Gallery sights in Rocky Mountains
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Denver Art Museum
The DAM is home to one of the largest Native American art collections in the USA, and puts on special avant-garde multimedia exhibits. The Western American Art section of the permanent collection is justifiably famous.
The $110-million Frederic C Hamilton wing, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is a strange, angular, fan-like edifice. It's inspired and mesmerizing. If you think the place looks weird from the outside, look inside: here shapes shift with each turn thanks to a combination of design and uncanny natural-light tricks.
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212 Gallery
An amazing, forward-thinking art gallery. When we came through it had an exhibit featuring Daniel Beltra's aerial photos of the BP oil spill, which lent the event an ominous beauty, thanks to the polarized filter on his lens. Ten percent of proceeds of the limited-edition large-format photos went to help the clean up. The large-scale bronze sculptures were striking and the Aurora Robson sculptures were stunning and original.
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Cornerstone Arts Center
Colorado College's striking, $30 million LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)-certified arts complex across the street from the Fine Arts Center. You'll see sculpture on the front lawn, and there's a free gallery inside and frequent guest lecturers and film screenings. Past guests have incuded filmmakers, prominent feminists, Buddhist masters and big-time video-game producers.
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Illiterate Media
This gallery grew out of Illiterate Magazine, a locally published art publication, and their thrust maintains a multidisciplinary edge, hosting events and hanging shows of regional artists such as Denver painter Ravi Zupa. Progressive and hip, its fits in perfectly in the South Broadway neighborhood.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
This space was built with interaction and engagement in mind – there's no front door – and Denver's home for contemporary art can be provocative, delightful or a bit disappointing, depending on the show. The focus is on mixed media contemporary works from American and international artists.
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Robischon Gallery
Robischon operates with a focus on emerging dialogues in art, often bringing in notable, progressive foreign artists from around the world. You'll find work here by internationally renowned artists too, including Robert Motherwell, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Jessica Stockholder and Li Wei.
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David B Smith Gallery
David B Smith's taste for progressive American and international artists has made this space one of the most engaging small galleries in Denver. Artists featured here include Dutch painter Bas Zoontjens, American hyper-realist painter Christina Empedocles and portrait artist Kris Lewis.
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Tin Shop
Set in a historic home and part of the Breckenridge Arts District, this live-work studio space is offered to working artists to live, work and share their art for a week, two weeks or a month. Resident artists open their studio doors to the public and may sell their work here too.
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Rule Gallery
Robin Rule, whose name is lent to this clean space, has been a matron of Denver’s experimental and contemporary art scene since the late ’80s. Usually hosting works by only one or two artists, the Rule Gallery is a magnet for Denver's artistic vanguard.
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Quandary Antiques Cabin & Ceramic Studio
Part of the Breckenridge Arts District, this small ceramics studio is set in an old log cabin. It's open to the public three days a week. Out front are a gathering of excellent lodgpole, multi-media totems created by artist Harriet Hoffman and her students.
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Plus Gallery
When Ivar and Karen Zeile opened Plus Gallery in 2001 it was quickly established as one of the leading contemporary art galleries in the Western US. They often host events on Friday evenings.
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