Blurred Lines Sandra Phillips Gallery 420 West 12th Avenue Blurred Lines. The Sandra Phillips Gallery is a cozy space, making it a challenge to put on a group show, especially one made up of artists who work in large formats. But that’s exactly what’s on tap there now with Blurred…
With a grant from the city of Denver, Birdseed Collective is beautifying RTD bus benches in its own Globeville/Elyria/Swansea neighborhood. With two benches already finished and four more on the way, the art and community service collective is working with LiveWell Colorado on the P.S. You Are Here Grant to…
Director Travis La and the crew behind the latest 303 Boards skateboard team video, Landrace, liked the sound of 12/13/14 for a premiere date. While we’re counting, this marks the thirteenth team video from the little Colfax shop that could (tagline: “Holding down the Colorado skate scene since 1997”) and…
Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…
Jill Hadley Hooper: Interiors Goodwin Fine Art 1255 Delaware Street Jill Hadley Hooper is nationally known for her illustrations, which have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times. Around here, though, she wears many hats, and may be better known as the co-founder, with Tracy Weil, of the…
After returning from its journey to City, O’ City for a fundraiser last week (thank you to all who came and contributed!), the tiny house still needed to be leveled so that we could install the windows — a task that requires, as much as possible, a level house. I…
Have a Die Hard Christmas! Last week Amanda Moutinho unwrapped her list of the Five Least Christmas-y Christmas Movies. And one of her favorites, Die Hard, will be showing not once but twice this week, in a special gift to this city’s fans of merry mayhem. Keep reading for the…
Though the First Friday of December traditionally collides with the Parade of Lights, art-lovers still flocked to Santa Fe Drive, despite interfering downtown gridlock. Read on to see photographer Danielle Lirette’s images from the art district’s monthly gallery stroll. See also: Laura Goldhamer Brings Stop Motion to Gregory Alan Isakov…
Geeks have a tendency to self-segregate into little geeky ghettos — Star Wars fans over here, Lord of the Rings devotees over there — and that makes it really easy to miss out on some cool shit. If you’re suffering from the effects of this self-imposed exile and would like…
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. “Mazes are a metaphor for life — you run into a dead…
Plenty of Denver galleries will kick off December with shows of small and affordable art for the holidays. But there’s much more to see this First Friday, and it’s a good night to venture from the downtown area, where the Parade of Lights will create gridlock and parking nightmares, and…
In the world of stop motion, sometimes you have to embrace mistakes. Denver artist/musician Laura Goldhamer is used to doing just that, most recently when she created the video for Gregory Alan Isakov’s “Amsterdam.” One of the props was a large piece of glass with-cotton ball clouds to serve as…
Colfax Avenue’s sordid and fascinating history provides a road map for the evolution of the metro area. The longest uninterrupted main street in the United States, Colfax coasts from Aurora to Golden with chunks of Denver and Lakewood in between, providing an excellent cross-section of Colorado commerce, culture and community…
Surveying Judy Chicago RedLine 2350 Arapahoe Street There are three solos on display now through the holidays that focus on internationally known conceptual artists. RedLine is hosting a retrospective dedicated to Judy Chicago, a pioneer in feminist art, while Robischon has given space to two artists, Ann Hamilton and Jae…
Over the time that Gary Isaacs has been photographing Denver landmarks, he’s become something of a local landmark himself. The photographer has a show up at Leon Gallery, 36 Views of the Lion’s Lair, which runs through January 4. As Isaacs recalls the inspiration for the series,he was just back…
The Dairy Center for the Arts is opening a new exhibition, The Art of Fiber: Fifty Years of the Handweavers Guild of Boulder, that showcases a juried exhibition of new work as well as a historical display of textiles and technology. In celebration of the show, the Handweavers Guild and…
If you like your art weird and a little off the beaten path, Sally Centigrade is here to help. The newest addition to Denver’s thriving gallery scene is dedicated both to showcasing local artists and to the kind of outsider art that doesn’t always get a lot of attention, here…
Linda Graham: Personal Perceptions Hinterland Gallery 3254 Walnut Street Linda Graham has a background in ceramics, which she exhibited way back in the 1980s, but in the past few years she’s discovered digital art — which really couldn’t be more different. See also: Review: Paul Gillis Conjures Up an Enigmatic…
I recently had a conversation with a painter who has had, from my estimation, a great career. He’s been gifted with museum shows, his work is in big collections, and his exhibitions have always met with critical acclaim. I don’t feel that I’ve had a shabby career myself — far…
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’m a seventh generation Coloradan, which is part of the reason why…
Paul Gillis: Otherwhere/Otherwhen Rule Gallery 3254 Walnut Street Colorado artist Paul Gillis, though incredibly prolific, has kept a low profile over the past several decades. It’s been five years since his last Denver solo, at the Singer Gallery, and a full quarter-century since the one before that, at the Denver…
The local comics community set up tables last Sunday at Morey Middle School for the Cowtown Comics Festival, an all-Colorado artist expo that featured everything from hand-stapled zines to hardback graphic novels. Photographer Nicki Lamson was there, and brought back these images and more from the low-key fest. See also:…
