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    "The History of the Future," a new solo show by Lorelei Beckstrom at The Modbo

    "The History of the Future," a new solo show by Lorelei Beckstrom at The Modbo

    Presented by The Modbo at The Modbo

    May 13-June 3, 2011

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    The Modbo and S.P.Q.R., The Arts Alley District, are pleased to present solo shows by Brett Andrus and Lorelei Beckstrom. Their first solo shows in three and two years, respectively, Andrus’ new body of work is called “Vögel(n),” and Beckstrom’s, “The History of the Future.”

    The opening reception for this show will be on Friday, May 13th, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. in The Arts Alley District. Entertainment will include accordion music by The Good Morning Accordion Terrorist, live free jazz by The Bottesini Project, and some special performances that you’ll have to see to believe!

    Lorelei Beckstrom hails originally from Minnesota. After studying painting, sculpture, and graphic design for seven years, Beckstrom ended up in the mountains of Colorado in 1994, thus fulfilling a childhood dream to move to the west. She took a long hiatus from art to build a mountain dream home, and while she lived in a teepee adjacent to the structure-in-progress, found herself stretching canvases on teepee poles and resuming her artistic passion. Beckstrom has shown prolifically in Colorado Springs—at the Plantera group, Rubbish Gallery, and The Business of Arts Center among others, as well as Closed Gallery in Denver and Cult Status in Minneapolis.

    “The History of the Future” is Beckstrom’s first solo show in two years. Beckstrom notes that the impetus for the show came from watching the movie “Man on a Wire,” a film about Phillipe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Beckstrom began to immerse herself in a world of wire walkers and audiences, painting with what she eventually realized was an ironic passion—the artist actually harbors a fear of both heights and crowds. Beckstrom theorizes that she’s responding to her “fears in some odd way, and painting to work through them.” For Beckstrom, painting with oils, as she has done for this show, was a bit of a novelty; although she had worked with them in the past, she has mostly used acrylics for the past 20 years. Modbo co-owner Brett Andrus coaxed her into an oil class, and out of this, Beckstrom says she realized that she had “been an artist for all these years, but not a painter.” She now considers herself to be a painter. Beckstrom often feels like she’s “leading the painting, up until a point, and then it leads me. The world created in the painting becomes richer than real life, more real, almost.”


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        The Modbo

        17 C. East Bijou
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        Free

        Info Phone: 719-633-4240

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        Dates:
        May 13-June 3, 2011

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        Opening reception is on Friday, May 13th, from 5:30 til midnight
        5:30 p.m. until late

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