Try the Creative Space Agent Courtesy of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
Click Here for the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs new city wide gallery guide.
Get your special edition Chocolate RiNo this weekend at our OPEN STUDIO TOUR!
Purchase these delicious Belgium Chocolate RiNos at participating locations! Created by the Chocolate Crisis Center. 3370 Walnut Street in RiNo! They are $2.50 each.
1/2 the proceeds go to the new RiNo Art District Non-Profit!
To celebrate Create Denver Week, members of the River North Art District (RiNo) have placed nearly 100 small orange ceramic collectible “RiNo’s” in and around the art district for people to find, and keep. These pieces will be hidden this weekend and ready to be found just in time for the OPEN STUDIO TOUR on Sunday, Mother's Day May 13th.
QUICK DIRECTIONS:
These pieces may also be found in a number of public spaces, along bike and pedestrian paths and urban parks located generally between Confluence Park and the boundaries of the Art District. Each piece is numbered, and searchers are encouraged to post their finds on the RiNo Facebook page. We hope to make this an annual tradition! This year's RiNos were created by Plinth Gallery.
“This is an art project that is of, by, and for our community, said one of the lead participants, and these pieces are collectible. But please take only one. Let others have some fun, too.”
Lucky finders who attend the Open Studio tour on Sunday can bring their RiNo to the Chocolate Crisis Center, and will receive a small reward.
Some general guidelines: these pieces will be hidden in locations that are participating in the open studio event, or the location is public space. There will be no need to trespass to retrieve any of the items. It will not be necessary to climb trees, step over fences, or trample flowerbeds. The hiding spots will all be within arm’s reach and may even be in plain sight if one is looking in the right direction. Once the RiNo’s have been released, the information will be posted on the RiNo Facebook and Twitter pages. So stay tuned, then get ready for the 2012 RiNo Hunt!!
RiNo Spring Studio Tour, Sunday Mother's Day, May 13th 11am-4pm
Sponsored by Create Denver in collaboration with UCD Denver.
Click Here for a PDF Map and Open Locations
Click Here for the online version
After party at Ironton Studios 4-6pm (& later, 7-11pm at Wazee Union! Details here.)
Stop by Ironton to visit the 14 artist studios including stone, wood, metal and painting shops plus... FIRE in the garden with artist Rian Kerrane and the UCD Sculpture department pouring iron. Tools will be available to carve a tile of your own to be cast that day. Refreshments and dogs from Biker Jim's Gourmet Hog Dogs will be available.
Also during the Studio Tour and After Party we will be giving away vochers for $2 off tickets for the fabulous Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective at the Denver Art Museum.
HINTERLAND
3254 Walnut Street
Denver CO, 80205
720.309.1764
www.hinterlandartspace.com
INFINITE REFRACTION
New Installation by Sarah Richter
Opening reception will be on Friday, May 11, 6a - 12p
Also open on the following dates:
Rino Spring Tour May 13, 12-4p
2nd Saturday May 12, 2-7p
1st Friday (Closing): June 1, 6-10p
Sarah Richter will be showing an installation of geometric crystal shaped sculptures that have mirrored acrylic surfaces. These sculptures, spanning up to 8 feet in height, project out of flat mirrored surfaces from the floor and walls. Lit with multiple LED lights, viewers to the gallery are able to walk through the installation of sculptures and observe the changing light, reflections and forms. Her beautifully mirrored sculptures create an experience similar to exploring a cave where natural crystal formations refract light. These sculptures and their “infinite reflections” create a magical temporal experience for the viewer.
Sarah Richter graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado in 2003. She has been working in the field of commercial arts and illustration for several years. In addition to working in sculpture and installation, Richter is also an award winning abstract photographer, with work in permanent exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.
Please join Sarah Richter and HINTERLAND for a truly sensorial experience of light and refraction.
Plinth Gallery
3520 Brighton Blvd
Denver, CO 80216
303.295.0717
plinthgallery.com
Compatible Visions: Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich
Exhibition dates: May 4-26
First Friday: May 4, 6pm - 9pm
Second Saturday: May 12, 12pm - 9pm
Workshop with Farraday Newsome: May 5-6
Farraday Newsome has worked with the vessel format for over twenty years. She explores ideas of lushness, sadness, time, and grace with surfaces that are very painterly. She is interested in the relationship between the “painterly space” and the “actual space of the three-dimensional object.” Her most recent work incorporates glazing color fields of both natural and artificial objects that have personal symbolic meaning. Her imagery consists of familiar objects, such as watches, fruit, dice, shells, seedpods, eyeglasses, bones and insects.
Jeff Reich’s ceramic sculptures integrate abstract expressionist influences with contemporary desert landscapes. The Sonoran desert where he lives with his wife Farraday Newsome profoundly inspires him. Angled, sectioned and recombined forms of teapots, jars, wall tiles, and sculptural vessels are influenced by the growth patterns found in desert plants, rocks and mountains. His compositions often consist of two-dimensional glaze windows or fields superimposed on the three-dimensional surface of the clay. Windows of glaze drawings bring glimpses of repetitive plant forms.
Farraday Newsome will present a hands on workshop at the gallery Saturday and Sunday May 5-6.
Farraday and Jeff will present an artist's talk and image presentation Saturday Morning May 6.
Email gallery@plinthgallery.com to sign up!
Please call the gallery for more information and to register for this highly instructive workshop. Graduate college credit is available through Adams State College.
Ice Cube Gallery @ the DIF
3320 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
303.292.1822
www.icecubegallery.com
Exhibition Dates: April 26 – May 19, 2012
Opening Reception: April 27, 6–9pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday noon–5pm; Friday noon–9pm; Saturday noon–5pm; Extended hours on Second Saturday,
May 12, noon–7pm
Marius Lehene, “Sum Over Histories”
In this exhibition Marius Lehene presents mostly three-dimensional works developed through an analogy with the construction of identity.
Romanian born, Lehene is interested in the simultaneity of perspectives inherent in the condition of the immigrant. The precarious-looking, scaffolding-life, forms reflect how precarious, stratified, and fluid identity itself is. In these works Lehene colapses multiple perspectives into singular constructions (or drawings). These multiple points of view often correspond to the cultural environments that contribute to Lehene's own sense of identity: Romanian, American, and Indian.
Distinct systems of landmarks are overlapped into individual works and the viewer is positioned ambiguously, just like the artist, relative to all. The works reflect this multiplicity also in the accumulation of side-of-the-road visual events that suggests a perpetual re-orientation. As such, dislocation is a hinge-concept motivating Lehene's practice. Sometimes these works have gone to a point where dislocation is pushed so far that they imply no location at all (like in the Sum Over Histories drawings).
Marius Lehene is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at CSU.
Ray Tomasso, “ Luminous Flux”
Luminous Flux displays Ray Tomasso’s exploration of aggressive and intense new hues that vibrate and pulse on his sculptural cast paper forms.
In this show, he investigates the use of these dynamic color combinations on increasingly simple abstract compositions, with excursions into larger works of higher relief. Cast archival rag paper continues to form the basis of Tomasso’s work, a form he has developed and made his own during a career spanning over 35 years as a professional artist.
His studio serves as center for students and professionals interested in the exploration of paper as a medium for fine art.
Trace Gallery
3700 Franklin
Denver, CO 80205
pathwaysart.com/trace-gallery
On Saturday, May 12th 6-11pm,
Trace Gallery is proud to present
Synchronicity: New Works by Roman Villagrana.
Roman Villagrana is one of the seminal members of the visionary art movement. His art resonates with the belief in our power to transform the world and serves as a reflection of life’s infinite potential. One of the first visionary live painters and an early supporter of Conscious Alliance, Roman has helped bring forth Tribe13 and the Inter-dimensional Art Movement as platforms for visionary community building and harmonic culture manifesting. For many years he hosted the annual Inter-dimensional Art Show in Seattle, showcasing leading visionary art, music and fashion from around the world.
“Art is life, the energy that offers endless possibilities. I take inspiration from the heritage of our vast human culture’s past and also from futuristic meditations that art allows me to experience. I have been an artist since my earliest years believing it to be magic for the illusions that can be created by the simplest of lines. Now in an unstoppable momentum I have surrounded myself in art. It is my fun, work and mission. I focus on creating an image of harmony and the highest potential of human experience. It is essential to bring art into our lives to reflect our individuality and our culture.”
Heirloom Tomato Farms specializes in the cultivation and preservation of organic Heirloom Tomatoes.
All plants are organic and we have 50+ varieties this year. The plants are $5 each. We will be having a two day sale at two convenient locations in Denver.
Sale dates are Friday, May 4th from 1pm - 6pm and Saturday, May 5th from 9am - 4pm at both locations.
Visit our website for our varieties and more information.
SALE LOCATIONS:
CENTRAL DENVER | SOUTH OF CAPITAL HILL | 475 Corona Street | Denver, CO 80218
*Cash or Check Only
DOWNTOWN DENVER - RINO | WEILWORKS | 3611 Chestnut Place | Denver, CO 80216
*Cash, Check or Credit Card
RULE Gallery
3340 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
303.777.9473
www.rulegallery.com
Rule Gallery is proud to introduce
recent works by Kevin Curry,
in an exhibition entitled
Between Chaos and Order
on view May 4, 2012
through June 16, 2012.
The public reception is scheduled on First Friday, May 4, from 6pm to 9pm.
Wazee Union
3501 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80216
thespacecreators.com/events
Flying signs isn’t just a way of making money for the homeless, it’s an art
The visible homeless fly signs as a way of making money, but how often have you driven by or walked by a witty sign, an emotional plea or a small quip and been moved—either to laughter, sympathy or surprise?
Cardboard & Concrete, features a collection of signs found in the alleys and dumpsters of Denver and Boulder, alongside moving and detailed photographs by local photographer Scott Russell, who donates his time by taking photos for VOICE editorial.
Join us during Second Saturday in Denver’s gritty and artistic RiNo neighborhood. On May 12th & 13th from 7-11pm, Cardboard & Concrete will be shown at Wazee Union, a collaborative working and art space just beyond the train tracks in RiNo.
More information: www.denvervoice.org/events || thespacecreators.com/events
Beverage sponsor: www.pyramidbrew.com
SAVE THE DATE:
August 10–12, 2012
National Western Complex
This annual event celebrates the creativity and personality of Denver,
with events, exhibitors, blue ribbon competitions and more!
http://www.denvercountyfair.org/
Sign up today for 2012 Vendor & Exhibitor booths:
http://www.denvercountyfair.org/vendors-exhibitors/
Sign up today to Sponsor the 2012 Denver County Fair!
http://www.denvercountyfair.org/sponsorship/
Ice Cube Gallery @ the DIF
3320 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
303.292.1822
www.icecubegallery.com
Exhibition Dates: May 24 – June 16, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, May 25, 5–9pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday noon–5pm; Friday noon–9pm; Saturday noon–5pm; Second Saturday (June 9) noon–7pm
In a compelling and beautiful three-part installation entitled, “When Life Strikes” fiber artist Sara Goldenberg White explores the conditions and circumstances that exist in the first moments of new life. Sara pulls deeply from her own experience of loosing her first child shortly after birth, and the subsequent attempts to recreate the flash of life in order to have another child. The result is a powerful display of microscopic events brought to a much larger scale. Using vivid color and thoughtful detail White conveys her story through stitched and digital imagery, with heartbreaking honesty and courage.
Contact: Sara Goldenberg White: saragoldenberg3@hotmail.com
See a write-up about my work: http://handeyemagazine.com/content/when-life-strikes
In her exhibition, Collection of "Others", Sarah Rockett examines the seldom mentioned current human climate in American society: Our commonplace neglected systems of interaction, integral anonymity in the collective of society, and the distrustful necessity of one another. Using wire, latex and ink, Rockett creates works composed of many parts to address social behaviors and expectations. Her interest lies in articulating social constructs by reinventing approaches to familiar materials. Rockett's process is continuously experimental, and originates from the field of expanded drawing. Working with a wide variety of processes and media, she brings the formal elements of drawing into innovative spaces and forms. Nameless organic specimens, drawings on latex skins, and wire silhouettes facilitate an intimidating sense of "others" in relation to the self.
Rockett received her BFA with high honors from the University of New Mexico, and her MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University. Her work is exhibited nationally; most recently at Northwest Missouri State University and soon to be at Wabash College in Indiana. Rockett has taught drawing courses at Colorado State University, The University of Wyoming, and currently teaches at Metropolitan State College of Denver and Front Range Community College.
Contact: Sarah Rockett: smrockett@comcast.net
Jean Smith, "Mementos" Art Show
Zip 37 Gallery | 3644 Navajo Street | Denver, CO 80211
May 4 - 20, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6 - 10 PM
Create Denver Weekend: May 11 - 13 featuring Roman Glass creations at Jean's Jewelry Trunk Show
New Moon Weekend: May 18 - 20 featuring the 1/2 off sale table
Gallery Hours: Friday 6 - 10 PM; Sat/Sun noon - 5 PM
www.jeanbsmith.com
www.zip37.com
www.navajostreetartdistrict.com
Mementos - "Any reminder of the past; a keepsake, souvenir, or relic"
This show continues Jean's fascination with Mid-Century icons celebrating accomplishments that are trophy-worthy. They integrate the trophy top, or tops, on a container along with a 'sacred relic,' or unique item, used to accomplish this feat, saved inside. The repertoire runs from sports to 4H; from professions to everyday heros; with a large selection dedicated to the bowler. Some of the containers have evolved into shrines, thereby creating a place to store one's personal memorabilia. Materials used include hand-built low-fire glazed ceramics, metal trophy tops, and mixed media.
For further information, please contact Jean at 303-377-3945 or via email, jbsarts@aol.com
Jean has a studio at the Ceramics Studios of Dry Ice Factory; her work can often been seen there on First Fridays.
Denver Westword Best of 2012 awards RiNo
Best Arts District!
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-arts-district-2118141/
Additional congratulations go to Dana Cain and RiNo co-founder, Tracy Weil, on the Denver County Fair!
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-annual-festival-2118153/
The accolades don't stop there!
More awards for RiNos include:
The Laundry on Lawrence
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-new-arts-project-2118111/
Microclimates @ Super Ordinary Gallery
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-public-art-happening-andmdash-small-scale-2118123/
Super Ordinary Gallery
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-gallery-in-a-garage-2118162/
Bradley Borthwick @ Hinterland
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-multimedia-show-2118177/
Regina Benson
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-fiber-show-2118176/
MegaFauna
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-rino-boutique-2118411/
Fuel Cafe
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-sustainable-argument-2118242/
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-bathroom-with-a-view-of-denver-art-2118367/
Crema Coffee House
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-coffeehouse-for-food-2118251/
And some RiNo Favorites:
Biker Jim's (appearing soon at the RiNo Spring Studio Tour After Party at Ironton!)
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-dinner-under-10-2118260/
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-food-cart-2118288/
David Zimmer
http://www.westword.com/bestof/2012/award/best-standout-piece-in-a-group-show-2118178
Pattern Shop Studio
3349 Blake Street
303.297.9831
patternshopstudio.com
Martha Pinkard Williams will exhibit new landscape inspired paintings at the RiNo Art District’s Pattern Shop Studio opening First Friday, April 6th from 6 to 9 pm. The show, entitled “watermark” will be on display until June 1st, with public viewings on:
April 6th, Opening reception 5-9pm;
April 14th, Second Saturday
Salon with the artist, 4-6pm;
May 4th, First Friday, 5-9pm;
May 12th, Second Saturday Salon, 4-6pm;
May 13th, Open Studio, 11-4pm;
June 1st, First Friday, 6-9pm, closing reception.
Private showings for groups and individuals are available any time during this period by calling 303-297-9831.
Ms. Pinkard-Williams has a B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Colorado, and an M.F.A., with distinction, in painting from California College of Arts, Oakland, California. A third generation Coloradoan, Martha’s work reflects her Colorado roots as well as her keen color sensibility. She has been the illustration professor at Metropolitan State College the past few years, where she also taught Water Media I and II. An award winning visual artist with an extensive background in fine art, design and illustration, her work is in collections in the US and Europe . A well respected muralist with many public and private murals to her credit, she was awarded the half city block Brunetti Lofts Mural Project in 2010.
The watermark exhibit is a series of paintings ranging from intimate watercolor and other studies to large acrylic wash paintings on canvas . “In this series of work,” she says, “I am investigating the dance between: between realism and abstraction, between yin and yang; the unyielding stones and the water and wind that shaped them.
Ironton Studios & Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
Denver CO 80216
irontonstudios.com
Persistent Terrain
Recent works by Lanny DeVuono and Melissa Furness
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 13th 7pm – 10pm
Gallery Talk:
Saturday, April 28th starting at 1pm
Also open for the RiNo Sprig Studio Tour, Sunday May 13th 11-6 pm
Show runs through May 19th, 2012
In different, but complimentary ways, both Melissa Furness and Lanny DeVuono examine historical landscape imagery through a filter of multiple, contemporary realities. The results are a series of visual metaphors on human persistence and interaction within the vast spaces of history and daily life.
Lanny DeVuono has long used the landscape imagery as a near illustration for our own human nature. She says, “Whether we see nature as beautiful and pristine, devastated from war, ecological upheaval or simply from our own use, it is mapping our histories and hopes."
Melissa Furness’ work explores our attraction to what man leaves behind on the landscape. It is the unknown, the fragmentary, the imperfect, and the incomplete remains of our foiled efforts that she recompletes in fantastical ways.
Save the date:
RiNo Spring Studio Tour, Sunday May 13th 11-4, after party at Ironton 4-6 pm
Stop by Ironton to visit the 14 artist studios including stone, wood, metal and painting shops plus... FIRE in the garden with artist Rian Kerrane and the UCD Sculpture department pouring iron. Tools will be available to carve a tile of your own to be cast that day. Refreshments and dogs from Biker Jim's Gourmet Hog Dogs will be available.
Trace Gallery
3700 Franklin
Denver, CO 80205
pathwaysart.com/trace-gallery
On Friday May 4th, 6pm-11pm Trace Gallery hosts the closing reception:
New Works by Audrey McNamara and Recycled Robots by Kamla Presswalla
As a child, drawing was pure play for Audrey and she spent many hours up at her drawing table, tool in hand. She drew for pleasure, and perhaps even a narration of her own realities. Audrey studied fashion design, and feels her education in fashion helped mold the signature style her art carries today. These days, Audrey travels as much as she can with her art. She works on every type of project from portraits to murals to tattoos and graphic design: works that find their homes all over the world.
Recycled Robots: Paintings by Kamla Presswalla
A painter both professionally and privately, Kamla’s style has been described as both whimsical and eerie, giving viewers a compelling twist. For the last twelve years Kamla has had a thriving business creating finishes showcased on scenery, in exhibitions, and on puppets and props for film, television, and theater both locally and nationally. In 2008, after the birth of her daughter, Kamla began expressing her inner child via Giant Robots who have taken over a previously painted work. Only, in keeping with her whimsical and eerie aesthetic, these robots are depicted emoting in a very human way which is simultaneously very perilous to mankind.
Plus Gallery
2501 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80205
303.296.0927
plusgallery.com
Remote Sensing
New Paintings by William Betts
April 19 - May 26, 2012
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 19th, 6-8pm
Remote Sensing is the 3rd solo exhibition by William Betts to be hosted by Plus Gallery, and the first since his 2007 blockbuster Vertigo which introduced his unique surveillance-themed paintings to the region. The works in the new exhibition continue Betts' ongoing pursuit of the psychological ambiguity inherent in this increasingly invasive and poignant realm. The exhibition comes just months after the artist was awarded the Annual Painting Prize from New American Paintings by a distinguished national jury, and on the heels of a major new profile on the artist in the current edition of Modern In Denver. William Betts' career continues to excel as one of the most prestigious by an emerging artist from the US in the last decade. His work speaks for itself, his practice is the most singular and successful merger of painting and technology in the world today.
Gallery Hours: noon to 5pm, Wednesday through Saturday | Free and open to the public
Knew Conscious Gallery
2700 Walnut St.
720.560.9127
www.knewconsciousgallery.com
MASS-Droid
New large scale work by Android Jones
April 13th through May 5th 2012
Android Jones is at the forefront of the visionary art movement, a wave of artists who emphasize creativity as the foundation of consciousness and an agent of social change. Android’s work is a hybrid of academic training, emerging technology and the mystical experience. He has used his internet portal, Conceptart.org to launch a series of highly acclaimed art workshops, and has traveled the world teaching art to students from Berlin, Romania, Amsterdam, Paris, Montreal, Texas, Florida, Seattle, San Francisco and beyond. With work featured on the box cover of Corel Painter X, he is a leader in the digital fine art community. Android has expanded his art to the live audience, including the expanses of China to the deserts of Burning Man. Knew Conscious Gallery is honored to exhibit new large scale works by acclaimed digital alchemist, Android Jones.
Opening Reception with the artist on Friday April 13th from 8-11pm
Musical Guest, The Human Experience
Edible?
22 years of working with food
featuring the new interactive installation:
The Garden of Earthy Delights
February 23 – June 17, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday February 23rd,
5:30 pm: Members Preview
6:30-10pm: Free Public Reception
Expert Talk: Thursday April 12
(Viviane Le Courtois and Christopher R. Perez)
at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750, 13th St. Boulder, CO 80302
bmoca.org
303 443 2122
(photo: Viviane Le Courtois- Cueillettes, self-portrait
from performance at the Villa Arson, Nice, 1992)
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