Scot Lefavor's Got Wood at Crema
Artist/Designer Scot Lefavor graced Larimer's Crema Coffee House with Driftwood this past Saturday. The work on display has a definite air of sarcasm mixed with a graphic, cartoony, 1960's aesthetic. Scot uses invented characters along with a creamy, muted palette on pieces of found wood ranging from two by fours to cabinet doors. Crema's semi-plastered brick and plywood walls are the perfect compliment to Scot's edgy depictions. Each painting is unique, spanning just a few inches to several feet in dimension with a plethora of aspect ratios thrown in. Formally, Scot has taken this hurdle in stride working text and image into stable imagery on the given picture plane. There are lot...Read more
Saturday Art Opening: Scot Lefavor's See Change
Scot Lefavor aka Faives, will be unveiling new work at his upcoming solo show this Saturday at Andenken Gallery in Denver. His recognizable superflat graphic paintings initially inspire visions of 1950's "Everything's A-Ok honey, now get into the bomb shelter, right after you fill my high-ball and light my lucky"advertising. However, amidst this nuclear utopia, Lefavor makes it obvious that he's clearly not the well mannered Wally Cleaver. More a modern day Eddie Hascal. he slyly, and not always so subtely, inserts his own agenda to the two-toned characters, and nostalgic lettering, creating a contrast between his contemporary middle finger, and the big thumbs-up rammed up the ass of a...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