Past Exhibitions

Titled after the book and poem by John Ashbery, this exhibition features 15 works from the local artist, Jane Olin—an innovator known for her pinhole photography and alternative silver gelatin processes. These works are selections from the series titled "Intimate Conversation" and, combined with the grand scale of the work, strive to invite the viewer to speculate on trees' kinship with humankind alongside the individuality, complexity, and imposing nature of trees.

About the Curator

Cydney Payton is an independent curator and writer, and former CEO and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. At MCA Denver, she led the architectural process and campaign to build the first Gold LEED-certified museum in the US. Her leadership in the arts has been acknowledged by The New York Times, The Denver Post, Artforum, and Art in America. She has served as a nominator for the MacArthur Fellowship and as a juror for the Taishin Art Awards Taiwan and Creative Capital. As a co-juror with Spike Lee, she selected Shepherd Fairey's HOPE to represent the 2008 Obama Campaign. Since the late 1980s, Payton has curated groundbreaking exhibitions by such artists as David Altmejd, Morley Baer, Lynda Benglis, Yu-Chen Chou, Brad Kahlhamer, Susanne Kühn, Roberto Behar, and Rosario Marquardt, Wangechi Mutu, Arlene Shechet, Collier Schorr, and Fischli & Weiss, to name a few. Payton holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, with an emphasis on Architectural History and Theory.  

Support for this exhibition provided by Kevin Cartwright and Stephen Eimer.

Jane Olin (b. 1939), Intimate Conversation 10, The Surface of Meaning, 2017, 50 x 48.5 in. © Jane Olin