See New Art and Wrap Up Some Holiday Shopping in Denver This Weekend

Fine-art galleries glow with fresh work, while community spaces and holiday markets have stocked up for art lovers and shoppers.

Use this list to see and shop all the way through Small Business Saturday on November 30 and Artist Sunday on December 1.
Rian Kerrane: Housekeeping
Emmanuel Gallery, 1205 Tenth Street Plaza, Auraria Campus
November 20 through March 8
Dynamic CU Denver sculpture professor Rian Kerrane’s work often rises above the simple descriptor of the medium, woven through with conceptual ideas, skilled process, performance and the personal. Emmanuel Gallery pays tribute by giving its space up through March to Kerrane’s installation Housekeeping, which gathers together found objects — the leftovers of consumerism — laden with profound hints of history and the passage of time. A cultural dumpster-diver, Kerrane touches on subjects both timely, such as climate change, and ancient, as typified by washed-up materials that tell stories from the past.
Jasmine Dillavou, Prophecy/Telling
The Storeroom, 1700 Vine Street
Open now; closing performance and reception TBA
Colorado-based Boricua poet Jasmine Dillavou takes over the picture-window gallery at the Storeroom with a drive-by installation infused by the storytelling traditions of women and the freedom and openness of feminine prose. The installation will stand through a yet-to-be determined closing date in January; at the closing reception, Dillavou will appear in an improvisational ritual performance of stream-of-consciousness writing. Keep your eye on the Storeroom's Instagram for more information.
Sixth Annual Holiday D’art Market
D’art Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive
November 21 through December 15
Holiday Open House: Friday, November 22, 6 to 9 p.m.
D’art brings back its D’art Market for the holidays, loaded with work by D’art members. Buy "the gift of art" for the people on your list, and maybe even yourself. While visiting the new, expanded D’art, where several separate artist groups or renters show in specific spaces, take the time to wander through exhibitions running concurrently, including photographer Ben Perea’s Rock Legends in Gallery West and EXPANDED HORIZON in D’art's 360 Gallery, both up through December 1; Tera Humphrey’s show, Latitude, opens in Gallery East alongside D’art’s holiday show on November 21, and also runs through December 15.

Draw a line. Erase the line.
Janice McDonald, Unfolding
The Vault, 3758 Osage Street
November 22 through March 7
Opening Reception: Friday, November 22, 6 to 9 p.m.
The private art collection Pardon presents the group show, Draw a line. Erase the line. as part of its open-concept New Projects program, which encourages artist experimentation by giving “permission to play” and create freely. The show title is drawn from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, a collection of prompts that stimulate exploration. Eleven artists, including Janice McDonald, will unveil their new works at the opening. RSVP here.
Jason Craighead, Proof of Life
Kristopher Wright, Rock, Salt & Nails
K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee Street
November 23 through January 4
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 23, 3 to 6 p.m.
K Contemporary artists Jason Craighead and Kristopher Wright will be on view through the end of 2024, offering a counterpoint of abstraction and figurative work. While Craighead’s canvases are expressive, with gestural mixed-media mark-making and collaged text fragments, they reveal the rough manifestation of high peaks and landscape, similar to views he encountered in recent travels to Morocco and Newfoundland. Wright, on the other hand, paints scenes of Black men and boys caught in the rhythms of life in the West, with imagery drawn from found photography and rendered in bright crayon colors. Operating as a kind of memory book that applies to the artist personally, but also to a generic, communal male spirit within Black culture, Wright’s paintings examine modern memories and myths.

Studio Sale
Blue Tile Gallery, 3944 South Broadway, Englewood
Saturday, November 23, and Sunday, November 24, noon to four p.m.
Departing studio artist Courtney Cotton and gallery-mate Timothea Biermann join forces for a holiday-savvy studio art sale at Blue Tile. It comes at the tail end of Cotton’s Color Pop exhibition, her last hurrah at the gallery before she packs up to move out of state, but also as the holiday shopping season ramps up.
Winter Group Show 2024
NKollectiv, 960 Santa Fe Drive
Through December 21
Closing Reception: Saturday December 21, 2 to 5 p.m.
NKollectiv hosts its final group show in the Art District on Santa Fe as the gallery’s artists prepare to move into a new second-floor space called Englewood Art Space Events Lessons (EASEL). It’s a new, larger concept from NKollectiv founder Nicole Korbe that serves all the purposes mentioned in its moniker. The year will open there in January with a New Beginnings show.

Holiday Pop-Up Art Events
EASEL, 3485 South Broadway, Englewood
Saturdays, November 23, November 30, December 7 and December 14, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
While NKollectiv artists finish 2024 on Santa Fe Drive, Nicole Korbe is activating EASEL with a series of Saturday pop-up markets for the holidays in November and December, giving the public a little sneak peek at the space and a selection of artsy gifts to draw them in. The first one comes up this Saturday; if you go, drop by Mutiny Information Cafe on the first floor, too.
Tim McKay, One to Somewhere
Muldannuzzi Creations, As I Lay Dying
Guest Artist Tristan McKay, Dual Synthesis
Pirate: Contemporary Art, 7130 West 16th Avenue, Lakewood
November 28 through December 15
Opening Reception: Friday, November 29, 2 to 9 p.m.
Muldannuzzi Creations Artist Talk: Saturday, December 7, 4:30 to 5 p.m.
"Not a Hero, Not a Victim," Tim McKay Talk and Exhibit Walk-Through: Saturday, December 14, 2:30 p.m.
As Black Friday drops its grabby shadow over the city, Pirate artist Tim McKay, guest artist Tristan McKay and Muldannuzzi Creations, the team of Christine Muldoon Iannuzzi and Peter Iannuzzi, offer an oasis of an opening reception that runs for seven hours. And it’s not just any art reception: Tim McKay’s exhibition, One to Somewhere, created in conjunction with McKay’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease last year, directs some of the activities happening throughout the afternoon and evening. In an effort to better understand his condition, McKay explored the disease with art and reflection, eventually creating 71 works on paper and seven canvases, by asking himself what he wanted to paint that day before every session. The visual journal is now collected in a self-published soft-cover book that will be for sale for $35 throughout the day; $7 of every sale will be donated to the Parkinson Association of the Rockies. The festive event includes food and drink, art activities, a book-signing and one-day deals on artwork. The Iannuzzis sculpt mixed-media works mixing ceramics, metal and wood; pianist, composer and educator Tristan McKay will show color-blocked artwork reimagining composer Tristan Perich’s score to "Dual Synthesis" for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics.
Fine Art Market
Holiday Pottery Sale
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada
Friday, November 29, through December 15
Opening Reception: Friday, November 29, 5 to 9 p.m.
A pair of Arvada Center traditions — the annual holiday season Fine Art Market and the Holiday Pottery Sale, a showcase for work by the center’s clay-studio instructors and students — are back like clockwork for gift-shoppers looking for something different. The Fine Art Market is known for its selection of jewelry, ceramics, ornaments, paintings, cards and more for fruitful shopping, while the Pottery Sale has a reputation for quality work at excellent prices. Visit the galleries on Wednesdays and Thursdays from noon to 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m., through December 15.

Small Business Saturday Weekend Holiday Market
Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Avenue, Longmont
Saturday, November 30, noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 1, noon to 5 p.m.
Firehouse Art Center in Longmont joins Downtown Longmont’s Small Business Saturday shop local festivities with a holiday market of its own that extends all the way through Artist Sunday. While holiday shoppers stroll the streets, taking advantage of photo ops, roaming holiday characters, giveaways and prize drawings, art lovers can take in Firehouse’s current artist member show, Hang Time, and shop the wares and artworks of ten or more artisans and makers on both days.

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