Ill Film Night: Pick The Flick Contest #1
Distracted Easily? Impatient? A Huge Deuchcock? (skip this section) That's right, I'm back. Vincenzo Valentine, aka the great Vinny V, once again lowers my standards and returns to the cesspool of talent called Illiterate. For what reason do I grace this puke bowl of regurgitated schlock and derivative drivel with my presence? Why would I once again waste my valuable time interacting with a bunch of circus freak creative hacks like you? Go f*$# yourselves, that's why. For those of you who know me from my days running the Illiterate Caption Contest-- you disgust me like a festering puss bubble, and I'd like nothing more than for my four year old son Little Anthony to p...Read more
Ill Comedy Tonight: Threople
Tonight at 8:30pm come one come all to the comedy debut of Threople, a triple troupe of Denver humorists. Ravi Zupa, Mathew Reichardt and Andrew Overdahl present an interactive night of comedy including, sketch routines, stand up, and movies to bust your gut. If you're not holding your stomach with laughter, you'll surely be keeled over with an excess of popcorn and beverages. Not hungry or amused? Use the buttery fluffed kernels as heckler projectiles. $3 Suggested Donation...Read more
Visual Poetry: Joerg Piringer
For those who magnetize toward mixed media, border-bending art, and gesamtkunstwerks, Joerg Piringer is a must to check out. His work encompasses everything from sound art, interactive art, word art, video art, and probably any other kind of art you can think of. You can check out his website at http://joerg.piringer.net/ ...Read more
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Illiterate Exhibit: Ryan "Craptical" Riss
This Friday, April 02, Illiterate welcomes Ryan Riss to the gallery for his month long solo exhibition "Life's a Beach". Once one of Denver's young art talents, Ryan Riss, aka Craptical, now resides in Seattle where he has shed the bright colors but not the madness in his pop inspired, hallucinatory illustrations. Riss has been featured in Beautiful Decay Magazine, Boooooooom!, Fecal Face and Thinkfaest and shown his works across the country. For his return to Colorado at Illiterate, Riss brings with him a selection of his mind altering black and white creations including a never before seen body of work, limited edition prints and an exclusive Illiterate artist's series...Read more
Opening Tonight!: Ideal Woman at Hinterland
Denver artist Allie Pohl presents her Barbie molded body of work titled Ideal Woman: 36: 24: 36 tonight at Hinterland gallery which runs until April 23rd. Andrew Hoffman wrote a nice interview on the 303 blog. Here's the intro: I first encountered Allie’s work last November at the “Where the Wild Things Art” show at Illiterate. I was very intrigued by her series of ceramic sculptures that depict the lower torso of a barbie doll. According to Allie, her objective in her art is to critique cultural trends that she finds impractical or destructive to the female form, and that her work falls into the category of feminist satire packaged in a post-modern wrapp...Read more
The Illustrated: March 5th at Illiterate
Illiterate Presents "The Illustrated" collaborative and individual illustrations and animations by John Grigsby and Kristopher Hutson. The show runs from March 05 - March 26. The Opening Reception is on March 5 at 6PM at Illiterate. About The ArtistsChildhood friends and creative collaborators, John Grigsby and Kristophor Hutson met at the age of twelve. Both captivated by stop motion animations using clay models, drawing became the necessary language by which they exchanged visual ideas. As their individual abilities with illustrating increased so did their abilities to realize more and more complex animations. The two continued to develop their mutual interest in moving images alo...Read more
Art Opening: "SUPER RELATIVE" tonight at Lisa Kowalski Gallery
Lisa Kowalski Gallery opens tonight with "SUPER-RELATIVE," featuring work of prolific gatherers Samuel Schimek and Andrew Novick. After last years impressively overwhelming collection of collections show, "The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick," Novick releases yet another example of fascination and depth in numbers. Tonight Novick teams up with Schimek to display work in patterns, something overtly present in any and all collections, especially that of his own. This time Novick releases a stash of consumption memories, all celebratory cakes which he helped eat in the past 20 years. I heard about how many of these cake photos were included but I think it will be best to witness the abundan...Read more
Naropa Supports Haiti
Who: Everyone's InvitedWhat: Naropa Supports Haiti Benefit ShowWhen: Friday, February 5th from 7-10Where: 2130 Arapahoe Ave, BoulderWhy: Support relief efforts in Haitip.s.I'll be reading some stuff here on Friday, along with a whole bunch of insanely talented musicians/dancers/writers. It's going to be a fun night, for a really good cause. Show up and hang out, support your local artists, and support Haiti: all at the same time!more info pasted below from the Naropa Supports Haiti Facebook page.until next time, iloveyou,Rob Friday, February 5th from 7-10, come out and listen/watch lots of talented artists and musicians from the Naropa community and beyond. We are g...Read more
Get Down Science Live! at The Draft House
Where will I be on Friday night, in this great big world without Helen, when I could be anywhere (anywhere ='ing the Boulder and/or Denver area)? I'll be at The Draft House. GPS coordinates 2027 13th st Boulder. I will be there at 9:05 p.m., when the show starts. Or I may also show up a bit earlier. Either way, aka regardless of time specifics: on Friday night, this is where I'm going. I'll be at the Draft HouseWhy will I be there? Because that's where Daniel Mills new band will be headlining what promises to be a truely great and also historically mighty show. The band is called Get Down Science. I've also heard something about Jessie Thayer performing some tunes with Allison Lotterhos, whi...Read more
I Miss Mystery - Mario Zoots at Illiterate
How Mario Zoots' speaks about his images, how he looks and speaks about others' work, is painstakingly important. In not only aesthetics, but also in the all-out war he's staging against our new ventures of pop culture. What people mean to one another, what an image can and of course will become, what obsessions and means to wholeness the art world must go to to achieve a satisfaction of absolutes. These are philosophies Mario accomplishes with 'Zine etiquette, video swagger, and racked-off-the-shelf magazine rearrangements. There's a modern mystery to the internet. Facelessness, identity obscured by text and syntax, re-appropriation & distribution of images and video. In the su...Read more