Denver Arts Week is officially underway and that means there are a lot of special events and deals at cultural attractions.
“We have a very vibrant art scene whether that be performing art, visual art, galleries museums of all sorts and we just want to celebrate that,” Daniele Robson with the Museum of Contemporary Art said.
[...] MoreDenver’s ArtDistrict on Santa Fe and the Golden Triangle Museum District have partnered to connect two of Denver’s premiere art and cultural districts. Beginning on First Friday October 2 art patrons can travel on a free luxury shuttle coach with an on-board guide between the two art districts. For the first time art lovers will have easy access to over 100 art galleries, museums, cultural centers, restaurants and shops.
[...] Moren 2006, the Denver Public Library mounted a large-scale exhibition with about 75 paintings, drawings and other works spanning nearly the entirety of Mel Strawn’s six-decade career.
The flawed yet still valuable offering brought renewed attention to the Salida artist, who taught at the University of Denver from 1969 to 1985. Although he could be inconsistent, Strawn managed to produce many strong, mostly abstract pieces.
[...] MorePlenty of people will tell you: Part of the appeal of First Fridays is the free booze. It’s not the best part. And for some, it might be the worst. But there’s no denying that many art patrons’ eyes light up when they walk in a First Friday gallery and notice a kind fellow pouring free glasses of wine in the back. Sometimes there’s beer, too, and it’s usually good beer. Budweiser simply won’t do at most galleries — they’re trying to sell original works of art, not throw a kegger.
[...] MoreOn Tuesday, Oct. 27, the Metropolitan State College of Denver Foundation announced that it expects to close Friday on the nearly $1.5 million purchase of 965 Santa Fe Dr. to house its renowned off-campus art gallery, the Center for Visual Art. The more than 22,000 square feet of property, located in the heart of the Santa Fe Art District, includes 9,000 square feet of gallery space, 6,000 square feet of outlying buildings and 15 parking spaces.
[...] MoreOn Friday Nov. 6, the first section of an ambitious mile long mural project called the Mile High Mural will officially be unveiled as a part of the Art on the River exhibit at the Art Students League.
[...] MoreFirst Friday is on the move this month, or at least its artsy people are. Denver’s ArtDistrict on Santa Fe and the Golden Triangle Museum District have teamed up to operate a joint shuttle bus connecting the two to each other.
[...] MoreAl Roker in your latte? Sure, Mike Keen of Studio 6 in the ArtDistrict can do that, and does so on NBC’s Today Show.
[...] MoreForty-three custom-crafted bras on display in Denver’s ArtDistrict on Santa Fe this month are offering a different kind of consumer support.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, designers, TV anchors, artists, moms and students contributed to the first-ever Bra Art exhibit. The show, which benefits breast-cancer research, hangs through the end of October.
[...] MoreCHAC Gallery and its twin, CHAC Norte, in the heart of the Santa Fe Art District, will be offering new art exhibits from July 1 to Aug. 1. The south gallery at 772 Santa Fe Drive presents a group show featuring paintings by…
[...] MoreThe board of directors of Denver’s Museo de las Américas (861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, http://www.museo.org) has announced that Maruca Salazar, a well-known Colorado artist and arts educator, has been named as the institution’s new director.
[...] MoreI’ve long felt that Judith Cohn was one of the top ceramic artists in the region. Her specialty has been sculptural installations made up of components based on classic ceramic forms, mostly vessels. That’s why Thicket, at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200, http://www.sparkgallery.com) was a surprise. It comprises artist-made tiles, some hanging on the walls and others on platforms on the floor.
[...] MoreArtist Rex Ray and Matt O’Neill at T Gallery and Misch Kohn at van Straaten Gallery
[...] MoreThe Van Straaten Gallery typically focuses on contemporary art. But in its latest exhibition, it has traveled back several decades in time to highlight a little printmaking history.
Through April 25 (some works will be taken down a day earlier), the gallery is offering a small but wide-ranging look at the work of Misch Kohn (1916-2003), an Indiana native who spent much of his career in Chicago.
[...] MoreGiven the attention generated by an ongoing, two-venue exhibition surveying past and present Colorado abstraction, it’s only natural that area commercial galleries have tied into the unprecedented offering. At least five such spaces have assembled shows spotlighting artists who were chosen for
[...] MoreHobbs’ approach to abstraction involves taking a view of nature and, through her personal perspective, rendering the landscape as voluptuous fields of paint. Dark and bright play off each other, rich contrasts that show a firm hand in terms of expressing her intent. So Field of Inquiry and Messenger, both from 2008, ask a viewer to explore her placement of color as well as the influence of line and form.
[...] MorePeople from all walks of life make the visit to Santa Fe’s art district come Friday: the young, old, artsy, cultured, and even colorblind can find something to their liking. If it’s not pretty things hanging on walls or sitting atop pedestals which spin your wheels, the live music, colorful characters and Capoeira practicing gurus surely will.
[...] MoreSince Michael Burnett opened Space Gallery on Larimer Street, it has changed dramatically - and that goes beyond a 2003 move to Santa Fe Drive. That relocation led to a better-defined format and a happy penchant for abstraction. “Inner Circle” demonstrates that, with photographs by Aaron Jones on the left wall, paintings by R.D. Anderson on the right wall and a selection from the gallery stable in the back. (In the area next door: “The Egg and I,” with paintings by Lisa Purdy that work that known object into abstract forms.)
[...] More“Mayor (John) Hickenlooper told me this neighborhood is exploding and that he wanted to make it the SoHo of Denver, so I came down and fell in love with the neighborhood,”
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