Fabric head - Tiana Graves @tea_ah_nuh at the @thetempledenver - @the_big_picture_colo
Mendala bomb - @Johnathan.Saltz and @plusdashplush at Crema Cafe @crema_dnvr - @rinoartdistrict
Disability Rights - Valerie Rose @hellovalerieros and blind artist Duplessis Art @duplessis.art - @rinoartdistrict
Snake head- Casey Kawaguchi @caseykawaguchi @rinoartdistrict
HOPE - Koko Bayers @kokonofilter - @rinoartdistrict
Red Handshake - @theunpersonproject - @susana_moyaho & @andreatejedak - @the_big_picture_colo
Spray painting - Thomas Evans - @detour303 - @rinoartdistrict
Crowd laying down protesting Denver - Jenna Rice - I Cant Breath - @redricephoto - @the_big_picture_colo
White cutout figures - @theunpersonproject - @susana_moyaho & @andreatejedak
@the_big_picture_colo
Profile with notes - Sandra Klein - Inner Memories - @sandra_klein_photography - @the_big_picture_colo
Power and Equality - Shepard Fairey @obeygiant - @rinoartdistrict
LHOOQANON - Atomic Elroy @atomicelroy - @the_big_picture_colo
Gold Halo -Thomas Evans - @detour303 - @rinoartdistrict
Group wheat paste wall - Marna Clarke Photography @marnaclarke Anissa Malady @lbryvxn @scrawledinthemargins - Ron Cooper- Kristen Hatgi kristenhatgisinkphoto - @the_big_picture_colo
Alley captures untitled various artists .. center photo image of back East Side Juan Fuentes @thewritejuan @rinoartdistrict - @the_big_picture_colo
Last image: Alley captures of untitled various artists - @rinoartdistrict
trouble
trouble is a magazine
it appears three to four times a year
it's mostly about trouble
http://concretewheels.com/trouble/trouble.htm
Thank you, Matthew Rose
@mistahcoughdrop
#Denverstreetart
More information on the artists and Denver's resources for street art support submission opportunities:
https://rinoartdistrict.org/art/murals
https://denverpublicart.org/public-arts/
https://www.instagram.com/the_big_picture_colo
https://www.instagram.com/thetempledenver
#wheatpaste
Denver: Street Talk
Denver is the no coast art city. Land-locked, a mile high, surrounded by mountains and inhabited by hippies, artists, hedge fund traders and snowboarders (among others), Denver might have more street art plastered and painted on its buildings and alleyways than other city in America (aside from New York, perhaps). I am sharing but a tiny sample.
Throughout the last fifty years, Denver’s vibrant visual culture has been born and reborn out of a hands-on free expression wild west independence. In this spirit, a true DIY underground culture emerged braced by dozens of art centers, galleries and museums across the city (and the state). Young people found a voice in art and music and performance fully
supported by the city. Rhinoceropolis was such an incubation venue that inspired countless young creatives more than any art or scholastic institution in the region.
Sadly Rhinoceropolis recently shuddered, a victim of gentrification. An age old story: Artists arrive first, followed by real estate developers; mass exodus of artists who can no longer afford to live in their chosen neighborhoods. Rhinceropolis foreshadowed and inspired the art district named RINO (River North) where hundreds of street artists and the creative class now flourish; but many artists are now are in the retreat.
Currently, though, a wide range of street art is healthy in Denver, thanks to generous support by RINO Art District, RedLine Community Center, The Temple Artist Haven and The Big Picture wheat paste street art project.
In early December I took a long walk around the RINO Art District to explore and catch up on its current street art. In one alley I smelled fresh spray paint in the air and I came upon one of our most celebrated street artists “Detour.” This spray can genius was just starting a new portrait and a crowd had formed to watch him unwind his magic.
Like most modern western cities, Denver is experiencing growing pains in all aspects of its economic and social and cultural bones. In that process, cultural incubation centers are typically the first to be pushed out. But some developers have begun to understand the importance of art and culture on the city walls – and even figured out how to profit by using artists and their talent in creating value in revitalizing neighborhoods, adding a hip and fresh take on buildings and generating a new atmosphere in developments, that ironically, artists could never afford.
Marrying a developer's interests and income with an artist’s nature for tattooing social consciousness on the city’s skin, has made for an uncomfortable but compelling visual – and reality. Street art in Denver is living that fine line.
The future for all this marvelous visual poetry remains a question mark. Will developers change their minds and whitewash it all? Will the city suddenly turn on its artists and pass an ordinance outlawing such artwork? We hope not. I passionately believe we do need to nurture culture and let DIY spaces incubate emerging talent.
– Mark Sink, Denver, Colorado. December 2021
@marksink www.gallerysink.com
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