Joseph Raffael: A Collaboration with Ft. Collins Museum of Contemporary Art

April 17 - May 31, 2009

Joseph Raffael: A Partnership with Ft Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (Theater Gallery)

The Arvada Center is fortunate to partner with the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art to bring Joseph Raffael one of America's foremost contemporary realist painters to Colorado. Raffael's realism, however, is no ordinary picture making. Rather his paintings incorporate many tenets of modernism: abstract composition, unconventional views, large scale, flattened space, simplified color, and vigorous brushwork. Over a career spanning nearly six decades, the 75-year-old artist has had more than 70 one-person shows. His work is in more than 50 prominent American collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. After its venue here at the Center, the exhibition will travel to Fort Collins, then to the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio and the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City.

Opening Reception: April 17, 7-9 p.m., free open to public