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Sketches: Brief reviews of current shows
February/2007/
Residual
Memory. To come up with this
show, Arvada Center exhibition director Jerry Gilmore
invited photo-based artist Jimmy Sellars to show
alongside ceramics whiz Marie E.v.B. Gibbons; both
are longtime habitués of the Denver art scene. Having
the center's capacious Lower Galleries at their
disposal encouraged the two to soar, and they each
created impressive new bodies of work expressly for
this do-not-miss exhibition. For several years,
Sellars has been using G.I. Joe action figures to
stand in for human models in his digitally based
photographs. In the pieces he created for
Residual
Memory, Sellars used the
figures to refer to his own memories. Gibbons is a
talented ceramics artist who is especially good at
surfaces, using a variety of techniques to achieve
them. Each of the three Gibbons spaces has been
conceived as an installation, with two of them
anchored by bathtubs meant to reinforce her water
theme. All of the sculptures are part of her "My
Ocean" series, which refers to her childhood love of
the sea. Through April 1 at the Arvada Center, 6901
Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200. Reviewed March 15.