Opening Reception
2022-04-14 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Vicki Myhren Gallery is happy to present the Fountain of Eudemonia, a solo exhibition of new work by Jing Qin created during her tenure as the 2021-2022 Phipps Teaching Artist in Residence at the School of Art and Art History. Join us for the opening reception April 14, 2022, at 5 – 8 PM. Light refreshments provided. Open to the public.

Guided Meditation
2022-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
Join guest host Katelyn Young in the gallery for a guided meditation session. Coffee and snacks are provided. Free and open to the public! RSVP by emailing us at vmgallery@du.edu.

Transformative Power Opening Reception
2022-09-15 17:00 - 20:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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Join us for the opening reception of “Transformative Power: Indigenous Feminisms” curated by Daina Warren. Light refreshments provided. RSVPs appreciated but not required for attendance.

See the map below for directions to our gallery space on the University of Denver’s main campus.

Transformative Power Exhibition
2022-09-16 12:00 - 2022-11-27 17:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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“Transformative Power: Indigenous Feminisms” is an exhibitions exploring the feminine by Indigenous artists curated by Daina Warren at Vicki Myhren Gallery. To reserve your appointment during gallery hours from 12 -5 PM Tuesday – Sunday please email the gallery. For directions on how to get to our gallery space on the University of Denver’s main campus, please see the google map below.

Young, Black, and Gifted Exhibition
2023-01-19 17:00 - 2023-04-30 17:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art

Virtual Event: Troy Montes-Michie in conversation with Denny Mwaura
2023-04-21 16:00 - 17:30 | https://udenver.zoom.us/s/84878608554
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Join artist Troy Montes-Michie and Chicago-based curator Denny Mwaura for a dialogue on style, self-fashioning, and sexuality as expressed in his collages and textiles. Together, the two discuss the influences of the Zoot suit’s history, pop culture, and lived experiences on the Texas-Mexico border have had on Michie’s practices in painting and sculpture.

Michie’s work is currently featured at the Vicki Myhren Gallery as part of the exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Collection of Contemporary Art, on view through April 30.

Troy Montes-Michie

Denny Mwaura

"We Are Us: Drawings of Lee Conklin" Closing Reception
2023-09-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join us to celebrate the closing of “We Are Us: Drawings of Lee Conklin.” All are invited for art, music, and food!

The event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition Reception: Vestiges
2024-01-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Colorado
Please join us for a reception and performance to accompany the current exhibition, Vestiges, at the Davis Gallery. Food and drink provided. All are welcome!

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Hung Liu: Control and Freedom Opening Reception
2024-01-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join us to ring in 2024 and celebrate the opening of Hung Liu: Control and Freedom at the Vicki Myhren Gallery.

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Parking

Free parking is available in Lot L the night of the opening reception. Please refer to the map below for directions.

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is located in the Shwayder Art Building, 2121 E Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80210

The parking garage is located across from the gallery on the south side of Asbury. There will be an attendant stationed at the garage to open the gate and direct you.

Driving West on Asbury Ave.: After the 4-way stop sign at the intersection of Asbury and York, make the next left on Gaylord St. To your left you will see a multi-story parking garage. Make a left into the garage and the attendant will let you in.

Driving East on Asbury Ave.: On your right, you will pass the large, open quad space and the Burwell Center, with Shwayder Art Building on your left. Make a right turn onto Gaylord St. after the Burwell Center, and before you pass the multi-story parking garage. Make a left into the garage and the attendant will let you in.

Reception for "Fleeting Presence: The Liminal Art of Daniel Sprick" at the Madden Museum
2024-01-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Colorado
Please join us to celebrate the reopening of the Madden Museum and the exhibition “Fleeting Presence: The Liminal Art of Daniel Sprick” curated by sixteen University of Denver students.

Organized by a cohort of sixteen students from the School of Art & Art History at the University of Denver, this exhibition explores formal and thematic tensions in the work of Colorado artist Daniel Sprick. Through his adept handling of form, space, color, and light, Sprick creates hauntingly beautiful paintings rooted in the realism of Dutch artists like Johannes Vermeer. His paintings reflect our world back to us, but it’s a world imbued with hints of melancholy and hidden meaning. Embracing ambiguity, Sprick’s art brings together seeming opposites – life and death, stillness and dynamism, transience and permanence – transforming our everyday existence into something magical and mysterious.

Curated by: Lauren Anuszewski, Sydney Barofsky, Alex Blom, Seb Brady, Lexi Ferenzi, Morgan Fleetwood, McKenna Gale, James Grau, Allene Leak, Patrick Lucas, Sydney McCain, Anna McDonald, Claire Motsinger, Andrew Nadeau, Emily Oxford-Pickeral, and Jordan Reed.

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Directions to the Madden Museum

6363 South Fiddlers Green Circle

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Entrance next to Mangia Bevi Café on the North side of the building, next to the giraffe sculptures.

"Leap Day" Opening Reception
2024-02-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Colorado
All are invited to celebrate the opening of “Leap Day,” the newest exhibition in the Davis Gallery!

March 5 – Lecture by Duane Michals
2024-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Join renowned photographer and DU alumnus, Duane Michals, for an evening of conversation.

POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE - "Leap Day" Reception with Artist Kathryn Polk
2024-03-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Colorado
Join us for a reception celebrating the printmaker Kathryn Polk in association with the exhibition “Leap Day,” on view in the Davis Gallery, through March 24. Free and open to the public.

April 4 – "F*Bomb" Opening Reception
2024-04-04 17:00 - 20:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “F*Bomb” at the Vicki Myhren Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

This exhibition features the work of former DU professor Sarah Gjertson, alongside the art of her mentors, inspirations, and students.

On view until May 5, 2024.

April 10 – Performance by Karen Finley
2024-04-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Colorado
As part of the exhibition “F*BOMB” on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, renowned artist Karen Finley will perform her work “Believe.” Similarly to the personal artistic lineages explored in “F*BOMB,” Finley’s performance engages with her own influences and mentors.

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The performance is free and open to the public. Free parking available in Lot L.

The performance will be held at Reiman Theater (Room 113) in Margery Reed Hall at the University of Denver.

2306 E. Evans Ave.Denver, CO 80208

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Karen Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, she has presented her work worldwide in various venues such as The Bobino in Paris, The ICA in London and Lincoln Center in NYC. Finley lectures and gives workshop at universities and museums internationally. Her work is in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary art and the Pompidou. She is the author of eight books, including a 25th anniversary edition of Shock Treatment ( City Lights 2015 ), Reality Shows, (Feminist Press 2011), and George and Martha ( Verso 2008). Her recent work includes, Artist Anonymous – a social practice self help open meeting for those addicted to art presented at Museum of Art and Design (2014) , and Written in Sand, a performance of music and her writings on AIDS, Open Heart, a Holocaust memorial at Camp Gusen, Austria; Broken Negative, where Finley reconsiders her infamous chocolate performance that brought her to the Supreme Court, in Finley vs. NEA; and at the New Museum, NYC Sext ME if You Can, where Finley creates commissioned portraits inspired by “sexts” received from the public. Finley creates interactive walks such as Mandala: Reimaging Columbus Circle Columbia Graduate school of Architecture and Elastic City. A recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, NYSCA and NEA fellowships. In 2015 she was awarded the Richard J Massey Foundation Arts and Humanities award.

April 11 - Karen Finley in Conversation
2024-04-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Join us for a conversation between renowned artist Karen Finley and DU’s own Dean Sobel. As part of the exhibition “F*BOMB” on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, Finley and Sobel will discuss personal artistic lineages, feminist and performance art, and the culture wars.

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The event is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available in Lot L.

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Karen Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, she has presented her work worldwide in various venues such as The Bobino in Paris, The ICA in London and Lincoln Center in NYC. Finley lectures and gives workshop at universities and museums internationally. Her work is in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary art and the Pompidou. She is the author of eight books, including a 25th anniversary edition of Shock Treatment ( City Lights 2015 ), Reality Shows, (Feminist Press 2011), and George and Martha ( Verso 2008). Her recent work includes, Artist Anonymous – a social practice self help open meeting for those addicted to art presented at Museum of Art and Design (2014) , and Written in Sand, a performance of music and her writings on AIDS, Open Heart, a Holocaust memorial at Camp Gusen, Austria; Broken Negative, where Finley reconsiders her infamous chocolate performance that brought her to the Supreme Court, in Finley vs. NEA; and at the New Museum, NYC Sext ME if You Can, where Finley creates commissioned portraits inspired by “sexts” received from the public. Finley creates interactive walks such as Mandala: Reimaging Columbus Circle Columbia Graduate school of Architecture and Elastic City. A recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, NYSCA and NEA fellowships. In 2015 she was awarded the Richard J Massey Foundation Arts and Humanities award.

Dean Sobel is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Denver

Prior to joining DU, Sobel was the founding director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver (2005-2020) and director/chief curator at the Aspen Art Museum (2000-2005). He began his museum career at the Milwaukee Art Museum (1987-2000), working primarily in the area of modern and contemporary art, eventually obtaining the rank of chief curator.

April 12 - "Portals" Opening Reception
2024-04-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Artists and Curators Zac Abero and Luke Penton

Please join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Portals in the Davis Gallery. The exhibition is on view from April 12 through May 8, 2024.

April 16 - Lecture by Calista Lyon, Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography
2024-04-16 17:30 - 19:00 | Shwayder Art Building, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Shwayder Art Building, Room 119

Please join the School of Art and Art History for a lecture by Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography Calista Lyon. Lyon’s lecture, Rituals of Re-Connection: Unlearning Colonial Legacy, will provide an overview of her practice.

Calista Lyon

https://www.calistalyon.com/

Calista Lyon is an Australian artist based between Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Using an expanded photographic practice, she creates installations, performances and community-engaged projects that investigate ecological and social breakdown in our time of colonial-capitalist modernity.

Her work has been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Sydney Museum, Sydney, Australia; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT.

She has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Australia; National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia; The Regional Art Fund, Australian Federal Government, Australia; Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY.

She has completed residencies and fellowships at Epicenter, Green River, UT; Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

She is currently the Singer Artist-in-Residence & Visiting Professor in Photography at the University of Denver, Colorado.

May 9 - Performance by Calista Lyon, "The Unknown and the Unnamed"
2024-05-09 16:30 - 19:30 | Davis Auditorium, 2020-2040 South Race Street, Denver, Colorado, 80210
The Unknown and the Unnamed

https://www.calistalyon.com/theunknownandtheunnamed

The Unknown and the Unnamed uses projected images, live narration, interviews, and field recordings to reckon with the violence of historical and contemporary settler power in Australia. The performance shares a collective experience of loss, extinction, and the consequences of human action on nonhuman and human lives via the endangered Crimson Spider Orchid (Caladenia concolor).

This ongoing, multi-year research project began with my introduction to an Australian orchid collection created by self-described “recluse” and amateur botanist, Phillip Branwhite, who lived in Lyon’s family’s farming community in Tallangatta Valley, Australia.

Lyon use oral histories drawn from her personal relationships with local amateur botanists, conservationists, farmers, scientists, photographic and botanical archives, and extensive literary and scientific research. She makes visible the impacts on mental health of living in a time of escalating drought, bushfires, species extinction, deforestation, and global warming. Drawing from research in Feminist Science Studies and her experience growing up on a cattle farm in Australia, she use symbiosis as a metaphor for community challenging dominant narratives of human individualism.

Working to subvert dominant narratives of human individualism, the performance provides layered examples of individual existence borne of and reliant on interconnection, prompting considerations of our entangled relationships toward more just forms of living.

Directions and Parking Information

The Davis Auditorium (Room 248) is located in Sturm Hall

2000 E Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80210

Free parking is available in Lot T. The parking garage, Lot T, is located underneath the tennis and basketball courts, immediately west of the gallery on the north side of Asbury, opposite Race Street. There will be an attendant stationed at the garage to open the gate and direct you, simply let them know you are here for the performance.

Driving West on Asbury Ave.: Continue straight through the 4-way stop sign at the intersection of Asbury and York. You will pass the Vicki Myhren Gallery on your right. Continue past the angle street parking to your right, and make a right turn into the parking garage and the attendant will let you in. If you reach High Street, you have gone too far.

Driving East on Asbury Ave.: Drive past the Dimond Residential Village (southeast corner of Asbury Avenue and High Street intersection). On your left, you will see the garage entrance. Make a left into the garage and the attendant will let you in.

To reach Davis Auditorium (Room 248), Sturm Hall: Follow the blue arrows on the diagram above. In the northeast corner of the parking garage, there is a pedestrian exit and pathway. Exit the garage and cross Asbury Ave. Sturm Hall will be on your right. Enter and proceed up the stairs to floor 2. A wheelchair accessible entrance is located at the back of the building, on Race St. After crossing Asbury Ave., proceed West on Asbury and turn left on Race St., Sturm Hall will be on your left. Go past the loading dock and enter the building. An elevator will be ahead on your left. Take that up to floor 2. Exit the elevator, turn left, and proceed to the front of the building. Make a right and you will be in the lobby in front of the auditorium.

Opening Receptions for Faculty Exhibitions
2024-09-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join the School of Art and Art History to celebrate the opening reception of two exhibitions. On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery are the artworks of current DU faculty members. In the Davis Gallery and Shwayder Art Building lobby, are recent acquisitions of artworks by former DU faculty members.

Free parking available in Lot L.

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Code-X Exhibition Opening Reception
2025-01-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Join us to celebrate the opening of Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices at the Vicki Myhren Gallery.

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices, curated by DU’s own Rafael Fajardo, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices. This exhibition brings together the artworks of more than a dozen Chicanx artists who reimagine the long tradition of the codex as a dynamic space for Chicanx storytelling. Ranging from painting and prints to comic books, zines, and video games, these artworks bridge the analog and digital. The artists mix the ancient, colonial, and modern to explore the complexities of contemporary life, including migration, Mestizaje, and cultural survival. Featuring many interactive artworks, this exhibition invites all visitors to play and engage with these innovative and thoughtful reworkings of the codex.

Month of Photography Exhibition Opening Receptions
2025-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Please join DU’s School of Art and Art History to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions as part of Denver’s Month of Photography.

On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery, “Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-1995” traces the history of fine art photography in Colorado from the end of the Second World War to the cusp of the 21st century. Curated by Rupert Jenkins, the exhibition features more than 140 works by more than 60 artists. “Outside Influence” will be on view through April 27, 2025.

The Davis Gallery will feature the artwork of DU alum Kari Varner. The exhibition will be on view from March 3 through 31, 2025.

Free parking will be available in Lot L across the street from Shwayder Art Building.

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Outside Influence: Photography Panel Discussion
2025-04-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
The Vicki Myhren Gallery invites you to an evening of community and conversation on the exhibition “Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado, 1945-1995” now on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery through April 27.

Featuring:

Albert Chong, Contemporary artist and Professor of art, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ellen Macfarlane, PhD, Assistant Professor of American art and photography, University of Denver

Natascha Seideneck, Contemporary artist and Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University

Rupert Jenkins, moderator, Photography writer and Curator of “Outside Influence”

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The panel is free and open to the public. Parking is available across the street from the Vicki Myhren Gallery, Shwayder Art Building in parking garage L.

2025 Senior Showcase Opening Reception
2025-05-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Join the School of Art and Art History to celebrate the annual Senior Showcase exhibition featuring artworks by graduating BFA and BA Studio Art majors.

Free parking available

Curator Conversation with Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Reiman Theater, Margery Reed Hall, 2306 E. Evans Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210
MCA Denver and the University of Denver present a conversation with Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Directors of the sixth iteration of the international art triennial Prospect New Orleans. Titled Prospect.6 The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, this triennial was originally presented across twenty-one venues throughout the city of New Orleans from November 2024 to February 2025. For the first time in its history, a selection of this triennial will travel beyond New Orleans and will be on view at MCA Denver from May 23 to August 24, 2025.

Lash and Patterson will compare notes around the ethos and goals of Prospect, the longest running multi-venue triennial in the United States. Central to their approach is a deep commitment to supporting artists’ practice, commissioning new projects, and centering the connections between different regions of the world that are deeply impacted by climate change and colonial legacies.

The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 opens at MCA Denver on Friday, May 23rd. For more information visit www.mcadenver.org.

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her most recent accomplishments include acting as the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Director (alongside Ebony G. Patterson) of the 2024–2025 international art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans; and organizing the following exhibitions at MCA Denver: Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025, co-organized with Leilani Lynch); Cowboy (2023, co-organized with Nora Burnett Abrams); Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe (2023); Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth (2022); Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting / Rivalizando con el relampágo (2022); and Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues (2021). In 2016 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed group exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art and in 2014 Lash organized the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Ebony G. Patterson‘s expansive practice addresses visibility and invisibility, through explorations of class, race, gender, youth culture, pageantry and acts of violence in the context of “postcolonial” spaces. With the strong sensibility of a painter, Patterson works across multiple media – including tapestry, photography, video, sculpture, drawing and installation – united by her consistent visual language and intention. Each work is intricately embellished and densely layered, in order to draw the viewer closer and to question how we engage in the act of looking. The idea of the garden, both real and imagined, has formed an essential arc of Patterson’s practice. Framing the garden as an active site of power, Patterson explores it as a metaphor for “postcolonial” space and an extension of the body.

Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky, and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the public collections of 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. In 2021, Patterson was included in both the Liverpool and Athens Biennials. She lives and works in both Chicago, IL and Kingston, Jamaica and is co-represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, and Hales New York/ London, co-presented Ebony’s monumental installation from the Liverpool Biennial at The Armory Show NY in Platform section curated by Tobias Ostrander.

Free Parking is available in parking garage E, located on the southeast corner of Evans Ave. and High St. at 2130 S. High St.

The entrance will be off of High St.

There will be an attendant stationed at the garage to open the gate and direct you.

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Opening Reception for 2025 Summer Exhibitions
2025-06-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Join the Vicki Myhren Gallery and Davis Gallery to celebrate the opening of our 2025 summer exhibitions.

The reception will take place in Shwayder Art Building (2121 E. Asbury Ave.) from 5-7 PM on Friday, June 27.

Free parking is available in Lot L between 4:45 and 6:15 PM.

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On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery

everything left was carried

Artwork by Phipps Visiting Assistant Professor Rebecca Padilla

On view in the Davis Gallery

Krip-Hop

Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Ace Robles

Curated by Todd Edward Herman

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Closing Reception for "Collecting Colorado" and "Spectators"
2025-09-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Join us to celebrate our summer shows Collecting Colorado: Landscapes from the Platt Collection and Spectators.

This event is free and open to the public. Free parking available in Lot L.

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"Ruminations" and "Fictions of the Self" Opening Receptions
2025-09-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
Please join us on Thursday September 25 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM to celebrate the opening of our two fall shows: “Ruminations” in the Vicki Myhren Gallery and “Fictions and the Self” in the Davis Gallery.

Free parking will be available in Lot L across the street from the gallery.

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Ruminations: Tracing the Past Shaping the Future

Fictions and the Self: The Photographs of Patrick R. Nagatani

Davis Gallery Exhibition: Ex Voto by MG Bernard
2025-12-11 08:00 - 2026-01-18 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Ex Voto: Ego, Deus, et Medicus

MG Bernard (she/they/ugh)

On view in the Davis Gallery from December 11, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

The exhibition stems from Bernard’s interest in the medieval Church’s affiliation with health care, including pilgrimage, prayer, & the miraculous healing power of reliquaries. Catholic tradition glorifies Jesus’ & Mary’s suffering but illustrates sick & disabled people as inferior, sinful, & in need of healing. What happens when we shift the sacred gaze from historically idealized, sanitized figures such as the Virgin Mary & Christ to a chronically ill, queer, perverse bodymind? By repurposing used medical equipment specific to cystic fibrosis as contemporary sacred objects, Bernard subverts the traditional narrative that disabled & sick bodies need cleansing & curing. Instead, her artwork venerates the sick and disabled as new versions of divine saints who are prayed to.

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Please join us for the reception on January 9 from 6-9 PM.

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Davis Gallery: Ex Voto Reception
2026-01-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Celebrate Ex Voto: Ego, Deus, et Medicus at the Davis Gallery with artist MG Bernard.

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