Denver Botanic Gardens'

Mid-Century Modern: The Gardens' Landmarks in Context
Nov. 21, 2009 - Jan. 17, 2010 
Reception: Thursday, Dec. 10, 5:30-8 p.m., RVSP to exhibits@botanicgardens.org

This exhibition featuring the work of nine Colorado artists celebrates and interprets the Gardens’ unique architectural features. Working in a variety of media, artists in the group show include: Jamie Bolane (Boulder), Eric Dallimore (Denver), Sharon Feder (Denver), Amy Giertz (Lakewood), Dan Hartline (Erie), John Lencicki (Denver), Christopher Phelps (Centennial), Cheryl Price (Conifer), and Katharine Smith-Warrant (Denver). The exhibit provides an appropriate punctuation to the 50th anniversary of the Gardens’ York Street location, in addition to celebrating iconic structures amid new developments. Historic components explore the design of Victor Hornbein’s and Edward White, as well as the contributions of Garrett Eckbo and Saco DeBoer.

A cell phone audio tour highlighting architectural details both inside and outside is available.

Feder exhibiting at SPS Santa Fe

Sharon Feder is included in the group exhibition, Stable, at Sellars Project Space in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This exhibition opens to the public on Friday, November 20, 2009. An opening reception will be held on November 20th from 6 - 9 p.m. This exhibition continues through December 31, 2009.

Sellars Project Space Santa Fe is open by appointment. For more information visit the website.

Feder at Sellars Project Space Denver

Opening Reception for the artist will be held on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 6 - 10 p.m. Exhibition continues through October 31, 2009. 

Sharon Feder's life-long commitment to painting is intense and unrelenting. Her journey in painting has taken her from formal roots into the land of the abstract, to landscape, and back through portraiture and structural still life. Approaching painting as both an emotional communication with the observer and as technical challenge, Feder breaks rules and tests assumptions while exploring the communication that exists between shadow, reflection, and atmosphere.

Feder’s new exhibition, Convergence, is a continuation of her exploration of the River North Series. These new paintings take on a semi-abstraction of architectural forms while maintaining the integrity of the previous imagery. In these new works her approach of combining imagery (extreme close-ups, distant images, silhouettes, etc.) in multiple paintings (diptychs, triptychs, etc.) create a dialogue that offers an even more descriptive sense of place. At the same time, questions of identity are given a complex representation in both time and place.

DTD Art Salon Kick-Off at the Hotel Teatro

The Denver Theatre District's Art Salon in the Hotel Teatro is a journey around the world of visual art and music guided by local artists. The Arts Salon offers an opportunity to experience the Hotel Teatro and the Denver art world in a whole new way. Traditional canvas, dimensional art, film and photography will be used in unique ways to compliment musical entertainment throughout the spaces of the hotel.

Denver has been selected as the first metropolitan cityscape to be highlighted before we journey to New York, Buenos Aires and beyond. The Sounds and Visions of Denver will feature artist Sharon Feder with music provided by Janet Feder.

The Art Salon will take place the third Wednesday of each month and will feature themed food and drink specials, complimentary regional appetizers from the kitchen of Kevin Taylor.

Feder Selected for Ransom

Sharon Feder was recently selected to participate in the Art for Ransom event in Denver, Colorado. 

Arts Street has been master minding an awesome, unique fundraiser for the past year, and is almost ready to kidnap art and deliver the ransom note. Art for Ransom, on Sept. 12, will be a collaborative show, event, and fundraiser benefiting Arts Street and RedLine.The event will be held at RedLine from 6-10 p.m. and will be part happening, part exhibit, part installation and a big party.

During the Art for Ransom event, art will be virtually kidnapped and held for ransom and as donations come in, the art will gradually be revealed. To draw attention to the event, some public art around the city will … ummmm …. we don’t want to be indelicate … get a bag over it’s head. 

Art for Ransom was an idea developed at the student design competition put on by the Art Directors Club of Denver in the fall of 2008. About 100 student graphic designers teamed with professional art directors and brainstormed ways to market Arts-Street – with the added caveat that the budget was next to nothing. The winning team came up with the idea of Art for Ransom. ‘Where would we be without art?’ the team asked. ‘If art was suddenly kidnapped, would we get a sense of its value?’ and would donors – big and small – pay to get it back?

For more information visit http://www.artforransom.org.