Press

Anna Kaye’s exhibit extended at Sandra Phillips

Anna Kaye’s solo exhibition last year at the Sandra Phillips Gallery, 744 Santa Fe Drive, generated considerable buzz and completely sold out. It’s not hard to understand why. Kaye, a visiting assistant professor and co-coordinator of drawing studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver, creates exquisitely detailed and tonally nuanced charcoal drawings. Three large-scale examples of her work and a superb miniature are on view as part of “Natural Encounters,” a three-person exhibition that has been extended through Oct. 23 at Sandra Phillips

[...] More

Soaring Voices: Japanese Women’s Ceramics

Twenty-five Japanese women artists whose works are on display at Metro State College’s Center for Visual Art in Denver have taken their craft in directions from fun to functional. Remembering that to get Japanese ceramicists to sign their works was a culture shift arguably equal to Native American potters beginning to sign their pots last century, this irresistible exhibit will have you leaning in to get a closer look at the textures and motifs of clay clearly pushed to its limits.

[...] More

First Friday Preview: Anthology Fine Art debuts with the beautifully surreal

The idea, he said, is that the forms work with the light in the installation space to create an extra dimension: the shadows they cast on whatever surface they’re mounted on. “So there’s a physical and a not-physical component to it,” he said, “which represents this dichotomy of the internal and external.”
Also, it just looks really cool.
The venue where Custer is installing his work, Anthology Fine Art, is also brand new, by the way. Owned by Custer’s brother Zak and his wife Kendra, the gallery and frame shop opened up earlier this month. This will be the place’s “first first Friday,” so to speak.

[...] More

Artist finds beauty in broken iPhone screens

For some people, a shattered iPhone touch screen is a $100 repair bill. For artist Erik Isaac, it’s art.  Isaac suspended 100 broken iPhone touch screens on fishing line from the ceiling of the Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver.  Arranged ten-by-ten on a grid, they hang about an inch from a concrete floor, swinging in the air currents like translucent leaves falling from an information-age tree.

[...] More

Biennial of the Americas could be eco-devo bonanza

Denver leaders are touting the upcoming Biennial of the Americas as a cultural celebration, but the event’s biggest benefit may be the number of South and Central American companies coming

Read more: Biennial of the Americas could be eco-devo bonanza - Denver Business Journal

[...] More

More businesses moving into ArtDistrict on Santa Fe

Denver’s ArtDistrict on Santa Fe continues to attract new businesses as well as expand existing businesses and marketing, even in the economic downturn.

[...] More

The Santa Fe Art Walk: Art, Architecture and Ambiance

My visit to the Art District on Santa Fe Drive during their first Friday of the month ‘art walk’ took me to a whole other planet. I was shocked and put in a state of awe…

[...] More

CORE gallery draws more than ‘First Friday’ crowd

Fifteen years ago, the stretch of Santa Fe Drive from East 10th Avenue down to 5th still boasted boarded-up storefronts, broken glass and unsavory characters to create a trinity that “nice people” — and especially suburbanites wary of urban places — carefully avoided.  But an early-80s influx of economic development

[...] More

CORE gallery draws more than ‘First Friday’ crowd

Just east of Santa Fe at 9th, people milling outside the CORE gallery — smoking and on their cell phones — are a tad different from the main run of gallery hoppers along Santa Fe, who take pains not to look mainstream. Outside CORE — and inside the gallery that’s already crowded at 7:15 — there are kids, teens, grandmother and parent-types mixing easily with the wine-and-cheese crowd that are gallery-opening fixtures. And if the crowd is less than predictable, so is the CORE gallery itself.

[...] More

Art with heart

Abstract painter Kathryn Hart paints from the heart.

The paintings featured in her new exhibit — “Circle of Secrets” — showing at the Habitat Gallery and Studio lean heavily on emotions and conflicts. Her paintings pulse with an untold story; scrapings and scratchings dragged through thick paint gives a glimpse of what’s beneath the service, according to a press release.

“Combining both expressionism and conceptual art into her paintings, Hart begins boldly and energetically, focusing on n

[...] More

Another reason Denver is Cool - Santa Fe Artwalk

Another satisfied customer!

[...] More

Explore Colorado artist Gutierrez’s unique identity

Colorado artist Belen Escalante Gutierrez was born in Mexico, moved to the United States at age 2 and obtained her legal residency in the U.S. She created her 54-card “Mexican Bingo” game, an interpretation of

[...] More

Heartfelt Artwork

For 13 years, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council has celebrated hearts, February’s most enduring symbol (not counting crusty frozen snow) with its Milagros del Corazon auction.

Artists and would-be artists from all walks of life decorate a wooden heart that CHAC distributes about a month prior to the auction, which was held last week

[...] More

Studio 6 Coffee House

Welcome to Studio 6 Coffee House! We are a small boutique coffee house located in the 910 Arts Building in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe Drive.

We serve only the finest Organic and Fair Trade locally roasted coffees as well as an extensive list of loose leaf teas. We are dedicated to creating an incredible atmosphere with a focus on community and creativity. Come check us out and experience our groovy little shop for yourself!

[...] More

Latino Museum wins arts excellence award

Maruca Salazar won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2005 for past work in the Chicano art movement.  But winning it this year for the Museo de las Americas signals the work that lies ahead for the institution she has led for less than a year.

[...] More

Timely Portraits

The intense meets the expressive at the new exhibit showing at the Carla Wright Gallery.

The collection features a series of 11 portraits by local artist Brian Comber, though the paintings are often more reminiscent of an intense vision in a frame than the “Mona Lisa.”

[...] More

An art scene celebration

The Art District on Santa Fe is giving itself a well-deserved pat on the back with an exhibit that looks back at 2009. 

Art District Best of 2009 is a juried show that compiles a wide variety of art that has been shown in the Art District on Santa Fe throughout the year.

[...] More

Art District Best of 2009 Winners

The Art District on Santa Fe is in many ways a microcosm of the Denver Art scene and Dana Cain’s inaugural

[...] More

The Art District shuttle will not be operating this First Friday January 1. We will start it up again February 5th. All galleries in the Santa Fe District will be open as usual from 5-9 pm. The shuttle connects both the Santa Fe Art District as well as the Golden Triangle Museum District

John Fielder’s “Ranches of Colorado” is a book with a mission

Nothing says Colorado quite like the dramatic landscapes that distinguish every corner of our state, and no one captures them quite like John Fielder.

[...] More

Party Arty

Take two superstar jurists, throw in everyone else, shake it all up with a year’s worth of fantastic art seen at galleries on Santa Fe Drive, and you’ve got Art District Best of 2009, a confetti-ready celebration of one of Denver’s most popular artwalk destinations and

[...] More