NOTICE: As per the City & County of Denver’s Public Health Orders, all attendees will be required to wear a face mask for entry into this event
Located in the former Jerry’s Record Exchange storefront, Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, is an extension of The Dikeou Collection and offers an expanded look at Devon Dikeou “Mid-Career Smear” curated by Cortney Lane Stell. A reception will be held at this location on Tuesday, December 21 from 6-8pm to commemorate the winter solstice and will feature Dikeou’s holiday Santa Claus performance, “You Better Watch Out.” Photo portraits with Santa courtesy of Anthony Camera Photography, and DARIA Art Magazine founder and editor, Genevieve Waller, will DJ the event with music pulled from the collection’s extensive vinyl archive. This event is free and open to the public.
Occupying the main-level of the storefront, as well as the basement and outdoor courtyard, the artworks on view at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax broadens the scope of “Mid-Career Smear” by presenting some of the earliest works of Dikeou’s career alongside brand-new projects fresh from the studio. “You Better Watch Out” (1991 Ongoing) is a performance piece by Devon Dikeou where a professional Santa Claus asks participants “if they have been bad or good” while partaking in cookies and milk left by the artist. Previous performances have taken place in New York (1991, 2009), Austin, the Dikeou Collection (2009, 2010), and Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax (2016). Dikeou’s ongoing “Donation” installation will be replenished with a winter floral arrangement in the courtyard, and a special edition of Dikeou Collection artist Lizzi Bougatsos’ “Self-Portrait” ice sculpture will also be on view.
Anthony Camera is an award winning Denver based commercial photographer specializing in corporate communications, environmental portraiture and editorial photography. Anthony has been working professionally in Denver for about 25 years.
A bon vivant in her own mind, Genevieve Waller (she/her) sings Roy Orbison’s “Crying” while applying mascara and writes letters to friends in French. Her favorite color is rainbow and her alter ego is known as The Dark Manner. She is an artist, writer, and DJ based in Denver. In her art practice she focuses on cameraless photography, installation, and sculpture, investigating the connections between abstraction, decoration, the aesthetic of camp, hierarchies of value, and LGBTQ+ culture. She’s the founder and editor of DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, a journal devoted to the visual art scene in the Front Range.
Full winter solstice photoset portfolio by Anthony Camera can be viewed at www.anthonycamera.com