Director Olympia Stone has an artist’s eye, and she uses it to illuminate the life of art. The newest of her series of documentary films on the creative process comes to the Denver Film Festival this weekend. Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck will screen three times…
The three solos currently on display at Robischon Gallery share a creepy yet elegant mood — like the feeling of walking through a decrepit mansion — and it strikes me that the atmosphere is a perfect fit for this time of year. Filling the initial set of galleries is Kahn…
Sophia Capua was four years old the first time she noticed the cartoonish graffiti monster characters drawn on a banner at the base of Loveland Ski Area. She also liked the sight of Pat Milbery, co-founder of the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour, riding the rails with a giant monster mask…
In a city of flux, it seems that everyone in my life is moving right now. And one of the main tenets of both being a good friend and being a person who owns stuff is that you need to accumulate and dole out “moving karma” – in other words,…
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. RiseUp Community School, a ten week-old charter school at 1801 Federal, is…
Say goodbye to October at galleries around town with shows that celebrate film, double as benefits, dress up for Halloween or prep viewers for a blockbuster coming to the Denver art Museum in November. Where will you end up? Black Light Art Show Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 6…
For its fall offerings, the Arvada Center is hosting three shows connected not by style or theme, but in how the works included in each were made. The subjects of the three shows — unified under the banner of FIRED — are iron, ceramics and glass, with the iron having…
This is my fiftieth post — after one year, two months and about seventeen days of building the tiny house. The structure is now finished, and the next step is the stairs and siding. To mark this milestone (and because I am working on a large-scale commission with an insane…
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. Anna Peckham lived in Alaska until she was four years old, and…
Change is in the air at Ironton Gallery this weekend, while nearby at Rule, Jacob Feige plays perceptual tricks. And at Belmar in Lakewood, Valkarie Gallery brings whimsy into the mix, just in time for Halloween. Here are the details. Andy Sweet: Essence Ironton Studios and Gallery October 23 through…
The ongoing efforts to push History Colorado into the future would make a great subject for a Ph.D. thesis someday. There’s certainly plenty of research material, including minutes of the meetings of the new board that was reduced to nine members by a law passed by the Colorado Legislature this…
Everything I’ve seen by Amber Cobb over the past several years has focused on domestic life, with a special interest in references to the bedroom. The artist’s oeuvre incorporates a wide range of material, from stomach-turning objects like stained and torn mattresses at one end to elegant and minimal expressions…
The ever-changing canvas of Bella Vista Mexican restaurant is sporting a new piece of street art that is a bit more topical than usual. Today is Back to the Future Day, since 4:29 p.m. October 21, 2015 is the exact date and time referenced in the second BTTF film released in…
Something big is coming to Denver. It will tower over some buildings, and be seen from blocks away. It will be blue, and it will be startling. At first glance, it will look familiar — but you may need a few minutes to place exactly where you’ve seen it before…
Point Gallery curators Frank Martinez and Michael Vacchiano had planned to do a show featuring recent work by artist Robin Ross, who built her career in Brooklyn but moved to Crestone, Colorado, about four years ago. Sadly, Ross passed away while the show was still in the planning stages. So…
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. When Kristin Griffith and her husband recently decided to leave Griffith’s hometown…
This weekend in Denver, find art derived from life experiences at Hinterland and a body of work from an unexpected source at David B. Smith Gallery. And then there’s this: Sally Centigrade will offer shelter — and limited-edition prints — to wandering mall zombies hitting downtown Denver for the Zombie…
If you keep up at all with Denver street art, you’re familiar with Gamma Acosta, who paints walls here, across the nation and even abroad. He can often be seen painting and repainting murals on the wall at Bella Vista Mexican Restaurant on the edge of downtown Denver (his latest…
This fall’s blockbuster at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, is an orgy of visual experiences, a spectacle comprising scores of works, many of them monumental and all of which could be described as either pretty or dirty or both — just as the show’s title warns…
Surely the biggest news for contemporary art in the twenty-first century is the ascendancy of Chinese contemporary art and its important place in the international mix. Amazingly, exhibition-goers in Denver have had a front-row seat for this rapid transformation in the art world’s hierarchy, and that’s partly due to the…
People have a lot of questions. Every other week or so, someone knocks on my door or slips a note through the window of the tiny house asking me to call because they have “so many questions.” I try to be friendly to the knockers, though often they are interrupting…
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. The Mobile Museum of American Artifacts is Laurelin Kruse’s touring museum of…
