PAST EXHIBITS

Scaling Routine

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to an opening reception for an exhibit highlighting the transcendent qualities of accumulated labor and daily routine. On display, historical Navajo textiles from the Orman Collection and contemporary works by Jennifer Reifsneider and Christine Marie Davis.

Opening Reception, Thursday November 8 from 5-7pm in the Fine Art Gallery.

The Fine Art Gallery is open every weekday from 10am to 4:30pm and is locaed in the Art and Music Building on the CSU-Pueblo Campus. Gallery events are free and open to the public.

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to visit the latest gallery opening:

SpongeXSponge

Fine Art Gallery, Colorado State University-Pueblo – October 3-November 2, 2007

Food, oxygen and water operate similarly to art in that they are external entities that cause internal changes in those who consume them. The difference is that while we clearly understand the effects of the former, our perceptions about the functions of art are more muddled. Studies on consciousness imply this may be the result of our dependence on the somewhat passive sense of sight for perceiving most art. The experience we can gain through the nose and the mouth is, by comparison, much more direct. Additionally, the amount of penetration that art has - especially contemporary art - is often dependent upon experience, education and culture. In contrast, the absorption of food, water and oxygen is democratic - everyone does it in more or less the same way.

The title of this exhibit, spongexsponge, is meant to imply the possibility of direct absorption of art ideas into the body. Dawn Forbes uses sculpture to comment on the tension between the leanness of the idealized western physique with the largeness of our material and emotional appetites. In her piece Voluptua, for example, she - somewhat comically - presents us with a body that might be more in harmony with our present environment then the athletic figure that we think we all want.

Matt Jenkins explores how one culture consumes another in a documented performance where he pours milk down the street of a Denver neighborhood in the process of being transformed by gentrification. In Eli Robb’s humorous video series “The Startender,” the artist (as alter ego Giancarlo Stine) concocts and ingests cocktails based on famous celebrity excretions as a metaphor for how the details of celebrities’ personal lives are eagerly consumed by an insatiable and growing audience.

Also on display, artworks made from insubstantial, readily absorbable materials – air and light – by Jennifer Reifsneider. Finally, Institutional Wellbeing, a conceptual performance work by Brian Goeltzenleuchter, uses the sensual art of perfumery to address both art’s promise to improve our lives and the position fine art holds in our consumer-based culture.

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to visit the latest gallery opening:

Fort Collins Grad Show

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to a gallery talk and opening reception for a new exhibit featuring the thesis work of two recent M.F.A. recipients from CSU-Fort Collins.

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to visit the latest gallery opening:

2007 Senior Art Show

The CSU-Pueblo Senior Art Show is a group exhibition organzied by and featuring 25 artists who are graduating with their B.A., B.F.A., B.S., or B.S. K-12 degree from the Art Department of the Colorado State University of Pueblo. This annual exhibition will feature a variety of media including photography, drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, art history, printmaking, graphic design and more, from some of the Art Department's brightest artists.

The exhibition will be held in the Capps Capozzolo Gallery, Foyer Gallery, and Curved Wall Gallery and will run from April 2, 2007 to April 11th. There will be an opening reception on Monday, April 2nd from 5p.m. to 8p.m., which is free and open to the public and will include live music and catered refreshments.

Artists Include:

Eric Alires, Laura Beasley, Eric Bothun, Caitlin Burtis, Neely Cardinal, Rena Freed, Robert Garcia, Cheryl Harley, Nicole Hart, Sandra Hill, Tiffany Lawson, Lauren Mardosz, Corey McCormick, Cherie Nicholls, Tracy Roe, Danielle Veltri-Rosales, Lacy Shalamon, Hong Skains, Lisa Smith, Danielle Sorrels, Shannon White, Rita Wilhelm, Aaron Williams and Josh Veteto.

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to visit the latest gallery opening:

"Sole File"

An interactive collaborative project, "Sole File", will display shoes from the CSU-Pueblo community.. In order to make this concept a reality, we need your old shoes. If possible, along with the shoes, we hope you might write a few short sentences about a place you visited or a memory you have about wearing the shoes you're submitting to be part of the exhibition.

To drop off your shoes, please visit the gallery week-days between 10a.m. and 4p.m. in the Art/Music building.

January 24-2007:

Brown bag lecture and opening reception for the collaborative art work "Sole File." 

Both events will be held in the Fine Arts Gallery (located in the Art/Music building, Capps Capozzolo Academic Center for the Arts).  The lecture begins at noon and will include a talk by CSU-Pueblo student Rita Wilhelm about her impressions and experiences while teaching art at the Colorado Woman's Correctional Facility.  Following this will be lecture by Assistant Professor Caroline Peters exploring the use of autobiography in contemporary art. All are invited to bring a lunch and eat while listening to the speakers.

Later that evening, between 5:00 and 7:00 pm, there will be an opening reception for the exhibit.

During the reception, a special art action done in collaboration with CSU-Pueblo figure drawing classes will be performed.

Refreshments provided to all who attend. Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Also on Display

"Drawings from the Colorado Woman's Correctional Facility."
These are works produced by Rita Wilhelm's art class at the prison and can be viewed from now until February 19 in the "Curved Wall Gallery" at the Art and Music Building.

The Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo invites you to an visit the latest gallery opening:

“Ruth Lingen: Collaborative Prints & Books.”

Featured artists include Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Halley, Cindy Sherman, Lucus Samaras, Louise Nevelson and others. A variety of print, paper and bookmaking techniques will be showcased.

This Saturday- November 11- at 5:00, the Fine Arts Gallery - CSU-Pueblo will be hosting a lecture by master printmaker Ruth Lingen. Her topic will be "Contemporary Printmaking Collaborations."