pm, photographers Gary Goldberg and Sandy Wassenmiller will give a talk at the University Center to mark the opening for their exhibition called Get Rowdy. The show consists of 72 color and black and white photographs resulting from unrestricted access to the Dallas Cowboys football team at their training camp in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the couple live and work as professional photographers. The show will continue through November.

The exhibition consists of 36 images by each artist, but both approach the work from very different directions. Gary is an art professor at Midwestern State University where he has taught for 19 years. His photographs are straightforward toned black and white portraits of the players taken right after practice in front of a special portraiture backdrop.

Sandy works as a civilian photographer at Sheppard Air Force Base outside Wichita Falls, where she has been employed for the past 5 years. She works in color and her approach is based on crowds reaction to events and activities surrounding the players. Her work deals with the nature of fans and the public’s obsession with the game.

Both photographers are fine artists whose main artistic concern is documenting social phenomena related to various aspects of American and Texas culture and traditions. Anyone interested in photography as art, or the seemingly unrelated game of football, will find something appealing about the work of these two photographers. They will only be in town long enough to mount the show and give their public talk.

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