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2000 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Hot off the Presses

  published September 21, 2000

  Master printer Bud Shark has been making prints in and around Boulder for a long time since he first established his fine-art press, Shark's Inc.,... More >>

• Art Beat

  published September 14, 2000

  It’s last call for Critical Mass, the summer group show that’s not about ethnic identity. The exhibit runs through t... More >>

• You Go, Girls!

  published September 14, 2000

  The first shows of the important fall season are just getting under way, and already there's an exhibit that is essential viewing for everyone:... More >>

• Art Beat

  published September 7, 2000

  Two solo shows now at the Spark Gallery take up the topic of realism -- but each takes a clearly different path. Occupying a full two-thirds... More >>

• Art Beat

  published August 31, 2000

  Though Steven Alarid lives in Dillon, he’s exhibited his idiosyncratic paintings, watercolors and drawings in Denver for more than a decade... More >>

• More or Less

  published August 31, 2000

  With the Labor Day weekend looming just ahead, and the important fall season hard on its heels, there's only one or two days left to catch two of... More >>

• Art Beat

  published August 24, 2000

  The funkiest of the funky new galleries to open in the last few months must surely be Apart Modern Gallery on South Kalamath Street. The... More >>

• Parting Shots

  published August 24, 2000

  It was a couple of years ago that Jane Fudge, at the time an assistant curator at the Denver Art Museum, came up with the idea for Colorado... More >>

• Art Beat

  published August 17, 2000

  Mind Over Matter, an exhibit of recent paintings by Victoria del Carmen Perez that now occupies ILK's south gallery, may be an... More >>

• Flatirons Crossing

  published August 17, 2000

  Cydney Payton, director of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, is set to leave the institution she essentially created out of thin air at the... More >>

• Art Beat

  published August 10, 2000

  In the main room at Pirate, co-op member Tony Coulter is presenting Only Mercy, an exhibition of a dozen elegant abstract paintings.... More >>

• Strange Ways

  published August 10, 2000

  By way of celebrating the first anniversary of its opening, Bayeux Gallery owner and operator Carla St. Romain has mounted her most important show... More >>

• Art Beat

  published August 3, 2000

  Ties That Bind, at the Singer Gallery of the Mizel Arts Center, though nominally a group show, is actually three solos, as each... More >>

• Caving In

  published August 3, 2000

  A solo show in the Denver Art Museum's Vance Kirkland Close Range Gallery is the most highly sought-after gig in the entire exhibition world in... More >>

• Art Beat

  published July 27, 2000

  Last Thursday the atmosphere in Schlessman Hall, on the first floor of the Denver Art Museum, was positively electric. DAM trustees and staffers,... More >>

• Drawn In

  published July 27, 2000

  Under the direction of Sally Perisho, the Metro Center for the Visual Arts on Wazee Street has, more often than not, offered museum-quality shows,... More >>

• Art Beat

  published July 20, 2000

  Pirate: a Contemporary Art Oasis is now hosting a group of interesting -- though flawed -- sculpture shows. In the main space up front is... More >>

• Hanging Out

  published July 20, 2000

  Subtly placed at eye level on the front door of Ron Judish Fine Arts is a letter-sized sheet of paper with an advisory for viewers of Horse:... More >>

• Art Beat

  published July 13, 2000

  There are two compelling shows at the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria campus through tomorrow: Jerry Allen Gilmore on the main... More >>

• Changing of the Guard

  published July 13, 2000

  It's a basic contradiction of the art world: Artists compete with each other to get into the best galleries, while the galleries compete with each... More >>

• Art Beat

  published June 22, 2000

  There’s a rumor that has been spreading through the art world for months: that one of the state’s most accomplished artists, Bill Stockman, is s... More >>

• Box Matches

  published June 22, 2000

  The appeal of minimalism, in any of its many stylistic guises, is based on the aesthetic philosophy that less is more -- even when, as in pattern... More >>

• Art Beat

  published June 15, 2000

  Two interesting shows are now located back-to-back at the Edge Gallery. In the front space is Quaternion, an exhibition of new... More >>

• Art Factory

  published June 15, 2000

  Ironton Studios & Gallery, which opened in April, is a hard place to find -- unless, of course, you work in the freight-hauling trade or some... More >>

• Art Beat

  published June 8, 2000

  It’s no understatement to say that without Phil Bender there would be no Pirate co-op. One of the founders of the group in 1980, Bender’s the on... More >>