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JEAN ALBUS AND NORMAN BROOMHALL ATHINTERLAND
Jean Albus and Norman Broomhall “Into the Within” at Hinterland Art Space
Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus‘ exhibition, Into the Within, is definitely a magical installation, realistic to a highdegree. To create the piece the artists filled a 26-foot long truck with thickets, magpie nests, willow twigs, bones, old silkflowers loving reclaimed from cemeteries, feathers, and leaves. This is an intense piece. Enter into the center of a densestand of tall shrubs. The eye wanders a bit to the central altar but is brought back by a keening repetition of details. Themasses of sticks that hover over the body are interrupted by vintage cage lights that set off the 8# x 10# acrylic transferimages of dessicated animals, pelts, bones, leaves and bodies that are delicately prepubescent. It’s hard to slow down andreally look at each image. I wanted to run and see the altarpiece, but couldn’t. The work held me back and then in turn-propelled me forward.
Norman Broomhall “up”
detail “heart”
The colors in the beginning of the short weaving path are tonal- allowing the focus to rest on the pairing of the yellowishlight, bird nests and floating photography. Sticks behind photographs are lit up. There are photographs of sticks withshadows playing on each side. I look at the photograph of the sticks. I look at the sticks. I can take a photograph of thephotograph of the sticks lit up within the sticks. Media doubling in a wide-speed bandwidth, Yep, I saw it on theinterweb first. I’ll see it again.
It’s unreal the amount of detail. Yet, it’s completely real, a place I’ve been. The leaves and bird feathers crunch under myfeet as I make my way down the short weaving path. I’m thinking about Walt Whitman’s epic, Leaves of Grass mixed upwith some rough disorderly kisses. There’s some passion here even if it’s dead and dry.
Reaching the end of the path looking up “into” -an old, softly, loved dress (that could have been worn by Dickens’ MissHavisham) is surrounded by faded silk flowers, thickets, and magpie nests. Think Dario Robleto. Directly below is ashort wall of glass blocks with photo transfers of birds and nests with a pile of sun-bleached bones resting atop. But godown to the ground again. Look down in the pile of leaves and feathers. So many feathers, it’s as if birds fought here. Inthis thickness of material is the genius link to something other than. Other than death and decay, there is this small spacewhere glossy rabbits, swans and the small Bambi, the doe rests. To pair this half cerebral/ half visceral drama, thismaterial work with a pile of kitsch opens it all up to be reinterpreted again. I thought I knew what it was as I was looking.Then it was entirely new.
“sunset tree” Albus and Broomhall
Into the Within Albus and Broomhall
detail altarpiece
Hinterland Art Space
3254 Walnut St.
Denver CO, 80205
http://hinterlandartspace.com
Closing Reception on 1st Friday: May 3, 6-10p
Additional gallery hours are by appointment – please contact Sabin Aell: 720.309.1764 or [email protected]
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All writing by Theresa Anderson unless marked otherwise.
I’m a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword2012 Denver Web Awards. Exhibiting nationally and represented in numerous private collections, my artwork has beenfeatured and included in publications such as Studio Visit, The Feminist Wire, Style Carrot, The Denver Art Museumblog, The Collective, Aurora Magazine, Irving Sandler Artist File, Calyx Journal, Saatchi Online Magazine, CreativeQuarterly, Westword and the Denver Post. I’m active in the Denver art scene, exhibiting works and presenting a masterartist demonstration on drawing at the Denver Art Museum, Artist Residency at PlatteForum, Redline Project Gallery,Pirate Contemporary Art and was the founder and director at Ice Cube Gallery 2009 – 2013.
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