Yes. Not only does the Denver Art Museum have it's Final Friday events, but a mere week later the First Friday art walk takes place on South Santa Fe Drive here in Denver. And that leaves two Fridays open for future monthly events. In any case, since I had the evening off, I was able to attend this month's art walk. As usual, the galleries were crowed with art enthusiasts, especially at the Center for the Visual Arts, where the graduating Metropolitan State University BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) students were exhibiting their senior projects. One of the photography students exhibited huge panels of photographs of small businesses. It was very impressive and demonstrates once again that if you put together large numbers of average photographs, you can create something much greater than the sum of the individual parts. I know I should have worn my red beret to the event like the guy in the photograph on the left, but didn't.
As usual, it was an interesting crowd, and lots of interesting if not outright strange art. I started at the Spark Gallery and worked my way south down Santa Fe Drive, looking for photography exhibits. For the 2nd First Friday in a row Bruce Zander was exhibiting his photos at the Artwork Network Gallery, just across the street from the Spark Gallery. They were traditional black and white photographs - mainly street photography - of Chicago and various locations throughout Europe. Very good.
On the other hand, there was art like in the photograph on the left, too. In all seriousness, would you buy that painting in the window and hang it over your living room couch? Possibly if it was your mother, but otherwise no. What is the point? Who paints these things? Of course, I'm just a kid from the South Side of Chicago, so what do I know? Perhaps that painting is in the window because it is one of the great masterpieces of all time. Or maybe it is the artist's mother.
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