Continuance: Charles and Collin Parson Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs Charles “Chuck” Parson is one of Colorado’s preeminent abstract and conceptual sculptors, with an illustrious career that stretches back to the 1970s. His son, Collin Parson, is best known as a curator in his…

Desert Light William Havu Gallery 1040 Cherokee Street New Mexico’s modern art history is intertwined with Colorado’s, if only because so many artists from each state show their work in the other — and it’s been this way for decades. A case in point is Sam Scott: Desert Light, a…

With scores of galleries, art centers, museums, artist-cooperatives and even ad hoc spaces around town, you’d have to make exhibit viewing a full time job in order to see everything — and even then, it might be impossible. But there were some shows from 2014 that no one should have…

The Great Recession has lifted in Denver as developers appear to be building something on every square inch of the city. And what with legalized pot, the town’s hipness quotient is off the charts, attracting seemingly half the twenty- and thirty-somethings in the country who are dutifully moving into all…

Brilliant Denver Art Museum 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway The Denver Art Museum has come up with the perfect winter show: Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century, which is crammed to the rafters with “ice” in the form of more diamonds than I could possibly count. Up front, I’m going…

Blurred Lines Sandra Phillips Gallery 420 West 12th Avenue Blurred Lines. The Sandra Phillips Gallery is a cozy space, making it a challenge to put on a group show, especially one made up of artists who work in large formats. But that’s exactly what’s on tap there now with Blurred…

Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…

Jill Hadley Hooper: Interiors Goodwin Fine Art 1255 Delaware Street Jill Hadley Hooper is nationally known for her illustrations, which have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times. Around here, though, she wears many hats, and may be better known as the co-founder, with Tracy Weil, of the…

Surveying Judy Chicago RedLine 2350 Arapahoe Street There are three solos on display now through the holidays that focus on internationally known conceptual artists. RedLine is hosting a retrospective dedicated to Judy Chicago, a pioneer in feminist art, while Robischon has given space to two artists, Ann Hamilton and Jae…

Linda Graham: Personal Perceptions Hinterland Gallery 3254 Walnut Street Linda Graham has a background in ceramics, which she exhibited way back in the 1980s, but in the past few years she’s discovered digital art — which really couldn’t be more different. See also: Review: Paul Gillis Conjures Up an Enigmatic…

Paul Gillis: Otherwhere/Otherwhen Rule Gallery 3254 Walnut Street Colorado artist Paul Gillis, though incredibly prolific, has kept a low profile over the past several decades. It’s been five years since his last Denver solo, at the Singer Gallery, and a full quarter-century since the one before that, at the Denver…

By now everyone has heard that Bill Cosby — the beloved Dr. Huxtable from the 1980s hit sitcom “The Cosby Show,” and before that, tennis coach Alexander Scott on “I Spy,” from the ’60s — has been publicly accused by at least ten women, including Lou Ferrigno’s wife, of sexually…

Urban Grotesque Point Gallery 765 Santa Fe Drive The current solo at Point Gallery features work by David Menard done over the past few years. Though Menard uses photography — both his own and appropriated photos — he was trained in drawing and works digitally, having never used a darkroom…

Bob Knox and Michael Clapper William Havu Gallery 1040 Cherokee Street Don Quade & Brandon Reese Walker Fine Art 300 West 11th Avenue Considering the nature of physics as it relates to rooms, it’s easy to understand why gallery directors like to pair a painter, whose works can cover the…