WHAT'S IT TO YOU?
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Since we've built our new museum, we’ve opened 26 exhibitions featuring artists from 13 different countries.
Artist in Residence Terry Maker sets up conceptual interactions between herself and the viewer to question the state of everyday reality. Maker works in various media, yet often returns to found objects as her source material, as these objects hold the mystery of untold stories. It is through this process of searching into the history of ordinary things that she has arrived at the Garden of Nineveh. Nineveh, the ancient biblical capital of Assyria, was a strong and prosperous empire that came to a sudden and tragic end as punishment for the pride of its people. Maker's encaustic mural-like paintings in the Project Gallery are embedded with objects encased in a seductive surface that evokes longing and desire. The works and their fractured interior state are unified by color as Maker seeks a resolution that is harmonious and spiritual in nature.
Maker was born in the United States in 1953. She currently lives and works in Louisville, Colorado. Maker received a BA from McMurry University, Abilene, TX; an ME from Texas Tech University, Lubbock and an MFA from University of Colorado, Boulder. She has exhibited at International Fine Arts Center, Hiroshima, Japan; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She is represented by Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. In 1999, Maker was awarded a fellowship by the Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver.
Special thanks to Chris Rogers, Rogers Design Group and Mica Gross, Sound Design.
Above: Terry Maker, Garden of Nineveh (detail), 2008, mixed media installation. Courtesy of the artist and Robischon Gallery.
Sept 16 2008 - Jan 18 2009
MCA DENVER has been conceptualized as an incubator of ideas in motion. We ask you for your answers whether subversive, controversial, enticing, or thoughtful. Your responses are part of our open platform. As a Museum Without a Front Door, we extend that same idea with this invitation for your imagination to go global - What's It to You?
Paper Works Gallery
Feb 3 - Jun 28 2009
New Media Gallery
May 12 - Jun 28 2009
Photography Gallery
Feb 17 - Jun 21 2009
New Media Gallery
Jan 13 - May 3 2009
Project Gallery
Jan 27 - Apr 26 2009
The Promenade Space
Oct 7 2008 - Mar 1 2009
Photography Gallery
Aug 19 2008 - Feb 8 2009
Paper Works Gallery
Aug 12 2008 - Jan 18 2009
Project Gallery
Sept 16 2008 - Jan 18 2009
New Media Gallery
Jul 22 2008 - Jan 4 2009
Large Works Gallery
May 2 - Sept 21 2008
The Promenade Space
Jun 10 - Sept 21 2008
Project Gallery
Jun 3 - Sept 7 2008
Photography Gallery
Apr 29 - Aug 10 2008
Paper Works Gallery
Mar 14 - Aug 3 2008
New Media Gallery
Feb 19 - Jun 6 2008
The Promenade Space
Mar 14 - May 25 2008
Project Gallery
Feb 26 - May 25 2008
Large Works Gallery
Oct 28 2007 - May 11 2008
Photography Gallery
Oct 28 2007 - Apr 20 2008
The Promenade Space
Oct 28 2007 - Apr 20 2008
The Whole Room
Oct 28 2007 - Mar 2 2008
New Media Gallery
Oct 28 2007 - Feb 10 2008
Paper Works Gallery
Oct 28 2007 - Feb 10 2008
Project Gallery
Oct 28 2007 - Feb 10 2008