Couture Décor: ‘Creative Living’ Brings Cool Back to Outdoor Living
Pink flamingos, lawn gnomes, gazing balls, toilet flower pots (real classy)—this is what al fresco living used to mean: pure kitsch. Thankfully, exterior décor has since evolved. Now your outdoor living space—whether a loft balcony or a suburban lawn—can be just as contemporary as your domicile, and Creative Living, a Denver-based “lifestyle gallery,” can help...
L’artiste: How Pop Culture Saved an Artist’s Career
In a city full of so many unique artists, how does one stand out these days? For Derick Kurtz, it’s all about enthusiasm and determination. Derick is a Boulder, CO artist with a lot of drive and a lot of personality. He’s been creating art since he was young and believes art plays a major...
The Friday Experience: Lapis Gallery/Design and Build Celebrates 15 Years
This April 5th First Friday, Lapis Gallery/Design and Build celebrates their 15th year at their Tennyson Street location, offering a little something for everyone. While the purpose and business direction has seemed clear from the beginning, it took time to metamorphosis into the business they are today. During the mid to late 1980’s...
L’artiste: From Messy Art to a Work of Art
Jessica Wright, a mother of three, is a 30 year practicing artist with a style as unique as she is. Jessica is one of my favorite artists in Denver, because not only is she creative, she’s extremely active in the community. If she’s not doing yoga or hanging out with her kids, she’s likely to...
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The O’Keeffe Experience
Highbrow/Lowbrow: A weekly update on Denver culture from deliciously fancy to wonderfully mundane STATUS: Highbrow WHAT: “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land” The past few years I have watched Denver’s art scene flourish. Santa Fe Drive galleries are packed to their historic rafters for First Friday Art Walks, showcasing local and upcoming...
Beauty Is Pain: The Stilett“O” Series by Omar Angel Perez
High heels, pumps, stilettos, sadistic torture devices—whatever your perspective about the high heel shoe—love them or hate them—women and men have been falling head over heels (most often literally) for this aptly named shoe, eponymous for the stiletto dagger, since the 16th century royal court. Fashions oscillate between extremes and Houston-based artisan Omar Angel Perez,...
Flow: Lyudmila Agrich
While the stereotype of a Russian may be cold and harsh, Lyudmila Agrich is anything but. In fact, the only part of the 52-year-old Russian artist that does fit the typecast is her soft lilting accent. “Usually, I just talk too much. I spill more than I should,” she says, laughing. And talk and spill...
48 Hours in Austin: SXSW
Friday, March 15th 1 pm: No sign of Snoop Lion, Grumpy Cat or Shaq Onward to Disneyland for music fans, also known as South by Southwest. Rented some beat-up cruisers and headed to the Rolling Stone Rock Room, at a quaint venue with lineups curated by Rolling Stone editors. Caught second half of rock/soul...
The Friday Experience: The Gallery Exchange
Not everyone has to have a background in the arts to have a passion for the arts. Such is the case with entrepreneur, Kay Wilson, owner and creator of The Gallery Exchange. Forget what you thought about the on-line art gallery, it’s flat, stale way of viewing artwork. Wilson has taken on the old model...
The Friday Experience: Robert Davis Garner
As we plod through our daily lives, we may or may not notice the subtle influences that direct our path. It is those of us with the creative eye that expose and sifts through those influences to create works of art. It is through these daily influences that Robert Davis Garner takes his audience on...
L’artiste: A Woman’s Eye for the Human Body
One of the greatest works of art ever created was the human body. For centuries, photographers have captured the beauty of the naked body displaying it in fine art galleries and glamour magazines. Edward Weston, an influential nude photographer from the 1920’s, once said, “The photographer’s most important and likewise most difficult task is not...
Couture Décor: 7 Tips to Buying Art for Your Home
There are three types of people who amble into art galleries: those who are educated about art, those who are not, and those who pretend to be. I do not know about you, but I fit into the second category. I know so little I would not even attempt to feign being an art connoisseur....
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