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Andy Warhol brought people together in ways that fueled their enthusiasm for art. His prowess at networking and finding commonalities inspired us to partner with Colorado organizations, artists, and collectors to create a show enriched by the enduring connections Warhol made when visiting Colorado in the late 70s and early 80s.
Warhol’s use of photography was the central tool that enabled both his art and social relations. Warhol in Colorado features the collection of Warhol Polaroids and silver prints gifted to the University of Denver by the Andy Warhol Foundation in 2008. Images by Colorado photographers (John Bonath, Valere Harris Shane, and Mark Sink) who photographed the artist in New York and Colorado in the 1980s, turn the camera on Warhol himself. Complimenting the photography are iconic hand-finished works by Warhol drawn from Colorado collections, such as complete sets of the 1972 Mao series and 1982 Myths series.
Warhol’s prolific output of works relating to music is represented in screen prints of Mick Jagger, record album covers, and magazines. Posters, works on video, and assorted ephemera add further context to Warhol’s Colorado connections.
Opening Event: “Warhol Happening” at the Cable Center, University of Denver campus. Thursday January 20, 6 – 11 pm. Visit Colorado Blacktie to book your tickets (event code “Warhol.”)

Month of Photography Denver 2011

http://monthofphotography.blogspot.com/

Picture this : a month of photography
MOP Denver

REDLINE and the Colorado photographic community invite you to celebrate photography for the Month of March, 2011.

MOP - Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography through over 80 collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region for the month of March 2011. We are joining multiple museums galleries and schools surrounding fine art photography creating an exciting artistic and educational event for the city of Denver and the region.

The REDLINE art space will serve as the nerve center for the Month Photography, with exhibitions, lectures, workshops. For student and professional photographers there will be intensive portfolio reviews with galleries and museum directors, curators, photography collectors, teachers, critics, editors. Experts who can influence and advise on current marketing and offer image world knowledge.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center Exhibition at Edge Gallery

http://www.cpacphoto.org/
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Opening night of CPAC Show, 7 Jan 2011

Metro State Art Faculty Exhibition January 7 - Febuary 19, 2011

http://www.metrostatecva.org/ 

Collective Nouns: MSCD Art Faculty Biennial
January 7 – February 19, 2011

Meet-the-Artists Friday, January 7
Members and special guest reception: 6-7pm
Public reception: 7-9pm

Faculty Lecture Series
February 1-3, 2011.
Click here for complete schedule.
The reception and lecture series are free and open to the public.

Representing the state’s largest art department, the MSCD art faculty is made up of a diverse group of regional artists, working in an eclectic range of media. This exhibition features an ensemble of recent works from the faculty; artists from each area of the art department will be represented. Most works in the exhibition will be for sale.

In conjunction with the faculty exhibition, there will be a retrospective of work by former Metro State art professor E.C. Cunningham, held in two locations.

E.C. Cunningham: From Wichita to Nighthawk - A Retrospective in Two Parts

On October 1, 2010 the Department of Art lost long-term professor and renowned artist E.C. Cunningham. Professor Cunningham was the coordinator for the printmaking department at Metro State for 27 years. He will be greatly missed.

Part I: 1979 - 2008
Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus
January 27 - February 10, 2011
Opening Reception:
Thursday, Jan. 27, 4-7pm

Part II: 2008 - 2010
Center for Visual Art
January 7 - February 19, 2011
Opening Reception:
Friday, Jan. 7, 7-9pm

A Color-Saturated Sun Sets on Kodachrome

Frame 34 from the last role of Kodachrome, Steve McCurry 2009

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/a-color-saturated-sun-sets-on-kodachrome/

Impossible Project PX 600

Jake At Close Range

Blog 12

Metro Center For Visual Art, BFA Thesis show, Fall 2010

Social crowding has always been something that bothers me, however on this night it was somewhat fun, maybe its because I know many of the people at the show. I took this photo because I found the mass of people looking at the artwork in the gallery to be interesting, as well as the way groups of people would congregate to talk about the work. 

The Right to Bear Arms?  December,  2010

 I found this on a sidewalk on the way to a train station in Denver, many questions came to me, why was this here, was it a real gun, or a toy, and if it was a toy how did the trash for a toy gun wind up on the sidewalk in the middle of an industrial area on the way to a train station. The spectical of guns and the American attraction to violence is somewhat interesting and this photo seems to speak about the nature of that consumer appeal to something that otherwise seems so violent, and by all means is not something you would want a child thinking about.

Homecoming, From: Recollections of War,  2010

Homecoming, when you arrive back in “the normal world” from a deployment over seas the emotions of returning home can make the soldier terrified by  the reality of the home that was once so common to him, as if the world you left at war is somehow more normal to you now than the place you once know so well.