When Jill Hadley Hooper, ace director of the Ironton Gallery, first told me about Mind Over Matter: Teresa Booth Brown, I knew I wanted to catch it, because I admire Brown’s abstract paintings — which were what I was expecting to see. But it turns out that this elegant and…
For the past several years, RedLine has featured shows that follow certain established themes. This year’s is “Play It Forward,” which curators have interpreted in a variety of ways. For the current exhibit, Jokes of Nature, Donald Fodness and Geoffrey Shamos have interpreted the theme to mean a fascination with…
2015 Faculty Triennial. Dan Jacobs, director of the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery and curator of the institution’s art collection, brings both vocations together for the 2015 Faculty Triennial. On one level, it’s a knockout exhibit, perfectly in line with past efforts at the Myhren; on another, its subject…
Matt Scobey has been part of the Denver scene for ten years, but he has never had a higher profile than he does right now. That’s partly because his “Talavera Bolsa,” a crumbling partial floor made of concrete tiles, was the only unalloyed success in last summer’s otherwise disappointing Vis-à-Vis…
We all know that Denver is changing quickly, and a lot of those changes are terrible — from the cheesy buildings that are destroying the character of one neighborhood after another to traffic that swings from speedway to gridlock and back again over the course of a few blocks. But…
The main entry space at Mai Wyn Fine Art is just big enough to allow for a tidy solo, or as is happening now with Kinesis, an economical duet pairing paintings by Priscilla Fowler with sculptures by Jodie Roth Cooper. It closes tomorrow. Fowler has created spontaneously-done abstracts on Mylar…
It used to be that the term “Western art” described work that depicted the scenery and lifestyle associated with the western states — typically, mountains, animals, birds and the people who live here. But in recent years, the definition has been expanded to include modern and contemporary art with Western…
Just a week after it was installed in a field near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Jeff Gipe’s monumental sculpture, “Cold War Horse,” has been knocked over and seriously damaged. According to police, a vandal or vandals hit the sculpture with a vehicle over Labor Weekend and then…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is one of this city’s great cultural treasures, and tomorrow, September 10, developers will break ground on a new facility for the museum, at the corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street. Dedicated not only to the preservation and exhibition of the…
It’s hard to keep up with Pirate. Shows run for only a short period of time, the place is only open on the weekends, and the exhibits come and go with almost no notice from the venerable old co-op. Because of that, my shout-out to an impressive pair of solos…
Denver’s third Biennial of the Americas wrapped up its run last weekend as most of the official exhibits closed. Over the past few months, artists, innovators and experts had been charged with exploring the theme of “Now.” But the overall experience left many locals underwhelmed, as have the two previous…
Trine Bumiller: 100 Paintings for 100 Years, now at the McNichols Building, is unquestionably one of the best exhibits of the year — if only for the breadth of Bumiller’s vision. That vision took shape last summer when Bumiller, who lives in Denver, was selected to be an artist-in-residence at…
It used to be that the art world in Denver took a breather in August, to mark the close of one season and allow galleries to gear up for the next one, which started after Labor Day — but that’s clearly not the case anymore. This month has seen a…
The writing’s on the wall in two shows currently on display at Point Gallery, featuring artists Jennifer Davey and Deirdre Adams. Both are set to close at the end of this week. The main attraction in the front spaces is Bound, a solo featuring recent paintings by Jennifer Davey. The…
Ed Nichols is announcing this afternoon that he is stepping down as CEO of History Colorado after eight years at the helm, during which time he oversaw the construction of the History Colorado Center at 1200 Broadway, in a state-of-the-art facility designed by David Tryba. Also leaving is Kathryn Hill,…
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is one of the shining lights of Colorado’s cultural scene. As an exhibition venue, it’s very large and includes space not just for art exhibits, but also for theater, dance and art education. And the exhibit program is a standout, thanks to…
The intimate artist cooperative Spark Gallery is hosting three small solos. Installed in the east side of the space is Lydia Brokaw: Life Here…but a Different Reality Over There, which is made up of sculptures employing natural materials that are sometimes altered, like the gold-painted milkweed pods used as elements…
A handful of galleries mounted shows this summer that were meant to coincide with Denver’s Biennial of the Americas and its one-size-fits-all theme of “now.” Rule Gallery got on board and invited guest curator Hayley Richardson to come up with Nothing Belongs to Us, an exhibit intended to reflect what…
There are two very disparate exhibits running through Saturday, August 15, at the Ice Cube Gallery co-op. And both are interesting in their own ways. In the spaces to the right of the entrance is Binaries, a three-part installation by Ice Cube member Linda Graham, who collaborated with her grandson,…
Though there are many artist couples, it’s unusual for both halves to wind up becoming internationally renowned. But that’s the case with contemporary artists Deborah Butterfield and John Buck. The two have individual studios in both Montana and Hawaii, and have each built impressive reputations based on their highly distinctive…
Colorado artist Rick Dula is a local master of contemporary hyperrealist painting who is best known for his magnificent mural “A Place in Time: Here,” which is periodically on view at the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building. The mural functions as an X-ray of sorts of the wall on which…
The 2015 Biennial of the Americas, with exhibits and events running through August, strikes me as being more modest, less public, less local and more expensive than either the original, in 2010, or the last one, in 2013. That last one included two components that should have been fine-tuned and…
