Back in 1968, a group of mostly local sculptors, with administrative support from painter Beverly Rosen and financial support from her husband, Bernie Rosen, staged the first and only Denver Sculpture Symposium. For this special event, they chose a then-vacant lot in the triangle formed by the intersections of Colorado…
When the Aurora History Museum moved to its current location in 1991, the debut exhibition was dedicated to Native American art collected by Bill and Sue Hensler. Now, almost twenty years later, a group of pieces donated to the museum by those same Henslers goes on display on August 17…
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…
More than at any time in my memory, Denver’s art exhibition scene has taken a broad view, turning its collective sights on work from around the world. There’s the tip of the hat to Egypt with the King Tut show; a look at England with the Henry Moore exhibit; and…
The nonprofit advocacy group, Women in Design, is sponsoring a lecture tonight at Walker Fine Art called “Work is Freedom.” The topic is the work of three significant 20th century modernist designers: Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand and Lilly Reich…
Edge Gallery is one of the city’s longtime artist cooperatives, and as a non-profit institution, it needs to raise money from time to time to offset operating costs. “A lot of co-ops are raising their dues and adding on lots of new members, but we want to keep our month-long…
The Anderson Ranch Art Center outside Aspen is world-famous, which is why world-famous artists go there to support it. “It’s astounding, all the creative work that’s done here,” says Barbara Bloemink, who came on as the latest executive director just a few months ago. (She was formerly at the Cooper-Hewitt…
Sellars Project Space is an elegant little gallery in the west side’s Berkeley neighborhood that was founded by artist and arts promoter Jimmy Sellars. His latest offering, Heidi Jung, is a self-titled solo dedicated to a Colorado artist whose work has been all over town lately, with examples at Ironton…
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…
After years of anticipation, construction of a new Clyfford Still Museum at the corner of West 13th Avenue and Bannock Street is finally moving forward. Last week, Dean Sobel, the CSM’s founding director, and Brad Cloepfil, the head of Allied Works Architecture, unveiled the final design for the museum, which…
Denver made international architecture news last week when Spanish-born Santiago Calatrava came to town to unveil his designs for the expansion of Denver International Airport. An engineer and an architect, Calatrava gained fame — and respect — with his designs of bridges, transportation stations and buildings. There was so much…
There’s been a lot of talk about whether Denver can afford to build the set of designs by Santiago Calatrava done for the expansion of Denver International Airport. The reason? Times are hard, and the Calatrava pieces are projected to cost around $650 million. The Spanish-born, New York-based architectural genius…
Judy Hagler, owner of Translations Gallery in LoDo, has made a specialty of presenting contemporary work by artists active in the Western U.S. The venue’s new show, which opens tonight, pairs an Arizona artist with a Colorado one. The former is Sandhi Schimmel Gold, made up of portraits constructed from…
Summer is the time for group shows, and this year, the William Havu Gallery has divided the season in two, with a landscape show filling the first part of the schedule and an abstract one now filling the second. Straightforwardly titled Abstracts, the exhibit brings together many of the artists…
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…
Twenty years ago, Metropolitan State College of Denver opened an off-campus gallery to serve as an outlet for students, professors and the community. Over those two decades, it has gone through a number of changes, the most recent of which took place this year. First dubbed the Center for the…
Sculptor Jefferson Rubin was part of a generation of artists who located in LoDo in the 1990s, where he opened La Scuola Classical Sculpture. A Colorado native, Rubin had studied in Italy. But in 1995, at the age of 36, he was tragically killed in a fiery crash. And though…
All this month, PlatteForum is presenting “Here at Home,” a series of events that are part of the Biennial of the Americas. Tonight’s act is Table Lessons, a performance by Tsehai Johnson, a conceptual artist who works with ceramics, both those of her own creation and those she finds in…
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…
There’s no question that Santa Fe Drive is the art district in Denver, and yet it’s also true that most of the galleries along the row leave something to be desired. To make matters worse, in the last year or so, the street essentially lost two of its flagships: Gallery…
In addition to the official events associated with the Biennial of the Americas, there are a number of unofficial ones, especially in the city’s many art galleries. Among the most promising is the installation show Perceptions at Walker Fine Arts, which was put together by gallery director Bobbi Walker. “I…
Abecedarian Gallery — the name means learning or teaching at a primary level — is an unusual art resource in Denver in that its specialty is artist-made books. The space, founded and directed by Denver artist Alicia Bailey, is in the 910Arts complex, a creative center in the heart of…
