Laura Phelps Rogers
Laura Phelps Rogers
Hirschfeld Gallery, Colorado Women's College at University of Denver
1901 East Asbury Avenue
July 6-August 15
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Get an overview through Denver artist Laura Phelps Rogers’s feminist lens of a career dedicated to exploring the systemic roles that have shoeboxed women throughout history, at DU’s Hirschfeld Gallery, where A Woman’s View gathers together an anthology of installations from Phelps Rogers's past exhibitions. The names of these past shows — A Woman's Work Is Never Done, Wash Rinse Repeat, More Than One Tough Chick and Home Economics — tell you what to expect before you even walk in.
It Came From the Drawing Board
Alto Gallery
July 7-August 12
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 5-11 p.m.
Denver Comic Con has come and gone for another year, but in its wake, Alto Gallery will present It Came From the Drawing Board, a group exhibit with a retro sci-fi theme. Showcasing what happens when comic artists blast off of the rectangular page and into other mediums, the show opens with a party, featuring live music inside by Pythian Whispers, a DJ set on the street courtesy of Jewkes, and, among other things, an installation of new found-object assemblages by Charles Russell. Other artists include Cody Kuehl, Daniel Crosier, G. Ka'aihue, J. James McFarland and Rio Burton.
Contemporary Still Life
40 West Arts Gallery
July 5-29
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 5-8 p.m.
Still life ain’t what it used to be. In contemporary times, the look and subject matter in a composition of objects can be far from traditional — or not, as the case may be — thanks to technology and industrialization. Contemporary Still Life at 40 West travels all the avenues of modern-day still life; it’s one of many stops you can make on First Friday in the burgeoning 40 West Arts District.
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Open Studios with Dylan Gebbia-Richards
Mariani Gallery (Guggenheim Hall, Room 100)
1741 Eighth Avenue, Greeley
Friday, July 7, 4:30-7 p.m.
Up-and-coming Boulder artist Dylan Gebbia-Richards began his three-month residency at the University of Northern Colorado’s School of Art & Design in June, where he is creating Echo — a massive oval walk-through installation that mimics crashing waves — in the Mariani Gallery space. Gebbia-Richards will chat with people about the work-in-progress during this open-studio night, explaining how he manipulates his textural medium of melted wax and pigment to create 3-D surfaces. The finished Echo will be a centerpiece of UNC’s fall exhibitions. While in Greeley on July 7, you can also catch a Little Theatre of the Rockies summer stock performance of Simply Simone at 7:30 p.m. in UNC’s Norton Theatre; get tickets, $7 to $20, online.
Everything: New Work by Drew Austin
ReCreative Denver
765 Santa Fe Drive
July 7-28
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 6-10 p.m.
Another young artist and soon-to-graduate senior at Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design, Drew Austin is inspired by human interconnections with drifting shapes and forms in the natural world. In Everything, he combines latex sculptures, drawings and large-scale paintings that morph in the wind. Catch him on his way up.
diStilled: Noir
Clyfford Still Museum
Saturday, July 8, 7-11 p.m.
$10-$15 in advance, $20 at the door
The Clyfford Still Museum’s diStilled is a themed party that’s arty. For the upcoming edition, Noir, arrive dressed in your Blue Dahlia/Big Sleep best, get a peek at the dark side of the exhibit Shade: Clyfford Still/Mark Bradford and enjoy classy cocktails, live music by Reverend Deadeye and Heira Nova, and freaky op-art video projections by artist Chris Bagley. But be quick: Tickets will go fast for this summer bash, so grab yours now before you try taming your hair into a sexy Veronica Lake waterfall.
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