Nick Cave Gives Exactly What You Want
(Photo by Tyler Beard) Since I put my journalistic hat on the shelf over a year ago I was a bit surprised when I received an invitation to attend the media preview for Nick Cave’s exhibition Sojourn at the Denver Art Museum. Was this a clerical mistake? Inviting a journalistic apostate turned art dealer to a sacred press junkit seemed akin to letting a fox browse the hen house. Still, I felt the early private look at Cave’s work, which I’ve been following for a number of years, was worth any potential embarrassment when the media relations staff saw me and realized their blunder. Besides it wouldn’t be the first time I crashed a party.However, when I arrived ...Read more
Hit it Up: Current Must-See Shows
Great current and upcoming art happenings Current: Right now, you can check out Terminal Kings as it visits Denver. Watch street artists from LA as they do live art every day. Plus Gallery’s Frank T Martinez show is almost over, be sure to see it this week. This week and onwards: Be sure to check out this Friday’s opening at David B. Smith Gallery, featuring the work of Liz Miller. A sample of Liz Miller's installation work The Invented World, by Sandy Skoglund opens this Friday at Rule Gallery. You might know Sandy Skoglund by Fox Games, famously installed at the DAM. All the more reason not to...Read more
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tags: Art Redline Sandy Skoglund Huma Bhabha Liz Miller Terminal Kings Street Art Denver
Salutations, Project Hello 2011!
On Saturday, June 25th Redline hosted this year's Project Hello. The event presented over 40 artists, designers, musicians, and poets. Redline buzzed with introductions and activity throughout the day. Rebecca Peebles' project guided visitors through the creation of a drawing that mapped the different kinds of visitors to the space. With the aid of colored china markers everyone was invited to color a rhombus representing themselves. As the day wore on, the paper became a colorful graphic representation of the event. People were able to work on the piece while also meeting the artist and one another. Many food vendors were present including Yours Truly Cupcake who had m...Read more
Denver Art Museum Gets Down and Dirty
This week marks the beginning of The Denver Art Museum's first ever campus wide exhibition based on one material, Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Every department in the Museum is involved from Design to Photography. In Director Christoph Heinrich's words, “Don't think pots”. The entire Summer is dedicated to activities and demonstrations surrounding the main exhibition. Activities include the Museum's Mud Studio where young and old can get hands on with clay as well as weekend demonstrations throughout the Summer. This weekend artist Bob Smith was on hand to perform Raku firing, an intense process that yields beautiful glazes, on the plaza in front of the Hamilt...Read more
Illiterate Presents - Denver Does Denver August 28, 2010
ILLITERATE PRESENTS Denver Does Denver 2010 An Event of Creative Promiscuity : : Bands DO Bands! Artists DO Artists! SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 2 VENUES | 20+ BANDS | 20+ ARTISTS @ THE MEADOWLARK (2701 Larimer) @ THE FLOBOTS.ORG COMMUNITY SPACE (2705 Larimer) ART AUCTION :: 6PM - 11PM MUSIC :: 8PM - 2AM + A BACKDOOR BBQ! $8 TICKETS BEFORE AUGUST 27 (purchase tickets online here) $12 DAY OF EVENT AT THE DOOR MUSIC LINEUP THE FLOBOTS || HOUSES || ESME PATTERSON (OF PAPER BIRD) || BIG LIL' (LILLY SCOTT & COLE RUDY) || THE LEGENDARY RIVER DRIFTERS | LUMINEERS || PINK HAWKS || SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT || HUNTER DRAGON || OBLIO'S ARROW || MARRIED IN BE...Read more
The Street Art Revolution
With a style similar to cave painting, talented street artists embrace the thoughts of a new generation by painting the walls of our Denver metropolis. With phrases like “I was here”, “These are the words that were on my mind”, and “This is what I cared about”, the works express what fills the minds of artists who unveil their sketches onto the drab walls of urban settings in order to transform those featureless landscapes into colorful expressions. Most are written so that one can read them without much attention or practice, but because the trend in street art is to twist the alphabet into its own language, many pieces a...Read more
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The Possibility of a Penis Still Makes People Blush
If you've been by the Highland Bridge in Denver in the last six months then you're already familiar with the artwork of John McEnroe. It is there in a cement alcove at the base of the bridge that the Denver artist's most well known and controversial sculpture stands erect: a towering mound of glow in the dark, red plastic pods. Titled National Velvet, the public piece has ellicited both ecstactic reviews and heavy breathing from a number of conservatives in the city who are bothered by the work's phallic connotations. This may seem shocking considering the rich history of monuments to the male reproductive organ, but one need only listen to this local radio broadcast to see how h...Read more
Is Richard Patterson a Big Baby About to Talk
The guilty giggle of a boy who in an instant squeezed an entire case of paint tubes onto his favorite action figure mingles with the distilled silence of a master painter at work for hours throughout Richard Patterson's paintings. The process for these brightly photorealistic, globs of colored brush strokes, begins with Patterson smothering a kiche figurine in paint, photographing it, and then rendering a painting from the image: a reproduction of a reproduction of a reproduction, each time utilizing a different medium to reinterpret the last. Patterson, an alumnus of Goldsmith college in London and member of the loosely affiliated group of beloved misfit artists, the YBA's (Young Brit...Read more
Illiterate Model on Americas Next Top Model
18 year old, Lousiville, Colorado native, Nicole Fox, who modeled in Illiterate's Love to Hate/ Hate to Love event at Red Line back in February, is now competing on America's Next Top Model! (Above) Nicole modeling a Pam Gray design at Illiterate's Love to Hate/ Hate to Love event photo courtesy Rachel Paton Nicole modeling on America's Next Top Model Nicole's rise to the televised stage occurred quickly following her Illiterate debut (the show began shooting in Spring), and despite the fact that, as she mentions in her Top Model interview, she's brand new to modeling, her inexperience in the fashion industry shows little in photographs and on the runway...Read more
Denver Does Denver Recorded!
Thanks to Lance over at The Flat Response, a majority of the music from Denver Does Denver, illiterate's night of song swapping at Old Curtis St. and Bar Bar back on June 6 , is now available for your listening pleasure. Re-live almost all of the magical madness here. My personal highlights included: 1. The Legendary River Drifters unexpectedly jerking a heart string or two with Onemana's Cummdumpster 2. Safeboating is No Accident's old timey jangle of Pictureplane's neon dance anthem Day Glowed 3. Doo Crowder, the mild mannered songsmith channeling the fire for Pirate Signal's Yonnas 4. Ian Cooke crooning Rachel Pollard's love lament the Sea Surged 5. The Pink Hawks' hau...Read more