10 works you should know

according to Jeff Lambson,
Director and curator, Emmanuel Art Gallery
at the University of Colorado Denver

originally published June 2020


Jeff Lambson is the Director and Curator of the Emmanuel Art Gallery and CU Denver Experience Gallery at the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to his position at CU Denver, Jeff was founding Curator of Contemporary Art at the BYU Museum of Art, the most-attended university art museum in North America.

Images included below are used with permission from the artists.


1

Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute, born 1975)

Last American Indian on Earth (2014)
Performance


2

Jared Lindsay Clark (American, born 1976)

Sunset Seer Screen Box (2013)
Styrofoam and epoxy resin, 12.5 x 18.5 x 13.5 inches
Private collection


3

Annie Poon (American, born 1977)

Die Wicked Die (2013)
stop motion animation, series of five vignettes, duration: 3:00
Collection of the artist


4

Rebecca Campbell (American, born 1971)

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (2009)
avocado tree reinforced with steel and fiberglass, covered in hand-sewn velvet, hand-blown glass birds on brass feet filled with Windex; steel filled with Solar Salt harvested from the Great Salt Lake; overall: 13 feet x 16 feet x 18 feet
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Rebecca Campbell and L.A. Louver, Venice, California


5

Pam Bowman (American, born 1953)

Becoming (2013)
cotton rope, cotton string, caulking cotton, hemp twine, steel, wood, acrylic paint, vinyl, 30 feet x 30 feet x 12 feet


6

Wayne Brungard (American, born 1946)

Opus 11
bronze and red oak, 111.5 x 69 x 57 inches
Collection of the artist


7

Adam Bateman (American, born 1974)

The Fourth Thousand Years (2011) 
Books, 168 x 195 x 235 inches


8

Ed Roth (American, 1932-2001)
Rat Fink (series begun with napkin drawing, 1959)
drawings and commercial products


9

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920)

French Pastries, 1963
oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 24 1/8in.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966


10

Michael Whiting (American, born 1974)

Buck (2007)
Automotive paint, steel, 77 x 55 x 16″
Brigham Young University Museum of Art