There’s no denying that Real to Surreal, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in Sakura Square, has garnered some negative word of mouth. Perhaps it’s the disappointment generated by the fact that it could have been a great show and is instead merely a good one. The exhibit represents…
RedShift Gallery, which combines a frame shop with a minimal exhibition space — just a few walls, really — has been framing for ten years and presenting art shows for the past five. But it’s only been in its current location in the Ballpark neighborhood for the past two years…
There are only a few days left to catch Hal D. Gould: Visual Legacy at the Camera Obscura Gallery. The important show highlights the long career of a significant figure in the world of local fine-art photography, and believe it or not, after fifty years of photography, this is Gould’s…
Yogi Berra, the New York Yankee baseball legend who’s known for his hilarious bon mots that seem to be oxymorons, once made an astute observation that would surely characterize the Denver Art Museum during the last few months: “Nobody goes there anymore — it’s too crowded.” The blockbuster exhibit Impressionism…
The Howell-Cole Gallery has been specializing in artist-made ceramics for almost ten years, starting out in Larimer Square in the early ’90s and moving to Tamarac Square in 1995. The gallery, which takes a boutique-style approach, is a partnership between Jack Howell and Susan Cole. The current exhibit, Masters of…
Color, Line and Form: Abstraction in Metal, at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts, is a duet featuring the sculptures of William Vielehr and Doug Wilson. Both have been creating abstract-expressionist sculpture for the last thirty years, but since their studios are in Boulder, they are less well-known in Denver…
The Carol Keller Gallery is extending Dan Ragland: Recent Work through December 18, so there’s still a couple of days to catch this intriguing photography show. Ragland, who lives and works in Denver, specializes in edgy and disturbing pictures, even when his subject is a vase filled with flowers. But…
I’m going to posit a radical claim, one that flies in the face of standard beliefs. I think Denver was a more sophisticated town twenty or thirty years ago than it is today. And though the city is more crowded and there are a lot more big-box retailers and chain…
Using Your Faculties is a three-part exhibition series at the Emmanuel Gallery that features the work of the art instructors at Auraria’s three institutions of higher learning. Part two of the series, which showcases talent from the University of Colorado at Denver, is on display now and runs through December…
It’s sort of funny. LoDo’s Robischon Gallery, one of the city’s most straight-laced contemporary outlets (it sells the work of Robert Motherwell, for heaven’s sake), often shows some of the oddest and most raucous exhibits around town. That’s surely the case with the holiday offering Robert Hudson: Ceramics, Sculpture, Drawings,…
Studio 1818, a boutique-style gallery in LoDo, features art glass, ceramics and jewelry in addition to paintings, sculptures and custom framing. The art exhibits are installed mostly in the back room, which is also where the frame samples are displayed — but the shows usually spill out into the front…
More by happenstance than by design, three of Colorado’s most important cultural institutions — The Denver Art Museum, the Denver Public Library and the Colorado History Museum — are all lined up, one after another, along the south side of the Civic Center. It wasn’t always so. The DAM got…
Through the weekend at the Spark Gallery is Elaine Ricklin & Jennifer Parisi: Recent Work, which sounds like a collaborative show but is, in fact, two solo presentations. In the front gallery, Ricklin has lined the three walls with individually framed Polaroid XS-70 photos, which are either landscapes or still-life…
In the year or so that it has been open, Ron Judish Fine Arts in LoDo has established itself as a key player in the contemporary art world in Denver. Its well-thought-out shows always feature an eclectic mix of the work of top local talents and nationally celebrated artists, and…
Guiry’s, which just opened a new, 25,000-square-foot store in the Ballpark neighborhood near Coors Field, is celebrating a century in business this year. “At first it was a wall-cleaning business,” says Dick Guiry, president of the company and grandson of founder Joseph Guiry. “Then they got into selling mirrors and…
The Denver Art Museum is riding high on the success of the traveling Impressionism exhibition, which pushed overall attendance to record levels — nearly 100,000 visitors in October alone — and following its $62.5 million capital improvement bond, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters last week. The money, which will…
You’ve got about ten days left to catch Master Drawings: 700 Years of Inspiration at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The show, which includes approximately 150 pieces, highlights a selection of drawings from the collection of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. The exhibit has been intelligently installed in…
Bill Havu has put together a wild amusement park ride of a show called Women & Allegory at his prestigious William Havu Gallery in the Golden Triangle. The exhibit, which lasts through the weekend, features a quartet of artists who deal with both feminist and feminine imagery. The work, according…
For the last few years, the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts has hosted exhibits downtown in the lobby of Republic Plaza — a feat that isn’t easy to pull off, since the lobby itself is a work of art. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the lobby is in…
Voters will have a chance to decide on two proposals during Tuesday’s election that should be of great interest to the art world. The first is a no-brainer. Who would begrudge the Denver Art Museum a lousy $62.5 million — about the price of one good Van Gogh — to…
It’s easy to think of Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art in Cherry Creek as a purveyor of paintings and sculpture from the region’s past, since a typical exhibit at the boutique style gallery showcases the work of deceased artists who were active in the early to mid-twentieth century. But Schlosser also…
All this week, the Community College of Denver on the Auraria campus has been hosting a national conference on photography titled “Photography and the Creative Process.” Free and open to the public, the conference was organized by renowned local photographer Ron Wohlauer, who has taught photography at CCD since 1975…
