Niza Knoll’s Alternative Printmaking show celebrating The Month of Printmaking. Mo’Print is a biennial celebration that highlights the art of making original, fine art prints to inspire, educate and promote awareness in the Denver metropolitan area, the front range region, and throughout Colorado.

“Scales” investigates the role size plays in the understanding of an artwork. From the tiniest, most intimately sized sculptures to paintings that loom impossibly large, viewers will journey across a crescendo of visual scales within the gallery.

Juried by Laine Godsey

January 5 - January 21

Core Art Space, located in the 40 West Art District in Lakewood, Colorado is a member-run artists co-op. Core has a long and vibrant history of providing a platform for exhibiting a diverse community of artists.  In the first members’ show of the year, Core invites the public to help us kick off the new year by celebrating the wide array of individuality, expression, and community in this exhibit of “New Beginnings”.

In keeping with the mission of Core to create and maintain a dynamic, independent forum for the contemporary arts, we strive for an atmosphere that will encourage both non-judgmental, competitive and accessible exhibitions for the community at large.

Please see our website to  Meet Our Artists www.coreartspace.com/artists-gallery   

Fred Voigt Becker regards the world as a place of great excess and great want. He views the visual world as a cacophony of brilliant sounds and colors directly leaping into one another. Nothing is spared. There is nowhere to hide from the aural and visual intensity or variety - it's an endless flood. There is no want and nothing is lacking in this world.

Desire is also a flood, but one that leads to drought. Endless, unsatisfiable greed drive our species to unimaginable extremes of inhumanity, and in the daily, mundane sense create income inequality, hunger, homelessness, and despair.

Would that he could feed us with color! But paintings are not food that fills a hungry belly. Fred's own desire to make great paintings, to be known, drives his ecstatic expressions. At times he thinks it all seems futile, childishly egotistic, and he wants to bury them all in dry dirt. Can you eat of this and be satisfied?

Still, the flood keeps coming.

Annual Solo Show at Core Art Space located in the 40 W Art Hub, 6501 W. Colfax Av, Denver

“On Edge” Edge Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Annie Geimer

931 Gallery, 931 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

Mark Brasuell has invited me to show with him at 931! Mark’s show, “Traumwelt,” will feature his new, very large, charcoal drawings on paper.

My show, “Generative,” saturated with frenetic color, will make an interesting counterpoint to Mark’s frenetic black and white!

This will be a super-fun show!

Core Art Space

May 12th – May 28th, 2023

Floral imagery has a long history beginning with the Dutch Master’s realistic still lifes, then onto Monet’s light filled water lilies. In contemporary art there’s Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits with flowers, Georgia O’Keefe’s enlarged sensual closeups and Joan Mitchell’s large abstract expressionist florals.

The term Flower Power originated in the 60s where flowers were used to symbolize the passive resistance movement to war. Flowers have long symbolized romance even having its own language and also represents femininity, growth and lushness.

Where do you fit in this spectrum?  Whether realistic, expressionistic, impressionistic, symbolistic, abstract or political and conceptual…. Let’s explore what current floral imagery means to you. All mediums/disciplines welcome but for video.

Juror, Michael Paglia, an art and architecture critic, has written a column for Westword, Denver's alternative weekly, since 1995. He teaches in the art history department at the University of Colorado at Denver and has authored several books and monographs. He also works on arts programming for Denver's local PBS station.

The Lab on Santa Fe Art Gallery, 840 N Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

I Sing the Body Electric pays homage to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Artists investigate what art means in relation to Transcendentalism and Nature and how spirituality includes everything that life is, the good, the bad and the ugly as well as the thin boundary between our exterior and interior world.

Sack of Muck is about the interface between the body and the spirit.

Sack of Muck is a large, red painting that has immediate visceral impact. Red is a color that evokes passion or warns of danger, and we react to red with increased blood pressure, breathing and metabolism. The color field of the painting is rich with many layers of paint - there is an earlier abstract expressionist style painting showing through under the color field - and demands the viewers close attention. Seen almost secondarily is the text, turned on its side and not immediately literal, the letters of which organize the space on the flat plane. If the viewer decides to read, the philosophical content of the piece begins to reveal itself. However, the content of the message is quite outside our current cultural norms or understanding. It pulls the viewer off balance, demanding they rethink their relationship with their own and other's bodies as an avenue to finding the spirit!

Opening Reception February 17th, 5 - 10 PM

Core Art Space presents a nationwide open call exhibit which presents art focused on what "seeing the world through rose-colored glasses" means to the artists. Juried by Dana Cain, a show promoter who owns and operates several large festivals around town, was tasked with considering pieces that might feature a romantic tendency to view things through an optimistic filter… Where the glass isn't simply half full - it's filled with pink lemonade or pink champagne.

Yet on the other hand, perhaps it’s a tendency to falsely paint reality in a rosier hue because otherwise, it's too unpleasant or uncomfortable. Then there is simply the lush color theme of rich reds, marvelous mauves, passionate pinks and rhapsodic roses.

Core Art Space celebrates the coolest street in America along with our new home in the 40 West Art Hub with an open-themed member show featuring a fantastic road-crew of artists. See sculpture, assemblage, painting, ceramics, collage, and who knows what else from the coolest, Colfaxiest art co-op in Colorado.

Four Color Field paintings make a great display in Edgewater Libiary’s perfect reading room! Original Nature is a rich, scraped, lined painting full of nuance and hidden details. The threee “Green Mesa” paintings continue the theme of stripes in a landscape format.

Solo show in D’art’s Gallery East will feature large, color-field paintings.

New Work by Fred Voigt Becker.

Fred Voigt Becker gets half the gallery. Robert Davis Garner has the other half. These artists showed together in 2021 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Core New Art Space is moving! Our new location will be just east of our current address, across the Casa Bonita shopping center parking lot in a free-standing building. The new address is: 6501 W. Colfax Ave, Studio C, Lakewood, CO 80214.

We anticipate that this will be the first show in the new space! We look forward to seeing you there!

First Friday and Artist’s Reception, June 3

Core Hours: Friday, 5-10 pm, Saturday, 12-5 pm, Sunday, 12-4 pm

It’s time for CORE’s ode to the joyful renewal marked by the vernal equinox. Spring Break is an open call to artists across America. The rebirth that is springtime has been celebrated with festivals and depicted by artists of nearly every civilization, ancient to contemporary. It’s hard not to love this time of year.

Artist reception: Friday, May 13th, 2022 5pm – 10p

Fred Voigt Becker exhibits, “Cut from a Cloth,” nine oil paintings on canvas
that form one unique instillation, at Awake Café, 2200 Clay St Unit 100, Denver, CO 80211. info@awakedenver.com
Phone: 720-379-7665
Website: awakedenver.com
Fred Voigt Becker's show, "Cut from a Cloth," honors the paintings that exist prior to the finished product. Cut from one, six-foot square canvas, repainted and re-mounted, these nine images work both individually and synergistically.
Awake Café is a radically inclusive alcohol-free bar, bottle shop and coffee house. Awake is
located south of the Highlands Pedestrian Bridge on the west side of I-25. Join us as part of your
First Friday Art excursion, May 6.
Hours: Mon-Tues, 7am-3pm Wed-Sat, 7am-10pm Sunday,7am-5pm.

In conjunction with Mo’Print: Month of Printmaking, Spark Gallery presents Reverse Image, a juried exhibition of works by Colorado artists working in all print mediums.

This exhibition explores what a print can be and showcases the vitality of printmaking in the contemporary art world.

The work was juried by Catherine Chauvin, master printmaker and member of the faculty at the University of Denver.

Accepted: “Electrocardiogram” Serigraph monoprint using Oil Paint and Cold Wax

Third Friday and Artist’s Reception, Jan. 21

First Friday, Feb. 4

Joint Associate Show Statement

Brightening the winter of early 2022 is Resilience, the Sync Associate Show open Jan 20 to Feb
13. With themes of renewal and hardiness, four artists express four distinct artistic
interpretations through photography, abstract and representational painting.

Cheryl Jelm paints in oil on canvas or linen. In this show she has paintings of plants that survive
arid and difficult environments. They are resilient year after year. Resilience is also
demonstrated with the spines of the cacti and the toxicity of rabbitbrush to ward off animals.
Yet these examples provide gorgeous color and textures to their inhospitable surroundings.
Cheryl is most interested in these elements which she finds rewarding to paint.

Fred Voigt Becker paints spontaneously and intuitively in oil on large wooden panels. Initially he
makes certain choices of color, line and form, but as the painting progresses, his choices
become contingent on what is already there until the painting “paints itself.” When nothing
else needs to be added or subtracted the work is full and complete. The elasticity of Resilience
has been demonstrated.

Karin Kempe’s paintings in acrylic on canvas always start in abstraction and color. Sometimes
images emerge from that field of color and space. Mountains, trees, skies and even birds
initially hidden may reveal themselves. This process echoes the resilience of nature, which
nurtures the slow and erratic process of healing and rejuvenation.

Whether it is a tree growing out of a rock in the desert or a lit votive candle in a church, Lynda
Tygart’s photographs depict the optimism that lies within Resilience, the ability to keep going in
the face of adversity and loss. Her process begins with a black and white photograph on a wood
panel that she handpaints, creating an ethereal effect for the viewer

Members Show

Core bids farewell to 2021, a year of upheaval and change, and celebrates a fresh new year! A year filled with new found optimism and forward thinking. Come see works from all the members which encompasses a vast array of art forms. There will be paintings that cover abstract, representational, classical, minimalist, expressionism and graphically modern. Sculptures and mixed media include ceramics, metal, upcycling, collage, fiber/beading and assemblage.

Show runs: Jan 7 - Sun Jan 23

First Friday Opening Reception: 1/7 5-10pm

Original nature is vast, open and peaceful. Paintings that come from this joyful place cannot be tarnished or diminished.

Fred Voigt Becker in the East Gallery at D’Art, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

Lost and Found

While "Lost & Found" brings to mind a hodge podge of things left behind awaiting reclamation, we encourage you to think outside that box. You can approach this theme literally or figuratively. Be profound or light-hearted. Be sincere or ironic. For example, during the pandemic had you lost your mind or just your marbles? Maybe you lost your sense of security, confidence, or connection --- or worse, literally lost your home, job, or a loved one. Maybe you have found your voice, your feet, a happy medium, a sense of peace, or common ground with another. We encourage you to find and explore a way of playing off this theme through whatever visual media you choose: assemblage, found imagery, painting, drawing, clay.

37th All Colorado at the Depot: Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, CO. August 6 through September 12, 2021 Juried by Lorenzo Chavez

“This juried exhibit displays artwork that tells a story. Art can be inspired by literature and legends, poetry and parables, novels and narratives, myths and metaphors. These pieces exhibit their own fiction, fable , folklore or fairytale. This show presents art worth a thousand words.”

Juried by Richard Chamberlain

Poetry imbedded within, “Facing in All Directions,” by Fred Voigt Becker

What happens to this canvas

When it is covered in paint?

Freedom from signs, words, concepts

Say “NO” to violent cowards.

Impermanent ideas come and go…

Sitting, watching clouds arise,

Attached to loss and regret,

Karma piled high as a mountain,

Examining microscopic dust.

 “Paintings That Paint Themselves” – Fred Voigt Becker

 Fred Voigt Becker explores the relationship between painter and paintings in his show, “Paintings That Paint Themselves.” He asks us, in the spirit of Zen inquiry, “Who is it that paints?”

Fred’s work displays the influence of abstract expressionism and color field painting. Each of these pieces begin as one thing, one idea, but through the process of painting become something else entirely. For Fred this is how it works. Conceptualization must ultimately yield to the act: up to and including complete absorption.

This is the Way.

Fred Voigt Becker made fifteen paintings and prints in 2020, yet he says, “I felt compelled to include one that dates back to 1978 just for fun.” Included in his show are several new serigraphs that render the gestural qualities of expressionism in the flat smoothness of screen printing.

Show runs: 03/05/2021 – 03/21/2021

First Friday Reception: 03/05/2021