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The ambitious Cross Currents at CVA highlights Native American art

Put together by Cecily Cullen, creative director for the Center for Visual Art, Cross Currents is an ambitious exhibit that showcases contemporary art by Native Americans from across the country. It is a follow-up toCurrents, a show Cullen did at the old LoDo CVA in 2009 that was on the same theme and was equally intelligent in its conception. Incidentally Currents also marked Cullen's curatorial debut.

In a way, this show picks up where that show left off, and includes three artists who were also in the earlier version: Nicholas Galanin, Marie Watt and Will Wilson. In the earlier show, Cullen points out, the three were cast in the roles of emerging artists, but in the current endeavor, they represent the old guard who are firmly established in their careers...

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http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2014/01/the_ambitious_cross_currents_a.php

View the exhibition catalog here