Idle Hands // Idol Hands
through February 25, 2024

What we touch is an inventory of self. What we wield is an inventory of practice. Idle Hands // Idol Hands are playful video portraits of how hands express skill in idleness and learned dexterity alike.

Kiah Butcher is a curator and video artist with a focus on uplifting and engaging community. Currently the Associate Curator of Community Engagement for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Butcher presents contemporary art in public spaces; from site-specific installations, to open community exhibitions.

528.0: REGIONAL JURIED PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION
through March 24, 2024

Printers from across the region submitted 553 artworks across all forms of printmaking. Jurors Emily Grace King (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO), Jennifer Lynch (Lynch Pin Press, Santa Fe, NM), and Howard Paine (University of Nebraska, Omaha) selected 83 works to celebrate the expansive diversity of contemporary printmaking found within the Western Region. This exhibition is in partnership with Denver’s Month of Printmaking (March 2024).

ROUGH GEMS: TO OFFER / TO LEAVE
February 22 - March 16, 2024

To Offer/To Leave, aesthetically and thematically inspired by the tales of Shakespeare’s character Ophelia and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, showcases a moment in time after a decision of withdrawal has been made. By interweaving a selection of works from artists such as Daphne Sweet, Lindsay Smith Gustave, Drew Austin, Arthur Williams, Agnes Ma, and Robin Gammons; the exhibition incites a romantic fever dream that honors a shared melancholy.

PRESSING FOR CHANGE
through March 23, 2024

Knowledge is power. Since the early days of printing, the press helped disseminate knowledge broadly. Printmakers often utilize the power of the multiple to critically confront contemporary social issues. Pressing For Change will celebrate the ways printmakers provide an accessible voice for change. Through a variety of approaches, these printmakers inspire action while exploring relationships of community, land, and the environment.

PERFORMING SELF
Through April 28, 2024

Performing Self is a look into how seven multidisciplinary artists celebrate the mutability of self-identity through the embodiment of alter egos or personae. Through photography, video, painting, and installation, artists Tobias Fike, Noa Fodrie, Laura Lee Shill, Louis Trujillo, Eriko Tsogo, and Sherry Wiggins & Luís Filipe Branco reveal how performance plays a role in the fluid construction of self-portraiture in our increasingly image-conscious culture.

ALONE TOGETHER:
CRITICAL MASS 2023 TOP 50
through February 24, 2024

Featuring outstanding contemporary photographs by 50 artists from 10 countries, selected by the who’s who of the international photography community.

Gagosian Looks Back at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Overlooked Days in Los Angeles

This year, instead of hosting his famous pre-Oscars party at his Los Angeles home, Larry Gagosian will be going back to his roots. Not as an entrepreneurial hustler selling framed posters on Broxton Avenue in Westwood, but rather as the dealer who first brought Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work to collectors outside of New York. In March, Gagosian’s Los Angeles gallery will open “Made on Market Street,” the first exhibition comprised solely of work Basquiat made during his early 1980s stints in the sun-baked, palm tree-lined West Coast city.