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Exhibits ask patrons to rethink what ‘American Art’ means

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Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art
Paintings on view in the exhibition Eamon Ore-Giron: “Competing with Lightning/Rivalizando con el Relámpago” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver feature precolonial deities from the Americas depicted in brightly colored abstract forms.

Rethinking what "American art" means is the theme of two exhibitions at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists -- Dyani White Hawk and Eamon Ore-Giron -- draw a lot from their Indigenous heritage. Andrea Dukakis had a chance to visit and talk with one of the artists just before the opening. The two exhibitions run through May 22 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.