Current and Past Exhibitions and Events
One Point Twenty-One Jiggawats
Category: installation, sculpture
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Exhibition Dates: 4 August–17 September 2010
Closing Reception with the Artists: Third Friday, 17 September 2010, 6p–10p
Artists Jason Sheppard and Scott Raby use materials and imagery which are egalitarian, favoring the shapes, textures, and forms found in a pedestrian landscape. Despite this, both artists have drastically different approaches to this working style; one clean, one dirty, one shiny, one rusted, one baroque, one understated.
While their work differs in outcome, it arises from a singular point of a disciplined energy which reshapes their everyday experiences into alarmingly opaque art. Despite using a lexicon of the daily, they transform signs and signifiers until they weave in and out of recognition, changing the familiar into the obscure.
In One Point Twenty-One Jiggawats, both artists will actively create and alter VERTIGO Art Space as a site to not only to reexamine the phenomena of the culturally banal but the unknowns and uncertainties in its collapse.
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EMERGING 4
Category: photography, installation, painting, sculpture, ceramics
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Exhibition Dates: January 15–February 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-9 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, February 19, 6-9 pm
Featuring: Tyler Beard, Ben Dayton, Linda Lopez, Austin Parkhill, Alex Perrine, Lindsay Pichaske, and Allie Pohl
"Reine", 54x54 inches, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010 / Austin Parkhill
Lindsay Pichaske
Linda Lopez
"Bears" / Tyler Beard
Ben Dayton
"Female" (small) / Alex Perrine
"Ideal Woman: Astroturf A and B" / Allie Pohl
Curated by Robert D. Garner (who is also an emerging artist), the fourth annual Emerging Artist Show at VERTIGO features the talents of Tyler Beard, Benjamin Dayton, Linda Lopez, Austin Parkhill, Alexander Perrine, Lindsay Pichaske, and Allie Pohl. I am really looking forward to this one — it has been a big challenge and there is a very interesting connection that runs through the work.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-9 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, February 19, 6-9 pm
Featuring: Tyler Beard, Ben Dayton, Linda Lopez, Austin Parkhill, Alex Perrine, Lindsay Pichaske, and Allie Pohl
"Reine", 54x54 inches, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010 / Austin Parkhill
Lindsay Pichaske
Linda Lopez
"Bears" / Tyler Beard
Ben Dayton
"Female" (small) / Alex Perrine
"Ideal Woman: Astroturf A and B" / Allie Pohl
Curated by Robert D. Garner (who is also an emerging artist), the fourth annual Emerging Artist Show at VERTIGO features the talents of Tyler Beard, Benjamin Dayton, Linda Lopez, Austin Parkhill, Alexander Perrine, Lindsay Pichaske, and Allie Pohl. I am really looking forward to this one — it has been a big challenge and there is a very interesting connection that runs through the work.
Press Coverage
Read a review of this exhibition by Denver Post Fine Arts Critic, Kyle MacMillan. The Signtologist commented on the exhibition and has additional photos of the work.Brighter Than Real: New work from Mathew McConnell
Category: installation, painting, sculpture, ceramics
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Exhibition Dates: Friday, August 7–Saturday, August 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 6-9pm, and Friday, August 29, 2009, 6-9pm
Mathew McConnell (photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org)
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 6-9pm, and Friday, August 29, 2009, 6-9pm
Artist Statement
Brighter Than Real
VERTIGO Art Space, August 7-29, 2009
In a conversation with a friend I had not seen in several years, she described to me a project she had been working on. During her short description of what she was creating I realized the project she had taken up was not altogether unfamiliar to me. What she had described was a project that I had once described to her, a project I had helped another artist with, a project that was never fully realized. I chose not to remind her of our long-forgotten conversation.
My most recent project bases itself in the work of other visual artists. Often using a singular form or image of another artist’s creation as a starting point, I recreate the work with alterations to suit my own aesthetic and conceptual preferences. The resultant forms vary between what could be mistaken as a miniature facsimile of another artist’s work and original artworks with a source seemingly outside any individual referent.
Choosing works to remake and alter is as intuitive as it is arbitrary. I find myself primarily drawn to objects that question their role as objects of art. Conversely, I am also interested in objects that raise questions about their potential role in the world if they were not to be viewed in the context of the gallery space. Many of the objects and images I am interested in have a direct lineage to the works of a previous generation of artists; they too are a reworked response to their predecessors and contemporaries.
In the construction of these replicant objects and assemblages I often find myself trying to pinpoint the exact moment at which the work becomes more mine than theirs. Sometimes this moment occurs in the mere selection of a form, and at other times it does not occur at all. Through careful arrangement of these simulated, manipulated, exalted, and subverted forms, I find, at the best of times, a means of reconciling the difference between what is the art of someone else’s creation and what is an art of my own.
Mathew McConnell (photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org)
Press Coverage
Read a review of this exhibition by Ken Hamel at DenverArts.org.DMB Ideas
Category: video, installation, sculpture
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Exhibition Dates: July 3-30 2009
Opening Reception: July 3, 6-9pm
Featuring: DMB Ideas
With an exercycle-powered dance party, an unforgettable acapella ensemble, and “deep discounts,” the DMB Collective enjoys doing things the wrong way. Building on a shared sense of the absurd, these three artists question the value of language and the objects surrounding us. By practicing the most blatant misappropriation and misuse, the DMB explores overlooked opportunities in the commonplace and obsolete objects we live with.
Opening Reception: July 3, 6-9pm
Featuring: DMB Ideas
With an exercycle-powered dance party, an unforgettable acapella ensemble, and “deep discounts,” the DMB Collective enjoys doing things the wrong way. Building on a shared sense of the absurd, these three artists question the value of language and the objects surrounding us. By practicing the most blatant misappropriation and misuse, the DMB explores overlooked opportunities in the commonplace and obsolete objects we live with.
Press Coverage
Listen to an interview with the artists as the featured guests on The Untitled Art Show with hosts Erik Isaak and Michael Keen.Lauren Mayer: Tracing
Category: installation, sculpture, ceramics
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Exhibition Dates: June 5–June 27, 2009
Opening Reception: June 5, 6–9 pm
Opening Reception: June 5, 6–9 pm
VERTIGO will be open First Fridays and third Fridays for Collectors Preview Nights from 6–9 pm throughout the event.
This summer VERTIGO will feature MFA grads from CU Boulder. The first in this series is Lauren Mayer with a provocative installation of porcelain objects titled "Tracing".
Mayer states, “An object, be it a letter or a piece of furniture, possesses the capacity to act as a proxy for things beyond itself and its seemingly simple material existence. They can subtly disclose elusive, but poignant aspects of someone’s internal life— of the places they have called home, perhaps whom they have loved, and what they have left behind out of necessity or sheer abandonment.”
Decadence and Assemblage
When: February 20-March 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, February 20th, 5–9pm.
Featuring the works of Kim Polomka, with Assemblage and furniture by Donald Fodness
"Delicious Decadence" (detail) By Kim Polomka, Acrylic on canvas
"Delicious Decadence" (detail) By Kim Polomka, Acrylic on canvas
"Untitled Assemblage" By Donald Fodness, Mixed media
VERTIGO will be open First Fridays and third Fridays for "collector preview nights" from 6–9pm throughout the event.
"Delicious Decadence" (detail) By Kim Polomka, Acrylic on canvas
"Delicious Decadence" (detail) By Kim Polomka, Acrylic on canvas
"Untitled Assemblage" By Donald Fodness, Mixed media
VERTIGO will be open First Fridays and third Fridays for "collector preview nights" from 6–9pm throughout the event.Comments (1)
Greater Than - An Advance on Greatness: A New Paradigm for Mythical Heroism
Category: installation, sculpture
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From the Mind of BARCHAEL
Exhibition Dates: October 18–November 3, 2008
Opening Reception: October 18th, 6–10pm
Artist Statement
With the theme of the cult of personality as their inspiration, Barchael investigates the consequences of self-idolization prevalent in politics, moralism, and celebrity. Barchael makes mythical heroes out of their joined personality, lionizing themselves in a multimedia expression of their own supposed greatness.
Barchael is the combined creative identities of Michael Bernhardt and Barry Whittaker. Exploring issues of communication, identification, and myth, Barchael navigates a range of media confusing themselves as well as their audience. Their ultimate goal is to undermine self-rightiousness, while seriously spreading the ridiculous.
Real Work
Category: video, installation, sculpture
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Mark Moskovitz
Exhibition Dates: August 15–October 15, 2008 (see description following the images below)
Artist Reception: First Friday, September 5th, 2008, 6–9pm (Mark will be present all the way from Clevland, Ohio!)
Brought in especially for the time of the DNC in Denver, the current show entitled "Real Work" by Mark Moskovitz is another one of VERTIGO'S must-see installations. Moskovitz is an artist practicing in Cleveland, Ohio. His recent work demonstrates his continued faith and certain skepticism in the object. He often creates pieces that remind us of our forgotten roots and the slow pleasures in materials and artifacts that keep us connected to the essentials of our existence: food, water, clothing, and shelter. The work is rendered with a mixture of high and low technology, humor and craftsmanship, culture and crudeness. This Installation also incorporates video:
Mark Considers himself "a Luddite on the bleeding edge, as inspired by fine art and design as he is by prisoner and survivalist inventions."
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Moskovitz is also a full-time visiting artist at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he teaches design and sculpture classes. Straddling the worlds of art and design, he has formed unique relationships with institutions such as the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, where he has shown in its galleries and museum store. He has also created commissions for its subscribers, and been a guest speaker on several discussion panels. Additionally, he has shown work in galleries and institutions in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, and Saint-Etienne, France. Currently he is showing at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, as a part of a show entitled "Thoughts on Democracy", which is up through Art Basel in December of 2008. His work has been featured in art and design publications in the US, Taiwan, and across Europe. In 2005 Mark received the first Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Emerging Artist Award upon the completion of his graduate studies. That year he was also named one of Wallpaper Magazines’ most sought after designers. In 2008 his work was nominated for the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Green Prix Award Winner for Environmental Art.
Exhibition Dates: August 15–October 15, 2008 (see description following the images below)
Artist Reception: First Friday, September 5th, 2008, 6–9pm (Mark will be present all the way from Clevland, Ohio!)
Brought in especially for the time of the DNC in Denver, the current show entitled "Real Work" by Mark Moskovitz is another one of VERTIGO'S must-see installations. Moskovitz is an artist practicing in Cleveland, Ohio. His recent work demonstrates his continued faith and certain skepticism in the object. He often creates pieces that remind us of our forgotten roots and the slow pleasures in materials and artifacts that keep us connected to the essentials of our existence: food, water, clothing, and shelter. The work is rendered with a mixture of high and low technology, humor and craftsmanship, culture and crudeness. This Installation also incorporates video:
Mark Considers himself "a Luddite on the bleeding edge, as inspired by fine art and design as he is by prisoner and survivalist inventions."
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Moskovitz is also a full-time visiting artist at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he teaches design and sculpture classes. Straddling the worlds of art and design, he has formed unique relationships with institutions such as the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, where he has shown in its galleries and museum store. He has also created commissions for its subscribers, and been a guest speaker on several discussion panels. Additionally, he has shown work in galleries and institutions in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, and Saint-Etienne, France. Currently he is showing at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, as a part of a show entitled "Thoughts on Democracy", which is up through Art Basel in December of 2008. His work has been featured in art and design publications in the US, Taiwan, and across Europe. In 2005 Mark received the first Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Emerging Artist Award upon the completion of his graduate studies. That year he was also named one of Wallpaper Magazines’ most sought after designers. In 2008 his work was nominated for the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Green Prix Award Winner for Environmental Art.
Frolics and Frippery
Category: installation, sculpture
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Janice Jakielski
Exhibition Dates: July 4th-August 5th, 2008
Collectors Preview Night: Friday, July 18th, 2008
VERTIGO Art Space will be exhibiting the work of Janice Jakielski from July 4 through August 2, 2008. An opening reception to meet the artist will be held on Friday July 18th from 6-9pm.
In her solo exhibition Frolics and Frippery Jakielski creates intimate objects for the body. Her work deals with themes of perception, body awareness and desire. Working across many disciplines, the pieces in this exhibition combine sculpture, fashion and installation. This work is a social experiment of sorts, a mediated experience to explore communication, comfort and complacency through play.
Boulder based artist Janice Jakielski received her BFA in 2000 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and her MFA in Ceramics in 2008 from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Janice Jakielski will begin teaching ceramics this fall at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
For more information and images please visit Janice's site.
VERTIGO Art Space will be exhibiting the work of Janice Jakielski from July 4 through August 2, 2008. An opening reception to meet the artist will be held on Friday July 18th from 6-9pm.
In her solo exhibition Frolics and Frippery Jakielski creates intimate objects for the body. Her work deals with themes of perception, body awareness and desire. Working across many disciplines, the pieces in this exhibition combine sculpture, fashion and installation. This work is a social experiment of sorts, a mediated experience to explore communication, comfort and complacency through play.
Boulder based artist Janice Jakielski received her BFA in 2000 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and her MFA in Ceramics in 2008 from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Janice Jakielski will begin teaching ceramics this fall at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
For more information and images please visit Janice's site.Molly Hatch
Exhibition Dates: June 3–28, 2008
Collector’s Preview Opening: Thursday, June 5, 2008
First Friday Opening: Friday, June 6, 2008
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2008 Spring Show at Vertigo
Category: photography, sculpture
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Featuring Photographs by Richard Alden Peterson & Bob Coller Jewett, Stone by Scott Davis
Exhibition Dates: April 15–May 31, 2008
Artists' Opening Reception: Friday, April 18, 2008, 6–9 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, May 16, 2008, 6–9 pm
Exhibition Dates: April 15–May 31, 2008
Artists' Opening Reception: Friday, April 18, 2008, 6–9 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, May 16, 2008, 6–9 pm
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Anatomy and Process
The Drawings of Kate Aspinall and the Metalwork of John Murphy
Exhibition Dates: November 13–December 28th, 2007
Collectors Preview Night: Friday, November 16, 2007, 6–9 pm
