David B. Smith Gallery 
1543 A Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80202  map
phone:    303.893.4234
fax:         877.893.4234

website:  http://davidbsmithgallery.com
Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6, and by appointment

David B. Smith Gallery is Denver's venue for compelling contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring work from some of today's most dynamic artists with growing international reputations. Through participation in leading art fairs and extensive media coverage, David Smith has cultivated a strong regional, national and international collector audience. In August 2008, The New York Times hailed the gallery as offering "an exciting contrast of cutting edge works." In addition to its curatorial program, David B. Smith maintains an active publishing division, Limited Addiction, which produces limited edition artist prints and monographs.

Continuing:
Constructed Histories, curated by William Morrow, Artists: Sanford Biggers (American), Jeremy Dean (American), Tania Dibbs (American), Teresa Diehl (Lebanese), Christoph Dreager (Swiss), Glenn Kaino (American), Dinh Q Lé (Vietnamese), McCallum Tarry (American), and Aaron Skolnick (American). Societal tendency is to construct and interpret information to suit our needs and desired outcomes. It is therefore not surprising that artists continue to challenge the status quo and inspire us in their ability to mine the complex layers of history. While the artists in this exhibition are culling from quite different histories, there is a convergence in their ability to inspire alternative perspectives.
Through March 31
 

Space Gallery
765 Santa Fe Drive     Map
Denver, 80204
phone:    720-904-1088
website:  www.spacegallery.org
Hours: Wed-Sat 1pm-6pm or by appointment

Exhibition to be announced
 

Visions West Galleries
Director:  Nikki Todd
1715 Wazee St.
Denver, CO 80202    map
phone:    303.292.0909
website:    www.visionswestgallery.com
hours:    Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 pm or by appointmen

Continuing:
Suburban Cowboy, works by Tracy Stuckey. The artist provokes the viewer and sets them adrift in his new body of works inspired by Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian. Updating and subsequently deconstructing the West of yesterday, Stuckey portrays an updated West that is almost an accessory. Mining divergent sources for these works, we are treated to a clever mash-up of humor, satire and theatricality that make these paintings a delightful way to grapple with the complexity and multiplicity of today’s west.
Through March 31
 

Walker Fine Art 
The Prado Building, 300 West 11th Avenue (at Cherokee)
Denver, CO  80204 In the Golden Triangle    Map
phone:     303.355.8955
website:   www.walkerfineart.com
hours:     Tues-Sat 12-6pm and by appointment

First Friday receptions 6-8pm
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Continuing:
New Works Featuring: Peter Illig, Ben Strawn, Chris DeKnikker & Kellie Cannon. In this exhibition, Peter Illig searches for and uses images from the past to comment on contemporary society. The images become metaphors for interactions between men and women, and for our constant search for meaning in our lives; they also touch upon our darker motivations, our “shadow side”, and the sometimes hidden reasons we act as we do. “Blindfolded people are not handicapped but must rely on other senses to guide them. Most importantly, they must depend on intellect, since vision is hindered. Also, because art is visual, it points to doubts we may have about vision as “truthful” and as a guide to meaning.” Peter Illig
Through March 14

Friday, March 20
Reception, 5-9 pm
UNCONSCIOUS METAPHORS Featuring: Anne Arden McDonald, Susan kae Grant, Zelda Zinn, Bonny Lhotka. “I have a personal affinity for surrealism,” says gallery owner and curator Bobbi Walker. “I find the intellectual narrative of reality juxtaposed with a dream world quite fascinating.” The overreaching goal of this 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and culture was to magnify the creative potential of the unconscious mind. The artists featured in this exhibit, continue this tradition.
Through: May 2

Tuesday, March 31
Art Conversations Series, 5:30-7:00p
Bobbi Walker, Surrealism, “Unconscious Metaphors”
The overreaching goal of this 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and culture was to magnify the creative potential of the unconscious mind. The Surrealists believed that the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination, weighting it down with taboos. In surreal photography lighting and exposures are often played with more than in conventional photography, and this can lead to ghostly forms, abstract shapes and interesting use of light/shadows. Through free association, cerebral yet irrational, we can witness the juxtaposition of the intellectual narrative of reality with a dream world.