January 19 - March 26, 2023
The intersection between science and creative experimentation.
Explore the ways that fourteen contemporary artists use scientific concepts, datasets, research, and developments to inform their creative work. Art + Science portrays artistic practice and scientific discovery in new ways, broadening the understanding of both as visitors experience concepts in science through the unique voice of regional artists.
January 19 - March 26, 2023
Paleo-artist Gary Staab is renowned for his accurate and life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and prehistoric life models that are centerpieces of natural history museum collections across the globe.
This process-based exhibition blurs the lines of artist, scientist, researcher, and craftsman. Journey through Staab's conception, research, scientific collaboration, models, molds, casting, and finishing as he creates full-scale recreations of some of Earth's most mysterious and ancient species.
April 7 - May 7, 2023
Wheatridge High School graduate Wendy Kowynia explores line and form through the use of thread and a loom, weaving intricate fiber works that are uniquely folded and manipulated. Kowynia’s textiles are created using specialized Japanese yarns of linen, paper, and silk, and are colored using natural dyes like indigo, sumi ink, walnut ink, and soymilk.
After carefully laying each thread in delicate lines, Kowynia bends the textile into gossamery structures that are both strong and elegant. This exhibition speaks to the iterative nature of the weaving process and brings awareness and intention to the laying in of each thread.
April 7 - May 7,2023
A mainstay in Arvada Center exhibitions for over 10 years, Jeffco artist Mark Bueno mixes a dynamic array of visual references, mediums, techniques, concepts, and influences into several striking bodies of work. This solo exhibition presents several of Bueno’s distinct bodies of work, fusing together perceptions of beauty, banality, mythology, spirituality, paranormality, and pop culture.
Though the materials and subject matter changes from series to series, all of his artworks broadcast a bold exuberance for life and holds something undeniably Bueno.
June 7 - August 27, 2023
What is a drawing? In this juried group exhibition, the Arvada Center Galleries invited contemporary Colorado artists to submit works that celebrate the traditional roots of drawing and challenge preconceived definitions of drawing through explorations in rendering, mark-making, gesture, abstraction, realism, form, medium, and beyond. With 77 works from 71 artists, Big Draw Colorado illustrates the vast world of drawing across the state.
June 8 - August 27, 2023
"The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings."
- Southwest Contemporary Magazine
Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explores the limits of spatial memory through a blend of traditional drawing mediums (graphite, ink, paper) with unique materials and techniques (specialty Japanese tape installed directly onto the gallery wall) to create abstracted renderings of space. Influenced by minimalism, geometry, brutalism, and low-poly art, Bonilla’s works examine the concept of place through landscape and architecture.
June 8 - August 27, 2023
Pulling from real-world references like the landscape, still lifes, nature, and the human figure, Drawn: from the Source features the work of seven Colorado artists who use drawing mediums and techniques to capture and interpret the interconnected beauty of the objects, environments, and relationships around us
September 12 -November 14, 2023
Respected Colorado artist Emilio Lobato was born in San Pablo, a small farming town in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado. Lobato credits the region’s history of creativity, necessity, and spirituality as major inspirations in his work. A Mi Manera, or My Way, is a survey of Lobato’s work beginning in 1982. Lobato’s work weaves together lifelong themes of loneliness, isolation, tradition, and culture, using abstraction to reduce his subject to its basic elements.
September 12- November 14, 2023
Southern Colorado's unique history, scenery, and culture has been a source of imagery and introspection for centuries. This group exhibition features contemporary artists living within the 37th parallel, capturing a wide swath of Colorado's Southernmost cities. Works are a variety of medium and type, all celebrating the impact this region has on artists.
January 20 - March 27, 2022
Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected.
Jurors:
Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Ellamaria Ray, Artist/Anthropologist, Professor of Africana Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Collin Parson, Director of Galleries and Curator, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
April 8 - May 8, 2022
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy began her artistic career at the Arvada Center as part of the Jeffco High School Art Exhibition while attending Green Mountain High School in the 90s. In the thirty years since her artistic debut, Murphy has developed an impressive career as an artist known for collaborating with creatures like snails, bees, and beetles to create a sprawling body of work deeply rooted in the natural world.
Alongside her robust studio practice, Murphy has spent her life building community and DIY gallery spaces and advocating for artists. Her work is research-driven and science-based, and it focuses on insect extinction, mutation, climate change, and biophilia.
Murphy is currently a resource artist at RedLine Denver and recently completed an installation at Meow Wolf’s Denver location Convergence Station and is a past recipient of Westword’s Mastermind Award. Murphy’s work has exhibited in past Arvada Center exhibitions such as Paper.Works, Wood.Works, and the Fine Art Market.
April 8 - May 8, 2022
Dakota Ridge High School teacher and Pomona High School alumni Pamela Webb uses a variety of ancient metallurgical and hand-fabrication techniques to create organic wearable art and large sculptural instruments. Inspired by nature, science, and architecture, Webb’s work is created to fit the landscape of the body.
Webb’s one-of-a-kind pieces are a far cry from the dirty, wasteful processes responsible for mass-produced, fast-fashion items. Instead, techniques like forging, sawing, forming, lost wax casting, and filing create the backbone of Webb’s fabrication practice. The resulting works are organic, custom-formed wearable sculptures that create a sense of intimate connection between the wearer and the work.
Long hailed as an innovative and fun collaborator in Denver’s performance scene throughout the 80s and 90s, Webb forged relationships in the region through creative group projects and collective artworks. Webb recently finished up an installation at Denver’s Meow Wolf Convergence Station and was included in past exhibitions at the Arvada Center such as Art of the State, Blurring the Line, and the Fine Art Market.
January 21 - April 25, 2021 Main and Upper Galleries. This material-based exhibition involved everything WOOD. Photos by Wes Magyar.
January 21 - April 25, 2021, Theatre Gallery. For over 50 years, Colorado artist Carley Warren has created art made of wood that explores the intersection between the natural and the man-made. Photos by Wes Magyar.
September 17 - November 14, 2021.
September 17 - November 14, 2021
January 16 - March 29, 2020
The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition was open to artists residing within a 528.0-mile radius of Denver, Colorado. The number 528.0 refers to Denver’s altitude and status as the Mile High City (5,280 feet).
January 16 - March 29, 2020
An exhibition of print educators from institutions of higher education from across the state of Colorado with works that range in style, processes, and techniques.
January 18 - April 1, 2018
As part of in SITu, the Victory sculptures are made from chairs and chair parts.
January 18 - April 1, 2018
in si·tu
adverb & adjective
in its original place.
"mosaics and frescoes have been left in situ"
in position
A prevalent element all artist studios have in common is a chair. No matter the type, style, or medium of work created by the artist, the studio chair is an important tool for their creative practice. In this exhibition, artwork by twenty nine artists can be viewed while sitting in the artist’s studio chair, which will be situated in front of their work. While viewing artwork from the artist’s own studio chair, visitors can ponder each piece and hopefully gain a glimpse of the artist’s vision.
January 18 - April 1, 2018
50 of IKEA’s IVAR chair were generously donated by IKEA Centennial for artists to transform. These wooden chairs have been turned into sculptures, art objects, and re-imagined functional chairs, and will all be offered for auction throughout the duration of the exhibition.
January 18 - April 1, 2018
The Theatre Gallery will feature a selection of designer chairs from Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver. See a display of wide-ranging chairs from functional to sculptural, sleek and modern to audacious by designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright and Verner Panton.
Main Gallery
Artists at work: May 29 - June 24
Murals on View through August 26
Working on blank panels hung in all three Arvada Center galleries, artists created murals in a variety of styles and processes. Working on site at the Arvada Center as artist schedules allow, visitors were able to see murals develop over a weekend, a week, or even a month.
Upper Gallery
Artists at work: May 29 - June 24
Murals on View through August 26
Working on blank panels hung in all three Arvada Center galleries, artists created murals in a variety of styles and processes. Working on site at the Arvada Center as artist schedules allow, visitors were able to see murals develop over a weekend, a week, or even a month.
Theatre Gallery
Artists at work: May 29 - June 24
Murals on View through August 26
Working on blank panels hung in all three Arvada Center galleries, artists created murals in a variety of styles and processes. Working on site at the Arvada Center as artist schedules allow, visitors were able to see murals develop over a weekend, a week, or even a month.
September 13 - November 11, 2018
Opening Reception: September 13, 6-9 p.m. - Free and open to the public
1965-Present
The Arvada Center is proud to present a career retrospective by acclaimed Boulder painter Virginia Maitland. Maitland, long considered one of the region’s premier abstract colorists is featured in a 53-year retrospective, highlighting the evolution and determination of her art practice.
Maitland’s prolific career will be explored with over 45 artworks along with other archive materials from her prolific career, starting in 1965. She incorporates color, light, and nature into her large-scale paintings. Her color fields are an amalgamation of vibrant hues, composition, and translucent paint layers. To achieve this, Maitland applies at least 15-20 layers of poured paint while shifting the canvas, and then uses minimal brush work to define certain areas.
Upper Gallery - September 13 - November 11, 2018
Opening Reception: September 13, 6-9 p.m. - Free and open to the public
Participating Artists:
Patricia Aaron
Jennifer Ivanovic
Sue Oehme
Jodi Stuart
Connected by Color explores color’s limitless possibilities through the work of four artists. Aaron works in encaustic, Ivanovic pours acrylic paint straight into her composition, Oehme is a master printmaker, and Stuart creates ethereal sculptures using 3D printing pens. Each of these artists take vastly different approaches to color to expose its many different facets.
September 13 - December 23, 2018
Laura Merage’s soft sculpture installation takes over the Arvada Center’s Theatre Gallery with vibrations of color. The title, Nausy Nausy, is meant to evoke the words we coo to children when they pet an animal or touch something fragile, to be nice, to be gentle, to be considerate. This installation will flow from the walls to the floor and feature a few huggable pillow and comfortable seats so visitors can immerse themselves in plush color.
September 13 - November 11, 2018
Throughout the summer, artists Wes Magyar and Jonathan Saiz created one-of-a-kind portraits of the people and things Arvada Center patrons love most. Experience the colorful culmination of the summer’s pop-up.
June 1 - August 20, 2017
Paper.Works includes the works of twenty artists who use paper as their artistic medium. From cast paper to cut paper, folded paper to handmade paper, this exhibition will feature a wide range of works that explore the versatitility of the medium.
June 1 - August 6, 2017
Stan Meyer creates flat-woven artworks out of roofing felt paper, utilizing inspiration for patterns from Celtic, Maori, and various other aboriginal cultures., combined with patterns found in nature or contemporary architecture. His large-scale wall works are unique and combine artistic aesthetic reminiscent of the abstract expressionists with the handmade technique of the craftspeople.
This exhibition features the works of Jane Braley, Ken Elliott, Lynn Heitler, Mark Lunning, and Amy Metier - printmakers who utilize the technique of chine-collé in various ways. Chine-collé is a printing process that transfers a print onto both a support surface as well as thinner, more delicate papers which become part of the printed image.
January 19 - March 26, 2017
Double Exposure features 13 artists working in both photography and video. The subject matter and style of each artist ranges from documentary to conceptual, and explores the fact that these two media, photography and video, oftern help an artist develop their wider practice and bodies of work, as well as offer a glimpse into the versatility that many artists possess.
This exhibition features the works by esteemed photographer James Milmoe whose career spans nearly 70 years. Milmoe works in various series of phot9ographs, compiling a cohesive yet vast oeuvre. In all of his endeavors, Milmoe emphazizes the importance of stopping to look, and then really seeing the subject matter.
A presentation of abstract paintings by former Jefferson County school teacher Linda Scholes.
January 21 - March 27, 2016
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is proud to present Art of the State 2016. This juried exhibition will showcase the quality, depth, and diversity of Colorado artists. Art of the State 2016 is the follow up to the critically acclaimed Art of the State: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado held in 2013. In its second iteration, Art of the State 2016 garnered 1,434 entries from 511 artists. Jurors Gwen Chanzit, Michael Chavez, and Collin Parson selected 148 works by 124 artists to represent art in Colorado being created by both emerging and established artists. The call for entry was open to all Colorado artists in all media. All three of the Arvada Center’s galleries, over 10,000 square feet, will be devoted to this celebration of art in Colorado.
Awards will be presented at the opening reception for Best in Show, 2nd and 3rd place, five Artistic Excellence Awards, as well as special awards from arts institutions throughout the state.
April 8 - May 8, 2016
The Arvada Center welcomes back Jaime Molina who began his artistic career in the Arvada Center's Jefferson County High School Art Exhibition in the mid-nineties. Molina attended Bear Creek High School from 1992-1996 and went on to receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Metro State University. Now a talented professional artist, he returns this spring to exhibit a variety of work including his signature found object assemblages, mixed-media illustrations, and large graphic mural compositions. Juxtapoz Magazine recently highlighted Molina by saying "this artist is a multi-talented professional whose aesthetic is well-defined and evokes a ruminative yet dynamic atmosphere." Using traditional folk techniques, his work speaks about cultural background and icons; but with a contemporary flourish. In recent years, Molina's work has been included in many of the region's most prestigious art spaces including the Center for Visual Arts on Santa Fe Drive, RiNo arts district, and MCA Denver.
September 15 – November 13, 2016
Main Gallery
In celebration of the Arvada Center’s 40th anniversary, this exhibition looks to our past and features many of the artists that have had an influence over the past forty years of the Center’s history. Artists included will represent exhibitions from 1976 to 2016, and the result will be a range of art on display by the artists that helped establish the Arvada Center as the dynamic exhibition space it is today.
Curator: Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
January 22 - March 29, 2015
Mass media, culture and production, as seen through the lens of Pop Art is the focus of the Arvada Center’s first exhibition series of 2015. Fun, bold and rebellious, the Pop movement was a major departure from the prior artistic endeavors of the mid-twentieth century. rePOPulated: contemporary perspectives on pop art will showcase the evolution of the movement from the beginning to now. From the collection of the CU Art Museum in Boulder, pioneers of the American Pop Art movement such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist will be featured, while the rest of the exhibition will highlight regional contemporary artists and their perspectives on Pop Art today.
Participating artists:
Roland Bernier
Scott Blake
Kym Bloom
Craig Cleveland
Evan Colbert
Scott Dye
Carlos Fresquez
Margaret Kasahara
Colin Livingston
Michael Mew
Tony Ortega
Mark Penner-Howell
Louis Recchia
Floyd D. Tunson
Chinn Wang
Included Pop pioneers, from the collection of the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder:
Roy Lichtenstein
James Rosenquist
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Clark Indiana
Claes Oldenburg
Edward Ruscha
Wayne Thiebaud
Andy Warhol
Curator: Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
January 22 - March 29, 2015
Any exhibition series relating to Pop Art would not be complete without Colorado's Pop master, Phil Bender. For the past thirty years, Bender has collected everyday objects from our culture, assembling them in his masterful, signature way; repetition of multiple objects. Creating large grid patterns, his work recalls the past, in which details of the slightest similarities and differences of such seemingly mundane items as suitcases, rolling pins, hubcaps, and other discarded and obscure items are highlighted and elevated to the realm of Art with a capital A. Much like Robert Rauschenberg or Andy Warhol, Bender continues the investigation into the use of mass produced products as art objects to be valued, since society instills them with value by spending money on such items.
One of the founder's of Denver's historic Pirate: Contemporary Art co-op gallery, he was recently awarded a Mayor's Award for his achievements.
Curator Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
January 22 - March 29, 2015
Colorado Springs artist Sean O'Meallie explores what he calls "the open play thread that runs through my practice" in this solo exhibition. A former toy inventor, his whimsical works look much like everyday items and found objects, but are actually one-of-a-kind, colorful wood sculptures. O'Meallie states that his work "draws from the incessant commercial blare of marketplace ideas, images, and activities of consumerism."
O'Meallie's works are playful, inventive, and even though a first glance hints at mass production, upon closer inspection the true art shines through.
Curator Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
June 5 - August 31, 2014
Taking advantage of the Main Gallery's unique architecture and expansive space, the Center invited five artists who work in varying media, size and scope to create one-of-a-kind, site-specific art installations that will become individual micro-environments and encourage viewers to experience the space in a new way.
Participating artists/installations:
Nicole Banowetz - Erupture: My Microscopic Life-cycle
Katie Caron - Drosscapes
Sophia Dixon Dillo - Forming Light Installation
Rian Kerrane - Knitting Wallpaper
Laleh Mehran - Entropic Order
June 5 - August 31, 2014 Theater Gallery
Curator-Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Image Credit: Patrick Loehr
Altered Environments will include photography and video works that explore seemingly familiar environments in which artists have encountered, created or manipulated something that is out of place.
Participating artists:
Christina Battle
Justin Beard
Christine Buchsbaum*
Sonja Hinrichsen
Patrick Loehr
Loretta Young-Gautier
June 6 - August 31, 2014-Upper Gallery
Curator-Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Image Credit: Alex McLeod
The works in this exhibition, created by four invited artists, are not bound by conventional media, or a lack of creativity. Using animations, illustrations, digital prints and interactive video, these works explore completely fabricated and imagined environments through purely digital means.
Participating artists:
Chris Coleman and Michael Salter
Milton Croissant III*
Bryan Leister
Alex McLeod*
June 22, 2014 - present
Curator-Collin Parson and Museum of Outdoor Arts
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The impetus for this summer's series of exhibitions began by re-imagining the 17-acre open space just south of the Arvada Center to create a compelling and engaging outdoor sculpture exhibition. In partnering with the Museum of Outdoor Arts, who specializes in the placement of site-specific sculpture in Colorado, 27 sculptures were chosen of various sizes and media by 15 highly acclaimed Colorado artists. This creative vision will ultimately transform and evolve to create a one-of-a-kind space in the western region by devoting a dedicated area to showcase modern and contemporary sculptures. In placing art, it changes the landscape of Arvada and brings the programming of the Arvada Center galleries inside, out.
"Over the last few years, Collin Parson has been doing a bang-up job of coming up with interesting shows to fill the super-capacious Arvada Center, but his brightest idea so far has been to "build" an addition. This past summer, he smoothly transformed a field south of the building into a full-fledged outdoor sculpture garden. ... READ MORE "
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Participating artists:
Vanessa Clarke
Emmett Culligan
John Ferguson
Erick C. Johnson
Andy Libertone
Nancy Lovendahl
Robert Mangold
Patrick Marold
Dave Mazza
Andy Miller
Charles Parson
Carl Reed
Joe Riche
Kevin Robb
Bill Vielehr
Sept 12 – Nov 10, 2013
In partnership with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Curators Collin Parson, Bebe Alexander and Linda Ganstrom
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Artist Image: Dylan Beck
In 2009, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) collaborated on the idea of a biannual ceramics exhibition not associated with their annual conference. The intent of the project reflected NCECA’s mission of introducing and educating the public on the vibrancy and diverse paths of contemporary ceramics, as well as the mission of the Arvada Center to make the arts an integral part of people’s lives and encouraging learning, innovation and creativity through high-quality arts experiences.
In their third collaboration, the Arvada Center and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts are producing Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design , which sought out dynamic, contemporary ceramic works addressing creative responses to current shifts in the artist’s world and work. The exhibition features 8 invited artists and 42 juried artists from all over the United States who explore their shifting world of ceramics by examining new technology, trends and societal change.
Our world is in flux, constantly moving and changing faster than ever. 3D Printers, Computer Numerical Controlled Machines, Oxygen probes and computer-controlled kilns affect concept and process, while commercially designed stains, decals and glazes reflect the latest trends in color and pattern sensibility. Less obvious, yet equally significant shifts occur as artists use the internet and social media in innovative ways to teach, market and connect with different audiences, as the information age affects both how and why an artist makes and shares their work. From trends influencing the domestic scene in the modern home to societal changes influencing the role of ceramics; the worlds of craft, fine arts, industry, design and education are intersecting with the world of ceramics.
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Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design Artists :
Ivan Albreht
Chad Curtis
Margaret HaydonBrian MolanphyShawn Spangler
Samantha BachmanElizabeth DeLyriaPeter Christian JohnsonMia MulveyGreg Stahly
Tiffany Bailey
Paul Eshelman
Ben JordanMegumi NaitohLinda SwansonLesley Baker
Gerard Ferrari
Jonathan KaplanMike RandKaren SwylerJohn Balistreri
Teri Frame
David KaufmannDerek ReevertsKatherine TaylorVlad Basarab
Brian Gillis
Jessica KnappAlison ReintjesKwok Pong Tso
Dylan BeckSarah GrossSean LarsonJustin SchortgenMichaela Valli-Groeblacher
Renee BrownJohn HamiltonWade MacDonaldMelanie ShermanDonna Webb
Anna Calluori-HolcombeHolly HanessianSarah McNuttJaney SkeerJanet Williams
Joshua Clark
Del Harrow
Ian MearesAmy SmithValerie Zimany
June 6 – Aug 25, 2013
Curator Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Perception (n.): Process of registering sensory stimuli as meaningful experience.
Image Credit: Sara Hughes
This summer’s Main Gallery Exhibition brings 21 artists together to explore what can be accomplished with three basic artistic elements and principles: color, line and pattern. Though artworks in this exhibition have been created over a span of 63 years (the earliest created in the 1950s and the latest works in 2013), they all utilize pattern, line and color to create optically intriguing works of art. Movements in the mid twentieth century such as Pattern & Decoration (P&D), Op-art, and the local Criss Cross movement played a role in the creation of many of the works in the exhibition. What all of these works have in common is an incredible acuity in technique and skill, as well as systematic and mathematical processes in rendering works that delight and exercise the eyes. Our eyes are always moving, and therefore always perceiving, and by simply looking, your eyes will become the subject of these works of art.
Artists:
Otto Karl Bach
Adam Holloway
Lewis McInnis
Angelo di Benedetto
Andrew Huffman
Jen Pack
Charles Ragland Bunnell
Sara Hughes
Ted Rehm
Jaime Carrejo
Marty Jaquis
Clark Richert
Charlie DiJulio
Vance Kirkland
Beverly Rosen
Wendi Harford
Emilio Lobato
George Woodman
Aaron Higgins
Jennifer Lynch
Dave Yust
April 5 – May 5, 2013
Curator Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The Arvada Center welcomes back Heidi Jung who began her career right here at the Arvada Center's Jefferson County High School Art Exhibition in 1989. Now, a thriving professional artist, she returns to launch the first Jeffco Alumni Exhibition. Jung’s works represent her classic yet haunting monochromatic botanical paintings and drawings. This exhibition will display her largest body of work to date, as well as collaborative pieces with the teacher that inspired her at the age of 15.
Jung states, “My connection to nature is both highly personal and unconventional. I incorporate ink, charcoal and acrylic media into compositions on vellum, striving with a natural hand to create an unspoken relationship between the image and the viewer.”
Heidi Jung’s love of plants and insects began at an early age and serves as both her inspiration and subject matter. Classically trained as a photographer, Jung continues to see the world through a lens; aesthetically bringing a mix of detail and movement to the foreground for the viewer.
Jung’s artwork resides in many collections including the Four Seasons, the Hyatt Beaver Creek, and the Libeskind designed Museum Lofts. Jung also has works in the collections of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia and Kelsey Grammar to name only a few.
- See more at: http://arvadacenter.org/galleries/heidi-jung-black-white-jeffco-alumni-exhibition#sthash.NEGChvsl.dpuf
Curator Collin Parson
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
This solo exhibition features prints by artist and educator Scot Odendahl. A teacher at Jefferson County Schools for 8 years and currently at Warren Tech High School, he was selected from artists who participated in last year’s Juried Teacher’s Exhibition at Lakewood Cultural Center. Prior to his teaching career, Scot worked in advertising and as an illustrator and designer for the Denver Post. Odendahl’s prints explore the ability of the screen printing technique to simplify an object to its basic shapes and colors, therefore giving Scot the ability to direct the viewer to see the elements he considers most interesting in his subjects. Odendahl states “I am a huge font nerd. As a graphic designer, it was the design element I found the most important.” The prints in this exhibition document road signs, particularly older signs, as they serve as historical documentation of a time when signs were created without the use of computerized fonts. - See more at: http://arvadacenter.org/galleries/scot-odendahl-on-the-roadside-jeffco-solo-teacher-exhibition#sthash.Dp1F0fu3.dpuf
Jurors: Dean Sobel and Collin Parson
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is proud to present Art of the State: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado. This statewide juried exhibition garnered 1,635 entries from 588 artists living and working in Colorado. Selections were made by Arvada Center Exhibition Manager and Curator, Collin Parson, and the Clyfford Still Museum's Director, Dean Sobel. Parson and Sobel chose 191 works by 160 artists that represent a wide range of approaches from traditional to experimental.
Emphasizing the Arvada Center's commitment to supporting Colorado artists, this exhibition will showcase the quality, depth and diversity of works being created in the state by emerging and established artists. This juried exhibition was open to all Colorado artists in all media. For the first time, all three of the Arvada Center's galleries, over 10,000 sq. ft., will be dedicated to one exhibition, and there will certainly be something for everyone to enjoy.
View a slideshow here: http://www.flickr.com//photos/arvadacenter/sets/72157632141389362/show/
Mary Jo AardsmaJames Crane IIIDavid GriffinMark LunningCheryl Rogers
Patricia AaronRebecca CumingKent GunnufsonBrandon MaldonadoVija Rogozina
Margaret AbramsheChris D'ArdenneJane GuthridgePhillip MannRoxanne Rossi
Monica AielloCarol DassWendi HarfordPatrick MaroldAjean Ryan
Tyler AielloJohn DavenportCharlene HarlowMike McClungMai Wyn Schantz
Jody AkersDeborah DavisKaren HauganDawn McFaddenShelley Schreiber
Theresa AndersonJohn DeFeoPatty HawkinsLewis McInnisDave Seiler
Libby BarbeeChris DeKnikkerAdam HollowayTim McKayDavid Sharpe
Walter BartonDeborah DellHadley HooperTamar MillerPaul Sisson
Christi BeckmannLeah DennisonKendrick HowardJ.C. MilnerBob Smith
Terri BellRebecca DiDomenicoToby HuffmanAmy Mishkin-ChavezCraig Marshall Smith
Phil BenderHaze DiedrichLynn HullWilliam MitchellDarin Steege
Regina BensonFrederick DoerpholzErik IsaacPaul F. MorrisSally Stockhold
Andy BergJenna DouglassMarty JaquisLauri Lynnxe MurphyWilliam Stoehr
Susan BerkleyRick DulaErick C. JohnsonChelsea MyslikBernice Strawn
Brenda BiondoDiane EdwardsScarlett KanistanauxBruce NallMel Strawn
Emi BradyAlix EvendorffCarla KappaLynette O'KaneAndrew Sweet
John BreedingSuzanne FarisMargaret KasaharaTony OrtegaMarlea Taylor
Michael BrohmanSharon FederAnna KayeMarz PachecoShawn Taylor
Susan BrooksJohn FergusonHorace KerrPattie ParkhurstJacob Thaden
Allison BrownMarcus FitzgibbonsJeffrey KingJeneve ParrishMilton D. Tomlinson
Judith G. BrownCarlene FrancesKevin KissellAmeet PatelLaura Truitt
Michael BurnettLili FrancuzLisa KowalskiJessica PaulkSarah Van der Helm
Michael BurrowsMelissa FurnessLarry KresekLaura Phelps-RogersDerrick Velasquez
Beau CareyJudy GardnerKathleen KrucoffKaren PoulsonBill Vielehr
Katie CaronStacy L. GardnerBrenda LaBierLisa PurdyMeg Voigt-Meersman
Amelia CarusoRon GerbrandtCharles LehmanSara RansfordJeff Wenzel
Catherine ChauvinJason Lee GimbelGayla LemkeTed RehmLara Whitley
Diane CionniMonica GoldsmithBonny LhotkaZach ReiniMarc Willhite
Sandra ClarkAmanda Gordon-DunnAndy LibertoneJeff RichardsSteven Wood
Jennifer CollinsLinda GrahamColin LivingstonCraig RobbCraig Wright
Joseph ConiffRobert GratiotPatrick LoehrAndrew Roberts-GrayGene Youngmann
Best in Show: Scarlett Kanistanaux
2nd Place: Andrew Roberts-Gray
3rd Place: Derrick Velasquez
Honorable Mentions:
Monica Aiello
Walter Barton
Robert Gratiot
Charles Lehman
Nick Vella, Warren Tech Student for his Graphic Design
Special Awards:
Clyfford Still Museum Award - Jo Marks Aardsma
Kirkland Museum Award - Chris DeKnikker
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation was held Thursday, January 24, 6 - 9 p.m.
Opening reception beer compliments of Arvada Beer Company . All proceeds benefitted Galleries at the Arvada Center.
Arvada Center curator Collin Parson has redirected the venue's visual-arts program so that it zeroes in on work made by in-state talent. The resulting exhibitions included solos dedicated to David Yust and Robert Mangold, and group shows focused on representational artists and women. His most successful effort, though, was Art of the State. Parson asked Denver art-world celebrity Dean Sobel, the director of the Clyfford Still Museum, to share jury duty with him. Together they pared 600 entrants down to the 160 who were ultimately selected. Paintings — in particular, abstractions — dominate, but there is also a nice selection of sculptures, photos and ceramics. The show, which is still open, is a great way to encourage the people whose blood, sweat and tears create the community around here.
..."it does capture the nature of work in Colorado these days, which is to say much of it is good and some of it is great. There's a terrific diversity in the rooms, stretching from a recent piece by 80-something Bernice Strawn to up-and-comers like Zach Reini, who graduated from theRocky Mountain College of Art + Design just last year. "
A juried effort at the Arvada Center, Art of the State, has been attracting big crowds: When I was there last week, the galleries were mobbed, but not as much as at the opening, says exhibition manager and curator Collin Parson, noting that more than 800 people showed up that night.
http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2013/01/art_of_the_state_arvada_center.php
http://mop2013.blogspot.com/2013/01/arvada-center-art-of-state.html
"Colorado is home to a vast and diverse number of artists in all kinds of mediums, and the Arvada Center’s Art of the State exhibition is offering a snapshot of that talent."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYpslMyMKEU&feature=youtube_gdata
Feature article written by Andrew Travers in Aspen Daily News on January 19, 2013
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Curator organizer-Collin Parson
Image credit: Carol Dass
From Käthe Kollwitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Louis Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Judy Chicago, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith, the world of art has been influenced by exceptional female artists. This fall, the Arvada Center is taking a regional perspective on notable women artists of Colorado. The Center invited seven of Colorado’s primary female curators to recommend “Women of Influence” from their corresponding regions. We relied on these curators’ expert knowledge of their respective regions, and left the definition of “influence” up to them. Generally, “Influence” is most understood as having an effect on something or someone. From their recommendations, the Center then selected artists from each region to create an overview of influential female artists of the state who range in age up to 99 years old. This show boasts a wide variety of media and concepts, and will feature installations, photography, video, prints, paintings and ceramics. This exhibition gives other curators, arts professionals, community supporters and Coloradans an opportunity to see the work of these great artists from their unique perspectives and learn more about the curators who selected them. Some of the artists in the show are teachers, all have prolific careers both in and out of the state; overall the work is inspiring. In a gallery guide dating back to the 1989 Arvada Center exhibition 'Significant Colorado Women Artists' Lydia M. Peña, Chair of the Exhibition Committee stated, "Like its predecessors, this exhibition will have its critics, both men and women. We on the exhibition committee acknowledge that 'Significant Colorado Women Artists' is necessarily incomplete, thus providing limitless opportunities for others to organize representative exhibitions on women artists, so that eventually the oeuvre of all of us is well represented." Now in 2012, the Arvada Center continues the tradition of featuring prominent female artists of the state that began all those years ago.
Curators:
Bebe Alexander – (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities)
Joy Armstrong – (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center)
Shannon Corrigan – (Emmanuel Gallery Auraria Campus)
Karin Larkin – (formerly of Sangre de Cristo Arts Center)
Petra Sertic – (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)
Jeanne Shoaff – (The Lincoln Center)
Camille Silverman - (Western Colorado Center for the Arts)
Artists:
Valerie Brodar – Colorado Springs
Margaret Kasahara – Colorado Springs
Curator: Collin Parson in consultation with Theresa Anderson
Image: Rebecca Vaughan
In this exhibition, abstracted intimacy is the specific uniting factor between seven artists. The seven artists featured in this exhibition are well-known in the Denver art scene, exhibiting at local galleries regularly. Intimate Dialogue artist Theresa Anderson explained the dynamics between these artists and their works: “I see us intertwined as mentors, exhibiting together, collaborators in organizations that support and encourage new paradigms of thinking in the visual arts. I am attracted to the works of these artists not because their work is similar to mine; in fact, I think the opposite. Each has her own visual vocabulary. But, this group is invested in art-making as a way of life with an intense interaction with the contemporary and alternative art community with an extreme regard for risk-taking and a high quality of work.” Seven themes describe the work in this exhibition, SCALE, BODY, RECIPROCITY, TRANSPARENCY, VULNERABILITY, PERCEPTION and SPACE. These artists will express these themes in their own unique way, and will beckon the viewer to explore what intimacy means to them.
Participating Artists:
Heather Doyle-Maier
