When people travel through Denver International Airport, they’re rarely thinking about the art there. Typically, a travelers are more concerned with cramming McDonald’s hash browns into their kids’ mouths and getting to the gate without a mental breakdown than they are with marveling at the artwork in the terminal. But…
Outside in 303, the main summer feature at the Museo de las Americas, is absolutely spectacular, and makes a real contribution to local art literacy by revealing a scene of Latino taggers that has been more or less hidden from the rest of the art world — though their efforts…
For Paper Work, Cecily Cullen, the creative director at Metropolitan State University’s Center for Visual Art, has put together an exhibit that surveys artists from Colorado and around the country who are using paper to create 3-D compositions. Paper is a familiar art material, but it’s typically used as a…
Beyond Pop: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective is the Denver Art Museum’s summer blockbuster. Though Wesselmann was part of the initial group of artists who launched pop art in the ’60s, his accomplishments are not as well remembered as are those of his fellow-traveling contemporaries. Maybe it’s because his chosen topics…
Lions and dragons and boats took over Sloan’s Lake Park this past weekend as thousands braved the heat to eat, shop and play at the 2014 Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. The culture of the Philippines was showcased this year, but entertainment included everything from Japanese taiko drumming and martial arts…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Summer is… sunshine, sweet tea and watermelon salad. Water, of course. Hiking,…
This weekend’s openings are in a range of venues, everything from project spaces in living rooms and storefronts to boutiques to tried-and-true co-ops. And just as the galleries themselves scream variety, so do the shows. See also: Ween Machine: Irreverent Eclectic…
Recently there have been signs of life in the old Temple Emmanuel building at 24th and Curtis streets, a Frank Edbrooke structure that’s stood vacant and boarded-up for years after serving as home to three consecutive Jewish congregations. And while the Temple, as it’s now called, is already being occupied…
Rather than throw together a group show featuring work by artists whose work is unconnected, for its current exhibit, Articulated Perspectives, the William Havu Gallery focused on four artists who all do work that is based on representational imagery but also incorporates abstract sensibilities. The show begins with a monumental…
Summer is traditionally a time for group shows, but most galleries tend to feature work by their various artists, with no clear interconnecting theme. Not so at William Havu Gallery, where owner Bill Havu and gallery administrator Nick Ryan have brought together four artists, all of whom do contemporary work…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “The thing is, I don’t usually hang my work in coffee shops,”…
Spit-shined Mustangs, T-Birds, Corvettes and other automotive classics were the focal point Saturday at the Denver Automotive and Diesel Center’s car show. Along with the stylin’ rides, the event featured a rockabilly costume contest and other diversions. Feast your eyes on these examples of automotive style, taken by photographer Jake…
Pop-ups, takeovers and celebrations rule the gallery scene this weekend, when a plethora of unexpected exhibitions will take flight all over town. Here are some picks to guide you through the many alternatives. See also: Writing on the Wall: Street Werkz at the Firehouse Art Center…
For its show, (Residency): Process to Consumption, the city’s arts arm, Create Denver, handed out empty four-foot-by-four-foot wooden boxes to a group of selected artists. They were asked to use the back as a canvas and the inside to build something. Some collaborated; others created alone. Tonight, the show opens…
The Arvada Center sits on a very large site, but until recently, the venue had never used the seventeen-acre field just to the south to showcase art. That changed when exhibitions director Collin Parson, along with assistant curator Kristin Bueb, decided to transform the empty land into a xeric sculpture…
It’s not unusual for Plus Gallery to throw a group show in the summer, but Ivar Zeile says this year’s offering, Super Human, is his biggest multi-artist exhibition ever, with work from more than 25 local, national and even international artists. More than just a collection of portraits, Super Human…
Jackie Barry’s love for flags as celebratory beacons originated in Philadelphia, but it’s the Colorado outdoors that inspires Front Range Flag Company. Barry and her business partner, Ryan Casey, launched the custom flag company early this summer to commemorate adventurous achievements big and small — from going a short hike…
The Arvada Center is hosting four strong exhibits right now, all part of the Unbound series. But I will focus on just one here: Unbound: Sculpture in the Field. (I’ll discuss the others later this summer.) The show is highly visible — you can even catch a glimpse from the…
After more than twenty years, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival continues to attract folks from all over the city — and the world — to browse and buy fine art and craft works by a national roster of artists. Food, live performance and interactive art activities for all all ages…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “I just wanted to make a city,” says artist Linda Gleitz. In…
Ever wonder what the plans are for a construction site that has popped up at the end of your block? Have you been curious about a new face being put on an old building downtown? For close to a decade, Ken Schroeppel has been answering these questions, documenting Denver’s development…
Art & Writing, one of Eric Matelski’s favorite shows to curate, currenty fills the rooms of the historic Milheim House, a stately Denver Square from the turn of the last century, complete with a wraparound porch, that’s now home to Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Conceived as a side trip of the…
