With “His Mark,” the endless loop of Nauman inscribing an X becomes a body memory for the viewer.

Stacy J. Platt
Stacy J. Platt is a Colorado-based writer, artist, and educator. The founder of photobook addict, her writing has appeared in photo-eye, Don’t Take Pictures, the Society for Photography Education’s exposure magazine, and The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography. She teaches photography, art history, and writing at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.
The Fight to Preserve Denver’s Chicano Murals
The city’s murals are more than cultural aesthetics; they are living texts, a multimodal composition based on tlacuilolitztli, the Aztec concept of writing.
What Survivance Means for Indigenous Artists
Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation.
Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility
“I think about the young kids, the teenagers, and I think being able to see yourself represented in art is so powerful,” says the artist.
The Dirty South Comes to Denver
Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.
How One Conservative City Supports Numerous Progressive Artists
Given Colorado Springs’s politics and hyper-conservatism, wouldn’t artists hesitate to make and perform work there?