Recap: Group Show @ David B. Smith Gallery

We visited Denver this past weekend for a friend’s wedding, and lucky for us, the timing coincided with an opening at David B. Smith Gallery. The gallery had standouts like Kris Lewis, Jason Thielke, and AJ Fosik in its back room, while the front room was dedicated to artists we hadn’t experienced yet.

Hong Seon Jang used scotch tape to create ethereal landscapes like the one you see above. He also created a huge wall piece using old National Geographics that were cut to expose the pages in layers. Paul Jacobsen’s beautiful large scale charcoal drawings were hung in frames that had been scorched with fire. There was a mini gallery filled with stark drawings of modern ruins by Don Stinson. Beautiful diptychs by Lanny DeVuono juxtaposed togographical, maplike paintings on one panel with water or sky on the other.

View our photo gallery of the group show @ David B. Smith…

Sam Wolfe Connelly

Sam Wolfe Connelly is a 21 year old artist from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He works in several different mediums, but it was his charcoal illustrations that really blew me away. I’ve always associated charcoal with smudgy black and white still lifes (lives?). But Sam draws these dark, terrifying characters that are shrouded even further by the medium’s muted color palette.

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Sam’s whole portfolio can be found at samwolfeconnelly.com. He also blogs about his process, and has some prints available for sale.