As To Be In Plain Sight - Denver, CO [ARCHIVED]
Posted by: Metro2
N 39° 44.226 W 104° 59.344
13S E 500936 N 4398578
NOTE: Denver Art Museum is building a new entrance and renovating the North Building. This building has been demolished.
Waymark Code: WMBCR5
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2011
Views: 33
According to the Wikipedia article (
visit link) (b.1942 New York) on the artist of this piece, Lawrence Weiner, much of his work deals with typographic texts, and adds: "Weiner works in a wide variety of media, including video, film, books, sound art using audio tape, sculpture, performance art, installation art, and graphic art."
The plaque accompanying this piece reads:
"LAWRENCE WEINER
American, born 1942 in the Bronx,
New York; lives and works in New York
and Amsterdam
AS TO BE IN PLAIN SIGHT
2009
Language + materials referred to
Gift of Vicki and Kent Logan in honor of Lewis I. Sharp,
Denver Art Museum Director 1989-2009, 2010.383"
The Museum's website (
visit link) also shows a green version of this work inside it's atrium, but the poster of this waymark did not notice this on his 4/23/11 visit.