Figures and Forms features contrasting bodies of Tunson’s eclectic work, including photographs from the Mississippi Delta as well as recent work of abstract paintings.
Recombobulation: The act of recombobulating; putting back into order; removing confusion. The artists in this exhibit use found objects and other ephemera to create artistic treasures. They create a narrative by strategically arranging objects and allowing a specifically determined amount of original patina, shape, texture or inherent iconography to provide the plot for their story. Artists included in this exhibit are: Deborah Jang, Mark Friday, Michelle Lamb, Jimmy Descant, Leigh Cabell, Floyd Tunson, Sue Blosten and Kelton Osborn.
Tomás Doncker & The True Groove All-Stars present Endangered, a live music and multi-sensory installation performance steeped in 21st Century Psychedelic Soul. Endangered premieres at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on June 17, as an intimate site-specific performance in the Floyd D. Tunson: Hearts and Minds exhibition. On June 18 Endangered moves to Armstrong Hall for a full concert presentation.
Inspired by the Afro-Futuristic and politically charged artworks of Colorado’s own Floyd D. Tunson and powered by lyrics from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Tomás Doncker and The True Groove All-Stars chart a sonic journey to freedom, a modern day revolution of the mind.
Tomás Doncker & The True Groove All-Stars present Endangered, a live music and multi-sensory installation performance steeped in 21st Century Psychedelic Soul. Endangered premieres at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on June 17, as an intimate site-specific performance in the Floyd D. Tunson: Hearts and Minds exhibition. On June 18 Endangered moves to Armstrong Hall for a full concert presentation.
Inspired by the Afro-Futuristic and politically charged artworks of Colorado’s own Floyd D. Tunson and powered by lyrics from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Tomás Doncker and The True Groove All-Stars chart a sonic journey to freedom, a modern day revolution of the mind.
A major survey exhibition featuring works from the past five decades by Colorado artist Floyd D. Tunson
Endangered, a celebration of FAC at Colorado College acquisition of Hearts and Minds
May 6 – July 9
Opening Reception: September 3rd 5p-9p
Artists Talk: September 15th at 5:30pm
A public conversation between Floyd D. Tunson and Pulitzer-prize winning poet and UCCS alumnus Yusef Komunyakaa.
"My work reflects my journey to acquire knowledge. Along the way I have become a Janus. Looking at life from one direction, I see the terror of chaos, man's inhumanity to man, mortality, and the vastness of the unknown. From another direction, the human condition seems like a magnificent, orderly evolution of extraordinary beauty. The totality of my work reflects my quest to comprehend and express these forces and their interconnectedness. Even my non-objective painting is based on this dialectic, where uninhibited strokes play against geometric order."
-Floyd Tunson
"Floyd D. Tunson declares in his artist statement: "I have become a Janus." Depicted with two faces - one looking to the future and one to the past - Janus is, in ancient Roman myth, the god of beginnings, transitions, time, duality, passages and endings. A new body of work by this critically acclaimed, multi-dimensional and influential artist auspiciously inaugurates GOCA's new Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art site, in the Ent Center for the Arts."
"Floyd D. Tunson declares in his artist statement: "I have become a Janus." Depicted with two faces - one looking to the future and one to the past - Janus is, in ancient Roman myth, the god of beginnings, transitions, time, duality, passages and endings. A new body of work by this critically acclaimed, multi-dimensional and influential artist auspiciously inaugurates GOCA's new Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art site, in the Ent Center for the Arts."
FLOYD TUNSON, DÁREECE WALKER AND BUNKY ECHO-HAWK
An exhibition in collaboration with The Butler Center and Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies (REMS) program
Opening Reception and Artists Talks
February 27, 5:30 PM Free and Open to the public
The MAC's ribbon cutting ceremony for collaborative mural by El Mac and Fuse depicting Manitou Springs artist Floyd. D. Tunson.
Loft Venues:
108 N. Tejon, Unit F- Greeter will guide you upstairs to the residence
101 N. Tejon, Unit 216- Greeter will guide you upstairs to the residence
Sponsors:
Auction House 109 and Little London Market
Downtown Fine Wine and Spirits
The Loft Lady: Walston Group Real Estate, Inc.
SELECTED WORK FOR SALE AND LEASE
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