5 Locals

The Curfman Gallery is excited to host 5 LOCALS, an exhibition featuring the exciting work of five local artists. The artists represented in this exhibition were selected by LSC Arts Program staff to represent some of the most exciting artwork being made in the region. Artists were chosen on the basis of technical mastery, intellectual rigor, and conceptual depth. The exhibit aims to introduce the public to artwork that reflects our local community, through photographs, to maps, and more. Below …

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Art & Science: Spring 2019

The Art and Science Exhibition featured the work of faculty, staff and students with a focus on science and art or science manifesting as art. The exhibit opened on February 26th at 4:30p.m. for an opening reception, at which our Juror’s presented the following awards: Award for Excellence Lauren Faherty, ACGT Eisen Tamkun, Disperse Juror’s Choice Mark Dineen, Bronze Drawings Honorable Mention Kathleen Eddy, Estuary

Leventis & Craig – Forgotten Spaces: The Intimate and the Impersonal

Forgotten Spaces: The Intimate and the Impersonal Andrew Leventis and Morgan Craig, two incredible painters, exhibited some of their pieces in the Curfman Gallery from April 16th until June 14th. We will be hosting an opening reception on April 16th from 4:30-6:30p.m. catered food and drinks. Come check it out for a look into these amazing artist’s work. Learn more about Leventis and Craig: Andrew Leventis  Morgan Craig

Course by Rose B. Simpson

The Duhesa gallery is currently exhibiting Rose B. Simpson’s Course series. Simpson describes this exhibit as the manifestation of her most recent self challenges and discovery. “The chapters of our lives engage lessons in our own personal evolutions. Charting our own courses, we accept those challenges with agency and apply what is learned to the level ups and graduations and acceptances to new strata of consciousnesses. One day it is easy, the next, rough.” -Rose B. Simpson Simpson will have an artist …

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Isadora Stowe

Anamnesis by Isadora Stowe

Isadora Stowe is a multi-media American visual artist whose artwork focuses on the narrative of environment translated and coded into complex psychological landscapes. Her strong interest is in visual narratives, created out of symbolic code, or personal syntax, that explore memory as it relates to the construction, negotiation and interpretation of the sense of self. Isadora Stowe grew up in the Southwest border region, influenced by the interrelationships between borders and divisions, real or imagined. She is inspired by how …

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The 21st Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition

The Curfman Gallery is proud to present the 21stColorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, the only international poster exhibition of its kind in the United States and one of a growing number of similar exhibitions around the world. The exhibit began in 1979, backed by the Colorado State University (CSU) Department of Art’s graphic design sect. It is a biennial exhibition calling renowned and novice artists from all over the world to display international poster designs to an American audience. Each …

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The 2019 Student Art Exhibition

The Curfman Gallery is proud to present the 2019 Student Art Exhibition, the longest running exhibit on the Colorado State University campus. Over 200 works were submitted and only 46 were selected for this show. The Jurors Dr. Yang Wang was the ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Luther College. Her research and teaching focus on the role of Chinese art in establishing global modernism and the international arena of contemporary art. Her ongoing book project, Provincializing National Art in Maoist China: …

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America! America! by John Hitchcock

John Hitchcock is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection between cultures through the land, language and visual symbols of the Great Plains. Hitchcock draws from his experiences growing up on native land that sits adjacent to Fort Sills in Oklahoma, which serves as the current homelands of the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Nations. He utilizes drawing and printmaking processes to convey personal symbols and layers of thoughts about removal, displacement, and belonging. The artwork examines notions of safety, …

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Second Rotation Baumbach

Second Rotation by Diana Baumbach, in collaboration with Jessica Kondrath

Second Rotation brings together the work of Diana Baumbach and Jessica Kondrath in a choreography and print exhibit. Baumbach is a visual artist based in Wyoming, while Jessica Kondrath is a choreographer/dancer based in Long Beach. Both artists took inspiration from lunar cycles, gravitational pull and the weightlessness of space to create this new multi-media project. Kondrath choreographed movement, while Baumbach created digital projections cast atop the dancers. Additionally, this exhibit features custom printed patterns that were integrated into their …

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Sensational Inflatable MaxAdrian

The Sensational Inflatable Furry Divines by Max Adrian

Max Adrian is a visual artist whose soft-sculptural work playfully considers queer ideas of sexuality and identity through Craft. Greatly influenced by LGBTQ+ history, drag, puppetry, street theater, and other forms of radical performance, Adrian sews highly tactile sculptures that reference his performative influences with connotations of costume, nightlife, and sexual scenarios. His sculptures are intricately sewn using materials like faux fur, faux leather, and spandex. The push and pull between the trepidation and the desire to touch is a key element to Adrian’s …

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