It’s been a busy few weeks over at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Not only did artist Ana Maria Hernando premiere La Montana, a mountain of colorful Peruivian petticoats and videos, last week, but today (Feb. 3) marks the opening of the new exhibit Shark’s Ink in their Paperworks Gallery.

La Montana find the woven, brilliantly colored underskirts, purchased by the artist from a small group of Peruvians with whom she associated during the project, the petticoats not only stand as a metaphor for the mountainous terrain the women routinely navigate in the Peruvian Andes, but the high rising stack of resined garments also serves as a tribute to the towering spirit of the women themselves. Videos of young Peruvian dancers, the skirts peaking from the bottom of their traditional skirts, wind around the wall and give some nice anthropological insight into how these skirts might be used in real life for the women and children of this Peruvian culture.

Opening today, Shark’s Ink is a group show featuring the work of artists who collaborated with master Colorado print maker Bud Shark through the years 1976 and 2008. I caught a brief glimpse of it behind the curtain while there for the La Montana opening, and it looks to be dazzling and colorful and fun.

The MCA has a lot going on right now, and it’s the perfect time for those who haven’t been or even folks who go regularly to stop by and see all this new work.