Beat artist Renick Stevenson, the subject of “Last Beat Standing,” has produced hundreds of paintings and murals over his remarkable but largely unsung career. Most of his big-wall work in Denver from the 1960s and 1970s is long gone, with the exception of the façade of the legendary Changing Scene theater downtown. But a number of community projects and private commissions survive from his decade-long journey through Michigan as an artist-in-residence for the Kellogg Foundation. Our slideshow celebrates the artist at work in his studio and with young collaborators in the field on a variety of pieces, in venues from Saginaw to Basalt to Denver.
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