Denver Art Log

• Nathan Ritterpusch — Because We Care
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Look Out
• Nathan Ritterpusch — The Visit
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Pick Up
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Love Sick

Creepy; beautiful women as victims and objects of desire, who is the creep?

The wall text calls the paintings “cinematic” and it’s right. Frozen, tense moments, before or after action; part of some narrative for which our only context is movie tropes.

Cindy Sherman. Clowns.

And painted exquisitely. Smooth, hi-gloss, photo-real, and somehow also piled high with juicy paint. There is a directionality to the painterly-ness: horizontal, like CRT scanlines, like glitches, or memory, or ripples moving across the face of water.

• Christina Shurts - Pike
• Christina Shurts - Unicorn
• Christina Shurts - Salton Sink
• Christina Shurts - Where Things Patch Up
• Christina Shurts - Party House
• Christina Shurts - What Was and What Could Be

Muddy rivers of dirty pastels flowing around scratchy canvases. Huge, sweeping, wide-angle-perspectives filled with flat objects of sometimes uncertain depth or position. Depicting dilapidated delight: windswept beaches, abandoned amusement, Coney Island. Painted with, like, nail polish and housepaint.

• David Grigorian - Dragons of Clouds (detail)
• David Grigorian - Bus and Lake
• David Grigorian - Fireflies

Products of a head full of fantasy art and children’s books. Clumsy, earnest, and kind of wonderful.

• Ashley Williams — title unknown
• Ashley Williams — Between
• Ashley Williams — Less Like What it Was
• Ashley Williams — More Like a Thought
• Ashley Williams — As Close to Living as Possible
• Sarah Williams — title unknown (detail)

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats o’er’head, higher and higher
When all at once I exclaimed aloud,
“Oh my god! Everything is on fire!”

—Wordsworth

Stately, austere, melancholy smoke monsters.

• Andrew Novick — title unknown
• Andrew Novick — title unknown
• Andrew Novick — Crime Scene Photo Booth

Eeeeewwwwwwwwwww.