Michael Paglia visits Robischon Gallery and Ironton Studios in this week’s review, taking in two solo shows to start out the summer season. The exhibit at Ironton focuses on work from Stephen Batura. At Robischon there are four solos on view that match up beautifully with Batura’s Ironton excursion as…
There’s a must-see exhibition at Ironton Gallery called Stephen Batura: Stream that features some very recent paintings assembled into a singular installation. In the ’90s, Batura was part of an upstart generation of emerging artists right out of school who were interested in doing work with representational imagery cast into…
Ratha Sok had never taken on a project quite like this one. But now approximately 1,500 square feet of space — a pillar outside CEC Middle College that used to be just gray brick — is covered in an eclectic mural painted by Sok, fellow artist friends Denzel Samaniego, Jin…
More than a decade ago, Starz art director Suzanne Heintz decided there was a way to have a family and her freedom, too: She acquired a set of mannequins, including make-believe husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, and began photographing herself in vignettes with them for a project she calls…
I don’t read books. Really. I used to be ashamed of this, but then I realized that I read thousands of words every day — they just come in the form of online articles and, when I’m lucky, physical copies of magazines. I’ve been a voracious magazine reader since I…
There were plenty of Spider Men, and Women, at Denver Comic Con this year, but there was only one Spider, a machine that allows users to create digital sculptures with ZBrush, industry-standard animation software. The Digital Animation Center (DAC) from the University of Colorado Denver has set up the Spider…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “Art is in my DNA,” says illustrator and photographer Lindy Hargrave, who…
TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design brings sixteen local leaders innovators and entrepreneurs to Ellie Caulkins Opera House tomorrow for an independently organized TEDx Mile High event. The theme is “Emergence” — of new ideas, thinking and technology — which will be threaded through the presentations. Educators, musicians,…
Ever since I could speak, I’ve always been proud to tell people about my dad’s job. He makes pottery for a living, running a business out of a converted garage studio connected to my parents’ Evergreen home. From here he throws, decorates, fires in a kiln, and ships out his…
It’s Friday the thirteenth, but that’s no reason to stay home: Tonight and in the days to come, Friday Flash, Denver Comic Con and OhHeckYeah will transform downtown into a wham! pow! high-tech and pop-culture art paradise, while the otherworldly, monumental glass shapes of Chihuly will wow the crowds at…
San Francisco artist Tony Labat has built a site-specific sculpture for Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus, and from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight you can watch his sculpture turn into a platform for community interaction when it is activated with performances by DJs and drag queens. This piece is…
Jeff Wenzel is one of Colorado’s great abstract artists, with a solid body of work done over the past few decades. Though his roots are in ceramics — he was a protégé of Peter Voulkos, whose abstract-expressionist approach to clay completely revolutionized that medium — Wenzel has only rarely exhibited…
Colorado is a state that loves outdoor activities — which makes the poster show debuting this Friday, June 13 at Gallerie Rouge a natural. Owner Lisa Taylor will feature the largest collection of vintage European posters celebrating the great outdoors ever shown in the Rocky Mountains. The timing is no…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Suzanne Heintz is “mocking the Good Housewife of the 50s but inside…
Arts commune Rhinoceropolis turned into a wonderland of video, performance, music and art landscapes over the weekend for the two-day Fantasia festival. Fifty years ago they called this sort of thing a “happening,” and photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch all that happened. Here’s a taste; if you like…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. DADA Art Bar, created by Iain Chisholm, chef/owner of the nearby Amerigo…
June means more sunshine, better weather and evening throngs in the streets on First Friday, especially in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, where the whole stretch becomes a living art installation — and everyone’s a part of it. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document the district-wide street party;…
This first First Friday is jammed with new art, as is the whole weekend, which also includes two June traditions: the Capitol Hill People’s Fair and the Art Students League Summer Art Market. From fine art photography to collectible-toy decorating, you’re bound to find something artful to see and do…
Michael Paglia visits Space Gallery in this week’s review, taking in its new architect-designed building on Santa Fe Drive. The opening show fittingly entitled Space Gallery Grand Opening showcases work from every artist associated with Space, including painters and printmakers. Continue reading for photos from Space. See also: Tobias Fike’s…
Though Denver’s art world can trace its roots back to the late nineteenth century — the Denver Art Museum, for example, was founded in 1893 — it has only reached critical mass since the dawn of the 21st. The most obvious evidence of this was the construction of the DAM’s…
For our second annual Comics issue and contest, we asked cartoonists (and would-be cartoonists) to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. The winning entries tackled a variety of subjects, from overcrowding to the nightlife of Colorado’s casino mountain towns. Here, we present the cream of the crop. Having trouble…
Though Molly Brown’s fame lies with the sinking of the Titanic, the Molly Brown House Museum’s summer exhibit, “A Call to Arms,” aims to show her place in history beyond the boat by focusing on her involvement in World War I. Some of the artifacts include several original Red Cross…
