Westword | 05/22/2019
Leon’s Empirical Imperatives series continues over Memorial Day weekend with Jared David Paul Anderson’s The Primordial Playground, a movable feast of performance art that’s previously gone down in a cave and in an alley.
Category: Press
Ten Things for Art Lovers to Do and See This Weekend in Denver
Westword | 05/08/2019
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural series, Of the Moment, Leon is giving performance art a chance again in 2019 with a fresh cast of game-changers in the fine-art arena.
Photo by Amanda Tipton
Emerging Talent Awards
The Photo World’s Best Kept Secret
04/06/2019 | Lenscratch
Eric Nord, co-owner and curator of Leon Gallery, sees Denver as a great place for early career artists to reach the next level.
Photo by Jeff Davenport
JAIMIE GERSHEN – ART –
04/05/2019 | Cicada Wheels
I had a joint show at LEON Gallery with my friend Doug Spencer, and it was my first time collaborating with another visual artist. It was an amazing shift in perspective for me to scheme and execute ideas with another person and I learned a lot about myself as an individual and as an artist.
Photo courtesy of Jaimie Gershen
There’s a brawl going on in the photography world, and this Denver exhibit gives you a ringside seat
The Know | 03/31/2019
Davenport presents an alternative universe in a solo show at Leon Gallery in the Uptown neighborhood.
Photo by Jeff Davenport
Review: Burned Landscapes (and More) at Sandra Phillips, Cityscapes at Leon
Westword | 03/26/2019
Another MoP show worth a shout-out is Nights: Jeff Davenport at Leon, a rich assortment of nighttime views that were shot in California, Oregon and Colorado.
Photo by Jeff Davenport
10 Photographers to Catch Before Month of Photography ends
303 Magazine | 03/22/2019
At first in his career, Jeff Davenport focused on the Denver music scene, after graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder with film and art history degrees. He was a member of local bands Ending People, Dust on the Breakers, D.Biddle, Porlolo and Meese, as well as hosting a local radio show, Shakedown Radio 1190. However, in 2016 he moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of photography.
Photo by Jeff Davenport
Twenty Must-See Month of Photography Shows
Westword | 03/08/2019
Los Angeleno Jeff Davenport photographs cityscapes, neighborhoods and portraits both in daylight and in unlit darkness in his practice, but he sticks to the latter for Nights, an after-dark poem to the magic of moonlight and city glow.
Photo Jeff Davenport
Gallery Picks: Twenty Things to Do for First Friday
Westword | 1/30/2019
Jamie M. Lynn and Schoph Schofield, who work in collaboration under the moniker 1910, came together as a team at the intersection of art and the snowboarding universe to create wall- and mural-sized mashups of their individual gear-art styles. Leon turns over gallery space to the duo for a display of original collaborations and prints.
Photo courtesy of 1910: Schoph + Jamie Lynn