Dikeou Pop-Up: Justin Goldwater

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Justin Goldwater

Dikeou Collection Pop-Up Space

Opening Reception: Friday, May 17, 6-8pm

The Dikeou Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of work by Justin Goldwater. An opening reception will be held at the Dikeou Collection Pop-Up Space, 1331 Bannock Street, Denver, Colorado 80204, on Friday, May 17, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This event is free to attend and open to the public. Light refreshments along with crisp cuts from our Vinyl Archive will set the backdrop for the night.

A founding member of Austin-based Okay Mountain, Justin Goldwater now calls Eagle Rock North East Los Angeles home. His drawings and sculptures are witty attempts at visual humor, fragments of loose narrative and bungled chunks of autobiography, which strive to distort the moments of normalcy we often encounter in our daily lives. In his sculpture, "Troll," we are provoked by a set of eyeballs poking out from underneath a manhole cover, a spontaneous detour to the normalcy of viewing artwork on freshly painted white walls. Goldwater describes his creation as "a dumb version of Loki or the trickster Coyote, but who just stays underground and peeps like a little suburban internet troll. He's always there whether you like it or not, creepin', but he's not really harmful - to spite his best efforts to make you feel uncomfortable, if he's spotted he just makes you laugh."

Works by Justin Goldwater have been exhibited at Domy Bookstore, Austin, Texas (2008), "Brutal Noodle" at Lufthansa Studios, Boston (2013), at OKMT Gallery, Austin (2013), and in Issue 23 of Zing Magazine (2013).

Dikeou Collection Pop-Up Space
1331 Bannock St.
Denver, CO 80204
303.623.3001
http://www.dikeoucollection.org

 

RMCAD: Amande In

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Amande In: It Will Not Be The Same Without You

Philip J. Steele Gallery

May 16 – July 4, 2013

• Opening Reception: Thursday, May 16th, 6 – 9pm
• Curated by Cortney Lane Stell

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD) is proud to present IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME WITHOUT YOU, an exhibition that features performative works by AMANDE IN. The exhibition will run in the Philip J. Steele Gallery from Thursday, May 16th through Thursday, July 4th, 2013. Please join us for the opening reception on May 16th from 6 –9pm.

The Exhibition:

IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME WITHOUT YOU is the first US exhibition of French artist, AMANDE IN. This show centers on two performative works that involve the transition of materials and space in relation to viewer’s perception. In this exhibition the immaterial and material coalesce with the sensual and imagined and also where the real and unreal, the present and absent collide in exhibition form.

The Artist:

AMANDE IN (born 1981 in Les Lilas, France) currently based between Paris and Prague. She graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Since, she's been nominated for residencies such as Karlin Studios in Prague and VIR : ViaFarini In Residence in Milan. In 2010 she was guest professor and artist in residence at the School of Art of the Australian National University which hold a solo exhibition of her works. Her work was featured in exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris ; Futura, Prague; Museo de la Ciudad, Quito ; Le Corbusier Museum, Poissy ; Tranzit, Bratislava ; galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris ; galerie Maeght, Paris ; Monitor, Roma ; Seventeen gallery, London, to name a few
 
Philip J. Steele Gallery
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
1600 Pierce Street
Lakewood, CO 80214
800.888.ARTS
http://rmcad.edu

 

Denver Botanic Gardens: Ana Maria Hernando

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Ana Maria Hernando: Day and Night

Gates Garden Court Gallery at the Denver Botanic Gardens

May 22 - August 4, 2013

• Opening Reception: Wednesday May 22nd from 5:30-7:30pm with an Artists Talk at 6:30pm
  

Denver Botanic Gardens
1007 York St
Denver, CO 80206
720.865.3500
http://botanicgardens.org

 

Hinterland: Gemma Bayly: Mirrors

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Gemma Bayly: Mirrors

Hinterland

May 17 - June 7, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday May 17th from 6-11pm with live performance by offthesky and Pillow Garden
• 1st Friday Reception: June 7th from 6-10pm

(from the press release)

HINTERLAND is pleased to present new mandala drawings and collages by Gemma Bayly. MIRRORS will run from May 17 - June 7, 2013 with an Opening Reception Friday, May 17 from 6p - 11p at HINTERLAND and will close with a 1st Friday Reception June 7, 6 - 10p. Gemma will also be offering a Sacred Drum Journeying Workshop on Sunday May 26th and a Multi-Faceted Diamond Yoga Workshop on Sunday June 2nd, both by donation.

HINTERLAND IS located at 3254 Walnut St., Denver CO, 80205. Additional gallery hours are by appointment – please contact Sabin Aell: 720.309.1764. For more information visit hinterlandartspace.com or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Born and raised in rural countryside England, Gemma immigrated to the States with her family when she was 11, in 1994. She graduated With Honors from the University of Kansas in 2007 with a BFA in Graphic Design, as her parents pushed her to the more “lucrative” side of the visual arts. Her first design job was with a Kansas City architectural firm, and it was during this time that Gemma was introduced to the Japanese healing art of Reiki. She began receiving regular sessions and studying under a Reiki Master in Kansas City.

In 2009, Gemma moved to Denver for a new job at a small design firm downtown. She fell in love with the city and the mountains, but began to fall out of love with the design industry. Becoming more and more sensitive to energy in her Reiki practice, the long work weeks in front of computers and demanding clients were creatively draining. She began making art in her evenings after work as a way to calm down, and as a rejection of the technology she was using to create with all day. After receiving a significant healing session in 2010, she began drawing mandalas based on the sacred geometries she had studied in her design work. The pieces became containers for the energies she was working with in her Reiki practice.

She denies herself the use of a ruler in her ink work, focusing on the true value of the human hand in art. She also focuses on the value of time in art, creating drawings that take months to finish, again in rejection of the impossibly fast paced and unrealistic demand on creativity from the design and advertising industries.

Her first public exhibition was with Project Hello! at Redline, Denver in 2011, introducing new artists to the Denver community. She was then invited to be the first artist to exhibit in the new Art Plant space at City O’ City. She had her second solo show at Ironwood, Denver in April of 2012, and has since exhibited in several galleries in London. She was recently featured in the collage group show “The Vital Illusion” for the Month of Photography. Mirrors is her first gallery solo exhibit.

Mirrors is a series of works on self-reference, self-examination, and self-awareness. Inspired by the writings of Douglas Hofstadter and Gemma's own personal findings in her Reiki practice, Mirrors is an attempt to understand our multi-dimensional reality in terms of an infinite feedback loop. When placing a mirror in front of a mirror, or a camera recording its own output, it creates an infinitude of images, self-implicating in to a vanishing point. Similarly, two people together mirror each other through our ‘mirror neurons’ in the frontal lobe of the brain, and together we form reality.

Existing in the realms between the physical and spiritual planes, Gemma conjures a Pythagorean quantum mysticism in her work. Her drawings and collages stir subconscious parts of our being that we may not understand or be aware of. She plays with theories in physics, ignited by the vortex work of Nassim Haramein, and our physical experience of the multidimensional energies around us. Her totemic collages favor the natural law of bilateral symmetry, subtly centering and attuning the audience along a direct narrative. Her geocentric mandalas are inviting portals and multifaceted conduits of cosmic energy. Gemma practices the ancient Japanese healing art of Reiki, and charges all of her creations with this sacred healing energy. 

Hinterland
3254 Walnut St.
Denver CO, 80205
http://hinterlandartspace.com

 

Zip 37: Lin Takeuchi

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Lin Takeuchi

Zip 37 Gallery

May 17 - June 2, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday May 17th from 6-10pm

Zip 37
3644 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.477.4525
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://zip37.com

 

Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby at Turner Carroll Gallery

Category: Regional Exhibits

Published on May 15, 2013

Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby

Turner Carroll Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)

May 17 - June 23, 2013

• Opening reception: Friday May 17th from 5-7 pm with both artists in attendance

(from the press release)

Turner Carroll Gallery introduces new work by artists Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby.

In "New Work"we can expect to see bold color and eccentric engineering. Artists Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby both hail from Texas, and both wield unconventional techniques to convey their messages about the natural world.

Shawn Smith starts with a Google image search, which returns very low resolution images. From these he maps out his sculpture and proceeds to cut strips of wood into cubes of various sizes to reimagine various objects in nature. The final form results in a pixelated depiction of the object. Through this work, Shawn hints at our own detachment with nature as, for the most part, society experiences the outside world through a camera lens.

Shawn Smith has born impressive accomplishments such as commissions for the W Hotel in Austin, Microsoft in Minneapolis, Wired in London, and most recently, being featured as one of the forty artists in the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery exhibition, "40 Under 40: Craft Futures."

Rusty Scruby creates what he calls photographic reconstructionsthrough cutting up photographic reproductions into various shapes and weaving them together. This breakdown results in a pixilated image, similar to that of Smith. The resulting abstraction of nature questions how we view the environment and interact with it. Scruby's training in engineering becomes apparent through the mathematical precision and construction of his pieces. His work calls on the viewer to use her vision in a more engaging way toreveal beautiful glimpses of seemingly ordinary scenes.

In 2010, Rusty received a grant from the NEA to fund an installation called "Playing in the Sand." His work is in well known collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont and the Microsoft Corporation's collection in Redmond, Washington to name but a few.

Also, concurrent with our exhibition will be a group show featuring Rusty's work at 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Turner Carroll Gallery
725 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.986.9800
http://turnercarrollgallery.com

 

Robischon: Materialized

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 13, 2013

Materialized: Concurrent Solo Exhibitions from Jae Ko, Lisa Stefanelli and Linda Fleming

Robischon Gallery

May 16 - June 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday May 16th from 6-8pm
Including featured works by: Derrick Velasquez, Kate Petley, Mary Ehrin, Judy Pfaff, Jaq Chartier and Andrew Millner


As a continuation of Robischon Gallery’s themed “Material Abstraction” 2012 exhibition, the gallery is pleased to present “Materialized,” solo and group exhibitions by nine distinctive gallery artists who come together to offer a dynamic immersion into abstraction. Each furthers their innovative form and impactful color explorations with dimensional or graphic abstraction through a range of media. Utilizing materials both unorthodox and traditionally-based in the modern, such as ostrich feathers, bookbinder’s vinyl, automotive paint, resin and chromed steel – each artists’ work is conceptually and intuitively driven. The Denver Art Museum’s current like-minded “Material World” exhibition also features Robischon Gallery’s pre-eminent American artist Judy Pfaff and recognized Colorado artist Mary Ehrin on view through September 22nd as part of the material-centric exhibition entitled “Spun.”

Robischon Gallery
1740 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80202
303.298.7788
Tue-Sat: 11:00-6:00
http://www.robischongallery.com

 

David B. Smith: Michael Theodore

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 09, 2013

Michael Theodore: organism/mechanism

David B. Smith Gallery

May 11 - June 15, 2013

• Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, May 11 from 7-9 pm

David B. Smith Gallery
1543 A Wazee Street
Denver, CO, 80202
303.893.4234
http://davidbsmithgallery.com

 

Dairy Center for the Arts: Our Global Village

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 09, 2013

Our Global Village

Dairy Center for the Arts

May 10 - June 14, 2013

• Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Friday May 10th from 4-6:30pm
• Featuring: Tomiko Jones, Sophia Sweeney, Lee Lee, Byron Brauchli, Hassan El Shark, Netanel Miles-Yépez

In the McMahon Gallery

Artful Bridges to Community: Art and personal stories of world migration. This exhibit will grow with new art added weekly through the months of May and until June 14th.

Passage: A photographic installation by Denver artist Tomiko Jones. Jones tells the story of her Obassan’s journey from Asia to the United States. (tomikojonesphoto.com)

Portraits from Africa: Boulder artist Sophia Sweeney captures the sweet essence of children she met in Africa in these portraits. (sophiasweeney.com) "Spin," a painting by Lee Lee

Spinners: Artist Lee Lee of Taos, New Mexico has traveled extensively, painting scenes of everyday life and average people. The artworks in Spinners depict scenes of women at work in a cloth factory in China. Also by Lee in our In-Focus Gallery: Scenes of Guatemalan village life and of a market in Myanmar. (lee-lee.com)

Borderlands: Boulder ex pat Byron Brauchli’s evocative photographs of Mexico, his adopted country, give a glimpse of a rough terrain and a rich culture. (byronbrauchli.com)

In The Polly Addison Exhibition Space

Village Art from Southern Egypt: Through The Dairy’s Community Curator program, Boulder resident Dan Knifong has brought the charming work of Hassan El Shark, a folk artist from southern Egypt. The son of the village butcher, Hassan began painting in his childhood, mixing his own paints with spices given him by a neighboring merchant. A young "Artful Bridges" participant

A young “Artful Bridges” participant "Ajedrez" (Chess) by Netanel Miles-Yepez

The Call of Spirit and Family: Boulder’s Netanel Miles-Yépez’ paintings inspired by his own Mexican-American crypto-Jewish heritage are rich with imagery.

The Dairy Center for the Arts
2590 Walnut Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303.440.7826
Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm (and during performances and movie showings)
http://TheDairy.org

 

McNichols: City Beautiful 2.0

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 08, 2013

City Beautiful 2.0: A Modern Interpretation of the Built Environment

McNichols Civic Center Building

May 10 – June 23, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday, May 10 from 5-8pm
• The Solstice, High-impact closing: Friday June 21 from 2-10pm

(from the press release)

Beginning in 1904, Mayor Robert Speer took steps to implement The City Beautiful movement. The movement, rooted in the belief that landscape, city planning and architecture elevated the lives and health of citizens, took Denver from a dusty frontier town to an economic hub and destination for visitors.

City Beautiful 2.0 incorporates these progressive era initiatives and provides Create Denver the opportunity to demonstrate the McNichols Civic Center Building 3rd floor as an installation and co-working destination through experiments in the use of space and exploration of citizen engagement to generate ideas for future integration of the building with its surrounding built environment.

This purposeful installation will address core messages:
1. Creative sector engagement: Co-working, retention, incubating, activation and ideation
2. City Beautiful 2.0: Placemaking, vibrancy and ownership through a modern interpretation of how we live, work, play
3. The McNichols Building: What it is, how it can work and why it is important

Artists/Designers/Creators

Architecture, Built Environment, Sense of Place
Display large-scale, imagery of architecture and elements immediately surrounding McNichols and share the modern views of the built environment

• Jonathan Lamb & Michael Ortiz, Like Minded
• Ethan Jackson, artist

Co-Working, Flexibility, and Design
Exemplify the spirit of innovation, creativity and testing the flexibility of the space with specially fabricated modular furniture and design elements that contribute to McNichols’ flexibility of space.

• Scott Bennett, Housefish
• Matt Scobey, artist
• Rick Griffith, MATTER

Installation, Engagement, Dialog
Engaging visitors through color, nature, tactile and color

• Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, artist
• Eric Dallimore, artist

On Friday, June 21 from 2-10pm, Create Denver celebrates the solstice and City Beautiful 2.0 by calling the public to come play in the park, ending the night with a 3-D video mapping display by Legwork Studio & Ceavco Audio Visual on the back of the McNichols Civic Center Building.

McNichols Civic Center Building
144 West Colfax (corner of West Colfax and Bannock)
Denver, CO 80202
720.865.4220
http://artsandvenuesdenver.com/venues/mcnichols-civic-center-building

 

Rebecca Keefner Tolle at the Arts Coalition of Erie

Category: Regional Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Rebecca Keefner Tolle: Fracking Trails

Arts Coalition of Erie

Friday May 10 - Sunday May 12, 2013

• Painting Demo: Friday, May 10, 6:30pm
• Opening Wine/Cheese Reception and Art Talk: Saturday, May 11, 6-10 pm
• Fri: 10am-8pm; Sat: 10am-9pm; Sun: 10am-5pm

Colorado artist, Rebecca Tolle is opening a 3-day Gallery Show "Fracking Trails" (an extension of her “Trailings Left Behind” series) at the Arts Center of Erie beginning Friday, May 10th. Rebecca will be demonstrating her painting technique at 6:30pm that evening. The Opening Wine and Cheese Reception is Saturday, May 11th from 6 - 9 pm, during this time you can meet the artist and a short art talk will be given.

What might make this show interesting to local Weld and Boulder county residents is that many of the oil paintings focus on local fracking wells. Three years ago, it became too apparent that the landscape was changing. The background of the Rocky Mountains was becoming punctuated by derricks, night-time glaring lights and the pumping of pipe, water and chemicals into the ground. Rebecca likes to paint the derricks in a subtle way which has the viewer reflecting on the process. There is a mystery that begins to develop in the paintings. As she was painting “The Night is Underground”– the spiritual illusion of petroglyphs intertwining with the fracked rock appeared. It is this attachment and love of the land the artist has that makes the paintings particularly riveting.

Rebecca started the series of oil paintings “Trailing’s Left Behind “as a focus on things that mankind has left behind. She became interested in what was in the large multi-colored containers at the drilling sites and after learning about the process wanted to find a way to call the public’s attention to the drilling practices and the shifting view of the land. Painting the active well sites also led to a fascination with the activity at the landfill next to some of the oil derricks. With the thousands of seagulls, huge earth-moving equipment and windblown trash contrasted against the natural beauty of the Colorado sky and Longs Peak, these paintings fit into the "Fracking Trails" series. This may be the only opportunity to see the series shown as an intact collection.

Arts Center of Erie
625 Pierce St
Erie, CO 80516

 

Next: You are Here: In Time and Space

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

You are Here: In Time and Space

Next Gallery

May 10 – 26, 2013

• Featuring Barbara Gal (and others)
• Opening Reception: Friday May 10th, 6-10pm

Barbara Gal Artists Statement: For the past 43 years, I have photographed from Denver, to La Junta, to Cortez, to Craig, to Sterling, and a lot of places in between. This show is a documentation of things that have totally disappeared, some that have changed almost beyond recognition, and some that will never change. Thanks to Laura Phelps Rogers, Jules Byerlein, Michael Calanan, Kendall Gelner, Paul Wedlake, Ken Parks, Dane "Colfax" Stephenson, Ken Takahashi, and Steve Kindsfather, recent participants from the 40 West "Traveling Route 40" show for also sharing work with NEXT Gallery and these memories past.
 
Next Gallery
3759 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.433.4933
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://www.nextartgallerydenver.com

 

CPAC: Lens As Palette and 2013 Members' Show

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Lens As Palette

2013 Members' Show

Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC)

May 3 – June 15, 2013

• 2013 Members' Show Juror: Andrea Wallace, Director of Digital Media and Photography, Anderson Ranch
• Lens as Palette: curated by James Clarke
  
• Closing Reception with an artists gallery tour: Friday June 14th, 6-9pm

• The international iPhoneography Group (TiiG) presents: LENS AS PALETTE
• Participating Artists: James Clarke – Boulder, CO; Clint Cline – Plant City, FL; Shirley Drevich – Miami, FL; Roger Guetta – Montreal, Quebec; Cindy Patrick – Moorestown, NJ; Rudy Vogel – Springfield, MA.

Artist Presentation: Saturday, May 4th from 2pm – 4pm. James Clarke, Shirley Drevich and Clint Cline will discuss their work, how and why they chose iPhoneography, what apps are in their “camera bag” and how to get started in iPhoneography.

LENS AS PALETTE, curated by James Clarke, will be an exhibition that looks to examine the concept of digital photography through the exploration of technology. Coupled with mobile software applications, many artists, with smart phones in hand, are re-examining the boundaries of traditional image creation. Artists with their own unique vision and knowledge of an ever-growing selection of photo-processing applications, available on many smartphones, can now create images reflective of their personalities. These images can range from minimal to abstract, black and white to extreme color. They can depict the subtle nuance of graphics or juxtapose that with biting hard edge graphics. They can creating painterly images – not simply with the push of a button and a tap on a small screen, but through the time-consuming process of applying their application knowledge and expert techniques, boundless creativity and a unique vision. The images created in this manor lend themselves to reveal more accurately the true emotion of the artists.

The international iPhoneography Group (TiiG) was established in 2012 as a collective of Artists dedicated to the creation of mobile-photographic-based digital imagery using iOS technologies as their medium. The six Artists who comprise the founding members of TiiG are James Clarke, Clint Cline, Shirley Drevich, Cindy Patrick, Roger Guetta, and Rudy Vogel. Their work exemplifies the range of artistic expression that is now available to anyone creating artwork with a smartphone. TiiG members’ strictly create their work without the use of computers. The images exhibited are all created on smartphones with currently available image and photographic applications. All six artists’ images have been selected on a regular basis to the only continuously online-juried website dedicated exclusively to iPhoneographic imagery – Pixelsatanexhibition.com. 

2013 Members' Show Exhibiting Artists: Nancy Myer, Stacy Gardner, Marti Neveln, Britt Ripley, Corinna Robbins, Robert Root, Wendi Schneider, Paul Sisson, Greg Thow, Mikey Whiteley, Francisca Morgan, Alex Maslanka, Siobhan Keleher, Ron Kachelmeier, Bernard Gateau, James Esten, Michael Ellis, Steve DePalma, Glenn Cuerden, Vernie Croghan, Thomas Carr, Raymond Bleesz, Max Alper, Karen Divine, Brenda Biondo, Josseline Van Nuffel, Jose Noe

Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC)
445 South Saulsbury
Lakewood, CO 80226
303.837.1341
Tue-Sat: Noon-5:30pm
http://www.cpacphoto.org

 

Core: WOW 2013

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

WOW 2013

Core New Art Space

May 9 - 26, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday May 10th, 6-9pm
• CORE ANNEX: Three Soulful Artists from the Parker Art Guild, "Abstraction of the Soul" featuring Mary Leonard, William "Taylor" Parker and Beverly Baldwin
• Artist Reception for Abstraction of the Soul: Friday May 17th, 6-8pm

CORE Main Gallery: WOW
WOW = Wide Open Whatever

CORE's largest open entry show has become an annual event featuring the wildest, wackiest, whimsical and most wonderful artwork imaginable. The wide open format allows local artists to bring in their most unusual creations utilizing the most diverse materials possible. CORE members jury the exhibition and hang the artwork "salon style" in order to exhibit the most work and include as many artists as possible. The result produces a mixed media delight for the senses exhibiting everything from traditional to radically non-traditional art in every conceivable style.

Viewers will see photography, sculpture, drawing and painting, and numerous crossovers between all of these media. Past WOW exhibitions have included sculpture created from photography, drawing with paint, found art, serious presentations, humorous art, sensual collages, work on wax paper, window frames, discarded cardboard and metal, and a host of other combinations. Do not miss this opportunity to see what local artists are producing in their studios right now: imaginative possibilities for fun, provoking conversation and stimulating thought. 

CORE New Art Space
900 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.297.8428
Gallery Hours:
Fri: Noon-9 pm
Thu/Sat/Sun: Noon-6 pm
http://www.corenewartspace.com

 

GroundSwell: Jaimie Henthorn: Body Building

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Jaimie Henthorn: Body Building

GroundSwell Gallery

May 11 - June 4, 2013

• Artist Opening: Saturday May 11th from 7-10pm
• Music provided by Mario Zoots

ARTIST STATEMENT

Jaimie Henthorn relates the kinetic human structure to architectural structure both as an artistic practice and creative research methodology. Building and figure are equal protagonists as the moving body functions as investigatory tool of built space. Incorporating the disciplines of architecture, dance and fine art, these works fit into and in between such distinctions, their potential significance dependent on the context of presentation and audience expectation. Body Building considers the art gallery as architectural site in its presentation of movement interventions at a derelict seminary in rural Scotland (St. Peter’s Seminary, 2011) and Brutalist housing blocks in London (Bevin Court and Sivill House, 2012), as well as performance site-specific to GroundSwell Gallery.

BIOGRAPHY

Jaimie Henthorn (b. 1978, Chicago) works and lives in Denver and London. Currently a PhD candidate at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she received her MFA from the Edinburgh College of Art and her BA in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. She has exhibited artworks and performed as an artist and professional aerialist at venues including the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Mies van der Rohe Carr Chapel in Chicago and the Spiegel Tent at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Collaborators include Gelitin with Cerith Wyn Evans, Oscar Tuazon and Ei Arakawa. Henthorn has published with Atopia Journal, Metronome Press and Allotrope Press.

http://www.jaimiehenthorn.com

GroundSwell Gallery
3121 East Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
303.309.0078
http://groundswellgallery.com

 

Evergreen Fine Art: Susiehyer: Seasons

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Susiehyer: Seasons

Evergreen Fine Art

May 3 - 31, 2013

• Artist Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday May 10, 5-8pm
• In-Gallery Demonstration: Saturday May 11, 1-4pm

(from the press release)

Evergreen artist Susiehyer is one of the region’s premier landscape painters. Her work is characterized by her love of experimentation, expressive brushwork and bold use of color. Susiehyer’s paintings appear in prestigious galleries, national exhibitions, and can be found in both private and public collections. She has won numerous awards for both her studio and plein air paintings, including 2 international design awards. Susiehyer has been published in the celebrated books Landscapes of Colorado, Art of the National Parks, and the American Art Collector Series of books. She has also been featured in magazines such as Southwest Art, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Art of the West. Susiehyer is a member of Plein Air Artists of Colorado and Oil Painters of America.

For twenty-two years art collectors have been drawn to Evergreen Fine Art Gallery, an inviting, personal gallery with a wide variety of artists and art forms. Just thirty minutes west of Denver, Colorado, we are located in one of the state’s most beautiful areas , with mountain vistas and abundant wildlife. Evergreen Fine Art Gallery oers original ne art, sculpture, art glass, designer jewelry, gifts and museum quality framing. We pride ourselves on being a vital part of the local community and providing unique personal service.

Evergreen Fine Art
3042 Evergreen Parkway
Evergreen, CO 80439
303.679.3610
http://www.evergreenfineart.com 

 

Paris on the Platte: My Summer Vacation

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

My Summer Vacation

Paris on the Platte

May 10 - June 30, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday May 10th from 5-7pm
• Gallery Reception: Friday, June 28th from 5-7pm

Images from some of their favorite summer vacations are the subjects of Victoria Eubanks’ encaustic paintings, Heidi Keyes’ acrylic paintings and Trish McGinity’s photographs in “My Summer Vacation” exhibition at Paris on the Platte, LoDo’s coffeehouse, bar and music venue, located at 1553 Platte Street, in Denver.

Continuing through June 30, “My Summer Vacation” features beach scenes, iconic sights of European capitals, charming streetscapes and the ornate architectural features of buildings in foreign lands.

“My Summer Vacation” is produced by Art D’Elke, the collaboration of artist/art consultant Elke McGuire and strategic marketing specialist Denise Robert. For more information, please call 303-368-5208 or visit http://www.ArtDElke.com.

Paris On The Platte
1549 Platte Street
Denver, CO 80212
303.217.5805
http://www.parisontheplattecafeandbar.com

 

Mirada: Bruce Marion

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Bruce Marion: inner LIGHT

Mirada Fine Art

May 11 - June 2, 2013

• Artist Reception: Friday, May 10th, 6-9pm

Whether exploring dynamic cityscapes, portraying the human form, or interpreting lush landscapes, Arizona-based artist Bruce Marion's coloration and dramatic use of light seems to illuminate his subjects from their souls. In all of his work, Marion strives to reflect the inner light playing against the exterior reality. Featured in the May edition of American Art Collector, Bruce Marion's 'inner LIGHT' is sure to captivate you.

Mirada Fine Art
5490 Parmalee Gulch Rd., PO Box 85
Indian Hills, CO 80454
303.697.9006
Tuesday-Saturday: 10-5
Sunday: 12-4
Closed Mondays
http://miradafineart.com

 

Leon: Forrest J. Morrison

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Subject Predicate: Artwork by Forrest J. Morrison

Leon

May 11 - June 3, 2013

• Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11th 7-10pm

Forrest J. Morrison Artists Statement:

Contained herein, is a collection of symbols (the series), organized into controlled groupings of symbols (each canvas), paired with excerpts from R. Buckminster Fuller’s Intuition. The interpretation and meaning of any level of this system of symbols will be unique to your individual experience.

Though each piece was created to represent an element of my individual experience, the interpretive meaning of the work belongs to you.  

Leon
1112 East 17th Avenue
Denver, CO 80218
Mon-Sun: 12-5pm
http://www.leongallery.com

 

PlatteForum: Maria Kozak

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 07, 2013

Maria Kozak: War Hawk | Peace Dove

PlatteForum

May 9 - 31, 2013

• Opening Reception: Thursday May 9th from 5:30-8pm

PlatteForum Creative Resident Maria Kozak (Brooklyn, NY) will conclude her residency with the opening of War Hawk | Peace Dove, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings that will remain open through May 31... Read More

Throughout her residency, Maria has been leading intensive Learning Lab sessions with 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders from Colfax Community Network.

Please join us for an opening reception to kick off War Hawk | Peace Dove on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at PlatteForum, 5:30 - 8 p.m. A brief program featuring artist talks by the artist and youth will take place at around 6:15 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public!  

PlatteForum
1610 Little Raven Street
Suite 135
Denver, CO 80202
Mon-Fri: Noon - 4:00 PM or by appointment
303.893.0791
http://www.platteforum.org

 

Kirkland Museum: Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 01, 2013

In Thin Air: The Art of Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

May 3 - July 14, 2013

• Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm
• Brief remarks will be made midway through the reception; free and open to the public; RSVPs are required; Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 303.832.8576 x201 with your name and the names of your guests
• Co-curated by Hugh Grant, Founding Director, and Christopher Herron, Collections Manager & Deputy Curator, with Maya Wright, Exhibition Coordinator & Researcher

(from the press release)

Over dinner when Hugh Grant asked Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose why she thought there were so many extraordinary surrealist artists in Colorado, she replied, "Well Hugh! It's the altitude; the thin air; the lack of oxygen. We're all loopy." So what else could we do but title her exhibition, In Thin Air. Phyllis is certainly one of the greatest surrealist painters we have had in Colorado and consequently she has made contributions to American art. She is a Colorado native, born in 1928. Kirkland Museum is proud to mount a 54-year retrospective of her career, with paintings and prints from 1946 to 2000--with an accompanying catalog reproducing all the works in the exhibition and additional paintings that have been sold and are not available for display.

Parking is available in the museum's lot on the SW corner of 13th & Pearl and additional event parking is available at the Credit Union of Colorado lot on the SW corner of 14th & Pennsylvania.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
1311 Pearl Street
Denver, CO 80203
303.832.8576
Tue-Sun: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.kirklandmuseum.org

 

Niza Knoll: The Mix 2013

Category: Local Exhibits

Published on May 01, 2013

The Mix

Niza Knoll Gallery

May 1 - June 1, 2013

(from the press release)

Niza Knoll Gallery presents the latest works by members of The Mix artist cooperative. This annual showcase of painting, printmaking and sculpture provides a consistent blend of elegant works highlighting the artist’s developing styles. Rachel Basye, Kathy Berenstein, Pat Lickly, Paula Romero Schmitt, Randall Sampson and the newest artist in The Mix, Victoria Eubanks, invites the public to view and purchase work from the exhibit from May 1-June 1, 2013 at 915 Santa Fe Drive. Show hours are Wednesday-Friday, 1-5 pm, Saturday, 1-4 pm, First and Third Fridays 4-9 pm, as well as the following special events:

• Opening & Artist Reception: May 3, 2013, 6-9 pm
• Third Friday, May 17, 6-8 pm

Joining The Mix in October of 2012 , Artist Victoria Eubanks crosses between the two worlds of digital and manual design, using a variety of tools, including pixels, paint brush or heat torch. She is currently working almost exclusively with encaustic paint. She enjoys the physical aspect of working with this medium as it involves all the senses, and provides a way to use all of her technical, visual and creative skills.

Rachel Basye is a printmaker who primarily creates intaglio artist prints. She works with light sensitive polymer plates which allow for extremely fine details. Through a process called chine colle, she often incorporates paper and other elements into her pieces.


Kathy Berenstein is a self-taught sculptor and painter whose style is both sophisticated and whimsical. She enjoys experimenting with line and shape using different media, including paper mache, acrylic, rock, decoupage, chicken wire and mosaics.

Pat Lickly’s ceramic art interweaves her passion for graphic symbolism, travel and clothing. She hand builds her decorative clay pieces, allowing for endless possibilities of shape, texture and free form expression. Her multi ethnic ceramic Robe Series and Mandala Series were inspired by trips to Asia, Central and South America. Her latest works are of clay incorporating metals with patinas.

Ceramic artist & painter Paula Romero Schmitt is inspired by nature and architecture and enjoys capturing the line of organic objects. Her ceramic works are formed from blocks of clay and are finished with mason stains, glaze or cold finishes. The smooth white clay captures the subtleties of colored stains like charcoal on paper and allows her to work to a thin and delicate state.

Randall Sampson is primarily a self-taught artist concentrating on figurative ceramic sculptures. With a background in metalworks, though, he is currently exploring the interaction of clay and metal, particularly enjoying the unpredictability of inducing an iron oxide "bleed" from metal to raw clay, and the imagination, in turn, sparked by that most natural of processes.


Gallery owner and multi-disciplinary artist Niza Knoll received her formal training in painting and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Before becoming a full-time visual artist she had two rewarding careers as a graphic designer and a teacher of painting and photography. The gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday 1-5 pm, Saturday, 1-4, First and Third Friday 4-9 pm. The Mix Co-op in the back of the gallery is also open for visitors during regular hours. For more information visit www.nizaknollgallery.com or contact Niza at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 303-953-1789.  

Niza Knoll Gallery
915 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.953.1789
http://www.nizaknollgallery.com