In Passing
Westword, April 3rd, 2008
But for now, let's leave behind the sordid events of the suburbs and come back to the more wholesome environment of the city, where there are also changes afoot at the venerable Sandy Carson Gallery. Read article here.

Best of 2008 - Best Change of Pace
Westword, March 27th, 2008
Homare Ikeda - Sandy Carson Gallery:
Denver painter Homare Ikeda, who was born and raised in Japan, made his reputation with densely composed nature-based abstractions so methodically produced that it sometimes took years to complete one. Read article here.

Denver's Art Scene Gets New Players
Rocky Mountain News, February 28th, 2008
William and Jan van Straaten, who've operated the respected publishing house Riverhouse Editions in Steamboat Springs for 20 years, have purchased the Sandy Carson Gallery and The Carson Group Art Consultants. Read article here.

Lui Ferreyra / Peter Brown
Westword, Januard 17th, 2008
Last summer, I was part of a panel discussion about the role that our local scenery plays in both contemporary and traditional art, especially — though not exclusively — in the art that's done in the region. Read article here.

Tony Scherman / Cindy Stockton-Moore / Mark Rediske / Tracy Adams
Westword, December 20, 2007
The idea for a quartet of solo shows at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) began when owner Sandy Carson decided she wanted to mount an exhibit devoted to Toronto hotshot Tony Scherman, one of the foremost encaustic painters anywhere. Read article here.

Michael Zansky / Ricki Klages
The Rocky Mountain News, November 23, 2007
Undoubtedly there are fans of Ricki Klages' work, those attracted to the Wyoming-based artist's landscapes. Read article here.

Jeffrey Hersch / Jennifer Omaitz
The Rocky Mountain News, October 12, 2007
Those familiar with Jeff Hersch's work know that he is fluent in the language of black-and-white photography, and some of the work on view at Carson fits in that category: boys playing baseball in an Indiana fog, and the tricks played by light in scenes in Slovakia. Read article here.

Ikeda displays lighter touch in solo show
The Rocky Mountain News, June 8, 2007
Homare Ikeda has built a stellar reputation by making work thick with paint, canvases that contrast dense patches of oil with lighter areas covered with the quirky symbols for which the artist has become known. Read article here.

Homare Ikeda
Westword, June 7, 2007
Surely Homare Ikeda is on just about everyone's list of the most interesting and important contemporary painters in the area. His work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, and he's had pieces included in shows at any number of venues, particularly the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. But it's been five years since his last solo in town, making Homare Ikeda, at Sandy Carson Gallery, definitely something rare and special. And, I might add, a knockout. Read article here.

Imagination steers voyage
Rocky Mountain News, April 20, 2007
Santiago Perez is a pilgrim on the trail of the fantastical, an intense, driven artist who creates paintings that toy with the surreal and require a leap of faith to dissect.
That is what makes the work of this prolific artist so engaging, so intriguing to decipher and so difficult to dismiss - especially in terms of a suite of works on view this month at Sandy Carson Gallery. Read article here.

Modica's art transforms
Denver Post, December 22, 2006
It sounds like an all-too-predictable project for a beginning photography class: Go and shoot some scenes of a local apple orchard. Yawn.
But in the hands of Andrea Modica, a nationally known photographer who teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia, such potentially banal subject matter is transformed into evocative imagery infused with meaning and feeling. Read article here.

Collages a glimpse of Libeskind
Rocky Mountain News, December 8, 2006
The Denver Art Museum's new Frederic C. Hamilton Building has been open for two months, and the discussion continues - or is it a debate? - over its form both inside and out. Read article here.

Libeskind's Working Sketches
Denver Post, December 7, 2006
The Sandy Carson Gallery followed that simple axiom, and it has scored what by any measure is a coup - one that has undoubtedly sparked envy among other Denver art dealers. Read article here.

Daniel Libeskind, Andrea Modica and Joellyn Duesberry
Westword, December 7, 2006
I'm sure you've all heard more than enough about the Denver Art Museum's Frederic C. Hamilton Building. That's too bad, because there's even more to say about it in light of the show that just opened at Sandy Carson Gallery. Read article here.

Something to Consider
Westword, July 20, 2006
Something to Consider is a wonderful summer show filled with fresh-looking contemporary paintings and ceramic sculptures at Sandy Carson Gallery . I'm not sure the title means anything, but I am sure that the show is a knockout. Read article here.

Realist Democracy
Westword, June 8, 2006
Recent pieces by a young Denver artist who is surely one of the up-and-comers in the realm of contemporary representational art are being showcased in Lui Ferreyra: Paintings, in the front space at Sandy Carson Gallery. Read article here.

Round Up
Westword, April 27, 2006
Sandy Carson Gallery, clearly the most important spot on Santa Fe Drive, is presenting two notable solos, Gwen Laine and Lorelei Schott, that were installed as a duet. Laine is an experimental photographer, Schott an abstract painter. Read article here.

Real and Magical
Westword, March 30, 2006
Contemporary Western imagery at Robischon, and a fantasyland at Sandy Carson. Read article here.

Santa Fe Drive an eclectic ride
Rocky Mountain News, March 17, 2006
Let's give Santa Fe Drive this: If you want to judge an arts district by the number of venues, this one wins for critical mass. Read article here

A welcome return to beauty
Denver Post, February 2, 2006
Much of the story of art in the past century has revolved around defying, subverting or, at the very least, ignoring beauty. Read article here

Flower Power
Westword, January 26, 2006
Using plants and flowers as source material for artwork is definitely an old-timey pursuit whose roots (pardon the pun) go back to the dawn of the Greco-Roman era. Here we are in the 21st century, and many contemporary painters -- not just realists -- still draw inspiration from the ubiquitous foliage. I guess it makes sense, since plants are beautiful things that are all around us. Well, except in January in the Mile High City. Read article here

Last Call
Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 2005
Sarah McKenzie wrote recently to note that she has had a busy and productive year in her studio, since she is still very much a working artist while finishing a period teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art and pondering a move back to the Denver area. Read article here

McKenzie and abstraction, beyond suburbia
Denver Post, November 4, 2005
Good artists never are satisfied. They are always thinking and rethinking their work, looking for new expressive possibilities and seeking to improve. Read article here

Changing Scenes
Westword, October 27, 2005
Sandy Carson Gallery is hosting two solos that are installed together in the front spaces. On the walls are contemporary representational paintings by Sarah McKenzie that comprise a show called Constructions; on the floor are conceptual sculptures by Virginia Folkestad that form the exhibit Stoppers. Read article here

Change of Scenery
Westword, August 11, 2005
The paintings, drawings and prints in this exhibit are not the kind of thing you'd think of when you hear the name Olitski. The artist became famous for his '60s color-field abstractions, one of several logical extensions of abstract expressionism. Read article here

Now Showing
Westword, June 30, 2005
The changing of the seasons from spring to summer is what inspired William Biety, director of the Sandy Carson Gallery, to put together three solos, each comprising nature-based abstractions. Read article here

Smear Factor
Westword, June 9, 2005, Michael Paglia
I think it's easy to comprehend why artists have been so taken with the ethos of abstract expressionism. As the late philosopher king Andy Warhol once noted, it's easier to be sloppy than it is to be neat. Read article here

Figures, Facts and Fountains
Westword, May 19, 2005, Michael Paglia
Depictions of the figure are getting hot in the art world again; I haven't seen this much interest in the topic since the 1980s. Read article here

Works examine human form
Rocky Mountain News, May 13, 2005, Mary Voelz Chandler.
Human fascination with the human form is as old as the first hominid to peer out of the cave. The ability to reproduce that figure, abstract it and twist it into an actor in a drama on canvas or paper is the subject of spring shows at two area galleries. Read article here

Shows Reveal Tunson Talent
Rocky Mountain News, January 29, 2005, Mary Voelz-Chandler
It's tough to combine the jobs of artist and educator - tough on time, tough on energy, just tough. But for years, Floyd Tunson has walked that line, teaching here, living in Manitou Springs, and showing with numerous galleries. Read article here

Galleries take art to its fiber
Rocky Mountain News, July 2, 2004, Mary Voelz-Chandler
When a ceramics educators conference met in Denver a few years ago, area galleries responded by scheduling an impressive array of shows devoted to clay, employed both in vessels and sculpture. Read article here

10+10, Bourgeois sculptures among state's best in 2003
It's always a good sign when choosing the annual top 10 list of Colorado art exhibitions causes anguish because of the abundance of worthy candidates. That was certainly the case in 2003.
Read article here

City Focus | Denver | Reaching New Heights
ARTnews Magazine, January 2004, Kyle Macmillan
Denver's curators, collectors, and dealers are ensuring the city's future as a world class art destination.
Read article here