The centuries-old culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, built on a bedrock of religion, yields an equally old subculture of santeros and santeras — carvers of religious figures, retablos and crosses. And each year, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gives over its walls to the best of…
“We just want to get famous enough to meet Lena Dunham,” say twin artists Taylor and Jazzmyn Barbosa. They may be joking, but it doesn’t seem like too fantastic a dream; the Barbosa sisters’ art is cut from the same vulnerable, whip-smart cloth as the star and creator HBO’s Girls…
That TV that looked so great twenty years ago is looking like an environmentally unfriendly albatross today — it’s essentially trashed, but too full of toxic materials to throw out with the trash. But on Saturday, April 5, Republic Services of Denver will provide a convenient way to recycle obsolete…
Whether he’s stuffing his subjects’ faces with food or taking pictures of them covered in their own blood, Andrew Novick takes photographs that document an always interesting and often delightfully weird time. This time around, the artist, collector, Peeps expert, Stanley Film Festival collaborator and Warlock Pincher looked to his…
Mo’Print, the Month of Printmaking, is winding down, and although the centerpiece is the Open Press show at the McNichols Building, there have been dozens of other events focused on printmaking up and down the Front Range. Among the ones that I’ve checked out are the two on view at…
DADA Art Bar occupies a prime corner of Denver. This space at 2470 Broadway used to be in the middle of nowhere — dada, indeed! — but these days the Ballpark neighborhood is popping. After months of meticulous planning by Ian Chisholm, who also owns Amerigo right around the corner,…
With hair genius and photo-shoot stylist Charlie Price behind the scenes at the upcoming 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, there’s little doubt that the three-night event at City Hall, featuring national and local fashion shows as well as a hair show, will look good all weekend long. But the addition…
Denver’s First Annual March for Absurdity convened at Market street RTD station yesterday afternoon. Whimsical accoutrements abounded at this small but dedicated gathering of weirdos, united in a defiantly pointless exercise for the sake of spectacle. But oh, what a spectacle. While the marcher’s assembled costumes were all decidedly bizarre, the real show was on the baffled faces of passersby as they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on.
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 went back to college at the young age of fifty and…
You may not know artist Katrin Davis by name, but you’ve definitely seen her work around Denver. The artist’s collages have been used on posters and fliers for shows for years, pieces that incorporate vintage photographs with vibrant, retro-feeling colors like turquoise and coral. Late last year, Davis moved into…
When artists Adam Milner and Jeromie Dorrance decided to open an exhibit space in what’s essentially their living room, they did so in a spirit that’s both DIY and not DIY, by putting together a well-crafted show that covers a national gamut of contemporary work by five colleagues in the…
Artist House Tour Series featuring Mark and Kristen Sink
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a bi-weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
The Stanley Film Festival just announced its opening-night film and other special, scarey events for the four-day fest, which kicks off April 24 at the historic Stanley Hotel. “The Stanley Hotel is consistently voted one of the most haunted hotels in the world, and they give over 75,000 ghost tours…
One month into its three-month stay in Denver, Monkey Town 4 — the fine-dining experience in a video cube brought here by returning hometown kid Montgomery Knott, who fine-tuned the concept for several years in Brooklyn — is generating a buzz as more and more people suspend reality for two…
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. “The gallery business can be extremely difficult,” says Eric Matelski, a Denver-based…
When she was in high school, Favianna Rodriguez’s parents wanted her to study to become a doctor. They supported her creativity, but subjected her to a string of math and science camps that monopolized her time. As an A+, super-star student, she went to college, found herself pregnant, had an…
The Month of Printmaking, aka Mo’Print 2014, continues this weekend with a variety of events, including tonight’s opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Niza Knoll Gallery for Printmakers 4. The exhibit features works representing the diversity of printmaking techniques — from woodcut and monoprint to intaglio and even…
Tattoos have become a popular modern art form, but Juli Morsella is exploring tattooing’s ancient, sacred roots and has put together an exhibition with works by artists from all over Europe and the U.S., examining tattoos from around the world. The show, Tattoo in Contemporary Art, opens Friday, March 21,…
For the past several years, a pair of alternating biennials have been presented in the month of March (though the shows and events associated with them often start in February and end in April). In odd-numbered years, there’s the well-established Month of Photography, and in even-numbered years, like 2014, there’s…
Michael Paglia visits Open Press in this week’s review, taking in an exhibit made up of 125 pieces by 50 different artists. Much of the focus is on Mark Lunning, printmaster and owner of Open Press, celebrating his work from the last 25 years. Continue reading for photos from the…
It’s not far off the mark to call artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy a force of nature, as many of her recent works grow out of a symbiosis with the natural world. And that’s what her new show, Nest/Shed, opening Friday at Mai Wyn Fine Art, is all about. Here’s a…
