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. Have you done other installations like this? Do your installations often take inspiration from artists or sites? Liz Miller: The work of other artists is certainly inspiring to me, but is not usually a direct source of inspiration for my installations. I am much more likely to find inspiration in non-art sources. I’ve recently been fascinated with weapons, and many of my proj...Read more
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’Keefe museum in Santa Fe, this Museum will make Denver into an artist’s new home. 2. Huma Bhabha at the Aspen Art Museum This exhibition has barely happened, opening on Dec 22, but it ranks high for 2011. Usually Bhabha does sculpture, but her works on paper hold a mysterious quality. The works seem classically modernist, and they involve a lot more than you w...Read more
Ricky Allman at David B. Smith Gallery
Probably the best sense of what this show is all about is the cover image on Ricky Allman’s website, which identifies just how big these paintings are. David B. Smith gallery never disappoints. I feel that geometries are overdone in art currently, but I do not gather the “This has been done before” feeling from Ricky Allman’s work. This transcending of trend occurs in the scale of Allman’s work, the controlled palette, and the maximal style. There is much to be learned and explored in these canvasses: Allman shows us that he can not only paint expertly, but that he can create worlds, feelings, and fine orchestrations of shine and shado...Read more
Art Opening: Gregory Euclid at David B. Smith
We're putting the final touches on some walls today at the gallery, so not much time to type, but when I get cleaned up this evening it will be to look semi presentable opening reception of Gregory Euclide's New Works at the David B. Smith Gallery (1543 A Wazee) tonight in Denver. If you're unfamiliar with Euclid's incredible three dimensional landscapes, here's some insight from the David B. Smith, press release. "Euclide takes paint and pours it on the land, capturing the local flora and terrain in the paint. On top of the paint, Euclide builds a diorama, depicting the concept of the idealized landscape framework. What the viewer sees in these pieces is more than any one c...Read more
April First Friday To Do List
You should be (p)artying Friday Now that I'm once again a CO. dweller, after making the move from Minneapolis, I can actually partake in the regular First Friday festivities, instead of just hearing about them. April 3rd is fixed to be a typical epic first friday night in Denver, with exhibitions including two illiterate contributors, and one of our first ever featured artists, way back when we were a student rag at CU Boulder. In anticipation of Friday arting, go to the Lab at Belmar for Feminism and Co.'s "Bitch: The History and Politics of a Word." This is the first in the weekly series program and tonight features Melinda Barlow, "bitch extraordinaire and professor ...Read more
Limited Addiction is David B. Smith 2009
If you're wandering Limited Addiction Gallery went in 2009, fear not, the death thralls of an artistic overdose. After two years in existence, Santa Fe Blvd's resident Juxtapoz showroom underwent an image intervention, reemerging as the David B. Smith Gallery. With the help of Boulder based brand counselors at Cypher 13, the scrappy exhibition space which showcased pop, neo surrealist and grafitti influenced artists, reemerged from its design facelift as a refined exhibition space which showcases pop, neo surrealist and grafitti influenced artists. With a newly designed website and a sleek square 2009 catalog, David B. Smith Gallery places itself on par with big game coastal contemporaries...Read more