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The Brad Kahlhamer exhibit recently opened at the MCA Denver, featuring two mixed media-pieces from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna and a totem-pole sculpture from the Logan Collection. Kahlhamer combines rock n’roll with landscape, spirituality with a raw sexuality, gritty realism with dreaming-life. Recurring motifs of provocatively clothed women (though never quite nude), death and American identity create a combined imagistic effect of vertigo. Form seems to occur two ways simultaneously for Kahlhamer: kaleidoscopically and vertically.

This Friday June 6th, Jay Paul Apodaca will open a gallery that is, well, situated completely off the gallery scene. Located on Sheridan Blvd, Apodaca’s space will showcase several rooms of his work, mostly paintings. The artist was born and educated in Denver, and was a student of local talents like Dale Chisman. He is known for live-painting performances in the LoDo club scene and has been commissioned to do permanent work for several.

Draw Rings 2, an exhibit of twenty-two, hot-blooded Colorado artists, opened at Rhinoceropolis, a gallery and music venue where, “dudes, a lady, two cats, and one dog” also live.