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

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

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.

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

“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

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

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

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”)

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.

Click here to read about RiNo in this month's issue of Art Ltd. Also lots of great information on the Denver Biennial & Objectophilia. Denver is an art city!