Upcoming Events
EDGE Gallery Group Show – Opening 8/19/11, 7:30-11:00pm – Kinetic Birds
3658 Navajo Street
Denver, CO 80211
(303) 477-7173
When We Were Birds – Opening night : March 25, 2011
The Prado
300 West 11th Ave at Cherokee St.
Denver, CO 80204
303/355-8955
Tuesday – Saturday, Noon-6pm
First Fridays 6-9 pm
Judy Anderson is an artist. Ginny Hoyle is a poet. Together, they make artist books.
When We Were Birds pours poems into, around and through a grouping of sculptural book forms. The volumes, mounted on tall steel platforms, stand like monuments—a paper city on a hill. This is book as icon, book as reliquary for the stories and songs that comprise our lives. Nearby, collaged paintings and one-of-a-kind photographic prints, with images by photographer Efrain Cruz, take you deep into the spirit and substance of the book forms, as if a 4-inch tourist were strolling through the pages. Luminous images celebrate details of the work—surfaces painted, drawn, inked, printed and overprinted. Poems rise from and melt back into the images. The collected poems are presented in full in books mounted on the back wall, an edition of 10 signed and numbered (hand-built) artist books embellished with full color images from the installation, printed on archival watercolor paper and embedded in kinetic steel forms by Christopher Hecker, who also designed and fabricated the seven steel platforms supporting the sculpted volumes. Hecker is a Colorado sculptor apprenticed in Serravezza, Italy, whose work appears in public displays and private collections in the U.S. and Germany.
The installation as a whole documents and honors the craft that goes into making a bound book, and celebrates the dance between language and image, form and material—a powerful interaction in which each expression heightens understanding and appreciation of the other.
Judy Anderson: The sculpted books are comprised of fragments of my work, culled from the last 25 years, and rebuilt as sculptural codex volumes that bind together pieces of experience to capture the process of learning and becoming that has made me who I am. There is something freeing about tearing up things you have carefully preserved and making something altogether new from the pieces. The prints and paintings, and the bird books are wholly new, too, alive with light, and in many cases, vibrant color after years of a more somber palette.
Ginny Hoyle: The title poem, When We Were Birds, traces an arc of classic human experience from birth to maturity—Judy and I both turn 64 this year. And on that frame I have placed poems to add texture and music relevant to life on this new frontier—living, learning and creating on the other side of 60: “a time to rise on homemade wings and praise this juicy day. So much to forgive. So much to regret. So much to lose. So much to love before the light fades.
Biennial Residency - Platte Forum/Lighthouse Group – Opening Exhibit August 5th, 2010. Life Portraits: Installation of three individuals life stories represented in sculpture and writing intimately combined. See Platte Forum Link
* Pianos on 16th Street – Corner of Curtis and 16th street. Click on link below:
* Resurgence – Art in the Park – On display in the E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park, Northglenn, CO
May 21, 2010 – April 2011. Unveiling Ceremonies on June, 23, 2010
* Clarity – On Main Street, Lyons, CO
* B-Cycle Sign – At the B-Cycle headquarters, 28th and Larimer, 2751 Larimer St., Denver, CO
* Exclusive Solo Exhibit at the Cherry Tomato restaurant, located in the Park Hill neighborhood
The Cherry Tomato * 4645 E. 23rd Ave., Denver, CO 80207 * (303)377 – 1914 * www.CherryTomatoDenver.com
