Illiterate Opening This Friday: Down With The Sickness Too

Down With The Sickness Too infects Illiterate with a group of Denver's leading up-and-coming art misfits. Curated in conjunction with Travis Egedy, one of the founders and residents of Rhinoceropolis, a DIY breeding ground for radical young artists, this exhibit captures a unique segment of Denver's progressive cultural landscape.Including works in various media, the exhibition explores cohesion in chaos. The follow up exhibit to the Down With The Sickness show over a year ago, artists associated in various ways with a creative epicenter on the edge, express their transgressive reactions to the current order seen as contaminated and polluting, while simultaneously sharing in a collec...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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tags: CMYK+RGB Matthew Novak Ferren Gipson Mellissa May Travis Egedy Tyler Snow
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Big First Friday!

If you're in Denver tonight, bring a stopwatch something motorized, because there's almost too many art shows to take in on one evening--Almost. By local, here's the breakdown. Rhino District Visionary illustrator Alex Pardee shows his creepy cute creatures at Andenken which includes a site specific installation and a host of ghoulish inkings. Head over to Hinterland to check out Down With The Sickness, a group exhibit exploring the neon now as embodied by Buddy Croissant, Travis Egedy, Sterling Crisping, Justin Beard and Drew Englander. As if he wasn't busy enough releasing a new album this week, and curating the Hinterland show, Egedy and his ...Read more
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tags: First Friday Art Alex Pardee Travis Egedy Sterling Crispin Justin Beard Buddy Croissant Matthew McConnell Andenken Vertigo Rhinoceropolis Composition Hinterland
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Down With the Sickness! Tonight!

Less than two hours from now (7PM) Down With The Sickness opens at Hinterland gallery, an exhibit featuring the paintings, sculpture, new media, and performances of a number of Illiterate contributors, including Justin Beard, Milton Croissant III, Sterling Crispin, Travis Egedy, and Drew Englander. "Down With the Sickness is a mystical and transgressive collection of artworks, new media, and performances from a group of Denver's leading up and coming art misfits and radicals. Explorations of the body, gender, identity, reality, and alternate states of consciousness are all licked and twisted in a fantastic cohesiveness that reflects aspects of our current cultural desires an...Read more
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tags: Down With The Sickness Milton Croissant III Sterling Crispin Travis Egedy Drew Englander Justin Beard Hinterland
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