Embrace! at the DAM
Artists are busy putting the final touches on Embrace!, the Denver Art Museum’s newest exhibition of site-specific installations. It opens this Saturday, Nov. 14, and is full of 17 intriguing, fun creations. If you’ve been to the museum recently, you’ve probably witnessed artists taking over the Hamilton Building with everything from paint guns to cherry pickers. Most of the installations are completely finished, but several are still in progress. Projects range from an airbrush painting that spans the four-story atrium to a maze of more than 8,700 brightly colored bungee cords. One that I was especially intrigued by was a multimedia presentation that incorporates motion sensors to change the display in relation to the number of visitors and their movements.
Seeing how the architecture of the museum shaped the artists’ works is fascinating. A special feature on the second floor will allow visitors to track the progress of the installations during their creation through time-lapse photography.
Embrace! will run through April 4, after which many of the creations will be painted over or otherwise dismantled. For more information, visit www.denverartmuseum.org.
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