Saturday Art Opening: Scot Lefavor's See Change
Scot Lefavor aka Faives, will be unveiling new work at his upcoming solo show this Saturday at Andenken Gallery in Denver. His recognizable superflat graphic paintings initially inspire visions of 1950's "Everything's A-Ok honey, now get into the bomb shelter, right after you fill my high-ball and light my lucky"advertising. However, amidst this nuclear utopia, Lefavor makes it obvious that he's clearly not the well mannered Wally Cleaver. More a modern day Eddie Hascal. he slyly, and not always so subtely, inserts his own agenda to the two-toned characters, and nostalgic lettering, creating a contrast between his contemporary middle finger, and the big thumbs-up rammed up the ass of a...Read more
Friday Art Opening: Max Kauffman's Ramshackle Deluxe
One of my favorite Denver artists, Max Kauffman has a show opening Friday at street artist/graffiti writer Jolt's warehouse space, the Guerilla Garden (38th Ave and Steele). The title of the show Ramshackle Deluxe may have something do with the fact that Max, in addition to displaying his fantastic watercolor illustrations, has, with the help of his accomplice, referred to only as Brandon, constructed a three dimensional "tape shack", which Max describes in the following statement: "The install focuses on the theme of a city built out of the ashes and relics of another time- cobbled doors, fence posts, tables and other wood is cobbled together to form a city striving to surviv...Read more
Art Opening: Barnaby Furnas
Hey kids do you like violence? How about bloody carnage on canvas? Tonight head over to the MCA to view the visceral paintings of Barnaby Furnas, the 31 year old New York artist who creates mural sized battles between the figurative and abstract. Furnas' first major notoriety came for ecstatic battle scenes, gory and celebratory shootouts between variously exploding American civil war era icons, such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. His most recent paintings have done away with any human reference aside from that most vital fluid of life, blood. These large-scale paintings, which often stretch the entirety of a room and can take weeks' just to stretch the c...Read more
Friday Night Movie at Time Warp
This Friday, September 18, as part of their month-long celebration of 25 Years in a consecutive row of being in business, Time Warp Comics will be hosting Customer Appreciation Movie Night! You’re not going to want to miss this one. I’m not sure what movie they’re playing (at the time of this blogging it’s still all top secret/hasn’t been announced) (ed note: it's Star Wars) and I’m not sure what time it starts (ed note: 7;00 p.m.), all I know is that if comic shop owner and genre -guru Wayne’s running the show, it has to be good. Ordinarily I lock myself in my apartment on Friday nights, still semi-hungover after co-h...Read more
CMYK+RGB Round 3
The third photographer to capture moments at CMYK+RGB, Raul San Miguel, used levity to reveal the true expression the people he encountered throughout the evening. San Miguel asked his subjects to jump while he snaped them mid air. Like Phillipe Halsman discovered celebrities and dignitaries half a century ago, when hopping "the mask falls so that the real person appears." If that's the case then it looks like we're all a bunch of silly characters. ...Read more
CMYK + RGB Photos Round 2
A man of the moment, photographer Matthew Novak came prepared to CMYK+RGB. And by prepared I mean he brought lollipops, his camera and an eye for lighting. (The above image is of the fierce behind the CMYK+RGB fashion, Ferren Gipson) Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (aka Pictureplane) Red Green Blue Fashion Designer Mellisa May of Incroyables Fashion Designer and resident Illiterate, Baily Rose DJ Tyler Snow looking colorful ...Read more
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CMYK+RGB Photos Round 1
Check out the first batch of images from CMYK+RGB taken by Photographer Jessica Hilvitz. ...Read more
Aural Pleasure
After the overwhelming positive response we received from musicians and audience members after Illiterate's first music centered event: Denver Does Denver, back in June, we realized that the whole experience was pretty damn arousing. And with anything that feels good, we couldn't help but want to do it more often. And so, from now on the last Saturday of every month, Illiterate will be hosting a regular night of Aural Pleasure at Old Curtis Street Bar where our favorite bands and DJ's play the music we (and hopefully you) want to hear. Come check out the first installment in this series this Saturday August 29th as Bitch Yes! Jonathan +Bpro and DJ Peter Black get the dance floor convul...Read more
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tags: Aural Pleasure Old Curtis St. Denver Music Peter Black Jonathan+Bpro Bitch Yes!
Let's All Get Drunk And Bid On Some Shit: For A Good Cause
Who: Everyone Interested In Supporting Art, and Silent Bidding On Stuff, Drinking At Nate's House, and Other things Involved with Having A Good TimeWhat: A Silent Auction/Hamburger Sale to support the Boulder Artists GuildWhen: See Image AboveWhere: See Image AboveWhy: To Gather Funds In Which To Host Kick Ass Future EventsThis is going to be fun. Swing by. Bid on something. Hang out. There's going to be bands and drink and food. I'll be there, drunkenly bidding on random things that I find in Nate's appartment that I find interesting, bugging the shit out of him until he agrees to sell me his VH...Read more
100th Open Mic at the Burnt Toast
Who: An Invitation to You!What: A Celebration of the 100th Open Mic at the Burnt Toast hosted by Olatundji Akpo-Sani! & Me! When: Wednesday Night (sign up at 8:00, show starts at 8:30) Where: The Burnt Toast, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave, Boulder CO, USAWhy: (see bit already mentioned under the 'What' section, about it being the 100th Burnt Toast Poetry Reading/Open Mic brought to you by Illiterate Magazine & Baobob Tree Press)...Read more