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M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement from...
In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest season prevailed. It’s an idea we still see purported in films and on TV, but in reality, these...
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Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum and has curated nine exhibitions...
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Gregory Euclide Limited Edition Book, 2011
Here is my contribution to the lovely limited edition book produced by David B.Smith Gallery for Gregory Euclide. Some copies are still available at the gallery. 13 x 9 inch landscape | 96 pages, 119...
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Trine Bumiller, In Medias Res: New Paintings at Zg Gallery
The essay I wrote for Trine Bumiller’s exhibition at Zg Gallery in 2012: In Medias Res, Latin for “into the middle of things,” conveys an in-between period, an in-between region, whether literal or...
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William Stoehr, “Icons,” at Space Gallery in Denver
William Stoehr’s paintings of women’s faces are Amazonian. The canvases on view in ICONS at Space Gallery are seven feet tall. It’s as if the women are staring into your soul with their large,...
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Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped from adobeairstream.com
Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now living in California, the artist began his artistic exploration into the language of...
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CU Art Museum Sends “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes” To New York from...
The image is horrific. Dozens of men lie dead in a barren, muddy landscape. A silver, snow-filled trench winds off into the distance and dark clouds texturize the sky above. A woman in a heavy coat...
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Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review from adobeairstream.com
Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, makers and creators to continue doing what matters, what has meaning and follow (for lack of a...
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El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa from adobeairstream.com
In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as...
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Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger from adobeairstream.com
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on...
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Innovation in Art Criticism from adobeairstream.com
This piece was recently picked up by ArtsJournal. Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of...
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Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women from...
This appeared on adobeairstream.com on International Women’s Day. Here are ten artist’s I think should be more well-known. They are all currently working in Colorado. They just happen to be women.
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John McEnroe in Art Ltd. Magazine
john mcEnroe by leanne haase goebel Mar 2013 An abandoned mining area above the town of Ward, Colorado, inspired John McEnroe’s most recent body of work, Half Life, currently on view at Robischon...
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Month of Photography Denver from adobeairstream.com
MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout the city, the suburbs and the region spanning from mid-March to...
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Ricky Allman from Blisss Magazine
Ricky Allman words by Leanne Goebel Ricky Allmanʼs paintings on view in this exhibition at David B. Smith gallery are neither dystopian or utopian—they fall somewhere in the middle—dark, yet hopeful....
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Kris Lewis from Blisss Magazine
Kris Lewis by Leanne Goebel Kris Lewis paints fiction. His portraits are of characters — mysterious, unreal figures often the amalgamation of multiple sources. They are strong, yet fragile; happy, sad,...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000...
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In Search of the Truth from TruthAtlas.com
If someone gave you two minutes to define the Truth, what would you say? And if you were asked to step inside a recording booth set up within a giant inflatable sculpture to address that question,...
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ArtPlace Announces America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places
Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town ArtPlaces for 2013. The twelve communities on the list were chosen based upon per capita numbers of...
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