Scot Lefavor's Got Wood at Crema
Artist/Designer Scot Lefavor graced Larimer's Crema Coffee House with Driftwood this past Saturday. The work on display has a definite air of sarcasm mixed with a graphic, cartoony, 1960's aesthetic. Scot uses invented characters along with a creamy, muted palette on pieces of found wood ranging from two by fours to cabinet doors. Crema's semi-plastered brick and plywood walls are the perfect compliment to Scot's edgy depictions. Each painting is unique, spanning just a few inches to several feet in dimension with a plethora of aspect ratios thrown in. Formally, Scot has taken this hurdle in stride working text and image into stable imagery on the given picture plane. There are lot...Read more
Sunday at Illiterate: Dr Sketchy's!
Welcome to life drawing with personality. Dr. Sketchy's monthly sessions at Illiterate are part of a world renowned series where the line between model and performer gets playfully erased and redrawn. Every third Sunday of the month join in the fun as a new burlesque diva poses, giving character to form. For November's session the wonderfully weird Whoopsie Daisy almost bares it all. Even if you can't draw, we'll give you coloring book pages and crayons so you can participate and feel arty too! All dry mediums are okay, as are dip pens and neat watercolor sets. No oil paints, messy or stinky mediums. Photographers are welcome as long as they d...Read more
Sunday at 7PM: Dr. Sketchys at Illiterate
Illiterate is excited to have Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School begin hosting their monthly life drawing classes with a twist at the gallery. For the big debut at Illiterate, Anabelle LaFontaine and La Petite Mort model at a very special Halloween session of drawing, drinks and burlesque figures. Here's what Dr. Sketchy's has to say: ""Life Drawing, but with costumes, sets and amazing performers! Described as, 'What happens when cabaret meets art-school" Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School may be the most exciting thing to ever happen to life drawing! Even if you can't draw, we'll give you coloring book pages and crayons so you can participate and feel arty too! " All dry mediums are okay, as a...Read more
This Saturday! 15-to-1 Workshop: Stencilism with Amanda Marie
Itʼs arts education, itʼs gambling, itʼs Fifteen to One: Illiterateʼs program in which you play the odds for a chance to work with a current exhibiting artist, learning firsthand about their craft and technique. How do we choose the lucky few participants? By lottery of course! For this installment take a risk and you might just spend an afternoon making and spray painting stencils with Amanda Marie. Raffle tickets are $2 each. To purchase tickets stop by the gallery today at 82 S. Broadway in Denver, or for purchases over $10 order by phone by calling us at (303) 993 4474. All winners will be notified by email on Friday afternoon....Read more
Tonight! Bordo Bello skateboard art auction
If you haven't heard of the Bordo Bello, then you're missing out on one of Denver's most exciting annual art events for a cause. Hosted by the design organization AIGA, this event invites dozens of Colorado's prominent illustrative artists and designers to transform a blank skate deck by drawing, painting, etching, carving, and often completely changing the board itself. (Last year one designer turned his skate deck into a functioning tape deck.) Tonight the boards will be auctioned off at Artwork Network and all of the proceeds will benefit AIGA's mentorship program, Youth Design Denver, and annual scholarship, Access Gallery, which offers exhibition opportunities and s...Read more
Fast Forward: The Mix Tape Book Release
On September 24, 2010, Fast Forward Press will celebrate the Denver release of their third anthology of flash fiction, Fast Forward: The Mix Tape. A reading and release party is planned for Friday, September 24, 2010 at The Mercury Café in Denver from 7:00 PM-10:00 PM. The event will feature an assortment of readers from the new collection and a chance to purchase signed copies of the book. Flash fiction is an emerging genre t...hat focuses on the compression of language. The stories Fast Forward: The Mix Tape range from under 100 words to 1,000 words. In The Mix Tape, masters of the genre such as Linh Dinh and Barbara Henning mingle with talented newcomers like Bryan Jansing and...Read more
Illiterate Presents - Denver Does Denver August 28, 2010
ILLITERATE PRESENTS Denver Does Denver 2010 An Event of Creative Promiscuity : : Bands DO Bands! Artists DO Artists! SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 2 VENUES | 20+ BANDS | 20+ ARTISTS @ THE MEADOWLARK (2701 Larimer) @ THE FLOBOTS.ORG COMMUNITY SPACE (2705 Larimer) ART AUCTION :: 6PM - 11PM MUSIC :: 8PM - 2AM + A BACKDOOR BBQ! $8 TICKETS BEFORE AUGUST 27 (purchase tickets online here) $12 DAY OF EVENT AT THE DOOR MUSIC LINEUP THE FLOBOTS || HOUSES || ESME PATTERSON (OF PAPER BIRD) || BIG LIL' (LILLY SCOTT & COLE RUDY) || THE LEGENDARY RIVER DRIFTERS | LUMINEERS || PINK HAWKS || SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT || HUNTER DRAGON || OBLIO'S ARROW || MARRIED IN BE...Read more
Illiterate Opening This Friday: Down With The Sickness Too
Down With The Sickness Too infects Illiterate with a group of Denver's leading up-and-coming art misfits. Curated in conjunction with Travis Egedy, one of the founders and residents of Rhinoceropolis, a DIY breeding ground for radical young artists, this exhibit captures a unique segment of Denver's progressive cultural landscape.Including works in various media, the exhibition explores cohesion in chaos. The follow up exhibit to the Down With The Sickness show over a year ago, artists associated in various ways with a creative epicenter on the edge, express their transgressive reactions to the current order seen as contaminated and polluting, while simultaneously sharing in a collec...Read more
Tonight! "The Pyre" Book Release and Closing Reception
Tonight, Friday, July 30 at 6PM Illiterate celebrates the culmination of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition, "The Pyre" with the release of a collaborative book by the same name. Containing an epic poem written by Tim Holland, aka Sole, founder of Anticon records and leader of Sole and The Sky Rider Band, and illustrations by Zupa, "The Pyre" evaluates a world set in flames. At 8PM Tim Holland performs "The Pyre" in it's entirety as a spoken word piece followed by projections of video's directed by Ravi Zupa for Sole and the Skyrider Band. ...Read more
The Enchantment of Camille Vivier
Camille Vivier is a French filmmaker and photographer who studied Fine Art in Paris and at Central St. Matrin’s in London. Her photography has been featured in magazines such as Purple, Dazed and Confused, i-D... Vivier constructs a reality that seems to be hidden behind a dark veil of mystery. It is as if the viewer gets a sneek peek into one of Vivier’s dreams. In an interview by Purple gallery, Vivier said, “I’m borrowing from the imagery of the unconscious and dreams, from the art of vanitas, from magic, mythology, from an inner experience having to do with the bizarre, with fear, with the irrational, with love, while offering...Read more