The Sacred Bug and the Insects at Hinterland /  by David Menard

Bugs and insects were always associated with the symbols of life, the big creator and shared great respect in a lot of cultures. According to one Egyptian myth, honey bees were the tears of the sun god Ra. It was the fly in egyptian mythology which gave protection agains disease or misfortune. The ancient egyptians also believed that the scarab beetle came into being itself from a ball of dung (the idea of self-creation). It was worshipped under the name of Khepri, which means 'he who has come into being' or 'he who came forth from the earth'. The god Khepri was associated with the creator-god Atum and was regarded as a form of the sun-god Ra. Just as the beetle pushed its ball of dung over the ground, so Khepri in the form of a scarab beetle, it was thought, rolled the solar disc across the sky each day. 

 

Opening Reception
August 27, 2010

Open 1st Friday
September 3, 2010

Closing
October 7, 2010

Participating Artists:
Heidi Jung
Grant Williams
Gail Boyd
Norman Broomhall
David Zimmer
Robin Schaefer
Sabin Aell 

Jung included in CVAs Merge Exhibition /  by David Menard

 

MERGE: Metro State Alumni Exhibition 2010 – The Anniversary Year

 

July 16- August 28

Opening reception July 16, 6-7 pm: Private artist reception for members and special guests
Opening reception July 16, 7-9 pm: Public reception

 

MERGE was juried by Greg Watts, current Chair of the Metro State Department of Art and Barbara Houghton, Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University and former Chair of the Metro State Department of Art. As the CVA celebrates its 20th Anniversary it is significant that these two jurors have joined forces. Barbara Houghton played a considerable role in the creation of the CVA 20 years ago and Greg Watts has helped develop the CVA into its role today as contributor to the Rocky Mountain art scene and most recently, as an important anchor for the Santa Fe arts district.

Highlighting some of the best talent to come out of the Metro State Art Department, MERGE features both emerging and well established artists, juried from a local and national basis.

 

Eligibility to participate in MERGE was open to artists who graduated from Metro State in 2009 or earlier. All work was completed within the last three years. Profiles of the artists will be posted to the CVA Facebook page every week for the duration of the exhibition.

 

Artists:
Jeffery Ball, Phil Bender, Cristine Boyd, Mary Cay, Gabriel Christus, Evan Colbert, Terry Decker, Heather Doyle-Maier, Robert Dunahay, Mark Friday, Shawn Garvin, Jennifer Ghormley, Jason Gimbel, Kathryn Gregonis, Celina Grigore, Megan Harrison, Katie Hoffman, Conor Hollis, Jennifer Jeannelle, Heidi Jung, Josiah Lopez, Merlin Madrid, Dawn McFadden, Skyler McGee, Todd Muller, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Luzia Ornelas, Adesola Owolabi, J. John Priola, Marie Quinn, Brian Rendon, Claudia Roulier, Sean Rozales, Caroline Rutsche, Dave Seiler, Tony Stanzione, Sue Whitmore, Kyle Wimmer

 

The CVA is open late First and Third Fridays until 8 p.m. - August 6 and 20

 

For more information visit http://www.metrostateCVA.org

Inside: Ironton Studios & Gallery Creative juices run wild in the RiNo District /  by David Menard

 

 MetroMix.com  visited Ironton Studios this week. Look for the full special that airs this  MY20 Saturday July 10th at 5:00pm

What do you get when you put six painters, two wood workers, two metal artists and two stone sculpting studios together in one building? No, this isn’t an intro to a funny joke—although you would think so with the setup. We’re talking about one of Denver’s most well-known artist studios, Ironton Studios & Gallery located in the heart of the RiNo District five minutes from downtown  Read full story....

 

 

Jung in Group Exhibit at Ironton Studios /  by David Menard

Ironton celebrates 11 years in Denver with our annual 4th of July weekend party. We have a lot to celebrate this year with the addition of two new artists to the group; Chase DeForest and Yoshitomo Saito. Chase is an accomplished furniture and object-maker and Yoshi is a master bronze artist whose casting facility is now in the yard at Ironton.

 The gallery will exhibit new work by each artist effectively illustrating the uniqueness of Ironton as a multi-discipline facility:

 
Andy Berg, painting
Jeff Bludeau, woodshop
Dan Brandemuehl,  stone sculpture
Chase DeForest, woodshop
Sharon Feder, painting
John Ferguson, steel sculpture
Hugh Graham, multi media
Matt Holman, cartooning
Jill Hadley Hooper, painting
Heidi Jung, painting, photography
Mike Mancarella, sculpture and fabrication
Patricia ‘Murph’ Murphy, painting
Yoshitomo saito, bronze casting
Kagen Schaefer, puzzle making
Robin Schaefer, painting
Andy Sweet, stone sculpture
 
 
Hours are Mon thru Fri 10-4 pm and Saturday noon-4pm

 

Jung Participates in RiNo's Riennial /  by David Menard

Ironton is open and serving art and wine for the 'RiENNIAL' our spring all-RiNo studio tour! 39 locations in RiNo are open for the Riennial. Win a case of Balistreri Wine or a gift certificate towards $1000 to spend with your favorite participating RiNo by getting a raffle ticket from each location. For each $100 spent on art you get TWO more raffle tickets.

Saturday June 19th from 11- 4pm, after-party and drawing at Casselman's at 26th and Walnut at 5pm

 

For more information visit http://rivernorthart.com

Heidi Jung's work showcased in Children's Hospital Designer Show Home /  by David Menard

Click on image for extended view. Photograph by Sharon Meriash.Heidi Jung was chosen as one of the featured artists in the Children’s Hospital 2010 Designer Show Home event. One entire room in the show-house will be filled Heidi’s contemporary botanicals.

Please join us to support The Children's Hospital by touring the show house at 100 Vine Street, one of Denver's most dignified landmark homes in Country Club Historic neighborhood.

For more information visit the link below...

To order tickets to the event please visit,http://www.thechildrenshospitalfoundation.org/realtypreview

For more information on Heidi Jung visit her website athttp://www.heidijung.com.

/  by David Menard

Foothills Academy is pleased to announce an exhibition of the art of Heidi Jung and Grant Williams, with an opening reception Friday, March 12, from 6-9 p.m.. Both local artists have been substantially involved in the growing Denver art scene for many years.

Heidi is a Denver native whose works grace walls nationally and internationally.  Kelsey Grammar and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia own some of her pieces.  She exhibits locally at the Ironton Gallery, part of Denver’s growing River North Art District (RiNo).  Incorporating ink, charcoal and photographic elements, Heidi’s paintings are full of detail and movement to interpret her love of plants and insects.

Grant Williams earned a BFA from the University of Denver in printmaking in 1991. He has exhibited prints, drawings and sculptures at Plus Gallery, Open Press, The Arvada Center, Space Gallery, Chicago’s Workshop Print Gallery and The Amity Foundation.   His most recent series of drawings, “Fall”, explores the laws of gravity.

Heidi will also visit our campus Thursday, March 11 to do a workshop with some lower school students.  We are excited for this opportunity and encourage you to come to the opening and bring your friends.  Heidi is donating 25% of sales of her paintings to the school.

Pruned of color, floral artworks still bloom large /  by David Menard

Most floral artworks are like what they depict: voluptuous and highly colorful.

But in a new group of 10 drawings on view through Feb. 20 at Ironton Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place, Denver artist Heidi Jung has taken a less obvious and, in many ways, more interesting approach.

Working in black and white, she creates what are essentially memento mori — ruminative, partially shrouded looks at flowers, which are often dried and past their prime. These ghostly apparitions stand in as metaphors for the passage of time and the fleeting essence of beauty.

Some, like "Beyond the Fence," have a graceful beauty, while others are darker and, in the case of "Petit Roi," above, even a little menacing.

Working on vellum, which is later mounted on wood panels, Jung combines white and black ink and charcoal in surprisingly inventive ways. Allowing serendipity to play a role, she lays down washes and builds up layers and then erases certain elements to leave shadowy traces.

Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. 303-297-8626 orirontonstudios.com. Kyle MacMillan



Read more:http://www.denverpost.com/art/ci_14376936#ixzz0fMkwcUOR

Heidi Jung New Works exhibit at Ironton now through February 20th: /  by David Menard

Someone must have told Heidi Jung that her plant drawings were 'pretty', 'delicate', 'sensitive', maybe even 'feminine', and she may have responded with "Not anymore."


This new series, showing at Ironton, combines those previous botanical subjects, drawn with the aforementioned qualities, adding a strong, decisive willingness to experiment, and letting the media do what it will. The same plant subjects now become arenas of struggle, psychological crises, and battles of light and dark. ' Delicate' and 'sensitive' are still there but hovering over an abyss of darkness that we may recognize as our own subconscious fears.

Jung's draftsmanship is extraordinary, the natural line of a plant's movement is just right. But much more, she is using massive areas of black, a color we do not often associate with living plants, to create a maelstom of surging emotions. We cannot separate the plants from ourselves and our emotional involvement. The blackest ink washes, under layers of encaustic, speak of intensities in nature, and our own psyches. It is as if the artist is saying, "You think you know my work? There's a lot more than you realize..." 

Whoever thought a botanical subject could be 'explosive', 'convulsive' or 'heart-breaking'?
Yet, these paintings are. 

Peter Illig

 

                                                                            From Left, Paige Sanford, Heidi Jung, Kristina Sterling

Opening Night "the drawers"  From left, Bill Amundson, Heidi Jung, William Stockman                                                                    

heidi jung: new work opens at ironton studios 1/15 /  by David Menard

 

DENVER, CO  December 5, 2009 -  Ironton Studios and Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of new works by artist Heidi Jung. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, January 15, 2010 with a reception for the artist from 6 - 10 p.m. This exhibition continues through February 20, 2010. Ironton Studios is located in the River North Art District (RiNo), just one mile north of downtown Denver at 3636 Chestnut. The Ironton gallery is open from 10 to 4 weekdays, noon to 4 on Saturdays, and by appointment.

Ironton Studios and Gallery - 3636 Chestnut Place - Denver, CO - 80216

jung exhibiting at sps in santa fe /  by David Menard

Sellars Project Space Santa Fe is pleased to host the opening reception for gallery artists Max Boschini, Sharon Bond Brown, Emmett Culligan, Michael Dowling, Sharon Feder, Maarten Haverkamp, Heidi Jung, Mauro Manuini, Tamara Riley, Kelly Schurger and Jimmy Sellars.

Opening reception from 6 - 9 p.m. on Friday, November 20 with artists Emmett Culligan, Michael Dowling, Marie EvB Gibbons, Heidi Jung and Jimmy Sellars in attendance. For more information or directions please call 505.467.8253 or visit http://www.sellarsprojectspace.com.

This exhibition continues through December 31, 2009.

sense of place at sellarsprojectspace /  by David Menard

Sense of Place is an exhibition of small works (4 x 4 inches) by artists Sharon Feder, Heidi Jung and Jimmy Sellars. The term sense of place can be defined in many different ways; geographically, a feeling or perception, or through human attachment and belonging. Each artist’s work in the exhibition touches on each (and in some cases all) of these definitions. 

Sense of Place opens in Sellars Project Space’s new location at 4383 Tennyson Street on Friday, June 5, 2009 with an exhibition for the artists from 6 - 9 p.m. during the Tennyson Street Cultural District’s First Friday Artwalk. For more information (visit the Sellars Project Space’s website at http://www.sellarsprojectspace.com.