CVA Staff Favorite: Taryn
Channel: Center for Visual Art MSU Denver
Date: 13/02/2018

We asked CVA gallery assistant Taryn about her favorite work in Sangre Colorado: Carlos Frésquez Mid-Career Survey. Her favorite, Pops en 1954, is a work in which local Denver artist Carlos Frésquez used spraypaint and acrylic to create expressive line quality. Carlos, a professor at MSU Denver, uses graffiti materials and processes in his work to start a conversation about how youth can be creative without breaking the law; they can put their art on canvas instead. In this work you can see Carlos starting to use gestural lines, develop saturated color palettes and his recurring use of Chicano iconography and automobiles.

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