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2006 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Moments of Perfection

  published April 6, 2006

  More often than not, members of the city's art co-ops are not youngsters fresh out of art school, but established artists who've shown their work... More >>

• Mud Flies

  published April 6, 2006

  Some thirty years ago, Foothills Art Center in Golden established Colorado Clay as an annual juried exhibit to highlight ceramics being... More >>

• cadence 2

  published March 30, 2006

  Many contemporary artists are still interested in providing a window on the world through their art. Some, like those currently showing at... More >>

• Real and Magical

  published March 30, 2006

  For its current exhibition, Robischon Gallery stitched together three solos and a duet to make something that looks a museum theme show. The... More >>

• The World So Far As I Know It

  published March 16, 2006

  A little over a decade ago, Denver International Airport opened to the public and unveiled its multimillion-dollar collection of public art. Only... More >>

• Humming Along

  published March 16, 2006

  Colorado painter Sushe Felix has been listening to a lot of old jazz lately. Especially important to her are the pieces that interpret the... More >>

• Clyfford Still Museum

  published March 9, 2006

  The Civic Center area is the cultural hub of Denver, and last week the city announced that the Clyfford Still Museum would join the other... More >>

• Civics Centered

  published March 9, 2006

  In May 2005, Denver voters approved the financing for a new multi-part Justice Center complex with a municipal courthouse and a jail to be... More >>

• Adventures, Images, Duo: the Work of Brandon Borchert and Susan Vaho, and Soft Core: Contemporary Erotic Art

  published March 2, 2006

  In the western half of Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) is ADVENTURES, a solo of strange sculptures by Lydia... More >>

• Turf Wars

  published March 2, 2006

  In the late 1960s and through the 1970s, there arose what has come to be called the "art of identity." This genre was -- and is -- art by members... More >>

• Lino Tagliapietra: il Mito e la Materia (Myth and Material)

  published February 23, 2006

  Sandy Sardella's swank Pismo Fine Art Glass (2770 East Second Avenue, 303-333-2879) in Cherry Creek North is unique among Denver galleries because... More >>

• Complex Conformity and Rewind 2005

  published February 16, 2006

  Frank T. Martinez is an emerging self-taught artist who first appeared on the scene in a + Gallery solo back in 2004. At the time, his paintings... More >>

• Mind and Matter

  published February 16, 2006

  Every year, the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture presents a thematically linked interdisciplinary program. This year the topic is... More >>

• Testify and Memento Mori (remember death)

  published February 9, 2006

  The entire set of Upper Galleries at the Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200) are given over to Testify, a solo... More >>

• Men at Work

  published February 9, 2006

  Colorado has never been much of a place for sculpture; the three-dimensional medium has always come in a distant second behind painting in the... More >>

• Dale Chihuly

  published February 2, 2006

  The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center recently announced that a new wing by Denver's David Owen Tryba Architects is to be appended to the... More >>

• Springs Forward

  published February 2, 2006

  On a snowy morning a couple of weeks ago, the powers-that-be at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center announced that Denver's David Owen Tryba... More >>

• HIDDEN NARRATIVE

  published January 26, 2006

  There are lots of galleries on Santa Fe, but surely everyone will agree that the Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1088) really stands... More >>

• Flower Power

  published January 26, 2006

  Using plants and flowers as source material for artwork is definitely an old-timey pursuit whose roots (pardon the pun) go back to the dawn of the... More >>

• Denise Montgomery and John Grant

  published January 19, 2006

  The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is facing some changes. On January 3, Denise Montgomery spent her last day as the agency's director;... More >>

• Magic Mountains

  published January 19, 2006

  During the '20s and '30s, artists in Colorado and New Mexico began doing abstractions based on landscape paintings. They took the formal... More >>

• Ones, Twos and Threes

  published January 12, 2006

  The Sliding Door Gallery (3563 Walnut Street, 720-979-4448) is a newish co-op that was launched this past summer. The members include a number of... More >>

• Flash Back

  published January 12, 2006

  Over the past ten years, the city's galleries, art centers and museums have done a number of exhibits charting out the region's art history -- a... More >>

• Selections From the Western Edition of New American Paintings

  published January 5, 2006

  In addition to the Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and Andy Miller solos (see page 40) displayed in the front and middle sections of + Gallery (2350 Lawrence... More >>

• New Year's Edge

  published January 5, 2006

  Ten years ago, David Zimmer was one of the hottest young kids on Denver's alternative scene. He presented impressive shows at Artyard and Pirate... More >>