Art for Students, Alumni and Community
Art at DU is a palate that mixes global talent and homegrown creativity.
"A Lost Mind," by Eric Lanuzi, BFA '94, depicts human suffering in world events.
DU's art spaces give students and alumni opportunities to get hands-on gallery experience or display their creative expressions for the community. The galleries also attract diverse talent from all over the world to provide up-and-coming modern and contemporary artwork.
DU's two main galleries, the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery and the Gallery 023, are part of the School for Art and Art History, Denver's primary university-based visual arts program.
"Some incredible work has passed through the Myhren Gallery, and I am glad I had access to it as an [art] student," says Laurel McMechan, BFA '04.
The Myhren Gallery
The Myhren Gallery, DU's main exhibition venue, often stages Juried Student/Alumni Exhibitions that give current students and alumni the chance to submit their best work for display.
Laurel McMechan, BFA '04, explores the tensions of the human condition.
In addition, Myhren Gallery curators constantly seek out new artwork and challenging exhibitions. Some of these exhibitions include:
- "DIASPORA: Celebrating the Diversity of Jewish Art and Culture Around the World," and "Chimera," Minnette Vari's video installation about post-apartheid South Africa.
- On the Road: Photography of the Soviet Empire is the gallery's newest exhibition, opened on March 6, 2008. It features 70 photographs of the Jewish photographer Semyon Fridlyand. Fridlyand is one of the Soviet Union's most-published news photographers from the 1930s to the 1960s.
- An upcoming gift of 150 Andy Warhol original photographs, films and other artworks and works by Denver-based artists with direct connections to Warhol’s "Factory" studio in New York will be displayed in 2009.
E.K. Wimmer, art history masters student, self-portrait.
Gallery 023
Gallery 023 is purely run by students.
Students have the opportunity to curate, hang artwork and display whatever artwork they like.
In 2005, Gallery 023 received a grant to begin exhibiting work by professional international artists. The grant furthered the gallery’s goal of increasing opportunities to experience a variety of art on the DU campus.
Published on March 10, 2008