Artist John McEnroe’s latest public sculpture, National Velvet, provides downtown Denver with a striking new work of art that continues the artist’s trademark unorthodox approach to materials, form and contemporary ideas. Utilizing sand as the building blocks for a dynamic new visual motif, National Velvet conjures up multiple interpretations through its towering form and the tendrils that spiral through it. Viewers will delight in the sheer scale and playfulness of the work, the dominant red-hue piercing through the sky, both through the day and when lit from within at night.
In the last decade, Denver artist John McEnroe has built a formidable career as one of the more progressive and respected contemporary artists in the region. He has created a sculptural oeuvre that includes major public art commissions in Denver including the renovated Colorado Convention Center, a work for the Dry Creek Light Rail Station and the Omar D. Blair Charter School.
In addition to his major public works, McEnroe maintains a robust and unique studio practice, exhibiting in many solo and group shows. His most recent exhibitions include New Paintings at The Lab of Art + Ideas at Belmar, Decades of Influence at the Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver, Young Moderns at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and Art Miami, in conjunction with Plus Gallery. Most recently, Christoph Heinrich, the Denver Art Museum’s Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art has invited John to exhibit in Embrace! alongside some of the top contemporary artists in the world in a showcase that will electrify the unique architecture of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building in the fall of 2009.
McEnroe exhibits exclusively with Plus Gallery in Denver and his work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, as well as select public and private collections of note.
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