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Amy Metier at William Havu Gallery

March 6th, 2010

Whistle, 48 x 48 inches, oil on canvas, ©2010 Amy Metier.
Palimpsest
Amy Metier at William Havu Gallery through April 10, 2010
1040 Cherokee St.
Denver, Colorado
In her third solo exhibition at the William Havu Gallery, Metier fills the space with exuberant abstractions of objects from her studio, other artist’s studios and recent travels. These shapes are drawn with [...]

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Gordon Matta-Clark — Artist, Activist, Anarchitect

November 29th, 2009

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974

Completion through removal. Abstractions of surfaces. Not-building, not-to-rebuild, not-built-space. Creating spatial complexity, reading new openings against old surfaces. Light admitted into space or beyond surfaces that are cut. Breaking and entering. Approaching structural collapse, separating the parts at the point of collapse.
— Gordon Matta-Clark, 1971
I’ve just spent a couple of weeks researching [...]

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