While checking out the scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this past March, Bobbi Walker, director of Walker Fine Art, realized that her planned June slot had come apart and that she needed to come up with somebody quickly to fill the position. While she was looking, she came across…
When art collecting brothers Ron and Roger Pollard purchased a handful of paintings at an online auction in 2004, they had no idea what they were in for. The pieces, bought from a seller in Germany, were done in the style of an early-twentieth-century art movement known as Russian avant-garde,…
The finalists for this year’s Henry Awards in theater have been announced. Given by the Colorado Theatre Guild, which covers the entire state, the Henrys are decided by dozens of judges, six of whom must attend every eligible production. As always, the list of finalists comprises both expected choices and…
This will be a bad week for some of the elephants in Colorado’s Grand Old Party: three of the four candidates — Tom Tancredo, Mike Kopp, Bob Beauprez and Scott Gessler — running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination will be sitting on the sidelines after Tuesday’s primary, while one will…
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 never had any formal art training until I was in college…
Where’s the art this weekend? You can start in the Art District on Santa Fe, where collector-oriented Third Friday events will keep galleries hopping up and down the street. Or you can venture around (and outside of) the city for more show openings…. See also: Paper Work, Center for Visual…
“Reflections”: A Celebration of Beauty” should be a beauty of an event at the Fashion Design Center Denver on Friday, June 20. Developer Lisa Curwen connected with Lisa Eberlein to organize a fashion show inspired by the poem “Mirror, Mirror”; Eberlien also produced a special film that will premiere there…
Tom Lundin is an accidental historian: Through blog and The Denver Eye, his Facebook page, he shares images of the Mile High City’s fascinating past. Lundin’s collection is a curated mix of images that tell the story of a great city, with everything from hundred-year old photos of Lakeside Amusement…
Michael Paglia visits Robischon Gallery and Ironton Studios in this week’s review, taking in two solo shows to start out the summer season. The exhibit at Ironton focuses on work from Stephen Batura. At Robischon there are four solos on view that match up beautifully with Batura’s Ironton excursion as…
There’s a must-see exhibition at Ironton Gallery called Stephen Batura: Stream that features some very recent paintings assembled into a singular installation. In the ’90s, Batura was part of an upstart generation of emerging artists right out of school who were interested in doing work with representational imagery cast into…
Ratha Sok had never taken on a project quite like this one. But now approximately 1,500 square feet of space — a pillar outside CEC Middle College that used to be just gray brick — is covered in an eclectic mural painted by Sok, fellow artist friends Denzel Samaniego, Jin…
More than a decade ago, Starz art director Suzanne Heintz decided there was a way to have a family and her freedom, too: She acquired a set of mannequins, including make-believe husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, and began photographing herself in vignettes with them for a project she calls…
I don’t read books. Really. I used to be ashamed of this, but then I realized that I read thousands of words every day — they just come in the form of online articles and, when I’m lucky, physical copies of magazines. I’ve been a voracious magazine reader since I…
There were plenty of Spider Men, and Women, at Denver Comic Con this year, but there was only one Spider, a machine that allows users to create digital sculptures with ZBrush, industry-standard animation software. The Digital Animation Center (DAC) from the University of Colorado Denver has set up the Spider…
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. “Art is in my DNA,” says illustrator and photographer Lindy Hargrave, who…
TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design brings sixteen local leaders innovators and entrepreneurs to Ellie Caulkins Opera House tomorrow for an independently organized TEDx Mile High event. The theme is “Emergence” — of new ideas, thinking and technology — which will be threaded through the presentations. Educators, musicians,…
Ever since I could speak, I’ve always been proud to tell people about my dad’s job. He makes pottery for a living, running a business out of a converted garage studio connected to my parents’ Evergreen home. From here he throws, decorates, fires in a kiln, and ships out his…
It’s Friday the thirteenth, but that’s no reason to stay home: Tonight and in the days to come, Friday Flash, Denver Comic Con and OhHeckYeah will transform downtown into a wham! pow! high-tech and pop-culture art paradise, while the otherworldly, monumental glass shapes of Chihuly will wow the crowds at…
San Francisco artist Tony Labat has built a site-specific sculpture for Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus, and from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight you can watch his sculpture turn into a platform for community interaction when it is activated with performances by DJs and drag queens. This piece is…
Jeff Wenzel is one of Colorado’s great abstract artists, with a solid body of work done over the past few decades. Though his roots are in ceramics — he was a protégé of Peter Voulkos, whose abstract-expressionist approach to clay completely revolutionized that medium — Wenzel has only rarely exhibited…
Colorado is a state that loves outdoor activities — which makes the poster show debuting this Friday, June 13 at Gallerie Rouge a natural. Owner Lisa Taylor will feature the largest collection of vintage European posters celebrating the great outdoors ever shown in the Rocky Mountains. The timing is no…
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. Suzanne Heintz is “mocking the Good Housewife of the 50s but inside…
