Alternative ideas and alternative spaces both play a part in new gallery shows this week, proving that you never know where you’re going to find topnotch art in Denver on a Friday night. Here are some ways to enjoy new work and shop till you drop at the same time…
On July 25, Mayor Michael Hancock, Denver Partners Against Graffiti and 200-plus volunteers took to the streets of Capitol Hill to “buff out” some of the graffiti surrounding East High School. This was the sixth annual “Brush Off Graffiti” event, celebrating another year of working to keep Denver beautiful, as DPAG’s…
A handful of galleries mounted shows this summer that were meant to coincide with Denver’s Biennial of the Americas and its one-size-fits-all theme of “now.” Rule Gallery got on board and invited guest curator Hayley Richardson to come up with Nothing Belongs to Us, an exhibit intended to reflect what…
Colorado Crush is Colorado’s largest independent graffiti and street art festival. The inaugural event took place in 2009 at the Exdo Event Center, where the original murals created at that festival have long been painted over. The sixth annual Colorado Crush, set for September 14 through September 20, will take…
There are two very disparate exhibits running through Saturday, August 15, at the Ice Cube Gallery co-op. And both are interesting in their own ways. In the spaces to the right of the entrance is Binaries, a three-part installation by Ice Cube member Linda Graham, who collaborated with her grandson,…
At least once a week, someone squeals to me that they love tiny homes. There are a lot of tiny home fans out there, along with tiny house television shows (none of which I’ve watched), movies and blogs. The zeitgeist is here. Which is why over 10,000 people registered for…
The Lakewood community embraced new public art at MuralFest Saturday in the 40 West Arts District, as seven local artists put the finishing touches on murals along 16th Avenue. Writer/photographer Lindsey Bartlett hit the mural beat to bring back these images from the festival. Now see the full West Colfax…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’re looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Photographer John Fielder has a gallery dedicated to his iconic nature photography, John…
It’s high summer, the perfect time for the Art District on Santa Fe to experiment with closing off four blocks of the street to traffic —from Sixth to Tenth Avenue — during the August First Friday art walk. Here’s a taste of what you’ll encounter as you walk freely on…
For years the Sie FilmCenter has been a place that brings people together with the best that cinema has to offer; its many awards, including numerous Best of Denver honors from Westword, are a testament to that. But recently the Sie (and just to be clear, the name is pronounced like “see”…
Denver’s geeky convention scene is busy, averaging a little more than one con a month. As full as the con calendar is, there’s always room for one more, especially when it sports the pedigree of DINK, or the Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo. Helmed by the same duo that…
Though there are many artist couples, it’s unusual for both halves to wind up becoming internationally renowned. But that’s the case with contemporary artists Deborah Butterfield and John Buck. The two have individual studios in both Montana and Hawaii, and have each built impressive reputations based on their highly distinctive…
I decided to take a break from dealing with the tiny house last week and focus on more important issues…like PIE. I take cooking pretty seriously. And I don’t consider “making a sandwich” cooking – even though a sandwich is the most popular meal in America, as Michael Pollan pointed out…
Indie design blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she shares some of her favorite homes, taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Denver artist Meagen Svendsen and her husband, architect Robert Treta, have combined their…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Noelle Nelson, a self-taught painter who was born and raised in Denver, graduated…
Artist Delton Demarest has spent the summer creating portraits of deceased musicians — Amy Winehouse, Biggie Smalls, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia — that comprise an album of artists you wish were still alive today. It’s all part of his larger-than-life triptych mural project on the garage…
We were just lamenting the hot-hot heat of July and now the dog days of summer are upon us. Though the summer movie blockbuster season is starting to putter out, we found some great ways to spend time in the comfort of your favorite theater’s air conditioning while its silver…
Colorado artist Rick Dula is a local master of contemporary hyperrealist painting who is best known for his magnificent mural “A Place in Time: Here,” which is periodically on view at the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building. The mural functions as an X-ray of sorts of the wall on which…
The night before applications opened for studio apartments at the Artspace Loveland Arts Campus in the remodeled Loveland Feed and Grain building, artists started lining up around the block. “It was midnight and like minus 20 degrees,” recalls Margaret Hunt, director of Colorado Creative Industries in the state’s Office of…
Like many artists, I’m a bit of a loner. I like being alone in my studio, working — and with the time challenges of this project, I’ve turned into a near-hermit. This condition, of course, will be directly challenged by the Mayday Experiment, since touring with the tiny house will…
Since spring 2009, a singularly dedicated group of theater pros have regularly gathered to stage new, short works by local writers: all at the same time, all sharing a theme, for one night only. And they’ve done it six times a year. This string of bold, entertaining One Night Stands…
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 love the naive, intuitive way children draw,” says Phyllis Ripple, founder…
