Was it just the summer before last that Santiago Calatrava brought his genius for form to Denver International Airport with design proposals for a dramatic bridge, a theatrical train station and a sculptural hotel, all in his signature white-on-white style? Yes, it was (“Taking Off,” August 5, 2010). I’ve met…
Angela Larson and Michaele Keyes. The front space at Spark is usually subdivided into two rooms, but for the current pairing, the walls have been pushed back, and the combined area functions as a single gallery. Still, the two shows on display, Angela Larson: Vanishing and Michaele Keyes: Pursuing Motion,…
Virginia Maitland is Colorado’s premier color-field painter, and it’s been that way for decades, though she only rarely exhibits her work. That means that the show Virginia Maitland: Conversations in Color, opening tonight at the Sandra Phillips Gallery, is a rare chance to see her work in some depth. Maitland’s…
Since the time of the Anasazi, Colorado has sported a ceramics scene, one that was picked up by settlers in the nineteenth century and continues to this day. With all that clay everywhere, it seems absolutely right for the Denver Art Museum to host an over-the-top ceramics blockbuster. Marvelous Mud…
Angela Larson and Michaele Keyes. The front space at Spark is usually subdivided into two rooms, but for the current pairing, the walls have been pushed back, and the combined area functions as a single gallery. Still, the two shows on display, Angela Larson: Vanishing and Michaele Keyes: Pursuing Motion,…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, often looks to major local artists as a source for significant solo shows. Typically, these include work done over a broad sweep of time, which allows viewers to gain insight into the artist’s oeuvre. Examples are…
Aurora’s Red Delicious Press, a fine-print atelier housed in a gorgeous old Usonian-style library designed by Victor Hornbein, is presenting Impact: A Tribute to E. C. Cunningham. A nationally known printmaking authority and author, Cunningham died last year; he had taught printmaking for nearly three decades at Metropolitan State College…
Design for the Other 90%. This traveling exhibit from the Cooper-Hewitt in New York — the national design museum of the Smithsonian Institution — is being presented at RedLine, which is strange, as it relates more to technology than to art. Not only that, but it’s way too small for…
September exhibition slots are coveted by artists because they’re the first shows of the new season. But there are so many strong shows that have just opened — or are about to — that it’s hard to keep track of them all. In all the excitement, I didn’t want to…
Pirate: Contemporary Art is one of the city’s oldest co-ops, so some of the group’s members, like Phil Bender, are established talents. But the group is constantly being infused with new blood, and what’s currently on is the work of two of these emerging talents, Christine Buchsbaum and Jessica Kreutter…
Though the calendar year starts in January and ends in December, the art calendar starts in September and ends in August. So before the 2011-2012 season gears up, here are a few last gasps of summer — all worth enjoying before they’re gone. At the intimate Sandra Phillips Gallery on…
Joseph Coniff. This smart and at times extremely funny show, titled Joseph Coniff: This Is What It’s Like, highlights the efforts of an emerging conceptual artist. Coniff, who studied at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was a protegé of Clark “Drop City” Richert’s, is just…
More and more electronic forms are coming to the forefront in the art world, and with good reason: It’s hard to beat the kinetic appeal of spectacles that are only possible to stage with pieces that plug into wall sockets. David Fodel, an electronic media artist and musician, and Paco…
Joseph Coniff. This smart and at times extremely funny show, titled Joseph Coniff: This Is What It’s Like, highlights the efforts of an emerging conceptual artist. Coniff, who studied at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was a protegé of Clark “Drop City” Richert’s, is just…
The Clyfford Still Museum, which is being built at the corner of West 13th Avenue and Bannock Street, has begun to take shape, but there is still a staggering amount of work left to do before the construction company turns the building over to the museum in September (it’s scheduled…
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts — DAVA, for short — provides after-school and summer art workshops for children and teenagers ranging in age from three to seventeen. Practicing artists work with the students to create art based on particular themes — and this time, it’s who the kids are. “This entire…
Another Victory Over the Sun. For this group show, all of the exterior light sources at MCA Denver have been covered over so that the interior is essentially dark. Organized by director Adam Lerner and assistant curator Nora Burnett Abrams, Another Victory is made up of art that’s meant to…
The decorative arts — furniture, ceramics, glass and so on — are the stepchildren of the fine arts. In fact, they used to be known as the minor arts, distinguishing them from the major ones: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and architecture. This distinction fell by the wayside during the last…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
As someone who has long been a champion for art in Colorado, you can imagine how delighted I was when, on July 16, the Bureau of Land Management greenlighted — with many required changes and provisos — the building of Christo’s “Over the River” along the Arkansas River between Salida…
Painter Andy Berg, a resident artist at Ironton Studios, is presenting his latest creations in an exhibit there titled Rebirth of the Deity. Berg believes that his paintings originate in the deep recesses of his mind and that his actual brushstrokes are guided by forces unknown to him. This approach,…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
