Mary DeForest loves Jane Austen. The 68-year-old academic has read each of the author’s novels over 100 times. “I went to her tomb at Winchester Cathedral and burst into tears,” she says. “I couldn’t believe she was dead.” DeForest has spent much of her academic career defending Austen’s legacy. “Austen…
My friend Philip Spangler has been here almost three months and is staying one more week, sleeping on a futon in my living room and working on the house every day. By the end of the week the goal is to have a fully-clad, Tyvek-wrapped box with a loft and…
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. Daniel Neeman wakes up early so he can open the Tattered Covered…
Colors may have faded in the mountains, but the local art scene is full of stunning visuals, including the otherworldly imagery of Paul Gillis at Rule, a group show exploring the cutting edge of realism at 1261, and fresh offerings from the local co-op Core and the artist-run Valkarie Gallery…
Chuck Parson: Still and Centered Point Z Art Department 1136 Speer Boulevard Chuck Parson, who helped pioneer the conceptual abstraction movement around here forty years ago, is the subject of a major outing at Z Art Department called Still and Centered Point. The exhibit includes more than sixty installations, sculptures…
Walk around any neighborhood in Denver and it is easy to see how fast the city is growing — new architecture seems to be popping up around every corner. This Saturday, October 25, four newly-built homes will open their doors to the public for a closer look as part of…
Kevin O’Connell: Memories of Water Lucas Foglia: Frontcountry William Lamson: Automatic Robischon Gallery 1740 Wazee Street The varied and reliably dramatic vistas of the American West are the reason there’s a category of work called Western art. The scenery, from mountains to plains, deserts to lakes, has a celebrity quality…
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School — a life-drawing class combined with a cabaret show — is back. Burlesque artist Vivienne VaVoom (aka Michelle Baldwin) launched Dr. Sketchy’s five years ago, but she put it on unintentional hiatus a few years ago. “I decided it was time to take a break because…
I love how this house, not yet a house but a structure, activates the neighborhood. I have lived in Five Points for many, many years, and had my studio in its current location, a former chop-shop, for seven of them. In that time I’ve witnessed drive-bys, escapees from the juvie…
It isn’t often that Michael Brohman’s work could be described as somber (“outrageous” is more often what comes to mind), but that’s the case with Horizons, now in the main space at Pirate. See also: A Lively Mix of Sculptures, Paintings and Photos Fill Spark Gallery…
Though the main gallery at Spark is usually cut into two spaces when there are two solos on display, Andy Libertone: Seldom Seen has been installed together with Katharine McGuinness: New. See also: Review: Plus Strikes Gold With Its Final Show, Jenny Morgan: The Golden Hour…
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. Thomas Weeks’s original plan after graduating from Metropolitan State University of Denver…
Men gathered for a manly good time this weekend, when the inaugural Bro Show strode confidently into the Denver Mart, bringing with it a melange of beer kits, big-screen TVs, guns, MMA tournaments, gigantic trucks and more. Ken Hamblin snapped these images of the action; keep reading for a taste…
Update: Online voting has begun in the “I Heart My RTD” student art contest. The website features sixteen designs created by middle school students in the Aurora and Cherry Creek school districts and asks users to vote for their favorite. Two designs will ultimately be chosen to be adapted for…
The inaugural Denver Moth StorySLAM, presented by The Moth Radio Hour, will land at Swallow Hill tonight. These events, which are set up like poetry slams — except with true stories that last no more than five minutes — have already been hits in major cities like New York City,…
This weekend, you can survey the art of mourning and found objects, revel in grand strokes of pure color or see what’s gone under the radar in the local videography community. For more options, check out Westword’s gallery listings; read on for sketches of a few of our favorites. See…
Stickers are not just for stationary. Ink Monstr, a graphic design and print shop, will be taking over Cluster Studios for Sticky Situation, a one-night-only elite art show and competition on Saturday, October 18. And you can help choose the artist who moves on to the national contest. See also:…
Jenny Morgan: The Golden Hour Plus Gallery 2501 Larimer Street Quickly heading to its closing date this coming Saturday, October 18, is Jenny Morgan: The Golden Hour at Plus Gallery, a small but compelling solo dedicated to this onetime Denver artist who now lives in New York. Morgan is notable…
By the 1980s, feminist art pioneer Judy Chicago had secured a seat at the table of art history with her landmark installation, The Dinner Party. The triangular table, 48 feet on each side, was decorated with place-settings for 39 women from myth and history and celebrated another 999. The project…
There is nothing like a rainbow over a Colorado mountain valley. I had to pull over – not, mind you, for the rainbow, but for my new friend, a drifter named Apache who had first drained a Gatorade bottle full of whiskey and then attempted to drain his bladder into…
Bill Vielehr, a Colorado modern master, died suddenly on Saturday, October 11. Vielehr was born in Chicago in 1945 but grew up in Boulder, and he launched his art career here in Colorado. He studied fine art at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he earned a BFA in…
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. Organizational developer Suzanne Sigona relocated to Denver from Washington, D.C. over twenty…
