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Denver Syntax drops a real nice piece on Lefavor.  You can read it here and look at pictures here.

ARTCRANK – A poster party for bike people goes down tonight!!! And it’s gonna be a blast – Originally started in Minneapolis, ARTCRANK has come to Denver for it’s first year thanks to the super block (The Shoppe, Fabric Lab, Neopolitan, and Plastic Chapel). 40+ of Denvers finest artists offering work all under $40. Live music, trick competitions, give-aways, + a ton more bike centric goodness.  Show up and party!!!

Scot Lefavor for ARTCRANK Denver

Indyink a little torn up... Of the roughly 50 artists on board for ARTCRANK Denver 2009 Indyink handled the printing of 24 poster designs comprised of over 50 individual color screens in just 10 days and all after hours - all as near to perfection as one can get with hand pulled screen printing. Fuck Yeah.

All Smiles & Sunshine opens tonight down at Indy Ink, and will be featuting new work from one of Denver’s “Good Ol’ Boys” Scot Lefavor. While there please make sure to remind Big Dave and Aaron Cohrs from Indy Ink of their handsome qualities… and re-enforce Chris Huth’s beliefs that water does in fact smell like puddles! See you tonight!!!!
7PM(ish) : 84 S. Broadway Denver

It’s been about 4 years since Denver’s Jason Thielke quit his graphic design gig to pursue art full time.  In that short span of time he’s become a father, shown work coast to coast, as far away as Germany, and is now  recognized as one of our nations leading young contemporary artists.  I missed Jason’s first semi-professional (still working a day job) show, but caught his second at Boulder’s Ins+allation alongside Scot Lefavor (another super contemporary who calls Denver home).  It was immediately clear that Jason had the talent, skills and aesthetic sensibilities to break into the contemporary art world, and do it on his own terms.  Since then it’s been nothing but progress.  In 2007 Jason teamed up with another Denver art world star in David B. Smith, and began showing at Dave’s Limited Addiction Gallery (since renamed David B. Smith Gallery).  Now, it’s 2009, we just wrapped up Jason’s new website (there’s a lot more yet to come) and Mr. Smith is out in New York exhibiting Jason’s work in the Scope Art Fair.

Being a creative professional myself, albeit predominantly a commercial one, and having a body of friends, peers, and mentors made up primarily of artists, and other creative professionals I’d like think I have some idea as to what it takes to make in the art world.  And to put it simply, it’s not easy.  It takes talent, honed skills, dedication, and an ability to perpetually adapt, evolve, and sacrifice – on all sorts of levels.  Jason possesses all of these traits in abundance.  He’s an inspiration to my partners and I, and we’re proud to call him a friend and have the pleasure of working with him.  We can’t wait to see what Mr. Thielke’s got up his sleeve in 09′.

Kim & Jesse by Jason Thielke for the 2009 Scope New York Art Fair

Manifest Hope: DC Gallery is going down January 17th – 19th.  Rumor has it Lefavor is workin’ on a new Obama inspired materpiece.  We can’t wait to see!

There’s some seriously sweet deals happening in Scot Lefavor’s online store.  Get over there and have a look!!!

Personal highlight from Scot’s recent body of work, Products For Better Living.  Missed the show, but got the downlow from the man himself this afternoon. Gotta love it when Lefavor chooses to poke some fun at you with his work.  Thanks buddy.  HaHa.  Good shit.

See all the pieces here: Products For Better Living

Andenken Gallery will be hosting their Anniversary Show on December 13th.  The show will feature the work of Elbow-Toe, the Date Farmers, Adam Wallacavage, Cherri Wood, Scot Lefavor (who will also be showing at the Fabric Lab the very same evening), Amanda Marie, Ravi Zupa, and some other yet to be announced additions.  The 13th is gonna be one damn arty night in Denver.  Make sure you’ve got time to get around.

Tran and I are both super excited to have one of our favorite artists and good friend Scot Lefavor show at The Fabric Lab on Saturday December 13th. East Colfax is going to be running shit on Second Saturday, alongside Lefavor,  Anthony Cozzi will be opening his first solo show Snow & Light at The Shoppe, and the second opening of the Square Footage show will be dropping a few doors down at Plastic Chapel. Hopefully we’ll see you there… we need a secret hand sign or something… second though maybe not… a hand sign on could lead to a variety of mostly illegal activites around the way, keep your digits occupied or in your pockets.

DWR’s White Space, benefitting the Boulder Museum of Contemporary art, featuring Alex Henry, Laura Moretz, Scot Lefavor, Melanie Yazzie, Alvin Gregorio and Julia Lunk provided for a super arty and entertaining evening.  A big thanks goes out to Ryan Batch for pulling the event together and in tip-top form.  All of the participating artists kicked out great pieces of work in roughly two and a half hours, barring Lefavor of course, who was only about an hour late (not that Scot’s famous timing hindered his work…).  The silent auction raised a solid chunk of loot for the museum and six people went home with nice new pieces.  While I’m biased and love most anything my design/business partner, Alex and pals Scot and Alvin produce I gotta say Mr. Gregorio took the cake on this one.  When it comes to producing live art, preparation is king.  Have a look.

After Scot’s fantasimal work for the Manifest Hope show in Denver during the DNC, he has done some much deserved basking in its wake. Scot doesn’t sit still for long, and after swinging by his site to see whats new in his world, I noticed he has added some tasty treats to his store. Make sure to swing by and check out some of the limited run Obama posters, unsold work from the Manifest Hope show and delightful little trinkets from shows long past.

The infamous Scot Lefavor’s Barack Obama for Change posters first seen at the Manifest Hope show at Andenken (now pasted up all over Denver) are available online via Scot’s website.  They’re 3-color screenprints on heavy-ass paper (Scot forgot to mention the stock…).   The run was pretty small, just 75 posters printers, and these suckers are movin’ fast so get on it, if you’re feelin’ em.  You can find ‘em HERE (scroll to the bottom of the page)