The Denver Post – Ray Rinaldi Feb 22, 2021
Some of this year’s best exhibitions are in-person, online or splashed across local billboards
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Horror Vacui
SW Contemporary magazine – by Joshua Ware Feb 8, 2021
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s recent exhibition Horror Vacui offers a look beyond the immediate disarray and confusion in which we find ourselves.
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s Swirling, Curvilinear Compositions Leave No Surface Undecorated
Hyperallergic – by Ray Rinaldi Dec 28, 2020
Denver, CO — Like many people, Diego Rodriguez-Warner has spent the pandemic quarantining at home, and the paintings and drawings he has created for Horror Vacui at Leon Gallery present material evidence of an artist forced to make due with supplies on-hand. Leftover acrylics, crayons, watercolors and spray paint adorn scraps of plywood and drywall that serve as canvas.
Jerseys that commemorate Black victims of police brutality fly at Leon Gallery
Denverite – by Donna Bryson Nov 2, 2020
“You want every jersey to be the last one. But you kind of know, intrinsically, that something’s going to happen again.”
Daria Magazine – Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Marsha Mack and Lindsay Smith Gustave – Reviewed by Derrick Velasquez
Marsha Mack and Lindsay Smith Gustave are masters of expansion and collapse. Their exhibition Animal, Vegetable, Mineral at Leon Gallery taps into the notions of abundance, progeny, and growth that temper human desire. With works that shed light on the microscopic, constituent cells of natural and unnatural objects and with imagery that alludes to our contemporary experience of dwelling, the two artists share the space seamlessly and offer viewpoints that are a refreshing reprieve in the midst of heavy times.
Colorado Creatives: Jasmine Abena Colgan
Jasmine Abena Colgan is an assemblage sculptor, a photographer, an alchemist and a warrior who digs deeply into the roots of racism, as well as the difficult personal territory of her own biracial heritage and her diagnosis of vitiligo. In her current show, Human Currency, at Leon Gallery, Colgan focuses on the cowrie shell in an exploration of ingrained bigotry, spiritual feminism and African culture.
Photo courtesy of Jasmine Abena Colgan.
Spray Their Names Aims to Paint Murals That Honor Lives Lost and Amplify Marginalized Voices
303 Magazine | 06/19/2020
The most recent mural painted by Veiga and Detour is on the side of Leon Gallery on 17th Avenue and depicts a local woman who was murdered in broad daylight just last week while out with her boyfriend and dog.
A Detour mural at Leon Gallery honors Isabella Thallas, who was murdered June 10 while walking her dog
Denverite | 06/18/2020
Evans had approached Leon’s directors several weeks ago about painting a mural. His original plan had been to fill the wall with a portrait of a teacher he knows. After the shooting, he decided to paint Thallas’s portrait instead.
Photo by Donna Bryson/Denverite
Mural being created for Denver woman who was fatally shot while walking dog
KCVR – Fox 31 | 6/16/2020
Thomas Evans, a popular artist who goes by the name “Detour,” is painting the mural in Isabella Thallas’ honor.
“I wanted to use street art as a way to give a gift to the family and sort of help the healing process and grieving process,” Detour said.
The mural is going up on the side of the Leon Gallery at 17th Street and Park Avenue in Denver’s Uptown district.
Thomas “Detour” Evans Remembers Isabella Thallas in a Mural
Westword | 06/16/2020
The mural is going up on the wall of Leon Gallery, at East 17th Avenue and Park Avenue West. Friends and family of Thallas came to Leon to watch the artist at work today, June 16.
Photo by Eric Dallimore