It could be said that the ILK @ Pirate space (3659 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058) is a hole in the wall within a hole in the wall — or to put it more elegantly, an alternative space within an alternative space. Despite the limitations of a small, dingy room, more often…
You can always expect to see some of the best and most interesting contemporary art by local, national and international artists at Ron Judish Fine Arts, because director Ron Judish is relentlessly searching for new material — and he often finds it right in our own backyard. But the three…
There’s a great show being presented right now at the slightly off-the-beaten-path O’Sullivan Arts Center at Regis University (3333 Regis Boulevard, 303-458-3576) — but, then again, there usually is. The current attraction is Dickson: Oils — Monotypes, which presents an in-depth look at well-known Denver artist Mark Dickson’s most recent…
By clearly dividing his gallery into three distinct areas and installing the work of a different artist in each one, Bill Havu has finally come up with a successful scheme for laying out shows in his beautiful, custom-built space in the Golden Triangle. True, it’s only slightly different from what…
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs, 1-719-634-5581) is a quintessential artifact of the 1930s. Designed by John Gaw Meem, it is adorned with gorgeous murals and bejeweled with exquisite metalwork. It is one of the finest early-modern buildings, not just in this time zone,…
Sally Perisho, the director of the Metro Center for the Visual Arts, describes Mexicanidad: Modotti and Weston as the most important show her institution has ever presented. The traveling exhibit, made up of more than sixty photographs by important twentieth-century American photographers Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, chronicles the few…
The Bayeux Gallery (1133 Bannock Street, 720-359-0990), one of the only galleries in the country specializing in art textiles, is showing the luxurious Spotlight on Tapestry, featuring works by Lucia Grigore and her daughter Celina Grigore. Both are Romanians by birth, but Celina lives in Denver while Lucia remains in…
Is there a pattern that connects the various media that are collectively called “crafts”? What does jewelry have to do with glass? Ceramics with quilts? How are they linked to one another? One obvious connection is that all craft items are handmade. Then again, so are paintings and cakes baked…
Last year, Denver artist and commercial art director Jeanie Nuanes King was looking for studio space when she found a run-down storefront on funky South Broadway. “At first I was just going to hang my own work,” she says, “but I always wanted to run a gallery and get out…
Colorado’s own Chuck Parson is surely one of the most prolific artists anywhere, as his activities of the last year illustrate. When he wasn’t putting in long hours as head of the sculpture department at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, he was feverishly working away in his…
Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art in Cherry Creek is presenting The Estate of Ethel Magafan, an exhibit of fourteen pieces from the late artist. Magafan was born and educated in Colorado, but she spent most of her career in the art colony at Woodstock, New York. In the 1930s, Magafan and…
In the waning months of 2000, history — or in Denver’s case, historic preservation — marched down the street. The Denver City Council, with the full support of Mayor Wellington Webb, unanimously authorized the creation of a non-contiguous downtown historic district. It includes more than forty buildings that have played…
A sculpture by Robert Mangold, titled “PTTSAAES Denver” but unofficially redubbed “Particle Moving Through Denver” (above), was recently erected on the fairly new leg of the Sixth Avenue Parkway that runs through the still-under-construction neighborhood being built on the former Lowry Air Force base. The sculpture, done in 1999, is…
Even on an ordinary day, the Foothills Art Center is uncommonly picturesque. It’s situated in an old red-brick church and a pair of adjacent — and matching — Victorian houses in Golden; this charming assemblage perches on a steep hill, high above the street, with the mountains in the background…
One of Gallery M’s specialties is photography, particularly contemporary prints by the giants of black-and-white photojournalism from the mid-twentieth century. The gallery’s current exhibit, Andreas Feininger, is the latest in a long line of solo shows devoted to this important generation of photographers. Feininger, who died in 1998, was the…
Since 1995, the Denver Art Museum’s handsome and spacious Stanton galleries have mostly been at the disposal of the Modern and Contemporary Art department, and over the years, department curator Dianne Vanderlip and her colleagues have used these rooms, located just off the elevator lobby on the first floor, to…
Most of the time we expect to see historic Colorado art at Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art (311 Detroit Street, 303-321-4786), but the gallery has also regularly shown contemporary art. Right now, for example, Schlosser is presenting Bernice Strawn, a show of recent sculptures by this well-known Colorado artist. Schlosser has…
The free-for-all campaign to erase the recent history of Denver’s architecture, endorsed and enabled by Mayor Wellington Webb’s administration, continues unabated. And it’s amazing how many of the losses are associated with the Colorado Convention Center. The latest heartbreaking chapter came one step closer to ending a couple of weeks…
Ron Judish Fine Arts (1617 Wazee Street, 303-571-5556) is currently presenting a trio of superb solo shows. In the grand front room is Keith Milow: drawings, which features recent works by the world-famous Anglo-American artist. Milow uses steel and copper that have been chemically oxidized so that the steel is…
World-famous modern and contemporary artists are part of the stock and trade of the Robischon Gallery, which makes the point with Judy Pfaff: An Installation of Drawings. The fairly large show highlights some of the New York legend’s latest creations. It runs until the end of the year. Pfaff first…
Gallery Sink, owned and operated by Mark Sink, is currently hosting a retrospective entitled Ann White: 1950-2000. Sink has a special interest in White, with whom he has had a lifelong relationship: White is Sink’s mother. White has long been associated with “The Nine,” a Denver artist group that’s still…
It’s a shame, but it’s true: Only a fraction of the crowds that came out for the Denver Art Museum shows featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, Impressionism and Matisse will bother to see Painters and the American West. And that’s too bad, because the exhibit holds its own in comparison with those popular…
