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  • What the Soul is

    Soul is the furniture in my waiting room: barbed wire argyle couch, end tables made of MG wire hubcaps, a 60 watt brown sugar lamp with chain mail pull cord—overheated into molasses puddle, drained into ears and nose, a terrible head col...

    by: LeHast

  • hope valley

    yesterday, I came across the distant valley we once fell upon each other; where the good earth; curved to the shape of your mouth, still glistens as it did that day—oh, how I remember you, so silent without gesture, giving thanks to the infant ...

    by: jkaiser

  • Modern fanaticism is a different...

     First, there is the material she uses: all her two-dimensional work — posters, woodcuts, charcoal drawings — is in black and white. The unartistic world that our eye perceives is ‘black and white’ only metaphorically, bu...

    by: molly

  • This leaves us, in the void of ou...

    This leaves us, in the void of our everyday lives, confined to the passive state of playing the role imposed by second nature, keeping our essential powers and the longing for a beautiful life hidden away under the required mask. The mask has grown f...

    by: molly

  • It means that the human essence...

     The first is what this book discusses as rejection. It is a moment when the confidence in our essence gathers enough strength to burst into the open, in spite of the power of the given, which is inimical to it. The other response to our contrad...

    by: molly

  • Occupy

                Every arm stroke was smooth and practiced.  They had done this many times.  Harmless expression was all they considered it to be.  These kinds of projects occupied much of their time, bu...

    by: Ambulo

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Interview with Liz Miller

Interview with Liz Miller

Liz Miller, who recently visited Denver and filled David B. Smith Gallery with a lively installation, agreed to do an interview with me about her process. Here is what we discovered. Becky Jewell: Your installation at David B. Smith was conducted with Clyfford Still in mind....


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Vector-Voyeur, Andrew Bush

Vector-Voyeur, Andrew Bush

It’s been a long time since I’ve added a new member to my favorite photographer’s list, but Andrew Bush has succeeded in making his way, not only on the list, but in my top ten, with his Vector Portraits. I hope that I have translated my enthusiasm well. The series contains a sim...


filed under: photography

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Hit it Up: Current Must-See Shows

Hit it Up: Current Must-See Shows

Great current and upcoming art happenings   Current: Right now, you can check out Terminal Kings as it visits Denver. Watch street artists from LA as they do live art every day.     Plus Gallery’s Frank T Martinez show is almost over, be sure to see it this week. &nb...


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Awesome Comic Books

Awesome Comic Books

    For those that don’t know, when I’m not at art shows, I work at a comic book factory. I read about 8 comic books a day. Rusty math skills reveal that this means I’ve read about 2000 comic books last year. Maybe that makes me an expert, or a total nerd, or both. But ...


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Complex Visions of Matthew Brandt

Complex Visions of Matthew Brandt

  Matthew Brandt, an L.A. based photographer, works in an interesting process. Using a combination of both the image and the physical relationship that that image, as an object, has within our realm of physicality; the photograph as document, catalogues an existence, where as an object (or the...


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Adventures in Pixiv

Adventures in Pixiv

    Pixiv is the deviantArt of Japan. Except, it is better. Well, sort of.   The cool thing about Pixiv is that its top-ranked illustrators eventually get to throw their own themed art shows, or they get to participate in an attractive, user-generated limelight. Online art commu...


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Top Ten Colorado Art Happenings of 2011

Top Ten Colorado Art Happenings of 2011

    It’s almost 2012, and 2011 was an incredible year for art in Colorado. Here’s the list of the best art events of the year.   1. Clyfford Still Museum Opening   This museum was a long time in the making. Like the Rothko Chapel in Houston or the Georgia O&rsqu...


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