Justin Beard

Justin Beard spoke with my class today - I really love his work. This work, called "Light Roller", was based on his experience of a beam of sunlight bouncing off of his paint roller while painting a small room at work:

"Tunnel" by Justin Beard

My friend Justin installed a clever new work at the show at Hinterland yesterday. It's made up of a model train going around and around inside a mountain tunnel. While he fine-tuned it, I got a couple of quick photos so you can see how its made up:




It made a hushed sound within the tunnel that was reminiscent of water flowing as well as a circling train. Great stuff.

Down with the Sickness

Opens tonight.

HINTERLAND and TRAVIS EGEDYpresent
"DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS"
featuring the work of JUSTIN BEARD, MILTON CROISSANT III, STERLING CRISPIN, TRAVIS EGEDY and DREW ENGLANDER.

Join us for the opening reception on July 31, Friday, 6pm. The exhibit will also be open for first Friday on August 7th, from 6-10pm. To see the show by appointment - call Sabin Aell at 720-309-1764. Hinterland is located at 3254 Walnut Street in the Rino Art District.

"down with the sickness" is a mystical and transgressive collection of artworks, new media, and performances from a group of Denver's leading up and coming art misfits and radicals.
Explorations of the body, gender, identity, reality, and alternate states of consciousness are all licked and twisted in a fantastic cohesiveness that reflects aspects of our current cultural desires and truths.


"the sickness" has multiple dimensions.
Could the sickness be a viral spreading of new awareness and higher vibrational consciousness? If so, we are "down" with it. Or could "the sickness" be the very sickness that is plaguing and polluting our minds and our earth? The very sickness that forces you to go to work in the morning, or the very sickness that cloaks itself as the real? If so, down with the sickness!

The show will feature, paintings, sculpture, new media, and performance. This is surely not to be missed. Staying true to the unreal.

More Big Beautiful Things

Sorry for the late notice, but tomorrow night will be the opening of an exceptional show at the Arvada Center, with a couple of pieces from a Denver artist I've met recently as part of a critique group - Justin Beard. His work will be featured among several installation, sculptural and conceptual based artists. You can check out more images from the artists in a flickr set here.

Justin Beard

"More Big Beautiful Things"
Arvada Center , Lower Gallery
6901 Wadsworth Blvd.
Arvada, CO 80003

January 17 - March 30, 2008

"Organized by Gallery Director/Curator Jerry Allen Gilmore, this exhibition examines some of the most promising and progressive artists working in contemporary sculpture. You will encounter, in tranquil poses, geometric structures of abastract language, monumental, magical and massive in power, straightforward convolutions reshaped and revitalized from lost and found materials, including stone, steel, rubber, wood and paper. Captivating and enticing, this exhibition is limited on to your imagination. "

January 17 - March 30, 2008

Opening Reception January 17, 2008 (Tomorrow!)

Conversation with the artists:Monday, January 28, 11 a.m.