August 27-28-29

National Western Complex
Expo Hall & Hall of Education
From I-70 exit just east of I-25 at Brighton Blvd.
www.denvermodernism.com

Friday 5-7pm - Early VIP Gala
Admission: $35 - includes readmission all weekend, open bar, entertainment, special guests.

Friday 7-10pm - Preview Party
Admission: $15 - includes live music, hula girls, cash bar and the Miss Modernism Pageant!

Saturday 10am-6pm
Admission: $5 - includes admission into the Vintage Voltage Expo - Kids under 12: FREE!

Sunday 10am-3pm
Admission $8 - includes admission into the Denver Modernism CAR SHOW! - Kids under 12: FREE!

RiNo will have a booth this year so stop by! All RiNo Artists.

Packing House Center for the Arts
835 E. 50th Ave.
Denver, CO 80216
303.947.2827
controlgroupproductions.org

July 29-31, 8pm 
The Packing House Center for the Arts and Wax Wing Inc. present
The Lovinator: Premiere
by Wax Wing Inc. and The Pirate Band
Directed by singers/songwriters Brian Powell and Craig Gunteski
Tickets: $14 at the door  |  $11 in advance at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/116736

In a land far, far away, where time is circular, where boobs are holy, poets mad, illustrious punks of progress shriek, where souls are outlawed and hearts are sick... the second coming has come and will come again. We call it Rock 'n Roll Tableau Vivant. It's like Jesus Ziggy Christ Super Stardust silent film full of NOISE. You will be guided through the perils of Jesus as he manifests in a world that bears no resemblance to our own, of course... of course.

Art Form: Rock N’ Roll Tableau Vivant

Warning: This show may be offensive to Christians, non-Christians, and some animal species.

HINTERLAND
3254 Walnut Street
Denver CO, 80205
720.309.1764
hinterlandartspace.com 

NEW PAINTINGS BY MONIQUE CRINE

Opening Reception: July 30, Friday, 6 - 10p 
Open First Friday, August 6, 6 - 9p
Show will run through August 20.

With Deerpark we encounter a selection of images with the desultory quality of snapshots, each resembling those family photographs we remember to forget by boxing away in our closets (or by “saving” them on our external hard drives). Monique Crine has decided to paint some while others are presented as photographic prints, and there appears to be no logic as to what might compel their maker to translate one into oil while retaining the photographic indexicality of another. So why should Crine make replicas from this selection of photographic sources, which her paintings do with a minimum of difference in surface fracture, if not to produce from the secularizing photograph the semblance of the auratic icon in paint? Crine’s attention to likeness in her paintings suggest this iconization as do the titles that correspond to the given names of the individuals; each image centers its subject with the effect of luring the viewer into speculations that figure’s identity and psychic state. But do Crine’s photographic paintings merely appeal to our curiosity about their subject matter? Are there not some excesses that destabilize, consciously or unconsciously, this ability of painting to present its subject?

Crine holds an MFA from Cornell University, and a BA from San Francisco State University. This is her first solo show with the gallery.

1368 26th Street
Denver, CO 80205
greenroutedenver.com

Launching the 2nd Edition of Denver’s Green Route
Brought to you by The Westword, Green Spaces Colorado, Shaping Art Design & Laurie Maves Art

The Green Route Festival will kick off the second edition of Denver’s Green Route Map, a comprehensive map highlighting Denver’s cutting edge green innovators. The festival will be located in the heart of Denver’s RiNo district on 26th Street between Blake and Larimer. We expect to gather over two thousand people to celebrate local food, culture, and live music featuring The Rouge, Air Dubai, Soulaju, and Social Hero.

Additional Events:

August 1 - 6: ART MURAL
Green Spaces Outdoor Mural Painting | lauriemavesart.com

September, 2010: HEALTHY FOOD FUND-RAISING DINNER
FOOD FORWARD: Let’s Eat. Right. Now. | foodforward.tv

October, 2010: GREEN ROUTE
Restaurant Tour | greenroutedenver.com

Plinth Gallery
3520 Brighton Blvd
Denver, CO 80216
303.295.0717
plinthgallery.com

“Darwin Was Right and Exxon Helped:
Cautionary Ceramic Tales of End Times...” 

Plinth Gallery is pleased to present new ceramic work by artist Marko Fields. Fields merges his skills as an illustrator with those of a ceramic artist to create highly narrative vessels to reflect his sense of mythology, spirituality, and philosophy. Field’s background is part Comanche. His heritage generated an interest in Native American art. He studied watercolor painting and drawing at an early age. Dropping out of college in the early 1970’s and then dropping back in again in 1991 as a sculpture major at the University of Kansas, he instantly knew that clay was to be his material of choice.

Marko Field’s exhibition runs through September 25th. An opening with the artist is First Friday August 6 from 6-9pm.

AND

Music at Plinth Gallery: C. Daniel Boling, “Perfectly Stable Music”

On Saturday, August 7, Albuquerque musician C. Daniel Boling will perform a special selection of his music in a salon-style setting at Plinth Gallery. Boling was named the 2010 Winner at the Albuquerque Folk Festival Talent Contest. Other recognition includes 1st Place Winner, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in 2007 and winner of the Songs for Children category at the 2005 Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS.  Boling has released four CD’s since 1999, and his most recent, “He Dreams”, is a 2009 studio album featuring 13 new original songs.

Tickets are $10 for limited seating and reservations are available by email to gallery@plinthgallery.com or by calling (303) 295-0717.

Ice Cube Gallery
3320 Walnut Street
Denver, CO  80205
www.icecubegallery.com

Ice Cube Gallery is pleased to present two solo exhibitions with a performance on Saturday, August 21st at 7pm 
featuring Louisiana Pearl
Spoken Word/Jazz Guitar Performance
By Hilary DePolo and James Boyce

Exhibition Dates: August 13 – September 4
Opening Reception: Friday, Aug. 13, 5-9pm

Light Works: a solo show by emerging mixed media/light installation artist Sophia Dixon Dillo
Dillo’s works have a commanding size, yet quiet and gentle presence. Lit both frontally and from behind, the pieces hang away from the wall, and are meant to be seen from all angles. Together, they form an installation and create their own space. The subtle, meditative quality of this luminous space makes it a repose in the midst of the busy pace of contemporary culture.
415.302.7659 / sophiadillo.com / sophiadillo@gmail.com

Summer Light: New Works of Paper by Ray Tomasso
Tomasso is one of an international group of fine artists that began to extensively explore handmade paper as a sculptural medium in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has traveled the world studying paper history, materials and techniques. In Duren, Germany, he joined in founding the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA), the world’s leading organization of paper artists. Tomasso served as a founding board member, IAPMA’s first vice president and second president. Ray Tomasso’s work has been shown internationally and throughout the United States for the last three decades. Summer Light: New Works of Paper features all new pieces created especially for the exhibit. 
303.552.8254 / raytomasso.com / ray@raytomasso.com

Packing House Center for the Arts
835 E. 50th Ave.
Denver, CO 80216
303.947.2827
controlgroupproductions.org

Aug. 21, 10am-6pm
& Aug. 22, 11am-9pm:
Weekend Workshop Intensive:
Creation with Varied Materials:
Total Theatre Composition
Directed by Control Group performance company and Band of Tough Theatre Collaboratory
Prices and Registration Link at http://www.controlgroupproductions.org/archives/595

Our medium is Live Performance.  Everything possible within that genre is a tool available for use.  The concept and the process dictate the form of the product.

Aug. 21, 7:30-11:30pm:
PHCA New Facility Partnership Performance and Party
A Co-production of The Packing House Center for the Arts, The Boulder International Fringe Festival, Kim Olson/sweet edge, Band of Toughs, Syzygy Butoh and Control Group performance company
$10 at the door

PHCA is in love (Ooohh!).  It’s met not one but FOUR dream partners, and they’re making plans to MOVE IN TOGETHER! Clearly a party is in order...check out the details @ www.controlgroupproductions.org!

Aug. 22, 8pm at the Fringe, location TBA
The Packing House Center for the Arts and The Boulder International Fringe Festival present
Dance Night for Beginners SPECIAL FRINGE EDITION created by Patrick Mueller and Wes Snyder
more info at http://www.controlgroupproductions.org/archives/601

PHCA’s patented Dance-with-Sports-Commentary Showcase is coming to Boulder!  See great art ridiculed, mutilated, and reduced to its lowest common denominator by our expert panel of judges.

Ironton Studios & Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
Denver, CO 80216
303.296.5583
irontonstudios.com

Theresa Anderson
painting and installation:
Expelling Diamonds (and Demons)

Opening reception Friday August 6th, 7-10 pm
show runs through September 11th

(image: kisses to my pretty boy. Charcoal, gesso, watercolor, acrylic on canvas. 68” x 104”)

RiNo Joyce Coco will be exhibiting at Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Dr. in Denver.

The show, Internal Alchemy, runs from August 26 - Sept. 19th with the opening August 26th 6-9pm.

Joyce Coco is also exhibiting in Lincoln, NE through August 21, at Modern Arts Midwest. The Gallery is located at 800 P St., Ste. 300.

Ironton Studios & Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
Denver, CO 80216
303.296.5583
irontonstudios.com
new on illoz at http://illoz.com/hooper

The gallery will exhibit new work by each artist effectively illustrating the uniqueness
of Ironton as a multi-discipline facility:
Andy Berg, painting
Jeff Bludea, woodshop
Dan Brandemuehl,  stone sculpture
Chase DeForest, woodshop
Sharon Feder, painting
John Ferguson, steel sculpture
Hugh Graham, multi media
Matt Holman, cartooning
Jill Hadley Hooper, painting
Heidi Jung, painting, photography
Mike Mancarella, sculpture and fabrication
Patricia ‘Murph’ Murphy, painting
Yoshitomo saito, bronze casting
Kagen Schaefer, puzzle making
Robin Schaefer, painting
Andy Sweet, stone sculpture

celebrating 11 years of fire, stone, wood, earth, metal and spirits

July 2nd thru July 30th

Ironton celebrates 11 years in Denver with our annual 4th of July weekend party. We have a lot to celebrate this year with the addition of two new artists to the group, Chase DeForest and Yoshitomo Saito. Chase is an accomplished furniture and object-maker and Yoshi is a master bronze artist whose casting facility is now in the yard at Ironton.

Gallery Hours are Mon thru Fri 10-4 pm and Saturday noon-4pm

RedLine
2350 Arapahoe Street
Denver, CO 80205
303.296.4448
redlineart.org

Wednesday August 11th: 7 pm. Lecture by Rian Kerrane, Michael Brohman and Jessica Moon Bernstein and closing reception. (lectures are $6 per person- free for RedLine Members) Related free educational workshops for kids and families scheduled every Saturday during the exhibition from 2-4 pm.

Artists’ Footprints explores the boundaries of art and life through innovative systems of creation and production. Throughout this exhibition, artists compost, grow, reuse, and gather supplies to reduce their carbon footprint. Inspired by simple ways of living and creating across the world from Ecuador to Mongolia, artists offer alternatives to over-consumption.

Artists Footprints features works by: Jessica Moon Bernstein, Michael Brohman, Jane daPain, Fallen Fruit, Tsehai Johnson, David Kahn, Rian Kerrane, Rori Knudtson, Peter Menzel, Michael Reynolds, Musci, Patricia Tinajero and Amy Youngs.

The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Biennial of the Americas and curated by RedLine artist in residence Viviane Le Courtois.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am-5 pm; Saturday and Sunday: 11 am- 5 pm.

Plus Gallery
2501 Larimer Street
Denver, CO  80205
303.296.0927
plusgallery.com

“You Are Here” - Biennial of the Americas exhibition featuring Five Premier Canadian Contemporary Artists

On view through August 20th.

In partnership with the Denver 2010 Biennial of the Americas and the Canadian Consulate General and Suncor Energy, Plus Gallery opens the exhibition "You are Here" featuring the works of five remarkable artists working at the forefront of contemporary art and innovation in Canada.  Brendan Tang, Alex McLeod, Douglas Walker,  Andrew Rucklidge and Luke Painter all create artworks of an elusive nature, warping both the sense of place and culture.  Their art is rooted in many of today's issues relating to sustainability, the environment and other societal contexts yet their most compelling attributes are derived from their timelessness and virtuosity.  The exhibition provides a rare and exquisite opportunity for a first-hand look at some of Canada's most talented artists of today.

Ice Cube Gallery
3320 Walnut Street
Denver, CO  80205
www.icecubegallery.com

Soo Sunny Park: “Refraction”

Jennifer Caine, Stina Kohnke, Enrico Riley, and Katie Shaw: “Mirage”

Curated by Soo Sunny Park.

Open First Friday: August 6, 2010 5-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 16 ~ August 7, 2010

The Ice Cube Gallery is pleased to feature two new shows: a solo show titled “Refraction” by nationally recognized artist Soo Sunny Park, and a group show curated by Park titled “Mirage.” The group show features four artists: Jennifer Caine, Stina Kohnke, Enrico Riley, and Katie Shaw.

Gallery Hours: Every Friday 5-9 PM, every Saturday 12-5 PM

Ironton Studios & Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
303.296.5583
irontonstudios.com

Saturday July 31st 6pm to 11pm @ Ironton Studios

Join us in the garden for an evening of fun for our friend Michelle Barnes! Her many endeavors in the art scene over the years have helped make Denver a more cool and connected place. She has hosted more than 300 salons, art shows, and performances since returning from NYC to her native town. She has encouraged cross pollination between multiple creative communities including art, design, music, and fashion.

Today she needs our support, please help us celebrate Michelle's wellness and continued recovery from breast cancer. Her health is good but the lingering financial effects of treatment are still present.

At Ironton Michelle's work and that of contributing artists will be in the gallery. The garden we'll have beer and wine, and food. There will be music by Boba Fett and the Americans (with Shawn King of Devotchka) plus more entertainment surprises. 

We are suggesting a $10 donation at the door with contributions at the bar. There will also be a money tree in the gallery; bring a check or cash, put it in a 'leaf' envelope, clip it to the tree and watch it grow!  Anything you give, even a modest amount, will be greatly appreciated.

Katy Tartakoff Photography Studio and Gallery
3457 Ringsby Court #105
Denver, CO

Photographer Katy Tartakoff Studio proudly presents
a fundraising exhibit: 

Patricia Michael Melnice’s premier showing of I MUST SPEAK NOW – RESCUED VOICES FROM AFRICA.

Photographer Katy Tartakoff Studio proudly presents Patricia Michael Melnice’s premier showing of I MUST SPEAK NOW – RESCUED VOICES FROM AFRICA. This show captures the magnificence of the human spirit that still shines in spite of horrific circumstances. Connection, community, color-filled photos invite the viewer to come and not only take a look, but to be part of the strength, courage, and dignity Patty witnessed while volunteering in Africa.

By purchasing a photo or making a donation, you are supporting Patty in returning to Africa to continue her work with babies, children, and women who have been raped. Please visit her website, www.toughangels.com to see more beautiful photographs and read excerpts from her journal notes.

Plinth Gallery
3520 Brighton Blvd
Denver, CO 80216
303.295.0717
plinthgallery.com

Plinth Gallery Third Anniversary

This exhibition continues during the June 19th RiEnnial open studio event in the River North Art District and will remain at Plinth Gallery through July 31. (Plinth Gallery will be closed for July First Friday.)

Jennifer Allen creates “beautiful optimistic pottery” that is both highly attractive and totally useful.  Her porcelain forms are skillfully wheel thrown, then, referencing her love of sewing, she uses folds, darts and seams to enhance the round profiles of traditional forms into shapes that are fluid and generous. Her masterfully decorated and inviting shapes encourage touch.

"The Architect Within" at Michele Mosko Fine Art
136 W. 12th Ave in Denver's Golden Triangle art district
June 4 - July 30

The diverse artists in this exhibition include New York artists Michael Rubin, Peri Schwartz, and Arturo Guerrero, Mexico City's José Grinberg, Denver's urban artist, Sharon Feder and New Jersey's Alan Chimacoff. These artists share an inner approach to their work, based on a sense of spatial organization and structure. The consistent theme in each work is the evidence of elements of construction.

www.michelemoskofineart.com / 303.534.5433

AND: 

The Denver International Airport Art Exhibition Program has curated an exhibition of Feder's recent work for their new display case at the Signature Flight Support private jet terminal, located at 7850 Harry B Combs Parkway, Denver, CO 80249. The exhibit will remain in place until mid-September, 2010 and visitors are welcome to the terminal.

www.sfeder.com