DENVER, CO.-The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, presents 2005 Biennial Blow Out, on view through September 25, 2005. For the 2005 Biennial Blow Out London-based curator Kenny Schachter selected ten artists throughout the Rocky Mountain from an open call for entries. The call actively sought challenging work that pushed traditional aesthetic boundaries and was sent to artists living and working in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Schachter traveled from London to review all of the submissions and site-specific proposals and, in the end, chose artists in a diverse range of media who he thought best fulfilled the goals of the Biennial and the mission of MCA. The selected works include a wide range of media from photography to sculpture, from ceramics to digital art and site-specific installation.

Guest Juror: Kenny Schachter, UK. Artists: Louisa Armbrust (Denver, CO), Angela Ellsworth (Scottsdale, AZ), Denis Gillingwater (Phoenix, AZ), Patti Hallock (Longmont, CO), Jessica James Lansdon (Tucson, AZ), Susan Meyer (Denver, CO), Jason Patz (Denver, CO), David Sharpe (Denver, CO), Jeff Starr (Denver, CO), and Sherlock Terry (Corrales, NM).

Kenny Schachter lives and works in London as an independent curator and writer. Schachter has curated numerous shows at cultural institutions worldwide, including PS1, NY; The Sculpture Center, NY; Artforms, London, UK; Hoenthal und Beren, Cologne, Germany; Chopo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. In 2002, he established and led an experimental exhibition space in New York City, conTEMPorary, the first interior space designed by Vito Acconci. Schachter has also taught intermittently at the School of Visual Arts, New York University and Columbia University. He has lectured throughout the US, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, 91st Annual Conference of the College Arts Association, University of Texas, Kansas City Art Institute, Duke University, Phoenix Art Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and the Rhode Island School of Design.