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Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver

1485 Delgany Street

Denver, CO

303-298-7554

http://www.mcadenver.org

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Project Gallery

Date/Time:Daily from Tue., September 16 until Sun., January 18

Perfect Strangers

We’ll Be Seeing You features portraits of unlikely subjects.

Susan Froyd

Perfect Strangers

Beginning in June, Colorado artist Jack Balas took up residence in the Project Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, at the front end of a long string of artistic happenings: He was there to create We’ll Be Seeing You, a series of photographic portraits and paintings using sitters — some friends and colleagues, some strangers — chosen in a unique, communal manner.

“I am creating a chain of models that starts at the museum and branches out into the community...starting with one person from each of MCA/Denver’s six partner educational institutions and asking them to recommend the next person to come — hopefully someone whom they would not expect to find visiting an art museum, let alone be depicted in one — and that person recommends the next, and so on,” Balas noted at the outset of the project, which involved hour-long sessions at the museum and follow-up feedback visits. Balas then arranged the resulting portraits in rambling flow charts across the gallery’s walls as their chain-letter-style numbers grew (the process part of the show ended yesterday); the finished installation will remain on view through September 20.

Artist and sitters will gather tonight from 6 to 10 p.m. at the MCA, 1485 Delgany Street, to celebrate the project’s completion, with Balas (who’s also featured at the opening of a more formal solo show, Tattoo Detour, tonight at 6 p.m. at Robischon Gallery, 1740 Wazee Street) speaking around 7:30 p.m. For information, go to www.mcadenver.org or call 303-298-7554.

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