Potter | Maier
February 3-26, Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo St., Denver
Showing Phillip Potter and Heather Doyle Maier.
Gallery hours: Friday 7-10pm | Saturday & Sunday 1-5pm
Go to edgeart.org for more information or call 303.477.7173

icebreaker3
February 3-25, Ice Cube Gallery, 3320 Walnut St., Denver
icebreaker3 is the tird annual exhibition of the finest artists living and working in Colorado. Juried by Gwen Chanzit.
Gallery hours: Fridays Noon-9, Saturdays Noon-5.
Go to icecubegallery.com for more information or call 303.292.1822.

Guilty Pleasures
February 2-26, Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
Annual Juried Show, juror William Biety.
Gallery hours: Thursday Noon-5pm, Friday Noon-9pm, Saturday Noon-5pm, Sunday 1-4pm
Visit Spark Gallery for more information or call 720.889.2200.

NCAR Community Art Program
Galleries 1 & 2: February 1-March 31, NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder
Gallery 1: Aurelius Rune Removed from context within the rest of the world, Aurelius Rune's photographic subjects are meditations unto themselves. The bridge goes to nowhere and the black thistles reach forever to the untouchable sun. Most of what you see in Rune's exhibit are black and white prints stretched on canvas. Some of the photos have blue and yellow tones in them. All of the artworks are original prints with specific and intentional edits to show isolation. By removing certain elements from the background of these images, the artist presents the subject in a distilled and purified form. Each image exudes a meditative quality and imparts a sense of simplicity.
Gallery 2: Artist Ashley Williams studied studio art and art history at the University of Virginia. After graduation, she received the Aunspaugh Fellowship to continue her work at UVA for one year. She is currently completing an MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in addition to teaching classes in painting and drawing. Icebergs contain iron-rich minerals. When the ice melts, these minerals are released, enriching the surrounding water and attracting phytoplankton, jellyfish, and krill, creating what Williams imagines to be an abundant garden. As the icebergs drift into warmer waters, they drag these transient ecosystems along with them.
Both galleries are located in the cafeteria of the Mesa Lab at NCAR. Hours: M-F 8am-5pm, Sat-Sun-holidays 9am-4pm. Details or call 303.497.2408.

Doubek | Mobley | Knaus
January 27-February 12, Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, 3655 Navajo St., Denver
Showing Matt Doubek & Sam Mobley and Kathy Knaus.
Gallery hours: Fridays 6-10pm; Sat. & Sun. Noon-5pm.
Go to Pirate: Contemporary Art for more information or call 303.458.6058.

Art Without Illusion | Flux | The Art of Place
January 27-April 2, Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood
Art Without Illusion, North Gallery, January 27-April 2. This exhibit features the non-objective: art that is not representational. Art that contains no recognizable figures or objects. Art that has no intentional derivation from any concrete matter.  Each artist selected for this exhibit uses the essential properties of painting to create specific visual environments without illusion: color, line, rhythm, space, shadow and light.
Flux: Jessica Loving, Mezzanine Gallery, January 27-April 2. Flux focuses on the kinetic nature that traces a path throughout each composition. These large mixed-media paintings involve developed textures paired with a layering of complex color. All pieces are set alongside a bare white panel, which serves as the grounding point of the work. Flux in its most elemental form serves as a study of bold movement as well as the simplicity of the line. Jessica Loving is a Colorado-based artist who draws inspiration from her environment.
The Art of Place, James J. Richey Gallery, January 27-March 30. Colorado pastel artists return to their favorite places. There is something compelling in these places about the light, the view, the way it draws you in, that special feeling that needs to be captured. Pastels are a unique painting medium in that the colors are mixed on the paper by overlaying or blending, rather than on a palette. This makes pastels a perfect medium to capture a unique vista.
Spirit of Lakewood, Lakewood's Heritage Center Visitor Center Gallery, ongoing. Learn more about the history of Lakewood, Colorado’s fourth largest city, by visiting this permanent exhibit that explores Lakewood’s development from the late 19th century through the City’s incorporation in 1969. Free Admission.
Go to lakewood.org/exhibits for more information or call 303.987.7877.

Wyzenbeek | Sanderson
January 26-February 12, CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
Showing Dave Wyzenbeek and Sara Sanderson
Gallery hours: Thursday Noon-6pm, Friday Noon-9pm, Saturday Noon-6pm, Sunday 1-4pm.
Visit Core New Art Space for more details or call 303.297.8428.

Denver's Art District on Santa Fe Drive's
Best of 2011
January 20-March 10, The Event Gallery at 910Arts, 910 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
The Art District on Santa Fe, Best of 2011 is an award program that recognizes artists, galleries, events, curators and exhibitions shown throughout the year in commercial galleries, studios and co-ops within the Art District on Santa Fe.
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pm or by appointment, 1st & 3rd Fridays open noon til 9pm (910Arts Bar open later).
Go to 910arts.com for more information or call 303.815.1779.

zen-shine | juxta-postions
January 20-February 11, Sync Gallery, 878-1 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
zen-shine by Sandy Jackson uses the symbol for Zen, "enso" which is a simple black circle which may or may not have a single opening. Closed, it represents the universe as a whole where everything is connected. One opening means that nothing is perfect and we shouldn't strive for perfection but allow the universe to be as it is.
juxta-positions by Jen Zielisnsk explores a subjective view of life in a surrealistic way.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm; Saturday Noon-4pm, 1st & 3rd Fridays open til 9pm.
Go to syncgallery.org for more information or call 303.458.6058.

Recalcitrant Mimesis
January 20-February 18, David B. Smith Gallery, 1543 A Wazee St., Denver
Liz Miller's mixed media installations and drawings recontextualize shapes, signs and symbols from disparate historical and contemporary images to create abstract fictions. Existing forms from a multitude of sources are co-opted, altered, spliced and recombined, and through this process, the shapes lose their real-world connotations, adopt hybrid identities, and take on fictitious roles. The use of felt, foam and other tactile materials further complicates the question of source, masking the identity of the forms, while allowing them to inhabit two-dimensional and sculptural space.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday: Noon-6pm or by appointment.
Go to davidbsmithgallery.com for more information or call 303.893.4234.

Rematerialization/Rememory | Expansions
January 20-March 3, Lincoln Center Gallery, 417 W. Magnolia., Ft. Collins
Rematerialization/Rememory: Taiwan-born artist Jan-Ru Wans' colorful and unique multi-layered fiber constructions express the relationship between individual cultural tensions and universal balance and harmony experienced by all humanity. Originally a fashion designer, Jan-Ru Wan began a journey toward the fine arts as a way to express deeper, more universal ideas. Wan's education in Taoism and Buddhism have deeply influenced her world view, leading her to seek the essential human being through her art.
Expansions: Sometimes spare and delicate, others abundant and vibrant, Bonnie Lebesch's paintings express things that are mysterious yet resonant. In the artist's words, "I am moved to paint for the pleasure and spiritual experience, working in an organic and spontaneous way that expresses the moment. In this right-brain state, I might attempt to direct the painting towards a specific goal, but rarely does the image end up where I might expect."
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 11am-3pm.
Visit Lincoln Center Exhibits for more information or call 970.221.6735.

Blood Roses: a cycle of souls
January 20-February 25, Ironton Studios and Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place, Denver
Brenda Stumpf will present seven new mixed media paintings in an exhibition titled Blood Roses: a cycle of souls. In this new series of work Stumpf delivers a deluge of red soaked encrusted objects and material, onto surfaces where the death and rebirth of the feminine are invoked.
The provocative subjects Stumpf exhumes are the victims of Jack the Ripper, women who were tortured and killed during the Inquisitions, and baby girls of female infanticide. Almost as a salve, each of the seven paintings is paired and caressed with a poem by Pablo Neruda.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm | Saturday Noon-4pm
Go to irontonstudios.com for more information or call 303.297.8626

Portraits of the Prairie | Value Added | Loveland Art Studio Tour Artists
January 14-April 1, Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. (corner of Fifth & Lincoln), Downtown Loveland
Main Gallery, January 14-April 1: It is often called “Catherland” – Webster County, Nebraska, where the novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of European immigrants on the prairie. Richard Schilling, with his watercolor paintings and ink sketches, transports us to that land, to scenes that might have influenced Cather, but as they appear today. The exhibit features watercolor paintings and ink sketches by Richard Schilling, from his book of the same title, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Schilling, with a deep appreciation for Cather, has the ability to imbue the landscape with the same poetic richness also found in her writings. His artwork brings this evocative land to life – painfully beautiful depictions of a storied place.
Green Room, December 10-March 25: Jon Rietfors: Value Added. Glenwood Springs artist Jon Rietfors brings his taste for neo-pop to the Loveland Museum/Gallery. Contrasting the environment with the things we create from it, the artist gives packaging elements and other disposable items a new “given value” in his Colorado landscapes.
Foote Gallery, November 19-February 5: Portrait of the Artist. A community exhibit inspired by the portraiture of Chuck Close, artists will display portraits of themselves or their fellow artists. Juried by Kyle MacMillan, Arts Writer for The Denver Post, the intent of this exhibit is to explore a wide variety of methods and mediums applied to portraiture, while highlighting the quality artistic offerings available within our front-range communities.
Visit Loveland Museum & Gallery/exhibits for more details or call 970.962.2410.

Group Show
January 13-February 18, Walker Fine Art, 300 West 11th Ave, #A, Denver
Featuring artists Udo Nöger, Kazu Oba, Don Quade, Angela Beloian Katrin Möller, Mark Castator, Sally Stockhold, Mark Penner-Howell, David Agee, Karen Roehl, Eric Michael Corrigan.
Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11am-6pm, First Friday 6-8pm.
Visit Walker Fine Art for more details or call 303.355.8955.

Emerging Artists
January 6-February 4, Abecedarian Gallery, 910 Santa Fe Drive, #101, Denver
Each January, Abecedarian Gallery promotes the work of student and emerging artists. This year, exhibiting in the main gallery is the work of two emerging artists, Andrea Crane and Danielle Vogel. In the Reading Room, Denver newcomer Max Maddox is exhibiting.
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 1-5pm, First & Third Friday 1-8pm.
Visit Abecedarian Gallery for more details or call 303.340.2110.

Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties
January 6-February 29, The Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver
With her new Honeywell Pentax camera in hand while traveling with The Kingston Trio, Lisa Law captured the genesis of a new era. Backstage with acts like The Beatles and The Byrds; taking promotional photographs of Janis Joplin; at home making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan, Lisa’s passion for photography grew into a profession.
Visit Byers-Evans House Gallery for more information or call 303.620.4933.

Chihuly Venetians
December 14-March 18, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Arts, 201 South College Avenue, Fort Collins
Main Gallery: There are few contemporary artists whose names are as synonymous with the medium in which they work as Dale Chihuly. Chihuly is widely regarded as the most innovative glass artist working today. Active since the 1960's, Chihuly is credited as a major contributor to the development of the American Studio Glass Movement, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012.
Featured in this exhibition are works from Chihuly's Venetians series, which are intricately formed and brilliantly colored glassworks inspired by art deco Venetian glass from the 1920's and 1930's. Included in the exhibition is a magnificent 5-part chandelier that has two components hanging from the ceiling and 3 that come up from the floor. The Venetians were begun in July, 1988 with Lino Tagliapietra and Rich Royal as gaffers.
A number of Chihuly's drawings will also be on exhibition, that serve as independent works of art and "blueprints" to communicate and inspire his glassblowers to bring his designs to life and to improvise on the themes he created.
Visit fcmoca.org for more information or call 970.482.2787.

Look Up and Stay in Touch | Huma Bhabha
December 9-February 5, 2012, Aspen Art Museum, 590 North Mill Street, Aspen
Look Up and Stay in Touch is the final body of work in artist Slater Bradley’s long-term doppelgänger project. Since 1999, Bradley has been collaborating with Benjamin Brock, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the artist, in a series of works that explore the psychologically charged space between the self and one's double, or doppelgänger. The works featured in Look Up and Stay in Touch are produced in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, the director of photography for the film Dark Blood, an unreleased 1993 film starring River Phoenix that was in production during the time of Phoenix’s death.
Artist Huma Bhabha has become well known for her visceral, assemblage-based sculptures. Built of wood scraps, Styrofoam, wire, clay, and other cast-off material, Bhabha’s sculptures are exclusively figurative and often take the form of conventional classical genres like portrait busts and walking and reclining figures. Bhabha describes her sculptures as “characters” that though their materiality, rough construction, and references to the history of sculpture become rich screens for projections of psychological depth.
Go to www.aspenartmuseum.org for more details or call 970.925.8050.

Art and the Animal
November 19-February 20, Wildlife Experience, 10035 South Peoria (Lincoln Ave. & Peoria St.), Parker
This year marks the final installation of Art and the Animal at The Wildlife Experience. This exhibit includes 45 paintings and 18 sculptures and features 15 Colorado artists. All of the artwork will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefitting The Wildlife Experience. Full color catalogues of the exhibition can be purchased at the BOAtique Gift Store.
HeART of Africa permanent collection. Encourages visitors to examine wildlife art more intently; to consider the content, artist's message and their own cognitive and emotional respones to the artwork.
Nurturing Nature, Growing Young Colorado Artists. January 10-March 4, student artwork exhibit, Aspen Academy and Cottonwood Preschool.
Go to Wildlife Experience for more details or call 720.488.3300.

Seasons | Contrast and Drama | Southern Colorado Watercolor Society
October 16-February 5, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Avenue, Pueblo
Seasons, Regional Gallery, Oct. 29-Feb. 5. By Marty Brens.
Contrast and Drama, Level 2 Foyer, Oct. 29-Feb. 5. Photography by Allan McConnell.
Southern Colorado Watercolor Society, Level 3 Foyer, Oct. 29-Feb. 5. Signature members.
Visit Sangre de Cristo Arts or call 719.295.7200 for more information.

Light Supply | Shared Joys and Sorrows | Color of Sound
June 25-February 25, 2012, The Museum of Outdoor Arts, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Suite 2-230, Englewood
Light Supply. Incorporating the talents of multiple artists working with light and sound featuring local and nation artists and a variety of works ranging from light sculpture and projections, to immersive indoor and outdoor light environments. Will also include an outdoor installation in the Englewood sculpture garden corridor.
Shared Joys and Sorrows. A photographic exhibition produced by Richard and Michele Steckel showcasing their work across the globe with the Milestones Project, an endeavor forcused on common humanity and social justice.
Color of Sound. 16 musical works exploring and evocative of color.
Visit moaonline.org for more details or call 303.806.0444.

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