A longtime Edge member and noted ceramics artist, Gayla Lemke has mounted a bittersweet show, Watch Out for the Undertow, in the gallery’s front space; it’s dedicated to her mother, who died a few months ago. Lemke takes on this heavy topic by contrasting the memorial character of her floor…
Among the manifestations of the feminist movement in the ’70s was a critique of sexism in fine art. It was undeniable that at the time — and stretching back to antiquity — women had essentially been fenced out of painting and sculpture. (Interestingly, the barriers to women in ceramics and…
Not all new buildings in Denver are as awful as the kinds of n’architecture Michael Paglia lampoons in “The Hateful Eight.” Not all modern architecture rates a rant on Denver Fugly. Over the past fifteen years, this city has gained some beautiful buildings, including the Fredric C. Hamilton wing of…
The Sun Valley housing projects have gone through a beautiful transformation. Crime in this impoverished Denverneighborhood has seen a moderate drop over the past decade, thanks to more funding from the city to clean up Sun Valley streets and protect kids who attend Fairview elementary school. Now even the dumpsters…
Denver artist Thomas Scharfenberg believes art should be part of the landscape, not the other way around. Scharfenberg, whose visual world often leads him beyond gallery walls and into the outdoors, thinks outside of the box as he spreads what he calls “ground constellations” and “physical pixels” — painted rocks,…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “I grew up around Denver,” says sculptor Nicole Banowetz, who was born…
Last weekend we shared comments by Georgia Amar, a co-founder of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, criticizing Denver’s public arts program. And readers were quick to respond. Says Russ Wright: Art is subjective. You, I and everyone else has an opinion on what they like or dislike. Personally I have…
The art world has a very well-rounded Denver itinerary this weekend: Candy art, dream art and a scholarly lecture on regional architecture all figure into the calendar of new shows and events around town. Read on for the details. Geeky Tendencies: New Works by Kym Bloom Zip 37 Gallery May…
Bobbi Walker, director of Walker Fine Art, has assembled pieces by a half-dozen artists to create the engaging group effort Figuratively Speaking, which features sculptures, photos, drawings and paintings, all of which depict the human figure in some way. The gallery is enormous, and figurative sculptures by Gail Folwell have been installed…
There’s a spectacular solo in the main space at Pirate: Rebecca Cuming: New Work, featuring the artist’s signature monumental paintings, which come out of the landscape tradition. Cuming’s compositions are clearly views of grassy or even flower-filled fields, but she’s worked the paint so expressively that the scenes have been considerably abstracted, with…
The beauty of digital animation as an artform is its portability: It’s a case of have screen, will travel, as Ivar Zeile’s Denver Digerati has shown over several seasons of Friday Flash summer programs featuring motion-based video media on the Denver Theatre District’s giant LED screen at 14th and Champa…
The Rule Gallery is presenting a handsome solo, Beyond the Veil, by emerging artist Caleb Hahne, whose style combines realism and abstraction in a conceptual way. Every painting in the exhibit — whether a small portrait or a larger figure study — is anchored by a realistic passage done in…
The food and culture of Mexico took over Civic Center Park during Denver’s annual Cinco de Mayo festival last weekend. Photographer Aaron Thackeray was there on May 8 to caught all the colors, cars, good times…and good weather. Now see the full Cinco de Mayo slide show. …
Generally speaking, Facebook’s “memories” feature that it thrusts at the top of your feed every morning harkens back to meaningless, long-forgotten posts, often of things that you’d prefer not to remember. But this morning, as I turned on the computer and sat down bleary-eyed to attempt to write (after falling…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Nicole Gonzales and Michel “Mich” Velazquez met at a concert a couple…
Murals have been blooming like Denver’s cherry blossom trees this spring. No sooner had we settled on our award-winning mural in the Best of Denver 2016 than amazing street art started popping up around town. Here are the ten best new street-art murals of 2016 (so far)… 10. Dread Horseshoe Lounge 414…
Denver is proud of its public art program, and new pieces are being added all the time, including along RTD’s A-Line from Union Station to Denver International Airport. But the program definitely has its critics, including Georgia Amar, co-founder of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, who shared this assessment with…
Guests danced the night away in a galaxy far, far away — right here in Denver — for Point Gallery’s May the Fourth Art War! salute to all things Star Wars. The evening included photo ops galore for costumed galactic characters and creatures, along with Star Wars art on the…
More than any other Denver co-op, Spark Gallery has held onto its members, some for decades. So it’s no surprise to find the two main rooms occupied by a pair of artists who are longtime members and veterans of the alternative scene: In the west gallery, there’s Sue Simon’s Anxiety, and…
New queen on the scene Jessica L’Whor gathered together every lady on Westword correspondent Keith Garcia’s January list of the Thirteen Freshest Faces of Denver Drag last Saturday at Charlie’s for a vision of the future of Denver drag. Photographer Ken Hamblin III documented the grand coming out with these images…
If Opera Colorado’s world premiere production of composer Lori Laitman’s adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, which debuts May 7 at the Ellie, is a hit with staying power, it may one day be thought of in the repertoire simply as “Laitman’s Scarlet Letter.” But opera is a team sport…
Shows in town right now include work by artists who haven’t exhibited here in some time — and they’re a welcome sight. That Was Then, This Is Now, conjoined solos at Goodwin Fine Art, pairs paintings by Mark Villarreal and Andy Berg; though both have lived in Colorado for decades…
