Southwest Art News: April 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Erin Averill
Denver Art Museum workers have voted to unionize, citing pay and management transparency as leading reasons for organizing. By Kara Mason
Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas. By Gina Pugliese
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures. By Joshua Ware
Laura Shill, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, commits to creative community-building through the playful and profound lens of conceptual buffoonery, which she elevates to a high art form. By Gina Pugliese
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability. By Maggie Sava
EssayCollectivity + CollaborationSouthwest
Hyperlink, a nebulous artist collective with projects in Denver, Chicago, and at a uranium mine ghost town in Wyoming, is a proven testament to the power of collectivity and collaboration. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Todd Dobbs’s captivating journey of AI-generated imagery and its complex relationship with human perception—packaged in a witty exploration of art and technology—challenges assumptions about the “typical American.” By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Denver artist Trey Duvall combines digital, mechanical, manual, and natural tools in order to explore a multitude of concepts in his durational installation RETURN/SWEEP. By Joshua Ware
FeatureColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rough Gems, a curatorial fellowship at Denver’s Union Hall, provides funding and gallery space for emerging local curators. By Sommer Browning
Ben Coleman, a Denver-based sound and performance artist, explores the aesthetic and conceptual contours of noise, music, and the body through installations and live events. By Joshua Ware
Esther Hz discusses soil and soul in her studio and reveals her passion for farming through zoetropes created for the exhibition agriCULTURE at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. By Gina Pugliese
The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings. By Joshua Ware
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. By Gina Pugliese
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. By Kara Mason
Junk Drawer is an inclusive queer techno dance party in Denver featuring installations by local artists who bring together social-justice politics and joy. By Gina Pugliese
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. By Joshua Ware
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. By William Havu Gallery
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
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. By Joshua Ware
Denver-based artist and entrepreneur MarSha Robinson creates elaborate, botanical worlds and runs a thriving business under the moniker Strange Dirt. By Joshua Ware
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots? By Joshua Ware
Doug Kacena, owner of Denver art gallery K Contemporary, replaces art-world stuffiness with swagger through stylish and attention-grabbing kicks. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist Steven Yazzie (Diné, Laguna Pueblo, European ancestry) thinks of his art studio as community and land rather than an insular space bound by four walls. By Lynn Trimble
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Michael Gadlin, an artist and the executive director of PlatteForum in Denver, talks about the influence relationships and community have had on his creative practice. By Joshua Ware
FeatureColoradoVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries
Colorado artist Margaret Neumann's paintings are rooted in the human experience as it is translated through time, through the body, and through our many coping mechanisms. By Sommer Browning
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