A Constant Sky is appropriately named: The latest exhibition at the denverartmuseum is an endless vista of imagery, colors and themes.
A quick walk through the gallery of colorful artwork by andrea.carlson (made from the mixed mediums of oil paint, acrylic paint, gouache, colored pencil, watercolor and ink) is like going outside, looking up at the sky and spinning around until you get so dizzy you collapse in the grass.
Carlson’s work is full of cultural critique and theory, but the more personal “Ancestor and Descendant” might be her favorite piece in the show. “I feel like I put a lot of myself in it,” she says. “…That one has much more of my kinship in it.”
A Constant Sky, which opened October 5 and will stay through February 16, features thirty works — the most comprehensive show of Carlson’s art yet. “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to see this much of my work in one place again, because it is work on paper and is very fragile and hard to get out into one place,” Carlson says. ...
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