Neighborhood: Boulder

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

Jerrie Hurd: Beyond the Male Gaze
Guest curated by Joan Markowitz
January 19 – May 26, 2023
Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at University of Colorado-Boulder

The male gaze commonly describes a way of looking at and being seen in the world that empowers men and sexualizes women. It comes out of feminist studies and film studies and is often applied to the visual arts. Although usually applied to women, the process of objectification and sexualization also impacts men. For example, Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington recently complained about being labeled “a hunk.” Photographers like Jerrie Hurd who specialize in figurative images often
struggle to find form and beauty in the human figure while avoiding objectification.

About the Artist
Jerrie Hurd took up photography later in life after working as a novelist and teaching writing at several colleges. Her photographic work is almost exclusively figurative, and she often depicts figures in water and outdoor environments. She is interested in how water creates an ethereal quality and presents artistic challenges as models quickly change poses.

Hurd’s work is influenced by the photographs and writing of Anne Brigman (1869–1950), an early proponent of women’s rights known for her photographs of nude women. Hurd says, “Some modern feminists object to pictures of nude women because they appeal to the male gaze. Anne Brigman argues that it does not help to cover up and that hats, long skirts, and veils are also about the male gaze. I like to think that my photographs continue in that tradition. I often include masks, veils, and long skirts in my work as a way of asking viewers to look—really look—at what is happening between the body and coverings. This extends to the male body, which has its own rigid societal expectations.”

JOYSOME
Outdoor Exhibition
March 1 – 31
Dairy Arts Center (Boulder)

JOYSOME consists of 50 images selected from hundreds of responses to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers. JOYSOME celebrates our divergent experiences of joy while reflecting on the subjective worlds of this emotion, upon its unique timings and subsets, and upon joy’s crucial functions in human existence. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited between Dairy Arts Center and East Window and at various partner locations including Whittier Elementary, Boulder Chamber, Museum of Boulder, Swoon Art House, The Gallery @ Bus Stop Apartments, and more! Exhibition juried by Charlo and Harry James Hanson.

Risa Friedman: Rectangled
Curated by Jane Burke
March 3 – 31, 2023

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th Street Boulder, Co 80302

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 9, 6 – 7:30 pm (Member preview 5 -6 pm)

Risa Friedman’s Rectangled is a nostalgic homage to counting rectangles in the puzzle section of the newspaper in her grandparents’ kitchen in Queens, New York.

Friedman will transform the architecture of BMoCA’s interior brick-lined lobby space into an immersive puzzle of parallelograms through the presentation of framed prints and photo-covered blocks. Friedman will activate the installation by adding photo-covered blocks throughout the month-long duration of the exhibition for visitors to count and rearrange. Through this interactivity, she simultaneously creates the opportunity to experience child-like wonder while attributing the stacking of right angles to the inescapable tasks of adulthood.

About the artist:
Risa Friedman is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography, paper arts and installation. Her work celebrates the beauty of place with an emphasis on people-made details and blocks of color. She hopes her work inspires others to stop and appreciate elements of their everyday environment in new ways. Risa grew up in suburban New York, but draws most of her inspiration from her time spent living in cities and watching them change—New York, Brighton (UK), Quito (Ecuador) and currently Denver. Her background and career in the social sciences (sociology and public health) also inform her approach to art. One of her favorite parts of her process is people: she loves collaborating with other artists and meeting those who live and work in the spaces she photographs. In addition to creating her own art, Risa curates art shows and organizes art-based fundraisers.

About Present Box:
Present Box is a series of temporary exhibitions that invite artists to transform BMoCA’s lobby and front entrance into innovative installations, performances, and events. The site-specific projects are intended to encourage artists to create work outside their comfort zones and to foster interactive participation. Artists are also urged to explore themes that are relevant for our present time.

Bus Stop Gallery (Boulder) 

March 3 – 31

First Friday Opening Reception: March 3, 6 – 9 pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 – 6 pm  

RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE & OUR BACKS HOLD STORIES / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER
MARCH 3 – JUNE 28, 2023
EAST WINDOW (BOULDER) 

Opening Reception: March 3, 7-9 pm 
Artist Talk with Kali Spitzer: March 22, 7 pm 

Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali’s Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.

Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Wet Plate Tintype Portrait Demonstration – 1850s-Era Photographic Technique
Tintype Obscura Studios 
Saturdays in March at 1 pm
(March 4, 11, 18, and 25)
4053 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, CO 80302

In celebration of Month of Photography, come to the Tintype Obscura Studios for a FREE Wet Plate Tintype Portrait Demonstration by tintype artist Patrick Cavan Brown. Learn the history, smell the chemistry, and witness the magic of 1850’s analog photography.

Want to make your own 4 x 5 tintype? For $75, you can pour the chemistry, focus the camera, and photograph a friend – or have a portrait made of you. Available every Saturday afternoon in March at 1 pm.

Directions: 
Tintype Obscura Studios is located 5 miles from Boulder at 4053 Sunshine Canyon.
If the driveway at the studio is full, head up the road 800 feet to Bald Mountain Scenic Area and walk down the trail to the studio.

Be aware: 
If you plan on pouring chemistry, know that your hands and clothes may get stained.
If you plan to have your portrait made, be sure to wear something fantastic!!!

Dan Asher 
March 10 – April 15, 2023
Mr. Pool (Boulder) 

For this year’s Month of Photography Denver festival, Mr. Pool is back hosting Dan Asher’s Iceberg photographs. This exhibition features work by artist Dan Asher (1947 – 2010). Asher’s art practice included paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs, and video. He was originally trained as a social anthropologist, and drew upon this background and his many travels to create his work. His iceberg photographs are taken during a South Pole expedition. He has exhibited internationally at Tomio Koyama, Tokyo; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Aurel Scheibler, Cologne; Factual Nonsense, London; and White Columns, New York.

Mr. Pool is open Mon-Fri 8 am – 5 pm, Sat 10 am – 4 pm.

Exit Paradise
March 18 – April 30
Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery (Boulder) 

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 5 – 9 PM 
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 2 -4 PM 
Closing Party: Sunday, April 30, 3 – 6 PM 
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 – 5 PM or Tuesday – Thursday by appointment

Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery presents Exit Paradise, an exhibition highlighting body-based photographic works by Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hatgi Sink, and Mark Sink.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

Jerrie Hurd: Beyond the Male Gaze
Guest curated by Joan Markowitz
January 19 – May 26, 2023
Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at University of Colorado-Boulder

The male gaze commonly describes a way of looking at and being seen in the world that empowers men and sexualizes women. It comes out of feminist studies and film studies and is often applied to the visual arts. Although usually applied to women, the process of objectification and sexualization also impacts men. For example, Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington recently complained about being labeled “a hunk.” Photographers like Jerrie Hurd who specialize in figurative images often
struggle to find form and beauty in the human figure while avoiding objectification.

About the Artist
Jerrie Hurd took up photography later in life after working as a novelist and teaching writing at several colleges. Her photographic work is almost exclusively figurative, and she often depicts figures in water and outdoor environments. She is interested in how water creates an ethereal quality and presents artistic challenges as models quickly change poses.

Hurd’s work is influenced by the photographs and writing of Anne Brigman (1869–1950), an early proponent of women’s rights known for her photographs of nude women. Hurd says, “Some modern feminists object to pictures of nude women because they appeal to the male gaze. Anne Brigman argues that it does not help to cover up and that hats, long skirts, and veils are also about the male gaze. I like to think that my photographs continue in that tradition. I often include masks, veils, and long skirts in my work as a way of asking viewers to look—really look—at what is happening between the body and coverings. This extends to the male body, which has its own rigid societal expectations.”

RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE & OUR BACKS HOLD STORIES / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER
MARCH 3 – JUNE 28, 2023
EAST WINDOW (BOULDER) 

Opening Reception: March 3, 7-9 pm 
Artist Talk with Kali Spitzer: March 22, 7 pm 

Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali’s Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.

Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Dan Asher 
March 10 – April 15, 2023
Mr. Pool (Boulder) 

For this year’s Month of Photography Denver festival, Mr. Pool is back hosting Dan Asher’s Iceberg photographs. This exhibition features work by artist Dan Asher (1947 – 2010). Asher’s art practice included paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs, and video. He was originally trained as a social anthropologist, and drew upon this background and his many travels to create his work. His iceberg photographs are taken during a South Pole expedition. He has exhibited internationally at Tomio Koyama, Tokyo; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Aurel Scheibler, Cologne; Factual Nonsense, London; and White Columns, New York.

Mr. Pool is open Mon-Fri 8 am – 5 pm, Sat 10 am – 4 pm.

Exit Paradise
March 18 – April 30
Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery (Boulder) 

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 5 – 9 PM 
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 2 -4 PM 
Closing Party: Sunday, April 30, 3 – 6 PM 
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 – 5 PM or Tuesday – Thursday by appointment

Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery presents Exit Paradise, an exhibition highlighting body-based photographic works by Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hatgi Sink, and Mark Sink.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

Jerrie Hurd: Beyond the Male Gaze
Guest curated by Joan Markowitz
January 19 – May 26, 2023
Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at University of Colorado-Boulder

The male gaze commonly describes a way of looking at and being seen in the world that empowers men and sexualizes women. It comes out of feminist studies and film studies and is often applied to the visual arts. Although usually applied to women, the process of objectification and sexualization also impacts men. For example, Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington recently complained about being labeled “a hunk.” Photographers like Jerrie Hurd who specialize in figurative images often
struggle to find form and beauty in the human figure while avoiding objectification.

About the Artist
Jerrie Hurd took up photography later in life after working as a novelist and teaching writing at several colleges. Her photographic work is almost exclusively figurative, and she often depicts figures in water and outdoor environments. She is interested in how water creates an ethereal quality and presents artistic challenges as models quickly change poses.

Hurd’s work is influenced by the photographs and writing of Anne Brigman (1869–1950), an early proponent of women’s rights known for her photographs of nude women. Hurd says, “Some modern feminists object to pictures of nude women because they appeal to the male gaze. Anne Brigman argues that it does not help to cover up and that hats, long skirts, and veils are also about the male gaze. I like to think that my photographs continue in that tradition. I often include masks, veils, and long skirts in my work as a way of asking viewers to look—really look—at what is happening between the body and coverings. This extends to the male body, which has its own rigid societal expectations.”

RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE & OUR BACKS HOLD STORIES / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER
MARCH 3 – JUNE 28, 2023
EAST WINDOW (BOULDER) 

Opening Reception: March 3, 7-9 pm 
Artist Talk with Kali Spitzer: March 22, 7 pm 

Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali’s Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.

Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE & OUR BACKS HOLD STORIES / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER
MARCH 3 – JUNE 28, 2023
EAST WINDOW (BOULDER) 

Opening Reception: March 3, 7-9 pm 
Artist Talk with Kali Spitzer: March 22, 7 pm 

Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali’s Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.

Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog