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September opening:
Friday, September 28
Rule Gallery
Frame of Reference, a group show of artists whose work bridges the space between personal experience, history and individual roles within society; melding their internal and external worlds. This exhibition features Rowdy Dugan, Mark Fitzsimmons, Erica Green, Renluka Maharaj, and Shelby Rahe.
Through November 10

October openings:
Plinth Gallery
Opening reception, 6-9pm
Between Memory and Pending: Narrative Sculpture of Thomas Orr. The artist served in Vietnam with the 11th light infantry brigade as a combat infantry platoon leader and his wartime experiences are influential in his work. Orr's ceramic works are highly personal sculptures. He once referred to them as "small scale stage sets." These settings evolved over time in both scale and in content to become environments, depicting activities that may have taken place in the past, but have a "potential of a future activity."
Through October 27

Saturday, October 6
Abend Gallery
Opening reception, 6-9pm
Arrangements, the US debut solo exhibition for UK-based artist Jon Doran, opening October 6th in our project space. Jon's work is centered on taking classical subjects of still life, portraiture and figures in landscape and rearticulating them through a digitally influenced and fragmented approach to painting.
Through October 27

Thursday, October 11
Tansey Contemporary
Opening reception,  5 - 7 pm
Quattrocento & La Strada with 15 new works by Danish artist Gugger Petter. These portraits are Petter’s interest, first sparked in the 1970s when she lived in Italy as a young artist, with Renaissance art, Byzantine icons, and the early Christian church. While inspired by art history, Petter creates portraits from her imagination. She says these fictional portraits “could be anybody.” She sees the anonymity of the works as essential in creating both familiarity and distance between the subject and the viewer. View the exhibit
Through November 18

Friday, October 12
David B. Smith Gallery
Opening Reception, 6 - 8 pm
The Explorers, Russell’s latest body of work, continues his conversation challenging the conventions and history of photography. Russell’s process-intensive works begin with photographing scenes from nature that he intentionally obscures with sheer fabrics, effectively destroying what would otherwise serve as a documentative image. Into these hazy, abstracted fields Russell laboriously scratches intricate designs into the emulsion of the printed image, adding paint to some areas. The result is multilayered, dreamlike works that come in and out of focus as the eye negotiates the underlying image and textural patterning of meticulously etched designs
Through November 10

Tuesday, October 16
Michael Warren Contemporary
Peter Olson Photo Ceramica, new works.
Through December 1

Friday, October 19
Third Friday Art Walks at participating galleries

Visions West Contemporary
Opening Reception, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Tracy Stuckey Nocturnes, is largely influenced by 19th century artist Frederic Remington’s night paintings. Made in the last decade of Remington’s life, these paintings reflect the artists growing disillusionment with the changing landscape of the American West. Stuckey’s works reflect not only the false romanticism of the American West but also the complete fabrication of it. Full essay by Zoe Larkins, Assistant Curator, MCA Denver available at www.visionswestcontemporary.com 
Through November 24

Michael Warren Contemporary
Artist's reception, 6-8pm
The Water Within, new works by Etsuko Ichikawa, showcasing a recent body of glass works. She has been recreating ancient Jōmon vessels and figurines, casting them with uranium glass. Her tangential series of blown uranium glass orbs and her new series of pyrographs with watercolor round out the exhibition. We find this series to be very compelling - she was so emotionally affected by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and subsequently her examination of the nuclear clean-up at the Hanford site that she is now exploring cultural legacy as told through the Jōmon pottery which she is recreates using uranium glass.
Through December 1

Saturday, October 20
Michael Warren Contemporary
Artist Talk with Etsuko Ichikawa
 

Member Galleries:

Abend Gallery
David B. Smith Gallery
David Cook Fine Art
Gallery 1261
GALLERY M
Goodwin Fine Art
K Contemporary
Mai Wyn Fine Art
Michael Warren Contemporary
Plinth Gallery
Plus Gallery
Robischon Gallery
Rule Gallery
Saks Galleries
Sandra Phillips Gallery
Space Gallery
Tansey Contemporary
Visions West Contemporary
Walker Fine Art
William Havu Gallery
William Matthews
 

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