Work in Progress with Ramón Bonilla
The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings.
July 12, 2023
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Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s New Location Brings Welcome Changes to the Sixty-Year-Old Organization
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, considered a regional hub for the art of photography since 1963, recently moved into new and improved quarters in Denver's Golden Triangle cultural district.
July 10, 2023
At Denver Month of Video, Experience a Medley of Video Art, Exhibitions, Performance Art, and Untraditional Cinema
Denver Month of Video founders Jenna Maurice and Adán De La Garza present a diverse array of video arts throughout July 2023 at venues across the city.
June 29, 2023
Work in Progress with Alex Branch
Alex Branch, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist ponders the life-death metaphors embedded in everyday objects, the mysterious lives of flora and fauna, and the aural experiences that inspire her art.
June 26, 2023
Curator Profile: Bobbi Walker Pursues Compelling Art With a Commercially Successful Model
Bobbi Walker, owner and curator of Walker Fine Art, blends aesthetics with business in her downtown Denver space that seeks to recast the “commercial gallery” stigma.
June 16, 2023
Junk Drawer Invites All To “Come As You Are” To Its Queer Rave Art Installations
Junk Drawer is an inclusive queer techno dance party in Denver featuring installations by local artists who bring together social-justice politics and joy.
June 14, 2023
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Erin Elder’s From Source to Mouth Shares the Stories of Monument Creek
In From Source to Mouth, artist Erin Elder takes a multifaceted, community-sourced approach to researching Monument Creek in Colorado Springs.
June 06, 2023
Public Art That’s Not a Bummer: A Roundup of Denver’s Linger-Worthy Outdoor Artworks
Denver's public art collection boasts outstanding examples of monumental outdoor sculptures and includes works by Hebert Bayer, Sol LeWitt, Anthony Magar, Beverly Pepper, Bernar Venet, and more.
June 02, 2023
“Sorry about this”: On Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake at Understudy, Denver
Sam Grabowska’s psychotherapeutic virtual installation Intake, on view at Denver’s Understudy gallery empowers participants to choreograph uncomfortable intimacies and thereby find solace.
May 15, 2023
Hyunmee Lee’s Changing Shapes at William Havu Gallery
William Havu Gallery presents Changing Shapes, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hyunmee Lee, with an opening reception on Friday, May 12, 5-8 pm in Denver.
May 09, 2023
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at MCA Denver
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art showcases the forward leaps of eighteen artist alumni from RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s residency program.
April 24, 2023
Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies Preserves Monumental Works by Bauhaus-Affiliated Polymath
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction.
April 14, 2023
Way to Glow: A Classic Denver Neon Shop Helps Artists Revive a So-Called Dying Art
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art.
April 11, 2023
Pueblo, Colorado is Home to a Burgeoning Contemporary Art Scene
In Pueblo, Colorado, a stacked and growing arts community supports high-quality arts programming that is accessible to everyone, including those who have fled unsustainable inflation in the big city.
April 07, 2023
The Queer Dynamics of Paolo Arao’s Selection of Recent Works
Textile artist Paolo Arao explores queerness through his materials, line work, titles, and forms in his show A Selection of Recent Works at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
April 04, 2023
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Looking Back at Weather Report: How Eco Art Has Shifted as Climate Change Becomes All Too Real
Reflecting on Weather Report, Lucy Lippard’s 2007 exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, Paige Hirschey discusses how the field of eco art has changed.
April 03, 2023
Star Power: Immersive Experience The Gift Blends Art with Astrophysics
The Gift, a creative and scientific immersive art installation at Colorado College, considers diverse social, cultural, and ethical perspectives in science.
March 27, 2023
Work in Progress with Tony Ortega
Tony Ortega, a prolific artist and longtime Denverite known for his acrylics, pastels, prints, and murals, observes and honors the city’s vibrant mix of Chicano, Mexican, and Anglo cultures.
March 17, 2023
In Speaking with Light, Contemporary Indigenous Photographers Showcase Their Lenses at the Denver Art Museum
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, a first-of-its-kind retrospective now at the Denver Art Museum, celebrates Native culture while confronting settler colonialism.
March 13, 2023
A Hopscotch of the Mind Skips Through the Varied Visual Vocabulary of Hervé Télémaque
Hervé Télémaque's exhibition A Hopscotch of the Mind at Aspen Art Museum provides a career-spanning overview of a unique artistic voice dedicated to diverse materials, forms, and media.
March 08, 2023
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Entanglements at the Center for Visual Art, Denver
The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.
March 03, 2023
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T Edward Bak on the Sea of Time
Cartoonist T Edward Bak discusses making comics in an absurd world, editing as a process, and his latest comic, Sea of Time: Chapter One.
March 03, 2023
The Thief Collector Chronicles the Willem de Kooning True-Crime Heist—With a Twist
The making of The Thief Collector, a true-crime documentary about the theft of Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, parallels the Arizona Museum of Art’s journey of prepping the artwork for display after a thirty-seven-year absence.
March 02, 2023
Autumn T. Thomas’s Dancing in the Diaspora Explores Ancestral Connections Through Woodworking
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
February 17, 2023
The Fight to Save Kimball’s Peak Three, Colorado Springs’s Only Independent Movie Theater
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater has closed after the death of owner Kimball Bayles. Community leaders are coming together to try to save Colorado Springs’s only independent movie theater.
February 14, 2023
Renaissance Portraiture Revamped in Kiah Butcher: Still Theatre at Lane Meyer Projects
Kiah Butcher: Still Theatre, a video-based exhibition in Denver, engages the history of Renaissance portraiture in both playful and critical ways.
February 10, 2023
Work in Progress with Mario Zoots
Mario Zoots is a Denver-based artist who has explored the medium of collage for nearly fifteen years, and pushed against the genre's boundaries and expectations.
January 17, 2023
New Media Leader Denver Digerati Looks Towards an Educational and Local Community Focused Future
Denver Digerati, under the direction of executive director and chief curator Sharifa Lafon, looks to change up its digital arts and educational programming in 2023.
December 21, 2022
Work in Progress with MarSha Robinson
Denver-based artist and entrepreneur MarSha Robinson creates elaborate, botanical worlds and runs a thriving business under the moniker Strange Dirt.
December 13, 2022
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) at UCCS GOCA in Colorado Springs
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
December 06, 2022
