Denver Art Log

• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (25 May - 20 October 2005)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (20 October 2005 - 14 March 2006)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (14 March - 20 July 2006)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (20 July - 12 December 2006)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (14 December 2006 - 17 August 2007)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (17 August - 3 December 2007)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (1 July - 16 October 2008)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (16 October 2008 - 14 April 2009)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario (19 June - 6 November 2009)
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario [dates unknown]
• Guillermo Kuitca — Diario [dates unknown]

Accreted piles of marks. Doodles piled high.

Peeking at somebody’s notes provides a unique window in, like seeing their body language or their bookshelves. But these are messier and more insane than notes. They are also perhaps too practical and thoughtless for white walls and (presumably) price tags.

The way they were made — offhandedly, out of habit, over long periods of time — affords density and idle experimentation. They’re fun to sort through, both individually and as a group; I hunt for intriguing scraps and watch myself pick favorites.

Maps and floorplans; Braque; Kandinsky; Bejeweled.

• Regan Rosburg — Inamorata
• Regan Rosburg — Inamorata (detail)
• Regan Rosburg — Juste Milieu
• Regan Rosburg — Juste Milieu (detail)
• Regan Rosburg — Le Jardin
• Regan Rosburg — The Ballet
• Regan Rosburg — The Empire
• Regan Rosburg — The Empire (detail)
• Regan Rosburg — The Interlocutor
• Regan Rosburg — The Interlocutor (detail)
• Regan Rosburg — The Nursery
• Regan Rosburg — The Refuge

Here are three actual medium descriptions of real pieces in this show:

Acrylic, wood, grackle skull, black widow, birds nest, resin, oil paint, twig, plastic bags, wire, lace

Acrylic, wood, Brood XIX cicadas, Cicada Killer wasp, resin, oil paint, Mylar, lace

Acrylic, wood, hummingbird¹, paper wasp nest, found wire, resin, oil paint, lace

Here are three fakes:

Acrylic, wood, wallpaper, shark’s teeth, pheonix feathers, ivory, resin, crow’s tears, cloud, manna, daydreams, lace

Acrylic, wood, whole milk, Amadeus, distillate of Sofia Coppola, memories of Garth Williams, dashed hopes of becoming a marine biologist, partially hydrogenated John James Audubon prints, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavors. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: industrial sludge, spiderwebs

Acrylic, wood, birds, bees, sugar, spice, everything nice, slugs, snails, puppydog tails

”Merely” pretty, and perhaps hollow, with an injected fear of creepy crawlies and heavy industry that falls flat. Nevertheless, they are dissolving, glistening, frozen menageries, whose crevices and crannies are full of discovery.

• Tobias Fike — For what you have tamed (installation view)
• Tobias Fike — Partial darkness or obscurity within a part of space from which rays from a source of light are cut off by an interpreted opaque body.
• Tobias Fike — After Me
• Tobias Fike — Swoon
• Tobias Fike — Same Size, Different Size
• Tobias Fike — Soothe

An arty thing about fatherhood, and father thinking about art and artifice? Good, I think — clean and clearly thoughtful; I just wish I had access to a few more of those thoughts.

• Amanda Gordon Dunn - And some will run
• Amanda Gordon Dunn - Night Vision
• Amanda Gordon Dunn - The Saddest Lion
• Amanda Gordon Dunn - title unknown
• Amanda Gordon Dunn - title unknown
• Amanda Gordon Dunn - title unknown

A little bit raw and a little bit slick. Poppy and bright. These would look really good on skateboards (or in Sweet Action!).

“Design-y” which sounds dismissive but what I mean is that the colors and compositions are impactful rather than ponderous. “Illustrative” by which I mostly mean “she’s a good draw-er.”

The protagonists are all animals. Some of them are delicately rendered power animals and the rest are anthropomorphized, cartoonish slackers. Dopey-eyed and tragically hip.

There are probably too many animal slackers? Or perhaps there is not enough happening within their vacant stares. But the paintings and collages show a real knack for mixing and matching (and making and layering) a diversity of beautiful marks.

These are supposed to be about emergent flocking dynamics, but no, they are about barnwood and shadows. Also there is a real dead bird in a jar!