Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-1995 Curated by Rupert Jenkins

 

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Vicki Myhren Gallery - DU

Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-1995

Curated by Rupert Jenkins

On view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery March 13–April 27, 2025

Please join us for the exhibition opening reception on Thursday, March 13 from 5:00-7:00 PM.

https://vicki-myhren-gallery.du.edu/outside-influence-2/

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is pleased to announce Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995 curated by Rupert Jenkins as part of the biennial Month of Photography in Denver. Jenkins’ exhibition brings together more than 130 works by 60 artists working across media such as print photography, video, installation, and ephemera. Outside Influencetraces the state’s history of fine art photography from the end of the Second World War to the cusp of the 21st century. The show’s title acknowledges landscape’s prominence as a subject for photographers in Colorado and alludes to the influx of artists and educators whose arrival expanded the state’s demographics and photographic practice. This exhibition highlights the rich history of creative photography in Colorado, challenging longstanding regional biases that have overshadowed the medium and its artists in favor of more traditionally celebrated art forms. Jenkins organizes the exhibition thematically, highlighting the urban and natural landscape, expressions of identity via portraiture, and experimental and alternative processes. This exhibition offers a glimpse into Jenkins’ forthcoming book Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995, to be published by University Press of Colorado in autumn 2025. Featured Artists: Herbert Bayer Ray Beasley Robert C. Bishop John Bonath Walter Chappell Albert Chong Joel W. Dallenbach Carol Dass Rick Dingus Gary Emrich Susan Evans Arnold Gassan Susan R Goldstein Shaun Gothwaite Hal Gould Eric Havelock-Bailie Eric Helland Jeff Hersch Cherie Hiser Barbara Houghton Gary Isaacs Hikaru Iwasaki Valari Jack Christopher James Wesley Kennedy Mark Kiryluk Mark Klett/ Rephotographic Survey Project R. Skip Kohloff Syl Labrot Dona Laurita Vidie Lange Roddy MacInnes Merlin Madrid Mike Mandel Burnis McCloud Anne Arden McDonald Ellen Manchester James O. Milmoe Eileen Mullin Kenda North Kevin O’Connell Christopher R. Perez Richard and Sydney Peterson Winter Prather Ed Reed Elisabeth Relin Barbara Jo Revelle Charles Roitz Daniel Salazar David Sharpe John Schoenwalter Paul Schroder Mark Sink Cal Sparks John Suhay Willy Sutton Ruth Thorne-Thomsen Inna Valin Richard van Pelt Melanie Walker Reed Weimer Myron Wood David Zimmer

MaryV curatorial debut FOTOS

 

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My curatorial debut (!!!) is happening March 8th, 6-9 PM at Truss House 3400 Arkins Ct, Denver, CO in collaboration with The RiNo Art District as part of Month of Photography 2025 🖤🤍

This exhibition explores Identity, Connection, & Community through B&W photography, featuring 15 photographers from Guatemala, NYC, Denver, & beyond. Every image in this show holds something deeply special to me, & I feel so honored to bring this work to Denver, my hometown.

Come show some love to these images && meet incredible artists. I can’t wait to celebrate with you all!

Flyer design by @giiirlpevert

Image by @lindsayperryman

Special &&& sweet thank you to Rob, Kiah, Ha, Nadiya, Billie &&& Pixel Puppii 🖤🤍

Salon Selective.” a Survey of the Denver Salon

 

Salon Selective.” a Survey of the Denver Salon-Group Exhibition

March 8th, 2025  -  Runs through May 8th 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 5pm - 9pm

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About the Exhibition:

In celebration with the Month of Photography, Seidel City is pleased to present “Salon Selective.”  a Survey of the Denver Salon. The exhibition will feature a large range of Colorado photographers. The show will be open with a public reception Saturday, March 8th from 5:00-9:00pm, and will be on view March 8th until May 10th by appointment only. The exhibition will finish up with a closing party Saturday, May 10th. Many members, active working photographers today will be present at the opening. Special walk and talk presentations to be announced soon. Open hours are sporadic, for more information or to make a appointment email info@seidelcity.

The Denver Salon was formed by Mark Sink in 1993 to gather fine art photographers that he admired who were pursuing higher ideals in the use of photography. The Denver Salon prides itself with presenting bold experiments--risky and revealing subject matter as well as ambitious photo-installations. This group is committed to taking the fine art photography to new places. In researching his great grandfather (James L. Breese), a photographer, who held midnight salons in New York City in the 1880’s. Sink became enamored and wanted to emulate his legacy. Breese called his group, “The Carbonites”, taken from the carbon print--a rare and difficult printing process Breese produced at his Carbon Studio. Like Breese’s salons, The Denver Salon gathers to show work, discuss art, share ideas and techniques of artistic experimentation. The group likes to reconstruct the French salon setting that boasts a candelabra, draping curtains, and fine food, drink and discussion. Sink soon found that there was power in numbers and he started to successfully approach galleries and museums to host exhibits of the groups’ artwork. They have shown at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, David Floria Gallery in Aspen, on 57th street at the Artopia Gallery in NYC and in Japan where an exchange show was organized with a similar group out of Gallery Soap in Kitikisu City.The exhibits openings were simultaneous, broadcasted live over the Internet for the world and each to see and meet. “I’ve always been aware that the Denver and front range has a particularly strong art community,” Sink says. “And a powerfully strong core group of artists using photography as their medium.” Sink also likens Colorado to Prague with a similar “self-contained art movement not involved with the east or west but with its own quiet cultural hot bed.”

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Artists include:

Eric Havelock-Bailie, Bryan Boettiger, Shaun Gothwaite, John Hallin, Christoper James, Kevin O’Connell, Reed Weimer, Paul Schroder, Mark Sink, Inna Valin, David Zimmer, Wesley Kennedy, Eric Helland, Joel Dallenbach, Susan Evans, Anne Arden McDonald, Tamaki Obuchi, Frank Yantorno, Katie James, Jeff Hersch, Chris Perez, Micheal Ensminger

3205 Longhorn Rd, Boulder, CO 80302

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Westword  - Arts & Culture

It's Time to Focus on the Tenth Month of Photography Denver!

“MOP is like a buffet of every type of photography, with an open theme. That gets people energized.”

By Susan Froyd

March 1, 2025

Image: Phillip Toledano, "Another America 3."

Denver's biennial Month of Photography has become a Colorado art tradition since it debuted in 2004. The brainchild of photographer and art maven Mark Sink, it was pulled together by an army of Sink's friends and designated local art-angels. The citywide gallery takeover by shows focused on photography fed a regional audience hungry to learn more about the medium’s lucky shots, technical secrets and possibilities for instant gratification.

As MOP grew, in 2021 Sink handed over the organizational duties to director/curator Samantha Johnston and her team at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Though Sink has more time now to work on his own photo-based projects, including his international guerrilla wheat-pasting project, The Big Picture, he admits he sometimes longs for MOP’s seat-of-the-pants early years. But he also understands that MOP is a smoother road for the public to ride these days, with CPAC in the driver’s seat.

“One thing that makes Month of Photography so exciting is that photography is always evolving, and it’s never boring,” says CPAC's Megan Ross. “This is MOP’s tenth iteration, and for first time we’re seeing photography using AI to imagine new worlds, but also a resurgence in analog techniques being used in exciting new ways. The tension between two forces might establish what the future of medium will be.”

MOP is no longer a complete mystery to Denver’s astute gallery-goers, she notes: “MOP is like a buffet of every type of photography, with an open theme. That gets people energized.”

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And MOP is evolving in other ways. “Another new component we launched this year is the Indigo Oak Fund Scholarship program for artists from underserved communities,” Ross explains. It provides $10,000 grants to allow four artists to attend the Month of Photography portfolio review, with travel fees and accommodations included. In a time when opportunities of this kind are going out of favor, it gives CPAC a “chance to even the playing field for lens-based artists who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and/or living with a disability.”

What’s the best way for a newbie — or even an old hand — to navigate MOP 2025’s 146 events already rolling out at 86 spaces, from museums to coffee houses? Ross suggests starting small: “Go by CPAC, grab a guide. Talk to the people there. Pick five events and go exploring. It’s an open invitation to check out spaces you wouldn’t ordinarily go to, and that doesn’t just mean museums and galleries. For people who don’t usually go to art galleries, it’s like a new way to explore the city and its art scene.”

Month of Photography Denver kickoff and opening reception for History Reimagined, 6 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at CPAC, 1200 Lincoln Street. Many of the show's photographers and curator Samantha Johnston will be on hand; she'll return with Todd Dobbs, Laura Rautjoki, and Phillip Toledano for a panel discussion at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 2. Learn more about CPAC and its show here; find a complete list of Month of Photography events here.

https://www.westword.com/arts/month-of-photography-denver-has-developed-into-art-powerhouse-23776043