OUT OF FIRE

EMMETT CULLIGAN + WILLIAM T. CARSON + EMILIO LOBATO

5 - 21 AUGUST 2022

"Nüart Gallery presents “Out of Fire," a group exhibition featuring new work by Emmett Culligan, William T. Carson, and Emilio Lobato. 

The show features work of powerful materiality in which the artists use steel, coal, and rubber to create pieces of unconventional and singular artistry. Whether in Emmett Culligan’s sculptures made of inflated stainless steel, or William T. Carson’s wall pieces built primarily of coal, or Emilio Lobato’s 2-D sculptural pieces composed of rubber– in each case the artist has pushed his material beyond its conventional applications– and in the process created work that is both innovative and riveting."

 Click here to learn more

Emmett Culligan joins Nüart Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

www.nuartgallery.com

5 Colorado Artists To Watch

• By CHRISTINE DEORIO
• March 11, 2022

It would be easy, says art adviser Ann Benson Reidy, to merely place pretty pictures in her clients’ homes and offices, but this industry veteran is after something more: “If I can make people weak in the knees and educate them about different genres of art—and help them move away from what their parents had to realize their own vision—well, that’s just awesome,” she says. Whether she’s hunting for early-edition photographs for private collectors or works that convey a brand’s unique ethos—her Denver-based firm just placed more than 200 pieces by Hawaii artists at the ‘A‘ali‘i tower at Honolulu’s new Ward Village community—Benson Reidy is game for a global search. “I don’t have a stable of artists,” she says. “I get to use every gallery in the world.” That said, Colorado has proven a wellspring of top talent—including these artists catching her eye now...

PHOTO COURTESY WILLIAM HAVU GALLERY

EMMETT CULLIGAN

At William Havu Gallery, Denver

“Emmett studied painting at the Art Students League of New York before pursuing his fine art degree in sculpture at the University of Colorado Denver. The magic of his abstract contemporary sculptures in steel is in his manipulation of the material. In the ‘Rubric’ series, it appears as though he has inflated this hard, unapproachable, almost mean material, giving it a curvature, softness and femininity that is very kind, forgiving and almost sensual. You just want to touch it.”

Click here to read entire article

Art of the State 2022

"Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected.

Jurors:

Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center

Ellamaria Ray, Artist/Anthropologist, Professor of Africana Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Collin Parson, Director of Galleries and Curator, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities"

Click here for more information

Colorado Abstract +10: A Survey

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art are proud to partner to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the 2009 book Colorado Abstract: Paintings and Sculpture, by Michael Paglia and Mary Voelz Chandler, with a foreword by Hugh Grant. This landmark publication highlighted the history and continuing tradition of abstraction by artists in the state. 

The Arvada Center, in their Main Gallery, will exhibit a contemporary survey of works by artists originally included in the publication. In their Upper and Theatre Galleries, additional artists working in abstraction that have also made an impact on Colorado's art scene will be featured. 

Kirkland Museum will present an exhibition of two and three-dimensional artworks created by the artists featured in the historical section of the book, tracing the history and development of this artistic style in Colorado. 

Exhibition underwritten by Jodie Steeves and Nancy Terry

DETAILS FOUND HERE