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Vicki Myhren Gallery The Vicki Myhren Gallery is the principal exhibition venue of the School of Art & Art History at the The Gallery is named in honor of Vicki Myhren.

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is the principal exhibition venue of the School of Art & Art History (SAAH). Dedicated to interdisciplinary visual arts programming and practice, the Gallery is integral to the educational mission of the School. A rotating calendar of exhibitions features local, national and global artists, both emerging and established. The gallery is FREE and open to the public during posted open hours.

We had so much fun last Thursday at our event, A Gathering in Place, which featured a lecture by our very own Dean Sobel...
10/19/2026

We had so much fun last Thursday at our event, A Gathering in Place, which featured a lecture by our very own Dean Sobel and a performance of composer Alvin Lucier's piece Panorama (1993) by Lamont students Ava Lee and Antonio Ricafort. We laughed, we learned, and, most importantly, we all gathered to appreciate the work of artists and composers as a community.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, and, even if you missed it, we hope to see you at our next event!

For our next artist spotlight, we're featuring artist Eugene Macki, whose piece Units of Measurement (2026) is shown in ...
10/05/2026

For our next artist spotlight, we're featuring artist Eugene Macki, whose piece Units of Measurement (2026) is shown in the center of both photos above.

Macki is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines how meaning is constructed, transformed, and unsettled through encounters with objects, materials, bodies, and place. Working across sculpture, installation, land art, performance, and moving image, he develops projects that resist transfixed interpretation, instead creating environments where perception unfolds through movement, duration, and experience.

Rather than treating a sculpture as a discrete object, Macki approaches it as a spatial and conceptual proposition. Industrial and commonplace materials are reconfigured into immersive situations that blur distinctions between monument and fragment, permanence and impermanence, action and residue. Through subtle shifts in scale, orientation, and context, familiar forms become newly legible, encouraging reflection on how physical spaces shape memory, collective experience, and systems of meaning.

Macki’s work is informed by an expansive, interdisciplinary practice that frequently incorporates collaboration, performance, and site-responsive methodologies. Whether working within museums, galleries, public landscapes, or temporary environments, he emphasizes process as much as outcome, allowing each project to evolve in dialogue with its surroundings and the communities that encounter it.

Based between the United Kingdom and the United States, Macki has presented work intentionally through exhibitions, residencies, and institutional projects.

It only seems fitting to kick off our artist spotlights for our current exhibition, A System in Place: In Dialogue with ...
09/28/2026

It only seems fitting to kick off our artist spotlights for our current exhibition, A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt, with LeWitt himself. Swipe to see images of two of LeWitt's wall drawings, #786 and #730, which are currently on view.

Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) often executed his body of work through the work of others. Aside from his original works on paper, LeWitt’s work exists as concepts to be completed by others from his strict instructions. A champion of Conceptual Art, his practice continually challenged the idea of what art could be. He believed that an artwork encompassed not only the final product, but, even more importantly, the idea itself and any work that demonstrates the process of the artist – from conversations to models. In LeWitt’s view, the perceptible, visual outcome of an artwork was innocuous, or even boring, and the narrative, conceptual aspect of the work was what was truly interesting. Especially in relation to his wall drawings, he argued that they should be considered “ideas rather than objects.”

LeWitt’s wall drawings grew from his precise approach to art making. Beginning as early as the mid-1960s, he made three-dimensional works based on the cube, which used precise formats, like the grid, and methods that were mathematically based, defined by language, or created through random processes. He started making wall drawings in 1968, using arrangements of verticals, horizontals, and diagonals drawn directly onto the wall originally and later expanding his visual vocabulary, including circles and arcs, geometric forms and stars, and solid areas of ink-washed color.

The ability, and intent, for LeWitt’s wall drawings to be produced by nearly anyone calls into question the value we place on works of art, and how much of this is attributed to notions of artistry and ownership alone.

Lewitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his BFA from Syracuse University in 1949 and, after serving in Korea and Japan during the Korean War, moved to New York in 1953, where he mostly stayed until his death in 2007.

As part of our current exhibition, A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt, we're very excited to announce our ne...
09/23/2026

As part of our current exhibition, A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt, we're very excited to announce our next event in the gallery, A Gathering in Place (get it?). Please join us on Thursday, October 8th, from 5 - 7 PM to hear from the incomparable Professor Dean Sobel and listen to musicians from DU's Lamont School of Music perform Alvin Lucier's "Panorama." Lucier's composition inspired LeWitt to make Wall Drawing #730, which is currently on view. To register, head to the link in our bio or visit our website. We hope to see you there!

Earlier this month, we celebrated the opening of our current exhibition A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt, ...
09/21/2026

Earlier this month, we celebrated the opening of our current exhibition A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt, with all of you! We had an incredible time and especially loved watching everyone create their own module for Eltono's Modo No. 71. We're even more excited to welcome you back to add your very own line to Sol LeWitt's wall drawing #730!

Ignore the mess! We're putting the finishing touches on A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt. As you can tell,...
09/08/2026

Ignore the mess! We're putting the finishing touches on A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol LeWitt. As you can tell, this is shaping up to be an unforgettable show! Be the first to see it and join us for our opening reception this Thursday, September 10th, from 5 - 7 PM. There will be amazing food, incredible art, and (in our opinion) some great company!

Big things are happening in the VMG! Check out these behind-the-scenes of A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol Lewitt...
09/01/2026

Big things are happening in the VMG! Check out these behind-the-scenes of A System in Place: In Dialogue with Sol Lewitt.

Are you curious about how wall drawings are made? Do you want to learn more about how artworks can be made from instructions? Boy, do we have the show for you!

Make sure to stop by our opening reception next Thursday, September 10th, from 5 - 7 PM.

For our next staff spotlight, we only figured it would be right to send off Joy as she leaves to start a full time posit...
08/26/2026

For our next staff spotlight, we only figured it would be right to send off Joy as she leaves to start a full time position at History Colorado! Joy has been a graduate teaching assistant for the Davis Gallery for the past two years, and just finished her masters degree this August. 🎉🎓 In the Davis Gallery, Joy expertly handled the gambit of gallery work, from installation to marketing. She even co-curated her own exhibition at the Denver Public Library, which you can go see now! At risk of sounding cliche, Joy is such a joy to be around, and she will be sorely missed.

Recently installed on the third floor of the Community Commons, Jack Zajac's sculpture, Big Skull and Horn, might feel a...
08/24/2026

Recently installed on the third floor of the Community Commons, Jack Zajac's sculpture, Big Skull and Horn, might feel ancient, but it was actually made in 1962.

Zajac's pair of monumental bronze sculptures split a ram skull into two parts: one twisting and curving downward like a detached horn, while the other resembles a skull, with hollow spaces suggesting a long empty eye socket.

The sculpture's distinctly archaeological feeling stems not only from its form but also its texture, which was made by hand carving plaster models and creating a bronze cast from them. The resulting rough-hewn, varied surface reflects the contours of the plasters' exterior. The smoothness of the horn and the dimpled, craggy texture of the skull combine to imbue the work with the talismanic presence of a fossil, placing it in a very distant past while also nodding to its modernity, and the enduring presence of its maker.

If you're interested in learning more about this work or others on campus, head to our Bloomberg Connects guide which is linked in our bio! You'll even learn how Zajac got the inspiration for this sculpture and the fourteen others in his "Ram's Skull" series!

Recently installed on campus in front of the Ritchie Center, Gail Folwell's (BFA 1983) 2014 bronze sculpture, In the Pel...
08/19/2026

Recently installed on campus in front of the Ritchie Center, Gail Folwell's (BFA 1983) 2014 bronze sculpture, In the Peloton, is a celebration of collective motion and athletic intensity.

The term peloton refers to a group of two or more cyclists riding in proximity. The practice is done to reduce air resistance, but it carries immense risk. In competitive cycling, a peloton can consist of dozens of riders all jostling for position, competing with one another while knowing that if another rider falls, they will too.

Folwell's peloton captures the moment when chaos transforms into a kind of 'flow state.' The riders blend together, merging into a pack, surging forward, and disappearing into the sport.

We're so excited to have the sculpture on campus, and were honored to have Folwell return to DU this summer as the graduate commencement speaker. To learn more about this work, like whether you can touch it (spoiler alert: you can!), check out our Bloomberg Connects guide at the link in our bio!

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