Gallery Sketches: Five Shows in Denver for the Weekend of September 5-7

Susan Froyd September 5, 2014 9:17AM

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Fall is unofficially here, and with it comes a busy First Friday with an eclectic slate of new shows, including everything from an exhibit of fresh work from a 91-year-old legend to a contemporary three-artist tribute to the beauty of the prairie West. Keep reading for more details about these and other September openings.

New Light Sculptures by Dorothy Tanner Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery September 5 through 30 Opening reception: 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, September 5

Remarkable nonagenarian Dorothy Tanner is still creating new illuminated works using acrylic, LED lights -- and sometimes water. Says the 91-year-old Tanner: "The major challenge for me in art is to keep under control the tyranny of a logical mind. The spirit that moves me is capricious, unruly and irreverent. Most of my work grows out of intuitive impulse -- the rest gets under way by just playing." This is a perfect chance to get into Tanner's work and visit her trippy Lumonics Studio.

Rivers Alive, works by Wopo Holup Pattern Shop Studio September 5 through October 31 Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, September 5

Wopo Holup's ethereal, large-scale river maps, rendered delicately in paint, pencil and shimmering gold and silver leaf, depict the flow and tributaries of such major waterways as the Nile and the Mississippi, and in this show, the paths of last fall's flooding along Colorado's Front Range. In addition to this and a few more receptions, Pattern Shop will host two artist talks with Holup at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 13, and Saturday, October 11; find details online.

Continue reading for more Gallery Sketches.

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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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