Neighborhood: Santa Fe Arts District

Gallery 6 Brings Colorful Colorado to Life for Month of Photography Denver
March 3 – March 31, 2023
Gallery 6

One of Denver’s few dedicated photographic art studios, Gallery 6, features a dazzling range of Colorado landscape and cityscape, portraiture, nature, and wild horses, including Anger Management, the 2022 Sony World Photography Award winner for Nature & Wildlife. Enjoy a wide array of local and international works by Resident Photographic Artists Tony Eitzel, Dave Stephens, Kevin Schwalbe and 2022 Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year, Scott Wilson.

Imprint Colorado Show Opening
March 3 – 31, 2023
Gallery 6

Three Winners of the Imprint Colorado contest open their own print show at Gallery 6 Denver in the Art District on Santa Fe.

An Exhibition Featuring Jay Dickman, National Geographic Photographer
March 3 – April 2, 2023
Niza Knoll Gallery

Niza Knoll Gallery is delighted to present photography by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman to celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival. The exhibit will include a diverse group of images from Jay’s extensive portfolio of landscape and wildlife photography, and a special collection of photos of Rock and Roll stars from 1969-1985.

About the Artist

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer, Jay Dickman is a highly traveled, experienced and celebrated photographer. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize (and multiple domestic and international awards), Jay won the World Press Golden Eye for his photography. His long career has included 25 assignments for the National Geographic Society, and spanned a multitude of experiences, including three months living in a stone-age village in Papua New Guinea, a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub, and being aboard a sinking boat on the Amazon.

Jay and his wife, Becky, are founders of the FirstLight Workshop series, FirstLight being featured in American Photo magazine as one of the top 10 photographic workshops. Working with National Geographic Expeditions, Jay has been on more than 100 Expeditions/Workshops/Adventures as the “National Geographic Expert.” Working with National Geographic, Jay has also presented more than 15 lectures for the Society. Jay was cited as one of Travel + Leisure Magazine’s “Ten Fascinating People You Can Travel With in 2017”. PhotoBlog.com also cited “Where’s Jay” (Jay’s blog) as one of the 45 best photography blogs. He is co-author of the best-selling book, “Perfect Digital Photography”, published by McGraw-Hill.

Access Denied, a group show featuring participants from Access Gallery’s Photography Residency, and 
Being Grayson, new works by Julia Vandenoever
March 3-31, 2023

First Friday Art Walk: March 3, 6 – 9 PM
Meet the Artists / Artist Talks: Friday, March 17, 6 – 8 pm

Free and open to the public

Gallery Hours: Thursday 1 – 4 pm; Friday 1 – 5 pm; and Saturday 1 – 4 pm

Access Gallery is excited to present two new exhibitions on display during the Month of Photography Denver festival: Access Denied featuring participants from Access Gallery’s Photography Residency, and Being Grayson featuring new works by photographer Julia Vandenoever.

Access Denied is an exploration of street photography through the lens of disability activism. This show is a culmination of Access Gallery’s photography residency program taught by teaching artists Ron Davis and Andre Rodriguez. Artists were supplied with cameras, mentorship, and instruction to document their experiences on the streets of Denver.

Davis states:

“The human experience is denied if access is not given to every form. We often think of physical barriers and isolation when it comes to people with disabilities but also consider the other areas that are denied to this community: personal expression, emotional space, individuality, talent, experimentation, and meaningful relationships. Access Gallery’s photography residency gave room for exploration, discovery, curiosity, and imagination to tell a story through the disabled lens.”

On our Spotlight Wall we will exhibit Being Grayson, mixed media photography by Julia Vandenoever that tells the story of her son Grayson who lives with ADHD and dyslexia. The series documents his daily life in two ways: portraiture and artifacts. Photographs are printed and given to Grayson to write out his emotional response to the images that depict himself. Also on display are Grayson’s own art projects, letters, to-do lists, and more. This collaboration between mother and son tells a compelling story of love, exasperation, and ultimately triumph.

Vandenoever states:

“As a child with ADHD and dyslexia, Grayson’s whole world operates on a separate frequency. Both of these are neurological, which means his brain is wired differently. There are no outward physical signs. The differences are shown through behavior like disorganization, forgetfulness, and impulsivity.

Being Grayson is an exploration and celebration of Grayson’s process, a process that is often misunderstood. For me, guiding him along his path at times has been isolating. The act of photographing both his and my experiences is cathartic and promotes understanding and acceptance to the mystery of his logic. We’ve learned how to have a dialogue. By slowing down alongside him, not asking him to change, I see his beauty and gifts to the world. There is space for Grayson to be Grayson.”

Sun to Earth – Photography by Brenda Biondo
March 14 – April 15, 2023
Michael Warren Contemporary 
Opening Reception: March 16 (5 – 8pm)
Friday Art Walk: April 7

In her exhibit at Michael Warren Contemporary, entitled “Sun to Earth,” Brenda Biondo employs a variety of approaches to investigate how atmospheric light colors our world and influences our interaction with nature. In “A Legacy of Shadows,” one of the series in the exhibit, the images engage the phenomena of sunlight to provide a framework for our meditative experience of being in nature. “A Legacy of Shadows” is concerned with the fracturing of nature and the poignancy of acknowledging beauty in a time of destruction, and is informed by Biondo’s previous career as a writer specializing in environmental issues. The naturally blue shadows in these images show how the act of looking can sometimes reveal unexpected aspects of light and the natural world.

Other pieces in the exhibit are part of a new body of work influenced by the recently built James Turrell Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, CO, and reflect Biondo’s interest in exploring the ephemeral and contemplative qualities of the sky. Also included in the exhibit are photographic grids and digital constructions that attest to Biondo’s interest in modernist formality and aesthetics as well as her practice of using photographs in unconventional ways.

Among the Stars – New Works by Angela Faris Belt
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary 

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Through her new series “Among the Stars,” Angela Faris Belt explores the infinite by adding the scans of the ashes from loss with open source NASA and other satellite images.

Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself — sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration — and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Her work utilizes the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; media is chosen to underscore or mirror the concepts regarding nature in each body of work.

Angela’s work has been widely exhibited in prestigious juried and invitational exhibitions including Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco; BJ Spoke Gallery, NY; Arvada Center for the Arts, CO; The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO; Foreman Gallery, NY; and University of Notre Dame’s Photography Gallery. Her work is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

Angela lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range, alongside neighbors of elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears, and mountain lions. In addition to her artwork, she is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College. In her off-time she builds stone walls and participates in bark-beetle mitigation efforts.

Of Light and Wind: Trade Winds
New Work by Gwen Laine
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Join us for the exhibit of new work by Gwen Laine. The inspiration for the form these works took was a persistent vision of a rock being dropped in water and the subsequent movement upward and outward. “Knowing that even the slightest action carries on indefinitely led me to create works that suggest both the minute and the immense in constant movement,” Laine writes.

Gwen Laine’s art is about the way we make sense of the world, or perhaps it’s better to say the ways we make sense of the world. Her photographs and installations are composed of ordinary objects and forms recontextualized or made abstract that prompt and defy our impulse to find the simplest perceptual solution. Working with both the record and the manipulation of light, Laine accentuates physical properties as recognized or understood by the senses. Yet the indefinition as well as the instability of the light allows for the free play of effects. At one extreme, the familiar is readily at hand; at the other, the image or environment dissolves into a lavish display of visual stimuli. –Stephanie Grilli, Ph.D., Art Historian

March 16 – April 9

D’art Gallery

Opening Reception: March 17, 6 – 9 pm

The Conceptual Photography Exhibition, juried by Mark Sink, will be exhibited at D’art Gallery March 16 – April 9, 2023. Selected works are a response to Call language that looks for unique work that takes fine art photography to new places. The Gallery loves portraits of emotions and the merging of nature and human elements.

Juror Mark Sink is a private art consultant who represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. He is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, founder of the Month of Photography Denver, The Big Picture street art projects, and the Denver Collage Club. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected worldwide.

Soft Mirror 
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery

Opening Reception for Soft Mirror and RULE’s concurrent exhibition, Rupture: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Rule Gallery is pleased to present Soft Mirror, a group exhibition guest curated by Britland Tracy and in partnership with Denver’s Month of Photography 2023, featuring artists Kei Ito, Dionne Lee, Rafael Soldi, and Tabitha Soren. A reception will be held Thursday, March 16, from 6 – 9 pm.

Soft Mirror unites four contemporary photographers who transform histories of violence into personal reflections on ritual, power, intimacy, and survival. Their practices stretch the material and representational functions of a photograph, reimagining it as both relic and reckoning in a culture saturated with visual input. Through alternative darkroom processes and repurposed screen-based imagery and ephemera, these artists cast their gaze onto the world while simultaneously looking back at themselves.

Britland Tracy: Rupture
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery 

Opening Reception for Rupture and RULE Gallery’s concurrent exhibition, Soft Mirror: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm 

An Exhibition Featuring Jay Dickman, National Geographic Photographer
March 3 – April 2, 2023
Niza Knoll Gallery

Niza Knoll Gallery is delighted to present photography by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman to celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival. The exhibit will include a diverse group of images from Jay’s extensive portfolio of landscape and wildlife photography, and a special collection of photos of Rock and Roll stars from 1969-1985.

About the Artist

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer, Jay Dickman is a highly traveled, experienced and celebrated photographer. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize (and multiple domestic and international awards), Jay won the World Press Golden Eye for his photography. His long career has included 25 assignments for the National Geographic Society, and spanned a multitude of experiences, including three months living in a stone-age village in Papua New Guinea, a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub, and being aboard a sinking boat on the Amazon.

Jay and his wife, Becky, are founders of the FirstLight Workshop series, FirstLight being featured in American Photo magazine as one of the top 10 photographic workshops. Working with National Geographic Expeditions, Jay has been on more than 100 Expeditions/Workshops/Adventures as the “National Geographic Expert.” Working with National Geographic, Jay has also presented more than 15 lectures for the Society. Jay was cited as one of Travel + Leisure Magazine’s “Ten Fascinating People You Can Travel With in 2017”. PhotoBlog.com also cited “Where’s Jay” (Jay’s blog) as one of the 45 best photography blogs. He is co-author of the best-selling book, “Perfect Digital Photography”, published by McGraw-Hill.

Sun to Earth – Photography by Brenda Biondo
March 14 – April 15, 2023
Michael Warren Contemporary 
Opening Reception: March 16 (5 – 8pm)
Friday Art Walk: April 7

In her exhibit at Michael Warren Contemporary, entitled “Sun to Earth,” Brenda Biondo employs a variety of approaches to investigate how atmospheric light colors our world and influences our interaction with nature. In “A Legacy of Shadows,” one of the series in the exhibit, the images engage the phenomena of sunlight to provide a framework for our meditative experience of being in nature. “A Legacy of Shadows” is concerned with the fracturing of nature and the poignancy of acknowledging beauty in a time of destruction, and is informed by Biondo’s previous career as a writer specializing in environmental issues. The naturally blue shadows in these images show how the act of looking can sometimes reveal unexpected aspects of light and the natural world.

Other pieces in the exhibit are part of a new body of work influenced by the recently built James Turrell Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, CO, and reflect Biondo’s interest in exploring the ephemeral and contemplative qualities of the sky. Also included in the exhibit are photographic grids and digital constructions that attest to Biondo’s interest in modernist formality and aesthetics as well as her practice of using photographs in unconventional ways.

Among the Stars – New Works by Angela Faris Belt
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary 

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Through her new series “Among the Stars,” Angela Faris Belt explores the infinite by adding the scans of the ashes from loss with open source NASA and other satellite images.

Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself — sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration — and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Her work utilizes the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; media is chosen to underscore or mirror the concepts regarding nature in each body of work.

Angela’s work has been widely exhibited in prestigious juried and invitational exhibitions including Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco; BJ Spoke Gallery, NY; Arvada Center for the Arts, CO; The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO; Foreman Gallery, NY; and University of Notre Dame’s Photography Gallery. Her work is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

Angela lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range, alongside neighbors of elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears, and mountain lions. In addition to her artwork, she is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College. In her off-time she builds stone walls and participates in bark-beetle mitigation efforts.

Of Light and Wind: Trade Winds
New Work by Gwen Laine
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Join us for the exhibit of new work by Gwen Laine. The inspiration for the form these works took was a persistent vision of a rock being dropped in water and the subsequent movement upward and outward. “Knowing that even the slightest action carries on indefinitely led me to create works that suggest both the minute and the immense in constant movement,” Laine writes.

Gwen Laine’s art is about the way we make sense of the world, or perhaps it’s better to say the ways we make sense of the world. Her photographs and installations are composed of ordinary objects and forms recontextualized or made abstract that prompt and defy our impulse to find the simplest perceptual solution. Working with both the record and the manipulation of light, Laine accentuates physical properties as recognized or understood by the senses. Yet the indefinition as well as the instability of the light allows for the free play of effects. At one extreme, the familiar is readily at hand; at the other, the image or environment dissolves into a lavish display of visual stimuli. –Stephanie Grilli, Ph.D., Art Historian

March 16 – April 9

D’art Gallery

Opening Reception: March 17, 6 – 9 pm

The Conceptual Photography Exhibition, juried by Mark Sink, will be exhibited at D’art Gallery March 16 – April 9, 2023. Selected works are a response to Call language that looks for unique work that takes fine art photography to new places. The Gallery loves portraits of emotions and the merging of nature and human elements.

Juror Mark Sink is a private art consultant who represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. He is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, founder of the Month of Photography Denver, The Big Picture street art projects, and the Denver Collage Club. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected worldwide.

Soft Mirror 
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery

Opening Reception for Soft Mirror and RULE’s concurrent exhibition, Rupture: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Rule Gallery is pleased to present Soft Mirror, a group exhibition guest curated by Britland Tracy and in partnership with Denver’s Month of Photography 2023, featuring artists Kei Ito, Dionne Lee, Rafael Soldi, and Tabitha Soren. A reception will be held Thursday, March 16, from 6 – 9 pm.

Soft Mirror unites four contemporary photographers who transform histories of violence into personal reflections on ritual, power, intimacy, and survival. Their practices stretch the material and representational functions of a photograph, reimagining it as both relic and reckoning in a culture saturated with visual input. Through alternative darkroom processes and repurposed screen-based imagery and ephemera, these artists cast their gaze onto the world while simultaneously looking back at themselves.

Britland Tracy: Rupture
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery 

Opening Reception for Rupture and RULE Gallery’s concurrent exhibition, Soft Mirror: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm 

Soft Mirror 
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery

Opening Reception for Soft Mirror and RULE’s concurrent exhibition, Rupture: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Rule Gallery is pleased to present Soft Mirror, a group exhibition guest curated by Britland Tracy and in partnership with Denver’s Month of Photography 2023, featuring artists Kei Ito, Dionne Lee, Rafael Soldi, and Tabitha Soren. A reception will be held Thursday, March 16, from 6 – 9 pm.

Soft Mirror unites four contemporary photographers who transform histories of violence into personal reflections on ritual, power, intimacy, and survival. Their practices stretch the material and representational functions of a photograph, reimagining it as both relic and reckoning in a culture saturated with visual input. Through alternative darkroom processes and repurposed screen-based imagery and ephemera, these artists cast their gaze onto the world while simultaneously looking back at themselves.

Britland Tracy: Rupture
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery 

Opening Reception for Rupture and RULE Gallery’s concurrent exhibition, Soft Mirror: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm