Danielle Kelly

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Art so perfect, it's painful: At its best, Ronk’s advanced technique achieves drawn-up perfection; Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009; Grayson Ronk's graphite drawings are so exacting in their faint precision, to look at them is almost painful.
Drink in "Drunk" art: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009; Drunk is the perfect pit-stop for boozy tortured artists.
Turning the page: Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions; Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009; Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions
Landscape exhibit pairs perfectly with Springs Preserve: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009; Everything about Robert Beckmann: Elemental Landscape dovetails beautifully: luminous landscape paintings, the Big Springs gallery at the Springs Preserve, a breezy October morning.
Camp Rodriguez Dead or Alive: sci-fi, elephant tusks and ... John McCain?!: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009; Ominously lit and oddly campy, Dead or Alive, You're Coming With Me has a darkness that gives way to a playful sense of humor, sharp sociopolitical interest and a cool ’80s reverence.
Beautiful integration: 12 + 7 demonstrates CityCenter’s synthesis of art and architecture; Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009; 12 + 7 doesn’t reveal much—the exhibition plays its cards close to its chest, although we appear to be getting one helluva public art collection.
Anniversary present: CAC, UNLV’s MFA program team for flawed and fun twentytwenty; Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009; How might a nonprofit contemporary art center kick off its 20th anniversary season? How about sharing the love, embracing the edge and inviting young artists to put on a show.
Drawn in?: Moszkowicz’s New Work succeeds at root but feels haphazardly presented; Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009; Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the artist’s pen-and-ink drawings, a multitude of exploding shapes and patterns that fill the eye and tickle the imagination.
Murals and more: Hispanic Museum’s Mix It Up serves up sweet street flavors; Thursday, July 30, 2009; Hispanic Museum’s Mix It Up serves up sweet street flavors.
Digital integration: Anfinson applies software to her work, with mixed results; Thursday, July 16, 2009; Now, with swift manipulation, not only can Sarah Palin’s face be seamlessly Photoshopped onto the body of Ted Nugent, but a photograph can also be shifted to look like a painting. This is all rudimentary Photoshop, but where does it leave a painter of images?

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Libby Lumpkin leaves Las Vegas Art Museum: Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008; Libby Lumpkin’s unexpected resignation as director of the Las Vegas Art
Museum has dealt a shocking blow to the arts community. In three short
years, Lumpkin turned a relatively conservative, if not provincial,
institution into a vital contemporary art museum.