Born in Mexico and raised in Denver, the artist has never been able to visit his family on the other side of the border.
Kealey Boyd
Kealey Boyd is a writer and art critic. Her writing appears in Art Papers, College Art Association, The Belladonna Comedy, Artillery Magazine and elsewhere. She teaches journalism at University of Colorado-Boulder and serves as art consultant to the national literary journal Copper Nickel.
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How Has the Supply Chain Crisis Affected Artists?
Labor shortages, stranded shipping containers, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have forced artists to come up with creative solutions.
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A History of Houston’s Creative Terrain
Impractical Spaces: Houston resurrects the stories of the city’s artist-run venues since 1947.
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Artnauts Founder George Rivera Reflects on 25 Years of Art and Activism
Rivera’s art work and professional pursuits are rooted in the racism that wounded him since youth.
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A Contemporary Take on Traditional Indigenous Porcupine Quillwork
Artist Chelsea Kaiah invited Hyperallergic into her studio to document her work with porcupine quills.
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Debunking Myths About Public Art
The Ent Center for the Arts’s program Art WithOut Limits pops up in unexpected spaces.
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Making Art in the Shadow of Grief
Erica Green’s textile exhibition Once They Were Red manifests an act of repair through humble materials, but the experience is one of surviving more than mending.
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The Activist Spirit of a Denver Artist Residency Program
Colorado’s Platteforum shows that residency programs can be bold when it comes to serving artists and communities
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Picturing the Pandemic Through the Lens of Buddhism
Mongolian artist Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu draws upon domestic objects and Buddhist symbolism to show a virtually hyperconnected but physically isolated existence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Abstraction From a Different Origin
Eamon Ore-Giron invites the viewer to consider culture as a collective, living concept that evolves through destabilizing identity.
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Artists in Denver Invite You to Their Yards, Living Rooms, and Skating Rinks
From an art incubator wedged between a train station and stairwell to a roving space where you can skate and look at art, spaces in Colorado’s capital are engaging new audiences through unusual means.
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The Layered History of Japanese Printmaking, Distilled in an Emerald Tapestry
If Hokusai had focused his subject on swirling tide pools instead of “The Great Wave,” it may have felt something like Taiko Chandler’s “Blue Surge.”