Bob Marsh: Silver Park 701 E. D Street, Pueblo, CO 81003 Permanent installation Admission: Free Review by Genevieve Waller Silver Park is a bit of magic nestled on a side street near downtown Pueblo. In the summer of 2020, the artist Bob Marsh began coating the façade of a disused stucco rowhouse in silver paint and silver-coated objects and sculptures. Over the next few months, he completely covered the front of the building, realizing a dream he had in the 1980s of creating a Silver Park in his hometown of Detroit—a steel city like Pueblo. [1] An installation view of Bob Marsh’s Silver Pa ..read more

Alexander Richard Wilson: Nightwalks Dateline 3004 Larimer Street, Denver, CO 80205 April 5-30, 2024 Admission: free Review by Denise Zubizarreta As twilight descends upon Denver, Alexander Richard Wilson’s exhibition Nightwalks fills the walls of Dateline with painted homages to a city in transition. Each canvas is a love letter and eulogy to the city’s changing façade, where the historic neon glow now flickers in the shadow of impending modernity. An installation view of Alexander Richard Wilson’s exhibition Nightwalks at Dateline. Image courtesy of Dateline. Wilson’s Nightwalks is an int ..read more

Gio Ponti: Designer of a Thousand Talents Denver Art Museum 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, CO 80204 October 24, 2021–January 1, 2025 Admission: Adults: $18 for Colorado residents, $22 for non-residents; seniors, students, & military: $15 for Colorado residents, $19 for non-residents; youth 18 and under and members: free Review by Paloma Jimenez   Celestial inspiration encounters geometric precision in the Gio Ponti exhibition, Designer of a Thousand Talents, at the Denver Art Museum. Spanning a liminal, light-filled space between the more formal galleries in the redesigned Marti ..read more

Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History  Museum of Boulder  2205 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80302 September 30, 2023-September 30, 2025 Review by Emily Zeek While exploring a project on regional barbecue traditions as a follow-up to his book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, curator and soul food scholar Adrian Miller became entranced by stories of local African Americans and the unique challenges they faced and overcame. [1] While at a dinner party with friends and board members from the Museum of Boulder, he started cooking up an idea for ..read more

Charley Friedman: Soundtracks for the Present Future Gregory Allicar Museum of Art Colorado State University 1400 Remington Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524  January 17, 2024–April 7, 2024 Admission: free Review by MG Bernard Charley Friedman’s Soundtracks for the Present Future is currently on view until April 7 at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins. In the museum’s largest space, the Griffin Foundation Gallery, the artist floats dozens of acoustic guitars, mandolins, and basses, each attached to electrical wires that converge toward a laptop at the center of the room. T ..read more

Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature Denver Botanic Gardens, York Street Freyer-Newman Center 1007 York Street, Denver, CO 80206 November 19, 2023–March 31, 2024 Admission: $12 non-members, $10 members Review by Madeleine Boyson Witnessing the nutrient cycle is more than a practice for photographer Tanya Marcuse. The artist has venerated nature’s transience since at least 2005, when she began photographing fruit trees and their offerings. In her series Woven and Book of Miracles, on view in the exhibition Laws of Nature at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Freyer-Newman Center until March 31, Marcuse lau ..read more

Northern Colorado Weavers Guild: Celebrating 50 Years Loveland Museum 503 N. Lincoln Avenue, Loveland, CO 80537 December 8, 2023–March 31, 2024 Admission: free Review by Danielle Cunningham With fifty years in operation as one of only a few Colorado non-profits dedicated exclusively to weaving, the Northern Colorado Weavers Guild’s (NCWG) mission of sharing knowledge is apparent in their exhibition Celebrating 50 Years, currently on view at the Loveland Museum. An installation view of the Northern Colorado Weavers Guild’s exhibition Celebrating 50 Years at the Loveland Museum. Image by DARI ..read more

To See Inside: Art, Architecture, and Incarceration Museum of Art Fort Collins 201 S. College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80524 January 26–March 17, 2024 Admission: Adults: $10, Seniors 60+: $8, Members, Military, Students under 18, and CSU and Front Range Students: free   Review by Aitor Lajarin-Encina   “All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion.”  Chantal Mouffe [1]   Currently on view at the Museum of Art Fort Collins, To See Inside: Art, Architecture, and Incarceration combines paintings by Colorado-based artist Sarah McKenzie and visual works, a ..read more

Hung Liu: Control and Freedom Vicki Myhren Gallery University of Denver 2121 E. Asbury Avenue, Denver, CO 80210 January 11–March 24, 2024 Admission: free Review by Zoe Ariyama The first image you encounter in Hung Liu: Control and Freedom, on view at Vicki Myhren Gallery until March 24, is a self-portrait: a young Liu sits on a log bridge, pants rolled up to her knees as she dangles her feet into the river below, smiling and squinting into the sun. The photograph captures Liu during her years of “proletariat re-education” working rice and wheat fields in the Chinese countryside from 1968 to ..read more

Interview: Month of Printmaking 2024 by Laura I. Miller A Van Gogh painting can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of us can’t afford that. Yet, for about twenty dollars, you can purchase a copy of The Starry Night and hang it above your bed. For this, you can thank the printing press. Widely considered the most important invention of all time, the printing press took artwork out of the hands of the elite and delivered it to the masses. Julia Fernandez-Pol, Eclipse #1, 2023, intaglio monoprint, 34 x 47 inches, on view in the exhibition Artist Proof: Print Process at Oehme Graphic ..read more