Denver Art Museum Acquires work by Meghann Riepenhoff

Museum Acquisition
Meghann Riepenhoff's Ice #414 (29-34°F, Mixed Precipitation, Puget Sound, 1.30.23 WA) (2023) has been acquired by the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO. 
 
Meghann Riepenhoff's series, Ice, focuses on specific instances of freezing temperatures, allowing the effects of time and chemistry to unearth the intricate forms and cosmic vastness of ice normally hidden from the human eye. All of the works from this series records the microstructures of ice, washing out to a near-white in the center, crisscrossed by lacy crystalline patterns. Miniscule shifts in chemistry affect water’s capacity to shift state between solid and liquid, and Riepenhoff makes this silent process visible. Exposed in a freezing environment, the water left on the surface of the paper forms a frozen layer, whose crystal fractals filter and dazzle light onto the work’s surface.
May 29, 2025