Past Shows 2019
COALESCE
January 3rd - 19th, 2019
Opening Reception: January 10th, 6-10pm
The first show of 2020 for CORE New Art Space is comprised of five guest artists from the Denver area. Artists Ketty Devieux, Diane Fechenbach, Kathy M. Friesz, Annette Griswold, and Nicole Korbe have come together to showcase a stunning array of both representational and abstract works in oil, pastel, cold wax and mixed media.
Pasternack's Art Hub Holiday Party, Saturday, December 14!
Portraiture by Gina Smith Caswell
Showing December 6th - 22nd, 2019
First Friday: December 6th, 6-10pm
Closing Reception: December 20th, 6-10pm
Gina Smith Caswell’s current body of work returns to her exploration of portraiture. Usually she paints herself or family and friends. While in the past her subjects were typically young, this year she completed a poignant painting of her 87-year old father. “I’ve explored capturing the individual's personality as well incorporating them within a traditional setting, such as a living room.” Conversely, another painting echoes Toulouse Lautrec in its gaudiness and lack of interest in "beauty". Caswell’s use of pattern is a dominant theme along with her signature vibrant color.
GUEST ARTIST
Johnny Plastini
Johnny Plastini employs innovative technologies such as laser engravers and computer numerically controlled milling machines in combination with traditional intaglio printmaking processes on handmade papers. His new series, Post-Digital Haruspex, explores a wide range of appropriated imageries that appear simultaneously ancient and futuristic,
when juxtaposed together.
RED SHOW
November 15th - December 1st, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, November 15th, 6-10pm
Red has been used in art before language and history. It comes with infinite meaning, symbolism and psychology. Cultures have used red to dominate, empower, or strike fear yet it also has the power to seduce, warn, celebrate, embarrass, and ignite. This Open Call show invited all artists in all mediums to express what red means to them.
Juror, Michael Paglia, art historian and weekly column writer for Westword has written essays on the visual arts and published in Art News, Architecture, Art Ltd., Modernism, Art & Auction and Sculpture Magazine, among others. He periodically teaches art history at the University of Colorado Denver.
Flayed Cacophony
Craig Cully
Alpena, Michigan
David Bartlett
Night Circus, work by Michelle Lamb and Claudia Roulier
Opening Reception: Friday, October 25th, 2019 6-10pm
Halloween Bash: Saturday, October 26th, 6-10pm
Dia de Los Muertos First Friday: November 1st, 6-10pm
All three dates are costume themed opportunities. Tricked out or not,
treat yourself to food, libation and a chance to win original artwork.
Come one, come all to the multi-faceted dreamscape featuring art by Core members Michelle Lamb and Claudia Roulier
Lamb's work features a post-industrial carnival where cannily crafted assemblages reinvent a world with new rules. Where what is below rises above, where the insides are out, and where nature melds with machinery. A place filled with intriguing riddles. Where the obsolete are guilty of beauty.
Roulier's work features a post-apocalyptic place where darkness and unease dominate a world with no rules. Where up is down and down is nowhere to be found. A place filled with the mysterious, the curious, black magic and strange rituals. Where on one person, animal or thing is innocent.
www.claudiaroulier.com
Members Show
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6th, 2019 6-9pm
Please join us to see work by Core New Art Space members. Work will change at the end of September, so a whole new show will be available after that to enjoy!
Work by:
Susie Biehl
Earl Chuvarsky
Rochelle Dammel
Alissa Davies
Donny Dixon
Joni Emily
Michelle Lamb
Kathy Mitchell-Garton
Claudia Roulier
Tracey Russell
Gina Smith Caswell
Barbara Veatch
WOW SHOW COMING!!! AND WE ARE MOVING!!!
The WOW show is back and is going to be our first official show and celebration in the new location! Please see the call for entries page for more information.
This month we are crazy busy getting our new space spiffed up and ready for our Grand Opening and first show Aug 2; the infamous First Friday Aug 40W art crawl . Wow what a lot of crazy work ahead for the next month stay tuned for photo updates on our instagram and facebook site for progress pictures. We will also be showing members work along with WOW.
Our new location is the Pasternack Art Hub, 6851 W Colfax, Lakewood, in the heart of the 40W Art District. We art very excited to be in the middle of building this new and dynamic art district. Meow Wolf will be just a hop skip and a jump east of us on W Colfax, so much is happening it’s almost too hard to take it all in!
We are excited to share our new space with all our loyal patrons and fans, so please come see us!
Andrea Gordon, Susan Hazaleus & Tracey Russell
May 30 - June 16, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 5-9 pm
“Balls to the Wall...and octopus” is Andrea Gordon’s most recent body of ceramic and paper mache work exploring the experience of her vibrant, reticulating paintings in 3D. The ceramic balls vary in every aspect – size, clay body, surface treatment, firing method and mode of display. The form of an octopus was an accidental discovery as a perfect conduit for exploring 3D painting and surface treatments. Working in these varied mediums embraces the unknown and is completely open to the new, to failure, to learning, and to happy accidents.
Susan Hazaleus’ Electronic and digital artworks reflect childhood memories of sailing flimsy homemade boats in ditches, wading in squishy reed-filled ponds and watching sparkling water gush through irrigation division boxes.
Paintings by Tracey Russell
In the Annex - Scott Hawn
I am captivated by natural and human forms, and the way that a sculpture can speak to us. My art is the process of taking the attributes of a natural or found object, distill and present the various aspects of each, revealing an unexpected beauty in a previously unseen way.
Judy Horowitz & Lori Dresner
May 9 - May 26, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5-8 pm
“Evolution of The Figure – A Retrospective” - Judy Horowitz
The human figure is an abstract, “people” bring a humanity to the concept of the “figure”. The styles in which the figures have been conveyed have varied. The show is a retrospective, the pieces range from the mid 70’s through to latest created in 2019. The paintings have come full circle, the methods used to create have changed evolved and returned to the beginning. Show is hung in a chronological order.
The paintings always tell a story, “you just have to ask.” The paintings are about relationships, brief interactions with strangers and people on the street. They are “moments in time.”
I consistently use oils, the medium provides a richness and integrity of color. There is a flexibility that provides countless possibilities in application.
Menangerie - Lori Dresner
Lori Dresner is a ceramic artist known for her sculpture and pottery. Her work explores our own fragility and the fragility of the world. Lori received a BFA in ceramics from The Rhode Island School of Design and MA in ceramics from the University of Michigan. Lori also holds an MFA in video arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and pursued a career in international advertising that took her to Paris, France for 20 years. Her travels and life experiences influence her art as she interprets the connection we share with nature, environment and family.
Menagerie is a body of hand-built ceramics that revolve around playful characters interacting with each other in imagined settings. Lori uses porcelain to construct the asymmetrical vessels that become her blank canvas, providing a perfect medium for the balance of form and fiction. Her art of pure fantasy serves as a release of worry and tension in a troubled, uncertain world. Lori’s hope is that the creations bring a smile to your face, lighten your thoughts and help you not to take life too seriously.
Susie Biehl & Terrilynn Moore
April 25 - May 5, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, April 26, 2019, 6-9 pm
Black In Color - Susie Biehl
BLACK... Absence of light and enveloped in darkness. The color black is power, fear, strength, elegance and emotion. It has a richness all it's own that is deep, mysterious, edgy and glamorous.
Black is stylish, thought provoking, sophisticated, formal and prestigious. Black is associated with the unknown or negative, but also represents power and strength. Here it is used as the predominant color.
This is a collection of work created by integrating the textures, shapes and colors of recycled materials to form art that is imaginative, tactile and uniquely original.
Nappy Edges - Terrilynn Moore
Terrilynn Moore was born in Denver, Colorado in 1956.
She was a Denver Police Officer for ten years and also worked in a mental health facility.
Currently, Terrilynn is working on her ‘Nappy Edges—a multi-media, abstract exploration of being black in white American culture. The frustration, pain and chaos of living and working in a society that often degrades, humiliates, incarcerates and undervalues people of color. The irony of her police background serves as fodder for her art.
Terrilynn received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Colorado Denver in May of 2017. In June of 2014 she was awarded the College of Art and Media Visual Arts Travel Scholarship.
Terrilynn currently lives in Aurora, Colorado.
In the Annex - Ketty Devieux
Lines, cloth, Thread, Knots… a destiny in the weaving!
We are weavers of our lives, each experience can be an important thread used by our consciousness to connect with one another and create our own essence. That’s why our intuition is guided by the thread of our soul.
I like to thing that the works of this series symbolize elements of my life tapestry.
www.kettydevieux.com
Earl Chuvarsky & Donny Dixon
March 28 - April 14, 2019
Closing Reception: April 12, 6-9 pm
Through exploring more traditional working methods while focusing on contemporary subjects in unexpected or unfamiliar situations - Chuvarsky’s paintings seek to document current events, the artists daily life, the absurdity of modern politics, and childhood nostalgia. All while examining the placement of the subject within the picture plane and the feeling it invokes.
Donny Dixon manipulates fire to explore powerful imagery of daydreams and nightmares. Drawing upon ideas and pictures that flicker just outside of consciousness, Dixon uses elements of fire such as smoke and ash to permanently sear these images onto his canvases.
In the Annex - Kristen Wright
"Paper Dreams" is a collection of dream-inspired illustrations made over 5 years.
The stories of my dreams are vividly fantastical, and I use paper to illustrate the icons, figures, and scenes of my subconscious. Paper cutting and color choices are deliberate, and the transformation in form and meaning, from memory to paper shapes, is what inspires me to create.
Rochelle Dammel & Alissa Davies
March 7 - 24, 2019
Opening Reception - Friday, March 8, 6-9 pm
Professionals & Collectors Event - Friday, March 15, 5:30-9 pm
Sunday with the Artists - Sunday, March 24, 12:30-3 pm
Rochelle Dammel’s latest show at Core, Cultivation, shows her determination to stay in the moment while art making, and offers art lovers a pure look into her subconscious. Dripping, swiping, and scraping acrylic and oil paint on wood and canvas gives her the freedom to explore textures, shapes and mark making that often tell stories.
As a writer and process painter, Rochelle Dammel is interested in telling the stories of her subconscious. Cultivation is a compilation of her efforts to illustrate her underlying thoughts. Painting spontaneously allows colors, shapes, textures and mark making to channel through her into her art.
By applying multiple layers to each piece, she cultivates visual stories. Intuition and trust of skill are her guide as she adds layers and complexity to her art, inviting viewers to see their own version of the stories she paints.
Having recently moved to Colorado, Alissa Davies’ current show examines the complexity of repositioning oneself in new environments, new communities, and new situations. The longing for the familiar home paired with the growth that comes from moving somewhere new, Cultivation conveys the myriad of feelings that occur with relocation.
Davies is interested in the ways that the art-making process reveals effective methods and tools for navigating the life-making process. The messages include and are not limited to: staying open to the unknown, staying with the ugly stages of a painting (and of life), being curious and exploratory, relishing in beauty and harmony, risking, and knowing when to stop.
Davies’ paintings emerge from an intuitive place, intermingling with knowledge of color theory, composition, and painting techniques. Each piece is generated spontaneously, taking cues from her inner world. As a painting progresses she is interested in the interplay of form and the harmony of colors, while staying true to the organic forming of shapes and textures. Play, experimentation, movement and curiosity guide her process.
In the Annex: Jean Smith & Annette Coleman “Positioned”
Jean Smith’s current work is based on the feel of the Mid-Century Modern decorating shapes and placement from the mid 60’s, and 70’s. Each wall composition can be an entity of its own or joined with others to create a larger design element. She uses clay, stains and glazes to create the 3-D components of the pieces.
Annette Coleman’s current interest deals with art in the public realm. This installation represents an idea that could be translated for a public space or your home.
Rita Bhasin, David Dunbar, Carrie Makenna, Sandy Marvin & Bev Ruiz
February 14 - March 3, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, February 15, 6 - 9 pm
Rita Bhasin
Rita Bhasin's paintings express the tactile, bold and colorful quality of her love for the outdoors, ancient cultures and natural materials. She brings to life the quotidian, letting us pause and experience the textures of each moment.
David Dunbar
I am interested in making art that is borne of one single uninterrupted line which never crosses overs itself and has a clear beginning but a very inconspicuous ending.
Carrie MaKenna - Enter the Universal Circle
This interactive art installation and exhibit by artist Carrie MaKenna explores The Universal Circle through painting, sculpture and play. It’s a culmination of 30 years of interest, study, practice and teaching about the Circle as a unique Universal Pattern and Spiritual Resource.
The Circle is found at the center of many spiritual traditions including the Native American Indian Medicine Wheel, the Celtic Stone Circles, the Buddhist Tangkas and Hindu Mandalas among countless others. The Artist has also had a deep life-long interest in Space, the Solar System and the intricate cycles of the Sun, Earth and Moon that define our life on planet Earth.
“We live moment to moment within the influence of The Universal Circle,” says MaKenna. “The Circle is a key form that surrounds and supports us here on Earth. Whether we are aware of it or not, The Universal Circle encompasses our daily lives. It is the basis of the Cycles of Time. We experience the Circle through the cycles of a minute, an hour, a day, month, year, decade, a lifetime. These are marked by the rotation and orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth.”
Sandy Marvin
Sandy Marvin is a contemporary realist painter who enjoys painting with pastel plus dashes of other media in the mix. She paints primarily from life; plein air or still life.
Bev Ruiz - Vivid
Capturing the essence of the beauty around me and the colors in moments of reflection.”
Bev Ruiz is a Colorado based artist who began painting with oil as a creative outlet. Growing up in the Southwest and throughout her travels, her inspiration comes from observing what is not always noticed.
Her art reflects the bold and vivid colors she sees in nature and everyday life. Primarily a studio painter, she shares her artistic expression thru imaginative layers of bold colors, textures, and brush strokes. “I have to continually evolve each painting thru many layers to create the right sensation”.
Annual Member Show
January 24 - February 10, 2019
Reception: Friday, January 25, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Annual Member Show
Artwork by the membership of Core New Art Space will be on display for three weeks. Diverse, colorful and contemporary - The show will feature work by:
Susie Biehl
Gina Smith Caswell
Earl Chuvarsky
Rochelle Dammel
Alissa Davies
Donny Dixon
Sue Crosby Doyle
Lori Dresner
Linda Gleitz
Andrea Gordon
Susan Hazaleus
Rolf Helland
Judy Horowitz
Terrilynn Moore
Claudia Roulier
Tracey Russell
