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AMALGAMATION: A GROUP SHOW
November 11 - 26, 2005 -- Opening Reception: Friday, Nov 11, 5-9pm

This November, Abend Gallery celebrates the remarkable variety of visual art in a unique group show appropriately titled “Amalgamation”. This show brings together artists working in watercolor, oil, acrylic, and egg tempera and spans the stylistic spectrum from naturalistic portraiture and realistic still-lifes to expressionistic landscapes and abstract impressions. The show is a wonderful assembly of diverse artistic vision and style.

Participating artists include: Jen Arribau, Deb Bays, Norm Cable, Robert Coombs, Susan Dickson, Ernie Gallegos, Bao Ho, Aleksey and Olga Ivanov, Carolyn Miller, Karen G. Myers, Sandra Pratt and Teresa Vito

MICHAEL DOWLING : ONE MAN SHOW
Oct 21 - Nov 9, 2005 -- Opening Reception: Friday, Oct 21, 5-9pm

Abend Gallery is proud to present a One-Man show featuring the work of Michael Dowling. Dowling’s paintings are sophisticated and challenging; his dramatic landscapes surpass their primary role as representations of actual places and assume that of visual metaphor. Michael is an award winning painter and highly recognized throughout the Denver metro area and in Tuscany, Italy. Michael Dowling received his BFA degree from the University of Denver. He has also studied at Scoala Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy, as well as engaged in private studies in Tuscany, Italy.

MICHELLE TORREZ: ONE-WOMAN SHOW
Sept 16 - Oct 6, 2005 -- Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 16, 5-9pm

Abend Gallery is proud to exhibit the work of Michelle Torrez during her One-Woman show in September. The art of the Denver native reveals the spontaneity and elegance of human expression through the rendering of unconventional moments and gestures. Although her figures often appear unaware of the viewer, Torrez’s use of vibrant colors and energetic brushstrokes animate the figures making them seem familiar and intimate. She sees through the reality of the moment, to the metaphor of the moment, and captures another story communicating just beyond the depicted scene.

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During the month of June, Abend Gallery embraces the aesthetic of “beauty” in art. Simultaneously a sensory and cerebral experience, the debate on what is beauty and is it required in the creation and appreciation of art is an ever increasing debate in contemporary art. In the “Beauty Embraced” show, participating artists engage, render, define, challenge and expose the nature and role of beauty.

Participating Artists: Deborah Bays, Dan Beck, Robert Coombs,
Scott Gleeson, Bruce A Gomez, Aleksey and Olga Ivanov,
Carolyn Miller, Darlis Lamb and Marsha Whitesides Piper

This May, Abend Gallery will be alive with new and original art. Whether the works involve the studio study of a subject or the quick capture of the bustle of a city street, the works are all deeply sensory and full of renewed life. Just like the world in springtime, the artists’ vision is rejuvenated; once again mesmerized by the animation within the visual world and the beauty and vitality of ordinary things.

Participating Artists: Smyth Boone, Norman Cable, P.A. Canney, Jane Ford, Ernie Gallegos, Karen G Myers, Mark Nelson, Nathan Solano, Robert Spooner and Rick Stoner

An art auction/fund-raiser to benefit Colorado Association of Family and Children’s Agencies, Inc. For more information about the Colorado Association of Family and Children's Agencies, please visit their website at: www.cafca.net

In this annual favorite, local artists challenge visual expression as limited to realistic representation by walking the line between the real and imaginary, complicating what is recognizable or indefinable, and questioning what is natural or artificial.

Participating Artists: Jim Beckner, Nancy Condit, Lu Cong,
Michael Dowling, Michelle Gonzalez, Mikael Olson, Jen Omaitz, Sandra Pratt, Jill Soukup, Michelle Torrez, Ken Valastro
and Kevin Weckbach

Abend Gallery is proud to host a preview of Rocky Mountain PBS’s Anniversary Collection this March. Each year Rocky Mountain PBS holds an art auction during their annual televised and online spring auction. Local and national artists donate their art, which is auctioned to the public.  Thirty-four pieces that comprise this year’s anniversary collection will be available for preview at Abend Gallery the last two weeks of March.

This March, Abend Gallery will showcase the work of Tim Deibler, a well-known Denver artist. The show will exhibit paintings from Deibler’s recently published instructional art book focusing on his skill of depicting the changing seasons in the landscape. Deibler will also be available to sign copies of his book. Signed copies of Capturing the Seasons will be available at the Gallery for $28.99. The artist will be signing copies at the opening reception and on Saturday, March 5, 10am - 3pm

For six days in March, Abend Gallery exhibits the essence of the urban environment – alive with color, noise, and urban dwellers. This show’s artists consider the character of urban spaces; its rhythm, life, and movement, while reflecting simultaneously on its stability, rigidness, and impenetrability.

Participating artists: Jim Beckner, Norm Cable, Raj Chaudhuri, Kim English, Mikael Olson, Sandra Pratt, Robert Spooner, Jill Soukup and Ken Valastro

During February at Abend Gallery, local artists convey their passion, manifesting the intangible force into artistic form. February, the historical month of expression and atonement, is the perfect time for artists to purge their souls and translate their subjective passions - whether the subjects are landscape, figural, or non-representational expressions - into visual form.

Participating artists include: Deborah Bays, Jim Beckner, Raj Chaudhuri, Nancy Condit, Robert Coombs, Tim Deibler, Marin Dobson, Michael Dowling, Jane Ford, Bao Ho, Nancy Lipson, Terrie Lombardi, Keith Oliver, Marsha Whitesides Piper, Sandra Pratt, Connie Renner, Mary Scrimgeour, Jean Shom, Jill Soukup, Michelle Torrez and Ken Valastro

Abend Gallery ’s first exhibition of 2005, Wide Wide West, features art that characterizes both traditional and contemporary themes of the Southwest.  Held in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, this popular annual show features numerous acclaimed artists from Colorado and the Southwest region.

Participating artists: Ron Barsano, Dan Beck, Stephen Day, Tim Deibler, Harold Deist, Scott Gleeson, Andree Hudson, Sparky LeBold, Karen G. Myers, Warren Neary, Jean Shom, Nathan Solano, Jill Soukup, Martha Sulfridge, Lani Vlaanderen