Hit it Up: Current Must-See Shows
Great current and upcoming art happenings Current: Right now, you can check out Terminal Kings as it visits Denver. Watch street artists from LA as they do live art every day. Plus Gallery’s Frank T Martinez show is almost over, be sure to see it this week. This week and onwards: Be sure to check out this Friday’s opening at David B. Smith Gallery, featuring the work of Liz Miller. A sample of Liz Miller's installation work The Invented World, by Sandy Skoglund opens this Friday at Rule Gallery. You might know Sandy Skoglund by Fox Games, famously installed at the DAM. All the more reason not to...Read more
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tags: Art Redline Sandy Skoglund Huma Bhabha Liz Miller Terminal Kings Street Art Denver
Au: Exchange at Redline
Gold has always been fascinating, and it is especially fascinating in a recession that touts the rare element as recession-proof. Money is so tight right now, or so we hear. Fittingly, in this money-themed show, not much seemed too extravagant. I wouldn't characterize any single piece as a splurge, but rather as calculated, spare, and elegant work. On opening night, the show had a gold and beige color, overall. Nothing stood out color-wise, and perhaps for this reason, each piece demands its own singular, committed attention. The premise for the show is simple: Each Redline artist was granted a 2.5 bar of gold to use for this exhibition. Whether the artists sold the gold t...Read more
Formalisms: Joel Swanson at Redline
The overwhelming monochrome of this show is made intimately fascinating by pieces that occur only on the extremes of the scale spectrum. One installation of circuiting twigs replicates up an entire wall (slightly disturbed by a fire alarm, as many large works are). The wall-colored shapes hardly seem to stand out but for their shadows, but there they are, big as the gallery. Another piece is tiny: a bud of a lightbulb sprouting from a tall podium. It is small but utterly magnetizing. The piece, a placard explains, is Lady Gaga’s twitter feed translated into morse code. The bulb flashes and flashes intermittently, and one wonders if it is set to loop on a set of previous tweets or...Read more
Salutations, Project Hello 2011!
On Saturday, June 25th Redline hosted this year's Project Hello. The event presented over 40 artists, designers, musicians, and poets. Redline buzzed with introductions and activity throughout the day. Rebecca Peebles' project guided visitors through the creation of a drawing that mapped the different kinds of visitors to the space. With the aid of colored china markers everyone was invited to color a rhombus representing themselves. As the day wore on, the paper became a colorful graphic representation of the event. People were able to work on the piece while also meeting the artist and one another. Many food vendors were present including Yours Truly Cupcake who had m...Read more
Art Opening: Love Lines Tonight at RedLine
With an opening tonight from 6PM-9PM at Redline, the Valentine's appropriate Love Lines exhibit plays matchmaker between Denver and the art world at large. The group show does what many in Colorado attempt and rarely achieve: pairing local, national and international artists together cohesively. Curated by one of Denver's preeminent contemporary art heavyweights, Robischon Gallery, three distinct interests become apparent in this assembled lineup. A selected group of artists (Halim Alkarim, Jack Balas, Xiong Lijun, Xing Danwen, Yu Fan, Ann Hamilton, Wes Hemperel, Jerry Kunkel, He Jian) represents the gallery's stable of talent. Another clique (Jeff Page, Jonathan Saiz, Ian Fisher, Terry Camp...Read more
Website Release Party Recap
On Thursday February 12, 2009 illiterate celebrated the launch of our online community (the one you're browsing through right now!) at RedLine. The event was more than another art party. Though raucousness and revelry surely had their place of honor, as they should at any illiterate event, the celebration and unveiling of illiteratemagazine.com physically embodied the collective spirit of the community curated website. With over one hundred people working together, including artists, musicians, fashion designers, makeup artists, hairdressers, filmmakers and photographers, many volunteering time and expertise, creative collaboration was the essence of the night: from planning,...Read more
Stumbling on Design After Dark
On Friday January 31, in an attempt to work out some remaining details for Illiterate's big events on February 12, I decided to poke my head in to speak with our hosts over at RedLine. When I walked through the large double glass doors of the warehouse turned arts incubator, I found that the zig-zag walls from the previous labyrinthine exhibit had been removed to give way to a clean checkerboard of black pedestals each anointed with a miniature glass-encased installation. Laura Merange the director of RedLine explained that it was all in preparation for this year's Design After Dark, and directed me to speak with the woman wearing black and glasses. ...Read more
Make Your Own Illiterate Valentine
Print this. Cut it up. Paste it back together, then bring your resulting illiterate valentine to the illiteratemagazine.com Launch Party on February 12, 2009 at RedLine to receive a $2 discount, a free drink ticket...Read more
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tags: Illiterate Valentine Website Launch Party Crafting Love to Hate/Hate to Love RedLine