Eye to I Opening Night Reception June 12th, 6pm-9pm at Space Gallery, 765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO. Artists will be in attendance. Show will run through July 11th.

2 artists exploring the figurative portrait in oil, with 2 very different eyes.

Penelope Caldwell employs a loose, painterly approach. Her large figures command attention with their moody intensity. Her art speaks to gender, race and culture. The work is driven by her experiences in Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras and growing up in Africa and Brazil. Penelope searches for a seemingly improbable constellation of drips and dabs of pigment that coalesce into a moment of recognition. Penelope lives in Southeast Wyoming, and holds a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is directly represented by Space Gallery. Learn more about Penelope Caldwell at www.PenelopeCaldwell.com.

Marie Vlasic likes to call her painting style “realistic impressionism”. Her technique is very deliberate and layered, resulting in paintings with a lively, luminous quality. She is infinitely fascinated by humanity & the body, and with modern culture in particular, as evidenced in her many paintings of interesting, tattooed subjects. This show includes as models local celebrities Chris Parente (Channel 2 news) and Michelle Baldwin (Vivienne VaVoom, Burlesque as it Was). Marie will also be showing at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, July 3, 4 & 5.Learn more about Marie Vlasic at www.VlasicStudio.com.

Note: This exhibit will be covered live on-air by Chris Parente, on the Channel 2, 7pm Broadcast June 11th.

Also at SPACE in June, Emilie Horne in the rear gallery