In the meantime, our weekend picks:
Nea Brown: Solace
Deborah Carlson: Surface Tension
K. Jackson: Boundless Beauty
Marilyn Wells: Primal
Elle H. Sung: Rain, Wind, Forest Life and Rest, in Gallery East
D’art Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive
December 19 through January 12
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
D’art Gallery’s member shows pick up again in the last days of December with a full house of exhibitions, including paintings of trees and flora by Nea Brown, glass art and drawings by Deborah Carlson, photography by K. Jackson, expressive Zen Buddhist sumi-e ink drawings by Marilyn Wells and, in the East Gallery, abstracted imagery from nature in watercolor, acrylic paint and mixed media by Elle H. Sung.
Holiday Market
Michael Warren Contemporary, 760 Santa Fe Drive
Friday, December 20, through Tuesday, December 24, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
Last-minute shopper? Michael Warren Contemporary will offer some fine-art bargains (defined as less than $1,000, and most at less than $500) for your favorite art connoisseur...who could be you.The artworks will fly right up to 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
Clate Scott, "The Ridge."
Courtesy Sync Gallery
Sync Gallery, 931 Santa Fe Drive
December 19 through January 11
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
Sync Gallery ends 2024 with an all-gallery member exhibition showcasing the work of fifteen participating artists.
Camille Hoffman poses within “See and Missed,” 2022, installation at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
Photo credit: Stephen Heraldo
Old Masonic Hall, 136 South Main Street, Breckenridge
December 20 through March 16
Exhibition Reception/Artist Talks: Saturday, January 11, 5 to 7 p.m.
Heading up to snow country for a holiday on the slopes? Take a break in Breckenridge, where a world-class art experience, the installation show Our river flowing from our eyes, opens on December 20, courtesy of BreckCreate. A collaboration between artists Camille Hoffman and Gyun Hur, the immersive show is a land- and water-oriented visual ritual aimed at giving back to Indigenous Americans, inspired by the poem "The First Water Is the Body," by Mojave American poet and educator Natalie Diaz. A landscape formed by painting, vinyl collage, glass sculptures and water from the Blue River, the installation remains on view through mid-March, with a formal public reception, artist talk and workshops scheduled for January 11 (more information here).
Deca, “Koi Pond,” 2024, acrylic on wood.
Courtesy of Deca
Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
December 20 through January 11
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
First Friday Reception: Friday, January 3, 6 to 9 p.m.
Denver-born hip-hop rapper Deca is perhaps better known as a versatile musician, but his talents also venture into the visual arts. While Deca’s wildly patterned and psychedelic artworks — rooted in graffiti style in the very best way — grace prints, music videos, album covers and T-shirts, they rise far above the level of music merch. Deca will be in the gallery for the opening; the art itself will be up through First Friday in January and beyond.
An embroidered photograph by Diane Bronstein from the exhibition Unreal City.
Courtesy Tointon Gallery
Tointon Gallery, Union Colony Civic Center and Greeley Recreation Center complex, 651 Tenth Avenue, Greeley
December 20 through January 24
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 5 to 7 p.m.
Artist Diane Bronstein hails from North Carolina, but her deserted city scenes in Unreal City engender a sense of anonymity in places lost in time. Bronstein starts with black-and-white photographs collaged on canvas, thickly embroidering color and texture over the surface to symbolically mimic natural overgrowth, mossy walls and heavy clouds that fall over the paper’s edges, slowly reclaiming the land where once-bustling buildings stand empty. Her message? Time waits for no one.
Get a last-chance look at NKollectiv's last group show on Santa Fe Drive.
Courtesy NKollectiv Gallery
NKollectiv, 960 Santa Fe Drive
Saturday, December 21, 2 to 5 p.m.
The artists of NKollectiv Gallery invite the public for one last look at the 2024 Winter Group Show this weekend; the evening is also a goodbye to the gallery’s original space after three years in the Art District on Santa Fe. But there will be no place for tears at the closing reception and holiday party. NKollectiv’s coterie of local encaustic artists, painters, printmakers, jewelry makers, sculptors, ceramic artists, fiber artists and more will be moving on to a shiny new gallery, studio rental and all-purpose event space at 3485 South Broadway in downtown Englewood, located just above Mutiny Comics and Coffee’s new digs. Look for New Beginnings, NKollectiv’s first show on South Broadway, to open in January (date TBA); learn more here.
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