The Friday Experience: Imaginary Gardens – Sharon Weinberg
Art is a glorious journey through an artist’s soul; they are left naked, vulnerable to the eye of the beholder to gaze upon their work at an art exhibit. Sharon Weinberg is inviting you, the audience, to take this journey, with her by your side this Saturday, May 18th. “My current show is called...
Calling All Artists: 1st Annual Cheesman Park Art Fest
Calling All Artists! After 25 years of quality shows and many accolades, Rio Grande Festivals is coming to Denver this July 27 & 28, 2013! The 1st Annual Cheesman Park Art Fest With the artist deadline quickly approaching, all artists and craftsmen are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. Born from Rio...
The Friday Experience: Jennifer Gudgel Getson – Pastels
From across the room, your eyes are fooled into believing that you are gazing upon a colorful photograph, yet upon closer examination, there is softness, a blending of color from sky to prairie so realistic, it is art that only a true artisan can create. Jennifer Gudgel Getson is one such artist that takes her...
The Friday Experience: Sen Nguyen and Bridging Hope Gallery
Artistic expressions can blossom from a small bud into an impressive colorful orchid, or come to those as simply as the daily sunrise, yet each sunrise is a work of art. Such is the case with Sen Nguyen, artist and founder of Bridging Hope Gallery located on Tennyson Street. “I remember the expression...
Maze-ing: Warren Stokes
On an icy Denver evening in the dead of winter, I was welcomed into the warm and bustling home of an artist named Warren Stokes. As his three boys sat around eating dinner, the boys’ mother—Stokes’ college sweetheart—apologized for their house not being tidy. She mentioned that they would be moving at the end of...
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...
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,...
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....
L’artiste: Outside the Box Opening Reception at Paris on the Platte
Most people would classify photography as a form of realism; images with characteristics that are mostly manipulated by light and a high quality lens. For Nathan Mahaffey and Malia Shields, the photo is just the beginning. Hanging at Paris on the Platte is a collection of photography mixed with literature, digital manipulation, and surrealism. Nathan,...
Highbrow/lowbrow: J’adore Amour
Highbrow/Lowbrow: A weekly update on Denver culture from deliciously fancy to wonderfully mundane STATUS: Highbrow FILM: Amour, Chez Artiste My father considers himself somewhat of a cinema aficionado. We both share a deep love of films and often head to the Chez Artiste on a Sunday morning for the latest art film du jour. When...
Undubbed Unveils Glow Art: “When the Lights Go Out”
Well, it’s First Friday again and today Things That Glow (everyone’s favorite rave accessory store) is opening its doors to the public with an offering far more curious than flow toys and LEDs. Artist, Undubbed, has slowly been making a name for herself in Denver over the past few years, starting off as an independent...
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