January 9, 2008
Captivating Simplicity
by Mary Voelz Chandler
for The Rocky Mountain News
Michele Mosko may have just opened her gallery last fall, but she certainly isn't new to the Denver art community.
The first show she organized - "Back to the West" - was aptly titled. It was all about coming back: Mosko was born in Denver, the daughter of a noted physician and artist, Dr. Joel Mosko, who operated galleries here such as the Community Art Gallery and the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Cherry Creek.
She moved to New York to pursue a career in gallery management but returned to Denver to follow that path here, showing mostly works on paper in a small space near the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building.
For show No. 2 - "Black and White and Red All Over" - Mosko has used the concept of palette to organize an exhibition divided into three parts, for the three rooms of the gallery.
The side/office space includes pieces that feature red as part of the mix, including three Donald Sultan poppy silk-screens. The front room features more figurative and narrative works, including a framed grid of Philip Knoll's part-funny/part- dark drawings, and Howard Hodgkin's strong 1982 lithograph Mourning.
The full-out graphic section of the show fills the back space. That includes the 10-part suite of Jasper Johns etchings, 1-9 Grouping, that is, simply, a classic, as well as stunning ballpoint pen abstractions by Il Lee that are all about line and the definition of negative and positive space.
The bottom line: It's a captivating show, in black and white.
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Michele Mosko Fine Art exhibits prints by international artists John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Enrique Chagoya, Christo, Helen Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Wayne Thiebaud, Betty Woodman, Huang Yan, and others. Featuring photography by Jill Greenberg, Bob Kolbrener, and Amalie R. Rothschild.
