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Salon du Musée is modeled after the Paris art salons of the late nineteenth century and serves as a public forum designed to promote the exchange of ideas between artists and viewers. The featured artist is Daniel Sprick, a Glenwood Springs, Colorado artist of national renown. Event Chairs include Christian Anschutz, Janelle Blessing, Rachel Brown, and Denny and Judy O’Brien. Salon du Musée is presented by First Western Trust Bank, and an official Denver Art Museum “Young Associates” and “Associates” event designed to reach the next generation of museum patrons and future art leaders while providing seasoned collectors with a vehicle to acquire landmark work by renowned artists.
“The Denver Art Museum is honored to be the beneficiary of Salon du Musée, and we look forward to participating in an event that brings together great art and enthusiastic patrons,” said Lewis I. Sharp, Director of the Denver Art Museum. “Whether a seasoned collector or a new arts supporter, it is exciting to engage with some of the area’s most accomplished artists and curators, and this event offers that opportunity.”
Guest curators of Salon du Musée include the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum, Christoph Heinrich, Denver Art Museum Curator of Western American Art Ann Daley and Salon d'Arts Founder and Curator, Natalie Rekstad-Lynn. “I’m thrilled that Salon du Musée has attracted renowned curators Christoph Heinrich and Ann Daley, both lauded curators at Denver Art Museum,” said Rekstad-Lynn. “Each curator brings a unique perspective
and list of artists to the table, creating a compelling and varied show with price points that can engage
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the beginning and seasoned collector.” Salon du Musée features more than forty emerging, mid-career, and nationally-renowned artists with approximately 100 paintings and sculptures ranging in subject
matter from representational figure, landscape and still life to mixed media and abstract. Many of the artists are held in museum collections across the U.S., including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and notably the Denver Art Museum. A large portion of artwork will be available for sale under $1,000 to engage beginning collectors; however, the collection will also include landmark works by participating museum-held artists with works valued up to $35,000.
“Salon du Musée will feature several artists in the Denver Art Museum collection; yet unlike museum works, the art will be available for sale at the Salon,” continues Natalie Rekstad-Lynn. “This is an exciting prospect for many attendees because the artists are present at the event to talk about their work and inspiration.”
Confirmed 2008 participating artists include:
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Bill Amundson
Evan Anderman
Gordon Brown
Jonas Burgert
William Burgess
Dennis Campay
Michael Charron
Raj Chaudhuri
Molly Davis
Joellyn Duesberry
Ernie Gallegos
Gregory Gioiosa
Ron Hicks
Quang Ho
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Steve Huston
Peter Illig
Keith Jacobshagen
Jeffrey Keith
Robert Liberace
Leon Loughridge
Kim Mackey
Maggie Michael
Amy Metier
Dan McCaw
Danny McCaw
John McCaw
Roberto Santo
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Mary Scrimgeour
Burton Silverman
Mark Sink
Bill Starke
Don Stinson
Nancy Switzer
Daniel Sprick
Karen Vance
Kevin Weckbach
Jeff Wells
Zhang Xi
Ron Zito
Mark Zunino
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Salon du Musée is open to the public free of charge from November 3-14, 2008 at Gallery 1261, Denver, Colorado, enabling visitors to view the collection prior to the November 14 Soiree and Fine Art Sale. Tickets are $75; Patron tickets are $125 and includes a Champagne Reception and discussion lead by Denver Art Museum Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Christoph Heinrich.
For more information contact Natalie Rekstad-Lynn at 303-494-0180 or rekstad-lynn@comcast.net or visit www.salon-d-arts.org.
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Mark Sink, "The Great Sand Dunes #7", Unique Carbon Print, 42" x 42"
Inspired by his parents’ artistic talents and encouraged by childhood mentors, Mark Sink overcame the learning disability of dyslexia through art. Those early discouraging days are long behind him as Sink has become a photographer, teacher, and curator, renowned for his cutting-edge fine art photography. His passion is beauty, resulting in unique and engaging images that illustrate his energy through the movement of the lens. His work is in numerous museum collections, and he exhibits in solo and group shows worldwide.
Bill Starke, "The Climbers", Aluminium: Individual, 32" x 18"
Sculptor Bill Starke is a Colorado-based artist whose extensive anatomical education plays a vital role in the development of his work and choice of subject matter. His ability to understand and recreate the complexity of figures, commonly relating to the human condition, is haunting. Starke’s love for the arts has also driven him to become an educator, inspiring young artists in his anatomy class at the Arts Students League of Denver. Starke’s artwork has been exhibited in multiple exhibitions throughout Colorado including; The Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and notably Salon d’Arts where in 2004 he was selected as Art & Antiques magazine’s Emerging Artist of the Year.
Gregory Gioiosa, "Patals #4", Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12"
Gregory Gioiosa is a Los Angeles-based artist whose works have been collected internationally, and are included in the permanent collections of several museums. He was one of only forty-four artists selected for inclusion in New American Paintings, a 2000 publication devoted to emerging artists. Gioiosa earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Fresno State University, and went on to earn his Masters of Fine Arts from UC Irvine. He has held commercial artist positions with various television and motion picture studios, including Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and CBS Television. Throughout his career, Gioiosa has focused on the creation of ethereal imagery, a consistent theme relating to consoling beauty and wholeness. These works have a mystical quality, and are inclined towards the inner eye, and heart, of the viewer. This emotive perspective is particularly welcome these days, providing a comforting retreat from the chaos of our world.
Jeffery Keith, "Untitled", Oil on Mylar, 36" x 27"
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Jeffrey Keith ventured across the country at the age of eighteen to pursue his passion for art at the California Institute of Art in Los Angeles. His education continued at the San Francisco Art Institute and overseas at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China. Residing in Denver since the late eighties, his collection of studies has facilitated his emergence as a recognized artist and educator with numerous awards and accolades. His impressive abilities include working many different mediums of art including painting, drawing, and mixed-media sculptures. A specialist in color theory, Keith engages the audience through his unusual use of color through the use trowels and scrapers to layer pigment. His complex images have won him distinguished inclusion in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and his work is held in museum institutions in the US and Japan.
Daniel Sprick, "Amaryllis", Oil on Board, 26" x 28"
Daniel Sprick, Salon du Musée’s 2008 featured artist, is a nationally renowned artist with work in numerous museum collections including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Hunter Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. Sprick is most influenced by Dutch Masters, notably Vermeer and Van Eyck. Sprick’s art has the ability to capture the stillness and delicacy of life through the portrayal of what he quips as “kitchen refuse.” Considered by many a surrealist painter, he is able to take contradictory elements such as interior and exterior, distance and familiarity, and unite them in harmonious yet powerful ways.
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Joellyn Duesberry, “Sandstone Slide”, Oil on Canvas, 6’ x 5’
Ms. Duesberry is nationally recognized for her dynamic landscape paintings. Her canvases are remarkable for their rich and intense use of color, and for her distinct interest in the geometry of the various cityscapes and landscapes she interprets. Many of Ms. Duesberry's paintings, though clearly contemporary, echo such great modernist masters as John Marin and Milton Avery. Her use of light, shadow, scale and texture culminates in paintings that are both visually and emotionally arresting.
Ms. Duesberry divides her time between studios in Denver, Colorado and Millbrook, New York, and has painted plein-air around the world for 40 plus years. She began exhibiting in New York City in 1979, and has since had ten New York solo exhibitions, with recent retrospectives at the Century Association and Denver Art Museum. in January 2006, titled "Joellyn Duesberry: Three Decades of Paint." She has shown widely around the country, and is represented by seven galleries coast to coast.
A pivotal point in Ms. Duesberry's career came in 1986 when she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant which enabled her to work with Richard Diebenkorn. Diebenkorn encouraged her to try monotype print-making, and since then she has been actively producing and exhibiting her monotypes along side her plein-air paintings. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts started "The Covenant of Seasons" which is in its ninth year of national travel, most recently at Hotchkiss and Oberlin; in Autumn 2006 it will be shown at Exeter.
Ms. Duesberry's paintings are in numerous museum, public and private collections around the country. In 2005, a PBS documentary was made of Joellyn Duesberry's life, work, and creative process titled "Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist”
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