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Boulder-based artist Sarah McKenzie paints architecture. She started with canvases of abandoned buildings in the city of Detroit in graduate school, then painted suburban sprawl on the Front Range and construction sites after moving to Colorado. Most recently, with the representation of the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, she has exhibited works portraying the institutional spaces of galleries and museums with those paintings often showcased in the very spaces she s depicting.
“I really think about architecture as a lens through which we can understand our society, McKenzie says. If we look at what our society builds and what happens to those built structures over time, it reveals a lot about shifts in our society, our economy, our labor force and our priorities as a country.
In an online program last month, Motus Theater collaborated with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Conference on World Affairs to present two monologues delivered by formerly incarcerated people. A third story, written by Colorado Springs CommunityWorks Vice President Juaquin Mobley, was read aloud by Dean Williams, executive director of Colorado’s Department of Corrections.
“It was an awesome opportunity for not only people at the Conference on World Affairs to learn about Mobley’s experience of the dehumanization and violence that he experienced in prison, but they had the pleasure of hearing Dean Williams who’s trying to do reform hold closely that experience and negotiate the grief of the gap between what his vision is and what continues to happen to people in our prison system,” says Motus artistic director Kirsten Wilson.
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