photography

In Culture: Denver's Creative Space Survey
by Lisa Gedgaudas

This could be your new home...

These things take time, but it’s a damn good start- would be the best way to start the conversation about Denver’s creative work and living space problems.

Marina Graves’ new exhibit is now open at The Northstar Brewery and Pub, featuring a series of landscape photographs. As a project that examines the intersections of urban construction with the natural world that determines how we build our cityscapes, Graves’ pieces are refreshingly non-judgmental and seem to invoke the artistic eye that traces and captures instead of critiques. Graves also has the keen sense of how shadow and light (momentary conditions, it should be added) can play-up the drama of organic geometry meeting human vision.

The Spring 2008 Show opened at Vertigo last night, featuring photographs by Richard Peterson and Bob Coller Jewett and stone sculptures by Scott Davis. Peterson exhibited a series of double-print photographs, half of which were fully developed and the other half consisting of the same images developed by solarization (a technique invented by ManRay that creates a reversal effect of positive and negative space in black and white film).

Jasper de Beijer’s, “Paperworks” exhibit, featuring “Le Sacre du Printemps,” opened yesterday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The Dutch artist’s work includes photography and small-scale sculptures of war-torn ruins, mangled combat animals, and portraits of bandaged faces.