The Figure in Space
April 2-June 20, Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant Street, Denver
The human body has inspired and challenged artists throughout history. In works both representational and abstract, the figure has been a vehicle for exploring conceptual ideas, for communicating the human condition, and for dissecting the idea of beauty. This exhibition will showcase the best figurative expressions of League faculty, members and students in all media.
Go to www.asld.org/exhibitions for more details or call 303.778.6990.
Summer Art Market, June 9-10, 10am-5pm.

These Are The Good Old Dayze
May 4-31, CHAC (Chicano Humanities & Arts Council), 772 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
CHAC Gallery: These Are The Good Old Dayze: In celebration of Cinco De Mayo we have put together an art exhibition of great diversity color and talent featuring Al Sanchez, Carlos Sandoval, Eli Montoya-Olivas, Jerry Rael, Jay Michael Jaramillo, Jacinta Lobato, Jared Sandoval, Kayla Sandoval, Pilar Beall, Rob Yancy and Shay Guerrero.
CHAC Norte & La Galería Cocina (right next door): Featuring artists Michael Penny, Bobby Martinez, Joe N. Martinez, Robert Maestas, Suzanne Martino, Retrospective of Dale Lopez, Jr., Nancy Slyter, Jeremy Sawyer, Kayla Sandovol's classroom art, Lisa Sanchez, Sophia Mesa Castaneda, Rudy Monterroso, Clay Meason, Rueben Espinoza, Mardelle Espinoza, Cindy Lucero and Victor Cruz.
CHAC Partnership with Center for the Arts, Evergreen: Enjoy the beautiful exhibit, Tree of Life: Exploring Cultural Roots, April 20-May 24.
CHAC It Up! 2nd Saturdays and 4th Fridays, 6:30-9pm. Saturday, May 12 & Friday, May 25. Enjoy an evening of interactive art, tasty margaritas, lite fare and beautiful music. All guests will customize a glass of their choice with colorful enamel paints. Event fee of $20 includes all materials and a complimentary margarita. Let the walls of the gallery inspire you! Advance RSVP is required to guarantee a spot, 303.571.0440.
Family Art Saturday, May 19, 2-4pm. Learn about the history of Mexican art, hear a story. Bring the whole family. Make a unique piece of art to take home. For Kids and their Parents and Guardians. Suggested donation $2 to cover materials.
Kid's Summer Art Workshops. Calling all children to come and celebrate Mexican Traditions at CHAC Gallery, Thursdays 11am-12:15pm, June-August. Workshops include refreshments, art making and a story. Ages 5-13, $5 per child. Family rates available. Registration is now open. Call today to be guaranteed a spot! 303.571.0440.
Gallery Hours: Wed-Thu: 10am-4pm, Fri: 12noon-5pm, First Friday: 12noon-10pm, Third Friday: 12noon-9pm, Sat: 12noon-4pm.
For more information visit www.chacweb.org or call 303.571.0440.

Reckoning | Fantastic Menagerie | Resilience | Honoring a Legacy
February 18-June 3, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs
Terry Maker: Reckoning, El Pomar and Steiner Galleries, February 18-June 3. Featuring an 100-foot snake made of shredded money slithering its way through the middle of the FAC’s signature El Pomar Gallery, is a contemporary exhibition rich in color, texture and symbolism. Candy becomes beautiful abstract shapes, film transforms into tree branches, and plastic bottles capture color in interesting patterns.
Resilience: A Multidisciplinary Project, Various Galleries, March 17-June 3. A multidisciplinary project featuring John Steinbeck’s play Of Mice and Men, an exhibition of Depression-era photographs, like Dorthea Lange’s classic, Migrant Mother, and sculptural installations by the innovative artist duo Ghost of a Dream, who will look at aspects of cultural and personal resilience in times of economic and environmental strain, with additional programs and events throughout the spring.
In the Field, West Gallery, March 17-May 27. Depression era works by Thomas Hart Benton and Boris Deutsch.
Introducing America, North Gallery, March 17-May 27. Documentary photography from the Great Depression.
Ghost of a Dream: Remember When Tomorrow Came, Seagraves Gallery, March 17-May 27. New York based collaborative team of Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was.
Honoring a Legacy: Selections from the Taylor Museum Collection of Native American Works, opens April 21. The Fine Arts Center's collection of Plains Indian works includes some fo the finest artistic expressions created by the tribal groups that inhabited the Great Plains of North America.
Fantastic Menagerie: The Work of Jessica Freyre-Cuebas, Manley Gallery, October 22, 2011-TBA. A series of wood engravings and linocuts representing a cast of fantastic animal charactes that embody human emotions and personality traits.
For more information visit Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center or call 719.634.5583.

Why Not...
February 2-May 28, Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
There is no other artist in Colorado that can claim to be a "Regional Mythologist." Daniel Luna's paintings of chickens crying over a frying pan full of eggs or a native woman holding a toaster to roast watermelons will remind you of a magic that reality holds within our dreams.
For more information visit www.museo.org/ or call 303.571.4401.

Denver Art Museum Temporary Exhibitions
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver
Focus: Robert Motherwell, through May 27. To coincide with the opening of the much-anticipated Clyfford Still Museum, the department of Modern and Contempory Art will present a selection of paintings and drawings from its collection of some 20 works by abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.
Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, through June 17. Drawn from the personal collection of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, this exhibition features more than 200 pins, many of which Secretary Albright wore to communicate a message or a mood during her diplomatic tenure.
Nampeyo: Excellence by Name, through July 1, on view in the American Indian art galleries, Hopi artist, Nampeyo, is recognized as one of the greatest ceramicists of the 20th century.
Focus: Earth & Fire, through July 1. Showcases ceramic work in the DAM's modern and contemporary art collection, as well as paintings that respond to earth and fire.
Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, through July 8, a sweeping retrospective of the designer's 40 years of creativity.
Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo, through July 29. Focusing on Japanese woven bamboo, over 70 beautiful pieces will be displayed in this installation, including baskets, screens, trays, containers, accessories, hand warmers, and a chair. Among the works on view are pieces by basket makers who have been designated Living National Treasures.
Bue & White: A Ceramic Journey, through September 30. Conveys the popularity of blue-and-white pottery throughout the centuries in different parts of the world.
Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful through September 30, photographed in crowds and on the street from his early days as a New York magazine freelancer in the 1950s to his last years in Los Angeles.
Olivetti: Innovation & Identity through September 30, showcases the Italian company's groundbreaking approach to product design and promotion.
Mud to Masterpiece: Mexican Colonial Ceramics, through November 13. Explores the era of global trade and its effect on traditional Mexican earthenware, Chinese porcelain and Mexican majolica.
Sleight of Hand, through November 25. Meet fourteen contemporary artists whose works surprise the eye while challenging and intriguing our powers of perception.
The Roath Collection, through December 30. This collection includes more than 100 works ranging from the 1870s to the 1970s focusing on the art of the American Southwest.
Potters of Precision: the Coors Porcelain Company, through March 3, 2013. Now known as CoorsTek, create specialized scientific forms – crucible, beakers, evaporating dishes – that remain virtually unchanged since their earliest iteration. Beauty and funcition exist simultaneously in vessels that serve scientists' precisely stated needs.
What is Modern?, through March 3, 2013. Features imaginative furniture, industrial and graphic designs that span more than 200 years, from the early 1800s to the present day.
Herbert Bayer 1900-1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years, through July 7, 2013. The first in a chronological series of exhibitions that trace Bayer’s development from his earliest days in Austria through his years in the United States.
For more information visit www.denverartmuseum.org.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
15th & Delgany St., Downtown Denver
More American Photographs, through June 3. Features more than 100 works presenting some of the best-known examples from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) alongside recently commissioned work from 12 contemporary artists. Inspired by the FSA’s 1930’s and 1940’s program to document the Great Depression’s effects on America’s landscape and people, this exhibit offers a portrait of America today in the wake of the Great Recession.
Bruce Connor and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, through June 24. Co-curated by Steven Wolf and Adam Lerner, this two-part exhibition will debut a portfolio of punk rock photos from 1977 by legendary artist Bruce Conner alongside a group exhibition that explores punk rock’s historical and ongoing relationship to visual art.
Type A: Guarded, through June 24. Exploring ideas of threat and security in American society, artists Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin, known collectively as Type A, have conceived a new installation featuring an armed security guard stationed in the gallery monitoring nearly 30 objects deemed potentially dangerous by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). To highlight the theatrical nature of security procedures, the prohibited objects will only be visible to museum visitors on a series of closed-circuit security monitors.
Richard Peterson: Artists and Rockers, through June 24. Curated by Adam Lerner, this exhibition presents Richard Peterson’s portrait photographs of musicians and artists from the 1970s to the present, including Bruce Conner, DEVO, Debbie Harry and Joey Ramone. The exhibition also includes recent portraits of artists at MCA Denver. Pairing recent and historical work, the exhibition captures Peterson’s persistent ability to find the unconventional heroics and idiosyncratic elements of his subjects.
Thinking About Flying, through June 30. A project by artist Jon Rubin where MCA has been provided with a group of young homing pigeons to be cared for by the museum and trained by its visitors. Museum visitors are invited to participate by taking home a pigeon in a carrying case and releasing the pigeon to fly back to its loft on the museum's roof. The pigeons will travel distances increasing from a few blocks to many miles.
For more information visit www.mcadenver.org.

Botanic Gardens Exhibitions
1005 York Street, Denver
William Corey's Japanese Gardens, Mitchell Hall, through Nov. 30. Experience the breathtaking beauty of William Corey's photography. Capturing Japanese Gardens over decades, Corey's sensitivity to his subject is captured on film.
Kizuna: West Meets East, May 5-November 4. Kizuna, a Japanese word meaning “the bonds between people,” celebrates the profound influence Japan has had on the West with the presentation of site-specific bamboo installations by internationally-known artists Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik. See this powerful and versatile natural material in a variety of forms, including living plant displays.
Someone Like You: Paintings by Margaret Kasahara, August 18-November 4, reception Wednesday, Aug. 22, 5:30-8pm, artist talk 6:30pm. Of Japanese descent, Kaahara uses the lightness of kitsch and humor to explore the heavy topics of stereotypes and personal identity. An Asian American living in the West, her colorful images pull from Japanese pop culture and manga as well as cowboy hats and hamburgers.
For more information visit botanicgardens.org.

Denver Public Library
Central Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Avenue Parkway, Denver
Anne Evans: Colorado's Cultural Visionary, May 4-August 31. This 3-part exhibition featuring the life and work of Anne Evans, one of the most influential bu least known of the leaders in the cultural development of Denver and Colorado is held at the Denver Public Library, the Byers-Evans House and the Central City Opera.
Visit the denverlibrary.org or call 720.865.1111 for more information.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
April 7-September 2, 1311 Pearl Street, Denver
Colorado Art Survey VII: features 160 paintings, prints and drawings by 128 artists, of which 51 works (32%) have never been shown at Kirkland Museum and another 20 works (12%) have been off view for over a year or more — all from the permanent collection. Works in this exhibition date from 1875 to 2006. Most of the ones not previously shown are new acquisitions in the last seven months, since the last Colorado Art Survey (August-November 2011), indicating our commitment to find and collect as many quality Colorado works as possible. A balanced presentation of painting styles of Colorado art is given with works ranging from Traditional (Realism and Impressionism), to Regionalism, Surrealism, Referential Abstraction and Pure Abstraction. Kirkland Museum shows virtually no contemporary style art — because several Colorado museums and many galleries specialize in that era — and hence most works are prior to 1980. The ones after 1980 are done in a modern and not contemporary style.
Visit the kirklandmuseum.org or call 303.832.8576 for more information.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
February 23-June 17, 1750 13th Street, Boulder
Edible?: Viviane Le Courtois
In addition to the newly commissioned interactive installation The Garden of Earthy Delights, the exhibition comprises a mid-career retrospective of food-related work of the past twenty-two years by this Denver-based artist. Through sculptures, performances, videos, photos, prints, and interactive installations, Le Courtois explores the processes of consumption, focusing on the repetitive aspects of food preparation, ceremonial food offerings, and the social implications of eating.
SP4C3CR4FT: Jason Rogenes
Styrofoam and cardboard, the quintessential symbols of our consumer culture, are the materials of choice for Brooklyn-based artist Jason Rogenes. Making use of commonly disregarded aesthetic attributes, including their inherent surface qualities, color, and varying degrees of translucency, he creates large-scale installations, suspended sculptures, and reliefs. Illuminated from the inside, the works acquire a monumental and spiritual presence usually associated with totems or space stations, and are equally representative of human aspirations and accomplishments.
Visit bmoca.org or call 303.443.2122 for more information.

CU Art Museum
1085 18th Street, Boulder
The Anxiety of Influence; September 8-June 25, interprets the significant role that "influence" plays within the global history, culture and tradition of ceramics, drawing on Harold Bloom's seminal work of poetic criticism, "The Anxiety of Influence".
Field Theory; June 15-July 14, opening reception Friday, June 15, 6pm, a solo exhibition of the work of Michael Theodore. While scientists build mathematical models to better explain the mechanistic structure of the universe, musician and new media artist Michael Theodore builds models in software and hardware to better explore perceptual sensations. Using various media Theodore creates dynamic fields of color, light, and sound that are inspired by observation and experiences of the natural world.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series through Department of Art & Art History
Visit CU Art Museum or call 303.492.8300 for more information.

CSU Art Museum
First Floor of the Universty Center for the Arts in the renovated old Fort Collins High School, 1400 Remington St. (southeast end of CSU campus), Ft. Collins
Small Worlds: European Portrait Miniatures, January 28-June 9. Features a collection of European portrait miniatures produced from the 17th to the early 20th century. Today the word miniature is commonly understood as something that is exceptionally small, but the word originally meant the art of painting images in books with water-soluble pigment.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 13-June 9. The University Art Museum's annual Master of Fine Arts Exhibition marks the culmination of a three year degree program in the visual arts that fosters individual research and a creative studio practice. Students in the program focus on a particular area of study and complete a mature body of thesis work that emphasizes professional levels of conceptual, formal and technical achievement in their chosen field – art work that is situated within the discourse of contemporary art practice.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm
Visit CSU Art Museum or call 970.491.1989 for more information.

Shapes of Art | Structures in Cloth
May 3-September 18, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Arts, 201 South College Avenue, Fort Collins
Main Gallery: Supersized Fakes and Coldwar Artifacts, May 18-September 15. Chinese artist Liao Yibai explores the current surfeit of fake brands in Chinese culture and the artifacts of Chinese Cold War culture in this exhibition drawn from the collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes.  In works dating from 2009-2010, the artist’s fascination with consumer culture, as well as his vivid dreams/memories of growing up Cold War China, can be seen in his oversized, gleaming, hand-welded stainless-steel sculptures of missiles, hamburgers, aircraft carriers and cell phones..
Loft Gallery: David Wander, Drawings from the Biblical Texts, May 3-July 5. A Jewish American artist who studies ancient texts and then re-interprets them according to his own psychological, personal viewpoint. Wander creates multi-panel narratives from various biblical texts and integrates those texts with images that bring a contemporary perspective to the stories and lessons of the Bible.
Mezzanine Gallery: Marc Chagall and the Bible, May 3-July 5. In 1931, art dealer Ambroise Vollard suggested to Marc Chagall (1887-1985) that he undertake a series of illustrations of the Bible. Chagall agreed and worked on these hand-colored etchings over a 25 year period until all 105 were completed and published by Teriade, successor to Vollard, in 1957.  
Visit fcmoca.org for more information or call 970.482.2787.

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