While scoping out Dateline, make sure to drop in next door at JuiceBox, where Julio Alejandro joins Drew Austin, Derek Blancey, Jillian FitzMaurice, Dalton Frizzell, Thomas Scharfenberg and Lucas Thomas in a new group exhibit that’s all about the foundational processes - mark-making, shape-blocking, pushing paint in new directions - of making art in any genre or medium. Fridge Art will also include works on paper drawn by Alejandro and colored by Jack Fitzmaurice and Beatrice Presswalla. Like comic books or cartoons we affix to the fridge with magnets, this batch might cue memories, represent the slow turning of personal evolution or just make us chuckle at a familiar old joke. Julio Alejandro’s canvases sling together text, doodles, dream imagery, cartoon figures and pop-cultural references in surreal two-dimensional landscapes that spring from his consciousness in pleasing arrangements. Julio Alejandro Julio Alejandro, Fridge Art After closing in June, CHAC members have been sprucing up the new (and larger) space, and the gallery is set to reopen on First Friday, in hopes of luring art-walkers down to the less-populated end of the art district with an opening ceremony by Aztec dance troupe Huitzilopochtli, spins by DJ Big Moe and a fresh new show, Art Is Art, a showcase of CHAC favorites old and new. CHAC executive director Lucille Ruibal Rivera announced that the Denver treasure was looking for new digs, which turned out to be in a building only five blocks south of the old location. When the news came down this past spring that the Chicano Humanities and Art Council was facing the loss of its well-entrenched Santa Fe Drive twin spaces of more than twenty years to encroaching development, the cultural hub’s leadership didn’t think too long about what to do. Opening Reception: Friday, August 3, 5 to 9 p.m. CHAC Gallery First Friday Grand Reopening: Art Is ArtĬhicano Humanities and Arts Council, 222 Santa Fe Drive
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