The work currently showing at the Center for Visual Arts has a narrative quality; the components of the art come together to tell a tale ... appropriate, since the name of the show is
Story. The three artists' work also shares a handmade quality. It is work created completely from the imagination.
The front gallery is filled with the work of Denver artist Hadley Hooper. Her ink transfers on Venetian plaster have a muted color palette and incredibly smooth surfaces. Bits of color peek out from the many layers of plaster to create an aged, but soft, ground for the images that float on them. The images themselves are surreal and a bit incomprehensible, but, somehow, familiar as well. As if you've heard of them from a land far, far away, from yesteryear, or that really never was. They are meticulously constructed, even with their handmade feel.
In the main gallery...
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