More than a decade ago, Starz art director Suzanne Heintz decided there was a way to have a family and her freedom, too: She acquired a set of mannequins, including make-believe husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, and began photographing herself in vignettes with them for a project she calls…
#73: Quintin Gonzalez Texas-born with an MFA from Yale, Quintin Gonzalez makes visually fluid work, regardless of the medium, as he moves between painting, drawing, printmaking, video and new media. Within that repertoire, Gonzalez creates intuitively, drawing from pop-cultural imagery — and something a little deeper. Recently, his work has…
The annual 1940s WWII Era Ball goes back in time right down to every last retro detail, with re-enactor appearances by ’40s celebrities, swinging to big band music and some cherry examples of WWII aircraft for a backdrop at the Boulder Airport. Photographer Jake Shane was there on Saturday night…
It’s Friday the thirteenth, but that’s no reason to stay home: Tonight and in the days to come, Friday Flash, Denver Comic Con and OhHeckYeah will transform downtown into a wham! pow! high-tech and pop-culture art paradise, while the otherworldly, monumental glass shapes of Chihuly will wow the crowds at…
#74: Ivar Zeile Ivar Zeile collects artists with a keen eye for talent and trends as director of RiNo’s Plus Gallery, but he also makes some free-swinging hunches as he tries to get a sense for what’s next in the contemporary art scene. In recent years, Zeile’s search for the…
Stephen Batura is known for his large-scale canvases depicting mountain train wrecks and other moments snatched from history, which he normally shows at Robischon Gallery. But when Jill Hadley Hooper invited him for a solo at Ironton Gallery, he jumped at the chance to stretch his artistic horizons. The resulting…
Painters just got to paint in Andy Berg’s world, and that’s how the Golden-based artist humbly goes about the business of making art. Materials — tubes of pigment, empty canvases and panels, well-worn brushes and even cans of house paint — all represent pure opportunities for Berg to plumb and…
The Huddle isn’t exactly new for Evan Weissman’s “civic health club,” Warm Cookies of the Revolution, but today marks the first time he’s paired soccer with political discussions at an event that’s heretofore been all about the American style of “football.” But the World Cup in Brazil preempts just about…
One thing is true for most dance groups, and that’s the ongoing force of change and transition, which seems to echo choreography itself in terms of real-life intensity. Patrick Mueller’s Control Group Productions has been dancing from foothold to foothold since its early days at the industrial Packing House venue…
As any millennial will tell you, the digital world is now the real world, a place where, fingertips to keyboard, information readily becomes intellectually palpable in a matter of seconds. And the art world, where things are changing just as quickly, represents just one facet of how far technology has…
The curtains never really go down on Denver’s stages, even in the summer, when some companies take a break — but others launch special festivals. Here are a few ways to be transported by music, dance, comedy and drama this week. See also: Ch-Ch-Changes: (the world we’ve created) at the…
#75: Valerie Santerli After dynamic gallerist Robin Rule passed away late last year, longtime assistant Valerie Santerli picked up the pieces to carry on Rule Gallery’s business, handle artworks from the estate and continue providing representation for a hand-picked and loyal stable of high-profile artists. And although that’s what absorbs…
This first First Friday is jammed with new art, as is the whole weekend, which also includes two June traditions: the Capitol Hill People’s Fair and the Art Students League Summer Art Market. From fine art photography to collectible-toy decorating, you’re bound to find something artful to see and do…
There’s a reason why tourists crowd Denver’s city streets each summer: It’s a happening town and sports valhalla, with pro teams, adventurous and ethnic eateries, a downtown mall, urban neighborhoods, a gallery scene, great museums, miles of greenway trails and all the promise of that blue mountainscape on the horizon…
#76: Laleh Mehran Laleh Mehran represents the new wave of tech-savvy artists, jumping between mediums and testing new ground internationally in the widening digital-art arena. Her video work can be seen on downtown LED screens and as part of the recently departed Monkey Town’s programming, while a new interactive and…
Mirrored tiles, wood branded with politically charged symbols, LPs, books, chairs, rugs and mounds of slowly melting shea butter are just a few of the materials that New York-based artist Rashid Johnson layers into his complex sculptural works. Some hang on walls; others, like the installation called “The Shea Butter…
A new collaboration will take three Denver artists far from Tank, the south Denver studio they share with several others, for a two-part exhibit that opens tonight at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center and the Boulder mixed venue Madelife. When Joel Swanson, just coming off the high point of a solo…
Everyone loves the summer celebration that is Film on the Rocks, and here’s why: It’s got comedy, local bands, cult-favorite movies and a party atmosphere, all under the stars at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the most beautiful outdoor venue in the world. This year’s new host, Sam Tallent, will keep spirits…
For Clyfford Still Museum director Dean Sobel, curating Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons From the Albright-Knox Art Gallery for the Denver Art Museum was a bit like raiding the candy store: Since the DAM doesn’t have much in its collection from the classic modern period on which the exhibit focuses,…
Founded in 2006 by former fabric retailer Dianne Denholm, the TACtile Textile Arts Center was envisioned as a nonprofit center where regional practitioners in all disciplines of the fiber arts could meet, teach classes and display their work. Conceived as a local version of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, which…
#77: Kim Olson Dancer/choreographer Kim Olson founded SWEET EDGE ten years ago in Boulder as an interdisciplinary vision built on a foundation of collaboration and trust. “The name derives from a state of being — where change is constant and movement fundamental. We shift, merge, adapt, step out of the…
Denver is a book town and a poetry town and a town where stories are told in darkened rooms. But it’s easy to lose track of literary events in the bustle of everything else going on in Denver, from breweries to bike rides. We’re here to help. Keep reading for…
