“Touch the Earth”
Featuring artists Anna Kaye and Lorelei Schott

The profound drawings of  Anna Kaye and her time-lapse video explore wildfires in our Western coniferous forests.  Both Kaye & Schott created new works focusing on natural materials, drawing their inspiration from the earth to create  elegant abstract and realistic pieces.    Anna Kaye and Lorelei Schott  will give an informal talk about their  artistic process Wednesday, Nov. 9, 6 pm as part of the Denver Arts Week celebration that week. 

Virginia Maitland: Conversations in Color

“Virginia Maitland: Conversations in Color” will exhibit new paintings by the artist, as well as two important paintings from the 1970s that have never been exhibited.  The experience of light and space in nature plays a significant role in her work as an abstract expressionist and color field painter.  Maitland received her degree from the distinguished Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 where she studied painting in the academic tradition.  She was also heavily influenced by cutting-edge American abstraction, surrealism, and pop art, and by artists such as Kandinsky, Gorky, early Frank Stella, Turner, Miro and Ernst. 

Kyle MacMillan, fine arts critic for The Denver Post, praises Maitland for her ability to express the “ideal balance of freedom and structure.”   This exhibition offers the viewer a glimpse into her evolving ethereal style, which focuses on the extraordinary marriage of color and form.  Maitland’s nonrepresentational imagery illustrates how art can address our intellect and emotions without interpretation. 

Masters of Clay

DON REITZ
JOHN BALISTRERI
YOSHIRO IKEDA
CARROLL HANSEN
MAYNARD TISCHLER

The exhibition will include the work of five acknowledged masters of contemporary ceramics whose works are included in major collections and museums throughout the world. Don Reitz is one of the world's most important and influential living ceramic artists. Each is at the forefront of contemporary clay today.

Frank Sampson: NEW Paintings

One of colorado's most highly regarded painters, Frank Sampson is now eighty- two years old, vibrant, prolific and excited about this new body of work. Sampson's work is influenced by the old European Masters - his beautiful surfaces are legendary. Mystical and engaging, figures and animals are almost always in the compositions. Sampson taught at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1961 to 1990 and served as instuctor/mentor for some of the area's most
accomplished painters.

“Paper How Street It Is”

Artists united by their common interest in working with  paper  basing their work on personal perceptions and a broad range of references.  Dave Phelps' mass produced bar codes look like elemental yet beautiful brush strokes creating an interesting dialogue.  Also exhibiting Mel Strawn, Dave Phelps, Mike Foran and Paula Gabriel with works on paper.

Year in Preview

Lorelei Schott, Irene Delka McCray,Virginia Maitland, Frank Sampson, Margaret Kasahara

NEW WORK  ANDREW SPEER 
ABSTRACTION  ANIA GOLA-KUMOR

Two dynamic painters working in contemporary abstraction  each revealing their personal visual language and a  powerful use of paint.

Kumor is an influential professor Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and Andrew Speer former chair of the painting department professor emeritus Metropolitan State College of Denver.  Kumor earned her MFA from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art and also attended the College of Art & Industry in Moscow.

“Speer serves up  mystery of a different kind. Rather than snatches of narratives he constructs compositional accumulatons that become intriguing, if elusive visual puzzles.” 
Kyle MacMillan Denver Post Fine Arts Critic

"Natural Encounters" Margaretta Gilboy, Anna Kaye, Lorelei Schott

"Natural Encounters" presents three remarkable artists exploring the ecological truism that everything is connected pushing the envelope in their approach to the two-dimensional quality of a painted surface. 

Margaretta Gilboy’s paintings are unmistakable in technical vigor, expressiveness,  great intuition and originality.   Artist Lorelei Schott, burying canvases in the soil to soak up debris and minerals,   expresses a keen philosophical  sense of humanity which exudes from her work.  The flawlessly executed drawings of Anna Kay captures the essence of nature and the conceptual experience of forest fires. Three extraordinary artists, and an exhibition not to be missed!

“Like Nowhere Else” Amy Solomon and David Griffin

For artists Amy Solomon and David Griffin landscape painting  is a metaphor for the sensory world.  Griffin’s paintings represent the landscape as an assembled kaleidoscope of experience, memory, and expectation whereas Solomon is seduced by the intricate beauty & mysterious allure of nature. Their work is an exploration of the physical world with  many layers of reality intertwined.

“Do Not Cry Over Spilled Dreams: Portrait of a Consumer” Patricia Tinajero installation artist

The sculptural installation Do not cry over spilled dreams are a series of structures made out of milk cartons, newspaper, handmade cotton paper from recycled blue jeans, and linen..  They are inspired by quilting techniques and approached from the tradition of salvaging and using all remains from materials, which makes this process significant & effective in terms of how recourses are used. 

"Looking Back to Now"

Irena Delka McCray