Dan Jacobs is the first full-time director of the Vicki Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, where he is also the founding Curator of the University Art Collections. Before coming to DU, Jacobs was a consulting scholar and co-curator for several exhibition and research projects at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego. In a senior position at the Getty Conservation Institute in the 1980s, he represented his division in the planning of the Richard Meier-designed Getty campus in Los Angeles. As Assistant Director at the Denver Art Museum from 1990 to 1998, he managed both the exhibition program and over $12 million in construction and interpretive projects. He’s also consulted on major museum renovation and expansion projects in Toronto, Seattle and San Francisco. He received his BA from Harvard College in Art History, followed by an M.B.A. from UCLA. In 2004 he received the M.A. in Art History from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jacobs’ interests now focus on the unique value of teaching directly from art collections, both for future museum professionals and other students.
Gwen Chanzit
Gwen Chanzit is curator of Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum. She has organized exhibitions on artists ranging from Matisse and Bonnard to Dana Schutz. Among recent exhibition projects are Figure to Field, Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Herbert Bayer: Berlin Graphics 1928-1938, Fracture: Cubism and After, Joan Miró: Instinct and Imagination, Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures, Herbert Bayer: New York and Aspen Paintings 1938-1974, and Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master.
Most recent is Women of Abstract Expressionism, a traveling exhibition that opened at the Denver Art Museum in June and will travel for a year. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Regarded as the world expert on internationally renowned Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Chanzit regularly rotates installations of the Denver Art Museum’s Bayer Collection that now numbers more than 8,000 works. She has published four books and several articles and catalogs on this Austrian born Bauhaus artist who spent 28 years in Aspen.
Chanzit holds a Ph.D. in art history and contributes to future generations of museum professionals as director of museum studies for the University of Denver’s graduate program in art history.
Agnes Martin Retrospective Moves from LACMA to Guggenheim
With the approach of our 2016 symposium and exhibition Abstraction & Representation: Finding Common Ground (Nov 17-Dec 3) at Space Gallery, we wanted to encourage our artists and collectors to learn more about Agnes Martin (1912-2004), one of the pioneers of abstraction. Martin’s legacy is explored in a wide ranging retrospective organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Agnes Martin Exhibition is the first retrospective of Martin’s work in the U.S. since 1992 and was presented at LACMA this year from April to September. For those who missed this extraordinary exhibition, it can be seen at the Guggenheim in NYC from Oct 7-Jan 11, 2017.
From her earlier biomorphic abstraction to the grids and striped canvases that made her famous, in room after room the viewer experiences her strong yet delicate and restrained works in which she sought to instill “beauty, innocence and happiness.” LACMA Exhibition Advisory. In the 1960’s, her groundbreaking grid paintings employing gently inscribed pencil grid lines onto monochromatic surfaces became a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
Martin withdrew from the art world from 1967-1973 settling in a remote mesa of New Mexico, but returned to painting in 1974. Influenced by the desert landscape, for the next 30 years, Martin would refine her aesthetic employing “six-foot square canvases marked by bands or stripes of acrylic wash finely outlined in graphite.” LACMA Exhibition Advisory.
Indeed, Martin’s works are so fine and subtle that they simply must be viewed in person so if you are headed to NYC in the coming months, be sure to stop in at the Guggenheim.
Shannon Robinson is the curator and chairperson of the national biennial exhibition Windows to the Divine (Nov 17-Dec 3, 2016) and the annual symposia sponsored by Collectors for Connoisseurship (2015 Denver Art Museum; 2016 Space Gallery; 2017 NYC).
Dr. Gwen Chanzit
Gwen Chanzit is curator of Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum. She has organized exhibitions on artists ranging from Matisse and Bonnard to Dana Schutz. Among recent exhibition projects are Figure to Field, Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Herbert Bayer: Berlin Graphics 1928-1938, Fracture: Cubism and After, Joan Miró: Instinct and Imagination, Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures, Herbert Bayer: New York and Aspen Paintings 1938-1974, and Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master.
Most recent is Women of Abstract Expressionism, a traveling exhibition that opened at the Denver Art Museum in June and will travel for a year. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Regarded as the world expert on internationally renowned Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Chanzit regularly rotates installations of the Denver Art Museum’s Bayer Collection that now numbers more than 8,000 works. She has published four books and several articles and catalogs on this Austrian born Bauhaus artist who spent 28 years in Aspen.
Chanzit holds a Ph.D. in art history and contributes to future generations of museum professionals as director of museum studies for the University of Denver’s graduate program in art history.
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