Hugh Grant, founder of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, is unquestionably the best friend Colorado art has ever had, and he’s done more to promote it in the last few years than the Denver Art Museum has in a hundred. “The thing that occurs to me over…
This year’s Design After Dark, a fundraising gala hosted by the Denver Art Museum’s Design Council (the support group for the department of Architecture, Design & Graphics) has been given the subtitle Skin. But don’t get the wrong idea: The reference has nothing to do with nudity. Instead, Skin is…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Edge Gallery, one of the city’s most significant artist co-ops, is putting a twist on the typical members’ show by including non-members as well. The idea for the wide-ranging group exhibit, Edge Pairings, was originally proposed by Rian Kerrane at a co-op member meeting, and her thought was to have…
Before he took over as director of the Denver Art Museum, Christoph Heinrich was the curator of modern and contemporary art. In that capacity, he organized Embrace! a blockbuster exhibit that features the work of international art stars along with a handful of Denver’s best, including painter Rick Dula. Dula’s…
There were to have been three exhibits this month celebrating Dale Chisman, the Colorado artist who died in 2008, but with Metro’s Center for Visual Art moving from LoDo to a new building on Santa Fe Drive, its retrospective was postponed, and the solo show slated for the Robischon Gallery…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery of the Mizel Arts & Culture Center (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, www.maccjcc.org), is an intellectual as much as an aesthete, meaning he’s as interested in ideas as he is in visual matters. So it makes sense that Spittin’ Image: Ten Artists Consider…
Jessica Stockholder and John McEnroe. Jessica Stockholder is an internationally known artist who creates what have been described as three-dimensional paintings. She is widely known for her over-the top installations, so it’s unusual to find Stockholders that are small enough for people to actually buy. This exhibit is dominated by…
During the first half of the twentieth century, Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier artist, but in the succeeding decades, he slowly fell into obscurity — known chiefly by local art historians and, because of his murals, supporters of local historic architecture. But three recent projects dedicated to True have…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
The art season for galleries and museums begins every fall, with the winter holidays representing its high point. That means that exhibition venues can be expected to have some of their most important offerings on view at this time. Currently, three top commercial hotspots are featuring very strong offerings involving…
For the past six weeks, painter Michael Gadlin has been working with a group of six- to fourteen-year-old budding artists to put together a show, Essence & Elements, for PlatteForum. He’s the latest in a long string of artists who have participated in the organization’s goal of introducing low-income youngsters…
Barnaby Furnas: Floods. Furnas is a New York artist who’s been exhibiting his work since 2000, and this exhibit, in the MCA’s Large Works Gallery, is made up entirely of his large abstract paintings. A unique feature of Furnas’s personal history is his early embrace of watercolors as his medium…
Based on my experience — and my files — I figure there are 300 serious contemporary artists in Colorado. I make note of this because three of them died in November, which strikes me as a pretty high number. On November 8, Elaine Calzolari succumbed to cancer (Artbeat, November 19);…
Colorado is known for its world-class outdoor activities, but this time of year, it’s much nicer inside. William Biety, director of the van Straaten Gallery, was riffing off this idea when he put together Interior, which features paintings of rooms. But don’t be misled: While the works may detail the…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Denver’s a sports town, but for those of us who occupy the netherworld of the visual arts, our home team is the Denver Art Museum. And since January 1989, the DAM’s head coach has been Lewis Sharp. But Sharp will step down as the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director at…
The relationship between art and commerce is a longstanding one, dating back to ancient times — though artists typically shy away from acknowledging any connection. This hostility to the market has led to another longstanding tradition: the starving artist. But ignorance of the system is not bliss for young Colorado…
It’s interesting to notice that some artists basically ignore the fads and trends that sweep over the art scene periodically and instead follow their own vision of what art should be about. A good example is Robert Mangold, the dean of Colorado contemporary sculpture, who, over the past five decades,…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. Now, the three big cultural institutions on the Civic Center are jointly…
