Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
The season opener at Plus Gallery (2501 Larimer Street, 720-394-8484, www.plusgallery.com) is Kate Petley: One Big Dream, on view in the main space. It’s mostly made up of the Colorado-based artist’s cast-acrylic abstractions but includes other sorts of work as well. For a while, Petley was getting super-experimental, but with…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
The fall art season is just getting under way, with several major shows open or about to open, including a few blockbusters. So this will be my last chance for a while to highlight interesting solos that fall short of that designation. Right now there are three worthwhile ones, all…
Though the idea has been kicking around the University of Colorado for over fifty years, a new CU Art Museum finally opens today. The facility is in the just-completed Visual Arts Complex and comprises two buildings designed by Boston’s KMW and Colorado’s own OZ Architecture in an updated Tuscan style,…
From the start, RedLine has had a hybrid identity: It’s a place where artists maintain studios; it’s a venue for exhibitions; and it aims to integrate art into the public realm. And clearly, the hiring in June of P. J. D’Amico as RedLine’s director means that the public component will…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
Around the corner from the bustling Santa Fe Drive art district is a funky two-room operation called Dark Energy Art Space (860 West Eighth Avenue, 303-719-0021, www.darkenergyartspace.com). The brainchild of emerging sculptor Ryan Raudonis, Dark Energy is a co-op of sorts, with a handful of other artists involved. Among that…
Pismo is Denver’s premier specialist for contemporary glass art, and the gallery is now celebrating its twentieth anniversary with Lino Tagliapietra. “There are two glass artists that every glass gallery on earth aspires to represent: Chihuly, the most well-known glass artist in the world, and Lino Tagliapietra, the best glass…
MCA Denver is presenting an over-the-top group show in association of the Biennial of the Americas this summer called Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess. “We often talk about the need to conserve energy but this exhibition proposes that, seen through the lens of art,…
Abstracts. Summer is typically the time for group shows, and this year the William Havu Gallery presented two of them. First was Landscapes, a survey of the many artists in Havu’s stable who do representational work. Up now is Abstracts. Gallery director Bill Havu has some of the state’s top…
The opening of the American West in the first half of the nineteenth century led to a major development in this country’s art history. Though the United States was an aesthetic backwater at the time, painters (and, later, sculptors and photographers) recording the exotic sights and people of the region…
A tiny oil on copper painting–less than 9×7 inches–was put on display yesterday at the Denver Art Museum in the European and American art galleries in the Ponti Building. The painting, entitled “Rembrandt Laughing,” by — you guessed it — Rembrandt, was discovered in 2007 at a country auction in…
This summer, the Biennial of the Americas put a spotlight on art from the Americas, and though it’s over, the beat goes on this fall with a celebration of Peruvian art. As part of that, Peruvian artist Carlos Palma has been given a residency here and sponsored by the Peruvian…
The funky Dark Energy Art Space, one of the city’s newer galleries, is the brainchild of Ryan Raudonis, and it provides exhibition opportunities for a group that’s often lost in the Denver gallery shuffle: emerging local artists. The work of one, Dan Ellier Chapman, will be unveiled tonight in a…
Abstracts. Summer is typically the time for group shows, and this year the William Havu Gallery presented two of them. First was Landscapes, a survey of the many artists in Havu’s stable who do representational work. Up now is Abstracts. Gallery director Bill Havu has some of the state’s top…
I haven’t seen every show at Ice Cube Gallery (3320 Walnut Street, 303-292-1822, www.icecubegallery.com ), but every one that I have seen has been great. Part of it is the spectacular showroom — just about anything would look its best here in one of the nicest exhibition spaces in town…
Energy Effects. MCA Denver director Adam Lerner and architect Paul Andersen have put together one of the most important of the many Biennial shows on display now. The exhibit, with the epic title of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess, begins outside the building where…
The Biennial of the Americas has officially ended, but many of the associated exhibits are still running, in part because the Biennial was originally supposed to continue through August. Last month, at the height of the festivities, I took the high road with my review of the three most important…
The main current in abstraction is formalism, and the journey from the more-is-more approach of abstract expressionism to the less-is-more motives of minimalism has led to more than half a century of interesting work. In recent years, though, many artists have tweaked the two opposites, merging them into a single…
Three interesting shows open today at Core: two self-titled solos dedicated to Core co-op members — a painter and a photographer — in the impressive main space, and a juried group show in the annex. The painter is Theresa Lugo, who dabbles in nature-based abstractions and explains that she’s “inspired…
Colorado Art Survey. Over the years, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has relentlessly sought out and acquired new things for the institution’s permanent collection. In the current exhibit, Colorado Art Survey, he shows off some of these conquests and brings other things out of storage. There are some rarely seen…
