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…
In the main gallery at Pirate right now, Linde Schlumbohm has invited a trio of locally prominent installation artists for 3 Fold, on display through Sunday. Each artist — Gail Wagner, Virginia Folkestad and Susan Meyer Fenton — has been given her own section of the room. Characteristic painted fiber…
Landscapes have been a popular subject in the fine arts for thousands of years, but in just the last century, they have become even more appealing to Colorado artists because our local scenery is so visually emphatic. Between the mountains and the plains, the West has practically cornered the market…
The works of two installation artists are displayed together in the unusual Fabrication and Fiction, running through November 29 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton. In half of the gallery, ACC faculty member Mari Blacker has created various vignettes contrasting materials such as…
In the capacious lower-level galleries at the Arvada Center, curator and exhibition director Kathy Andrews has installed a pair of large photo displays: Fresh Eyes: Colorado Photographers¹ Views, which looks at recent experimental photography by some of the state’s most interesting artists, and Signs and Relics, a solo show that’s…
Mark Masuoka took over as director at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver on January 1, 2000, and he quickly transformed the place from what had looked like the city’s largest co-op into something that could pass, on a good day, for a bona fide museum. But less than ten months…
Interpretive Visions, at the Camera Obscura Gallery, is a solo exhibit featuring black-and-white photos by Loretta Young-Gautier. The show includes older photos dating back to the 1980s, as well as a batch of new ones. Young-Gautier studied with local black-and-white masters Ron Wohlauer and Ray Whiting. Like them, she has…
Less than a year ago, when I learned that Mark Masuoka was set to take on the director’s job at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver on January 1, 2000, I told him, “May God save your immortal soul.” Masuoka gave out a ready guffaw, but I wasn’t even half-kidding…
Open Press, the fine print-making shop, is currently featuring a handsome group show in its gallery. Relief Prints refers to a process of making prints with blocks, either wood or wood-faced linoleum, that have been carved with patterns in relief. The blocks are then inked and finally pressed onto paper…
Over the last few years, Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery has increasingly specialized in abstract painting, with contemporary takes on minimalism often given center stage. “I’ve come to it by living in this environment,” says director Robin Rule, referring both to the austerity of much of the Western landscape and…
Lisbeth Neergaard Kohloff, exhibition director of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, says she selected the three photographers in the group show Retro Truth because all are working with memories, with the past. The title says it all retro. The first featured photographer is New Yorker Carol Golemboski. In toned gelatin…
Over the last century, hundreds of dedicated, masterful artists have worked in Colorado. But while a score of them have achieved genuine international recognition — on the level of Vance Kirkland, for example — only a handful made art history. There’s Boardman Robinson, the social realist painter who worked in…
