For a while now, Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has been pairing her main exhibits with selections by artists in her stable. With legendary Denver artist Roland Bernier being the featured attraction (see review), it was delightful to notice that Walker had also chosen to showcase another significant…

The new Frederic C. Hamilton Building may have created a lot of unanticipated problems for the Denver Art Museum, but its opening also kicked up much of the commercial art world a notch or two. I’ve said it several times before, but it’s still worth noting again: There’s never been…

Next month the Clyfford Still Museum presents a sampling of its spectacular collection of work by the late abstract-expressionist giant, including “Self-Portrait,” from 1940 (detail pictured). The exhibit, being mounted at the Denver Art Museum, will be the first opportunity to see the CSM’s collection on display — and the…

Last week I took in the recently unveiled permanent installation of the selections from the Herbert Bayer collection that are now displayed on the lower level of the Frederic C. Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum. The ad hoc exhibition spaces, which form the lobby of the conference room…

The Singer Gallery of the Mizel Center (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360) is nominally a Jewish institution, although the programs are typically more secular than religious. However, the current exhibit, Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet, is thoroughly Jewish, and the subject is the Holocaust. On display are fourteen monumental charcoal drawings…

Surely Homare Ikeda is on just about everyone’s list of the most interesting and important contemporary painters in the area. His work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, and he’s had pieces included in shows at any number of venues, particularly the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver…

The current Barbara Carpenter solo in the east room at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) is called Scapes, and considering the artist’s established track record, it’s something of a surprise. For nearly twenty years, Carpenter has been known for her abstract color photos, but for Scapes, she did…

The Denver Art Museum’s still-new Frederic C. Hamilton Building has impacted the city — and the museum itself — in a wide range of ways, some good, some not so good. On the plus side is the unbelievable publicity the building has generated. The Daniel Libeskind-designed wing is estimated to…

Modernist painter Janet Lippincott, who spent most of her career in Santa Fe, died on Wednesday, May 2. Born in New York City in 1918, Lippincott had a privileged childhood and lived for a time in Paris. Showing an early talent for art, she studied as a teenager at the…

The world-famous majestic scenery of the nearby Colorado Rockies — the gorgeous mountains, not the sorry baseball team — has attracted artists to our state for well over a century. In fact, Colorado, New Mexico and California all but cornered the market on Western landscape painting during the last part…

A month or so ago, I received a call from John Davenport, a noted local photographer and a boardmember of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. He was annoyed because although CPAC had organized one show and co-organized another among the exhibits that had received Best of Denver awards in March,…

In the late summer of 2002, Tyler Aiello and Monica Petty Aiello burst onto the Denver art scene as full-blown players. They pulled off this difficult feat by opening Studio Aiello in the nether reaches of what is now the River North Arts District, north of downtown. Studio Aiello was…

There are two member shows at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) featuring work by established artists. On the gallery’s west side is the self-titled Susanna Cavalletti; in the space to the east is Mysteries of Babylon, which highlights recent paintings by Peter Illig. The two are as different…

The current art season, which is just approaching its final bell, has been one for the record books. With the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building this past fall, there’s been an unprecedented upswing in art-related activities. At the DAM itself are several important displays, particularly…