Every picture tells a story, Rod Stewart once said. And he might have been paraphrasing an ancient Chinese proverb, but that’s not the point. The point is, every person who views a work of art will undoubtedly experience something different. And while that experience is linked to the power and…

I was going to do the gonzo journalist thing and participate in last night’s chalk pastel class at Xcentricity Gallery, led by Corrina Espinosa, but I thought I would make all of the other students feel bad if I busted out my mad pastel skills. That’s a lie: I knew…

Theresa Anderson may not be the first artist to incorporate text and art — Da Vinci’s journals testify that written language can contain aesthetic merit. But according to contemporary standards, what Anderson does in many of her drawings — adding an original narrative element — defines her as a conceptual…

Monster Jam is in Denver this weekend as part of its 2012 tour, and 2011 MVP Bari Musawwir, driver of the Spider-Man truck, took some time out of his busy schedule (driving awesome trucks, doing sweet tricks, crushing cars) to talk to us about his job, and why getting in…

Every building has a history, and the sordid past of Niwot’s Manifest Gallery influenced the theme of its new show that opens tonight: Red Light: Tragic beauties and other objects of desire. Turns out that in the 1970s, the building that now holds the gallery was a brothel — and…

Gusterman’s, a silversmith shop in Larimer Square, represents an old-world ideal of master craftsmanship. The shop, more than thirty years old, sells objects and jewelry created in-house, and the silversmiths, Mary Eckels and Jamie McLandsborough, will create whatever you want, in front of you. Their gallery is full of small…

The Ladies Fancywork Society strikes again. The group known for yarn-bombing Denver — with everything from a ball and chain on the big blue bear outside of the Colorado Convention Center to a crocheted garden outside Union Station just unveiled a new piece. And unlike the Ladies’s street bombings, this…

When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, “real” photographers, wouldn’t have anything to do with digital photography. “There are the guys saying iPhotography isn’t art,” she says…

I fly fish. I’ve only been going for about three summers, I’m self-taught, I’ve caught exactly two fish and I don’t know how to tie my own flies. For those of you who have no clue what that means, it means I’m an amateur. And that probably I suck. But…

The Impossible Winterbourne, a Denver artist, doesn’t consider himself a “street artist” because his art isn’t limited to the streets. But like street artists, Winterbourne’s installations appear quietly, waiting to be noticed. He’s been in Denver “scarcely a year,” and during that time has added his sculpture to ordinary urban…

Giving to charity when you’re an artist may seem like a catch-22. After all, many emerging artists could use some charity of their own. But Heart Art Denver has made it possible to give back to the community by donating a piece or art to their 18th annual AIGA (American…

Just like the mass panic that’s sure to ensue when the end of the world comes this December, Plus Gallery’s new show “Apocalypse? How!” has a lot going on. To start, the show features four different artists, symbolic of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Donald Fodness, Larry Bob Phillips,…

Most people stopped practicing art in grade school, and according to Heidi Hafenstine, that’s why art therapy works so well for adults. Art, according to Hafenstine, offers a form of communication that taps into the subconscious. Because unlike language, most adults have lost their mastery and ability to “manipulate” the…

To become well-known, artists usually have to find a niche. Once they become popular for their body of work within that forte, other projects are often over-shadowed. Guest curator for Vertigo Art Space, Mike McClung, is interested in defining popular Denver artists outside of their most-known work. In his new…

Every artist has his quirk — an obsession within his own work. For John May, that obsession is seeing his reflection on the door of a newly painted car. “I take pictures that are reflection pictures, and they have my reflection in them,” he says. “None of the new cars…

Tattoos are often associated with Lowbrow counter-culture art movements, but it’s more common now, especially in Denver, to see tattoo and fine art collide. Zach Custer, co-owner of Anthology Fine Art, a frame shop, photographer’s studio and fine art gallery on Santa Fe, explains that the fine art of tattooing…

Celebrity fashion icons usually get the credit for their style. When women go to the salon holding a picture of their favorite ‘do, they’re rarely focused on who’s behind the look. Ever Good, a makeup artist and hairstylist at Matthew Morris Salon (the same Matthew Morris who placed third in…

Claudia Roulier’s work is showing at CORE New Art Space this month through January 20, but that’s not all she’s excited about. “I just read my e-mail, and I’ve been selected as one of the artists in the Cherry Creek Arts Festival,” she says. “Only about twenty to thirty Colorado…

Many speculated that winter would end the Occupy movement, but Salida artist Jimmy Descant says he thinks the movement will stay strong and he has decided to show his support by staging his own protest, Crutches As A Sign Of The Times Of Occupation, opening tomorrow night at Leon Gallery…