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NOTE: The Space Gallery Annex joint show opening in Denver featuring one of my pieces has been changed from May 9th to May 23rd 5-10pm

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SPACE ANNEX - GRAND OPENING - MAY 9TH - 6-9PM MOMENTUM Please join us for an epic celebration for the grand opening of our new gallery - Space Annex. We've transformed an old warehouse in the historic Baker Neighborhood into a beautiful setting to showcase our talented artists. This inaugural exhibit will serve as a marker of things to come. We invited all of our artists to create one special piece for the opening and we can't wait to share them with you. GRAND OPENING: THURSDAY MAY 9TH 6-9PMSPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY HANNAH KAHN DANCE COMPANY (our awesome neighbor) 8PM EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 9TH - JUNE 15THSPACE ANNEX - 95 S. CHEROKEE ST - DENVER - CO - 80223 FEATURING NEW WORK BY: MARKS AARDSMA I PATRICIA AARON I MONICA AIELLO I TYLER AIELLOROBIN AULT I STEVEN BARIS I PATTIE LEE BECKER I HEATHER BENTZRAMON BONILLA I PAUL BROKERING I FREA BUCKLER I JUDY CAMPBELLTAIKO CHANDLER I NANCY CHARAK I DIANE CIONNI I RIMAS CIURLIONISJODIE ROTH COOPER I JEFF CURRY I HAZE DIEDRICH I MADELEINE DODGEGRAEME DUNCAN I PAUL ECKE I MIGUEL EDWARDS I TONY ELLISJOSHUA ENCK I ANTHONY FALCETTA I MARCUS FITZGIBBONSKAREN FREEDMAN I AMBER GEORGE I JANE GUTHRIDGE I MICHAEL HEDGESHOWARD HERSH I RUTH HILLER I SCOTT HOLDEMAN I ANNA ELISE JOHNSONJEFF JUHLIN I NANCY KOENIGSBERG I WENDY KOWYNIA I KARINE LÉGERVIRGINIA MAITLAND I DAVID MARSHALL I FRANK MARTINEZ I HYLAND MATHERJOANNE MATTERA I SKYLER MCGEE I DIANE MCGREGOR I LEWIS MCINNISIAN MCLAUGHLIN I YIANNI MELLIOS I JEAN PIERRE MORINCONNOR O’DONNELL I SUE OEHME I REGULA ONSTAD I COREY POSTIGLIONELISA PURDY I MIKE RAND I LYNDA RAY I SANGEETA REDDYREBECCA RUTSTEIN I JULIA SANDERS I KAREN SCHARER I BEN SCHWABSTEPHEN SHACHTMAN I BILL SNIDER I BETSY STEWART I WILLIAM STOEHRKRISTA SVALBONAS I SHARON SWIDLER I CUONG TA I PHILIP TARLOWDEBRA VAN TUINEN I JEFF WENZEL I JEFF GLODE WISE I JOHN WOODNICK YOUNG

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Designer Rug Featured on Interior Design Mag’s Instagram Page

A picture of my art rug made by Scott Group Studio and on permanent display at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, is featured today on Interior Design magazine's Instagram page (one million followers!) Over 2,000 likes in the first hour of posting.

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Group show coming up at the Gilded Pear Gallery in Cedar Rapids, June 9-August 11. Includes six pieces of my work. www.tonyellisart.com.

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A slideshow of my work and the video by Marc Strauch: Finding Beauty: the Photographic Art of Tony Ellis was recently shown at the first Rishikesh Art & Film Festival

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360 degree virtual tour of Vantage Point show at Space Gallery in Denver available here

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“God courts us with the beauty of this world.”—Persian poet Hafez (1325-1389). Image photographed on dumpster, Huddersfield, UK, 2015. www.tonyellisart.com

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Opening reception for “Vantage Point” show with Paul Brokering at Space Gallery in Denver, Friday 17th February.

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Vantage Point: Artists Reception

VANTAGE POINT Artists Reception

THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The work featured in Vantage Point comes from the overlapping reality of two artists working in Colorado's Front Range and Eastern plains stretching into Nebraska. You might be thinking of bucolic farms or Denver skyline stock photos. Don't. Artists Tony Ellis and Paul Brokering are out to reawaken our experience of the commonplace with a visually powerful response to the question: What makes a photograph fine art? Setting the stage for Denver's Month of Photography, Vantage Point will compel you to decide for yourself.

Catering provided by Three Tomatoes Catering

FEATURING WORK BY TONY ELLIS PAUL BROKERING

with a juried exhibition of the work of artma artists MADELEINE DODGE PAT ISAACS JOHN MATLACK on the mezzanine

Exhibition runs: February 17th - March 25th, 2017

TONY ELLIS

Tony Ellis, Untitled, 2016

Tony Ellis photographs are often mistaken for paintings. In his first exhibition at Space Gallery, Ellis elevates the remnants of Denver street art and urban grit into images that live somewhere between super and abstract realism.

A graduate of the West of England College of Art, Ellis works on Colorado wind energy projects. "At first I was taking photographs for fun, then my love of abstract art kicked in and I found myself discovering what I see as "accidental Rothkos" on abandoned buildings, old trains and rusted ranch equipment."

After several exhibitions in the Midwest, Ellis' work was acquired for the permanent collections of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2014, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, in 2016.

Ellis returned to Colorado two years ago to focus on Denver's urban environment "and the ephemeral detail of deteriorating graffiti, altered by weather, paint or, better yet, attempts to remove it from places we walk by every day."

PAUL BROKERING

Paul Brokering, Highway 6, 2016

Paul Brokering's focus on buildings we might dismiss as mundane artifacts of rural life emerge as bold studies of artistic elements. "We drive by these buildings often and seldom take time to stop and discover the beauty of these structures that never change," he offers. Brokering's emphasis on shape, color, and repeating patterns of built environments draws us away from a building's function to its powerful aesthetic.

Brokering, a native Coloradan and former resident and graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Architecture, returned to Denver ten years ago. Brokering admits that his passion for photography happily coexists with his career as an architect. The instant gratification of digital photography, combining the promise of more control of the creative process and his natural love of gadgets, were a powerful elixir pulling him towards photography.

Brokering has exhibited his photographic work in Colorado and Nebraska since 2005. This is his second exhibition of abstract images at Space Gallery.

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New exhibition coming up at the SPACE Gallery in Denver starting February 17th. Any one who is in the area is welcome to join us at the opening reception on Friday evening 5-8pm.

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An exciting new art & film festival is being launched this March in Rishikesh, India. For anyone wanting to submit their work, submissions are open until January 8th.

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New wall art at Maharishi’s former ashram in Rishikesh, installed with permission of Indian Forestry Service. Artists include Miles Toland, Pan Trinity Das, and Kyrie Maezumi.

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The Ganges River seen from Swarg Ashram where The Beatles studied with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Photographed on iPhone 6 in Pano setting. www.tonyellisart.com

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Detail of child’s painting, India, 2016

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Image #226. Photographed in Fairfield, Iowa. www.tonyellisart.com

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Image # 206. Photographed in Colorado.