Lettering Pens

Cool packaging I scanned from some old pen tips.

Photos of the Day

Ryan McGinley, Smoke & Silhouette, 2007

Ryan McGinley, Untitled (Bungee), 2005

Nevadaville Revisted.

Last weekend we took a drive on the Peak to Peak byway from Central City to Estes Park, Colorado. We made a stop in one of the closer ghost towns to Denver called Nevadaville. It's hard to believe that during the peak of mining prosperity in the area more than a thousand people lived here. Here are several then and now comparison photos.

I've posted about Nevadaville previously and the art of Andre Yi.

Nevadaville, 19001937

February 2009

Sherriff Leonard Nichols -last resident of Nevadaville (photo ca. 1931-1935)

Main Street Nevadaville, February 2009

Colorado Trading & Investment Co. ca. 1894-1898
1939

February 2009

Main St., Nevadaville, Spring 1939Main St., Nevadaville, February 2009

Black and white historical photos from the DPL Western History and Genealogy archive.

Roman Tolici "Action" Series

Roman Tolici, One trip, 2006, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm

Roman Tolici, One fire, 2007, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

Shot to the Heart

Happy Valentines Day! (image from the collection of Nathan Abels)

Charming Baker

Falling Boy (The Descent Into Mediocrity) oil on linen

I love these works by Charming Baker. There's a good sense of humor to the works and his site. I think he makes exceptional use of negative space in his compositions - and has some pretty great titles too.

The Overachievers (oil on Irish linen)

Mind Your Head (oil on wood)That Which Is Robust Can Rarely Bully the Beauty Out Of That Which Is Ephemeral
Number Fourteen

Number Thirty-two

Christoph Hilse

Christoph Hilse - recommended by Minutiae reader Marcel Bakker.

Chloe Early

Chloe Early | Palace 2007 | oil on aluminum 100 x 140cm | Pieces of a Dream

Matthew Cornell: Variations on a Theme

Matthew Cornell, Sweetwater, Oil on Panel, 7.25x9.25"

Matthew Cornell, Santee, Oil on Panel, 12x18"

Matthew Cornell, Tangier, Oil no Panel, 7x10"

Matthew Cornell, Vermilion, Oil on Panel, 16x20"

Nicholas Gottlund

"Double Bluff" (look at this full size)

"Ambient" found here. Nicolas Gottlund.

cicognara, fiume Po

cicognara, fiume Po
Originally uploaded by jukka_re

Mindy Kober

Mindy Kober, Sapling, gouache on paper, 2008

Mindy Kober, Abnormal Growth, gouache on Paper, 2008

Mindy Kober, Waterfall, gouache on paper, 2007, 36" x 24"

Photo of the Day

Looking threw the eye of the past, pt. 5 - by Gustaf Erik Lundh

Erik Enocksson and other Quiet Swedish Music

Erik Enocksson @ BERG 211 from Kning Disk on Vimeo.

Erik Enocksson on myspace

Cover for Erik Enocksson's "Harsh and stubborn that river bends/Dark and shrewd, no light it lends" 7" - photo by Fredrik Wenzel.

Erik Enocksson, Sommar.

Also - Check out this free (and legal) download called Epoche by Fiktion -c/o Frukt Recods. Fiktion writes, "It's an invite from Fiktion for you and your ipod to take a walk arround in your local woodland. To get lost and to find your way, to see patterns and to break patterns. Be sure to listen to the album as a whole, and we're sure you'll have a unique journey in some individual way. " The album comes with a beautiful pdf "booklet" and is well worth a download.


For any of you visual artists reading this - these two musicians are both recommended listening for making some art.

Kristen Schiele at David B. Smith Gallery

Kristen Schiele, Industrial, Oil on Canvas, 21"x30"

Three of Swords, 2008, 48" x 46", oil on canvas

I finally got over to David B. Smith gallery to see the current group show. I really enjoyed these two pieces by Kristen Schiele and had a nice chat with Dave about gallery name change (from Limited Addiction) and all that 2009 has in store for him (books? prints? new artists! Josh Keyes show!).

If you haven't seen the show that's up right now, do. I thought it was more diverse than their previous group shows and represented a broader range of painting and sculpture - broader than the typically narrow scope of the Juxtapoz/low-brow/pop-surrealism/whateveryouwanttocallit scene that they often (perhaps unfairly) get lumped into. I'm excited to see their scope grow as their gallery grows and I'm really looking forward to their upcoming shows this year.

I've been Booooooomed!

A great art/design/music/etc site put up some of my drawing today. Check it out! They update constantly at Booooooom! so it's definitely worth repeated visits.

Opening Tonight

Sliding Door Gallery presents two solo exhibits, February 6-28, 2009

Berndt Savig

A Forced Intimacy: Recent Painting and Sculpture

On display at Sliding Door Gallery beginning February 6, 2009 are recent paintings and sculpture by Berndt Savig. Returning to the female figure and visage as the primary focus in this body of work, the paintings are psychological studies of imagined individuals with introspective, pessimistic or emotionally withdrawn demeanors. The larger scale of the paintings creates a forced intimacy with the viewer.

AND

Rachel Hawthorn

Memory Houses

Memory Houses is an in progress series of images that continues Rachel Hawthorn's exploration of the way our domestic environments shape our memories and perception. Each image features a model of a house that Rachel lived in, constructed of only the parts remembered. Anything that is
forgotten has been left out. These models were placed in the landscape and photographed from different perspectives to enhance the experience of the distances between current perception and memory of the past.

Sliding Door Gallery

766 Santa Fe Drive

Denver, CO

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Open First Friday 5 to 10

Open Third Friday 12 to 8

Open other Fridays and all Saturdays 12 to 5

AND by appointment: Berndt Savig 303.562.5097 or Rachel Hawthorn at 303.521.5012

Sliding Door Gallery has moved! Join us next First Friday, February 6, at our new home, at 766 Santa Fe Drive, Denver!

Thrill of Permanence

photo by flickr member azsublime

"Everything we see falls apart, vanishes. Nature is always the same, but nothing in her that appears to us, lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us the taste of her eternity."

--Paul Cezanne

Making Progress

North Pole, South Pole

I scanned these engravings from an old World Book. They are currently residing in my "to frame" file. Notice the unexplored regions.