Opening Tonight!: Ideal Woman at Hinterland
Denver artist Allie Pohl presents her Barbie molded body of work titled Ideal Woman: 36: 24: 36 tonight at Hinterland gallery which runs until April 23rd. Andrew Hoffman wrote a nice interview on the 303 blog. Here's the intro: I first encountered Allie’s work last November at the “Where the Wild Things Art” show at Illiterate. I was very intrigued by her series of ceramic sculptures that depict the lower torso of a barbie doll. According to Allie, her objective in her art is to critique cultural trends that she finds impractical or destructive to the female form, and that her work falls into the category of feminist satire packaged in a post-modern wrapp...Read more
Big First Friday!
If you're in Denver tonight, bring a stopwatch something motorized, because there's almost too many art shows to take in on one evening--Almost. By local, here's the breakdown. Rhino District Visionary illustrator Alex Pardee shows his creepy cute creatures at Andenken which includes a site specific installation and a host of ghoulish inkings. Head over to Hinterland to check out Down With The Sickness, a group exhibit exploring the neon now as embodied by Buddy Croissant, Travis Egedy, Sterling Crisping, Justin Beard and Drew Englander. As if he wasn't busy enough releasing a new album this week, and curating the Hinterland show, Egedy and his ...Read more
Down With the Sickness! Tonight!
Less than two hours from now (7PM) Down With The Sickness opens at Hinterland gallery, an exhibit featuring the paintings, sculpture, new media, and performances of a number of Illiterate contributors, including Justin Beard, Milton Croissant III, Sterling Crispin, Travis Egedy, and Drew Englander. "Down With the Sickness is a mystical and transgressive collection of artworks, new media, and performances from a group of Denver's leading up and coming art misfits and radicals. Explorations of the body, gender, identity, reality, and alternate states of consciousness are all licked and twisted in a fantastic cohesiveness that reflects aspects of our current cultural desires an...Read more