Muralist: Daniel Chavez

Daniel’s artistic style is one that borders on realism, futurism and international style architectural design. He is a comprehensively trained artists who specializes in many areas within the art and design industry but derives his inspiration from architecture, furniture design, high fashion and photography. Daniel has been heavily influenced by the philosophies of the Bauhaus School of Design as well as the Dada art movement. He is a graduate from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design and High Performance Building.

While working in the design industry, Daniel has produced highly detailed computer generated 3D models for high-end residences, night clubs, and custom furniture pieces in Denver. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Luxe Magazine,  5280 Magazine, Westword, 303 Magazine and Colorado Homes and Lifestyles. He now pursues one of his many passions as a fine artist with the Artwork Network Gallery as well as a commercial muralist in photo  ealism and architectural rendering.

“My work us created to display the fervor and accord within the contrast of my life. It is an attempt to showcase what these moments and interactions appear to be. They are the layered sounds that I hear, the subtleties that I see, the emotions that I feel, and the ideas that awaken me.” — Daniel Chavez

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Denver Chalk Art Festival 2014
Design | Hidden Geometry
DCM Murals | Tattoos

Muralist: David Ocelotl Garcia

David’s type of work can be described as modern, figurative, narrative, abstract, tribal, surreal, geometric and contemporary. With a focus on public art, David’s work ranges from large-scale interior and exterior murals painted directly to existing surfaces, on panels, cloth and canvas and also mosaic. His art is culturally diverse inspired by tradition, history, nature, balance and everyday life. David creates his art using a technique he has developed involving unconscious emotions, deep energies and personal visions. This process of creating allows him to transcend time and tell stories of the past, present and future.

David began his journey as an artist from the day he was given life. Through self-meditation and creative exploration he developed his own style and techniques in painting and sculpture. Through these techniques he can explore many aspects of life including, spirituality, science, history, tradition and nature as well as honors his ancestors, friends, family and my community. The purpose of David’s art is not only for visual beauty but also for visual education. He creates it to enlighten the mind, body and soul of the viewer. Through these expressions I am able to explore his own past, rich in tradition, art, music, and dance. David expresses current events happening in his life, his community and around the world. David’s art is constantly changing and moving in new directions paralleled by the energy of life that surrounds him.

“My art is the evolution of my past reflections of the future” — David Ocelotl Garcia

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Muralist: Katy Casper Gevargis

Katy’s work is about transformation through bright and bold, quasi-abstract, nature-inspired, shapes and patterns that celebrate and evolve the spirit of objects, places, and people. Her architectural background inspires her work with furniture, signage, and 2D or 3D site specific installations. Partly for the eco-friendly aspect, and otherwise to connect past/present/future in the narrative of a piece, Katy prefers working with salvaged objects/materials and integrating the existing built environment like streets or walls that are desperate for reinvigoration through a mural, tiled mosaic, or 3-dimensional intervention. In contrast to the typical fine art ideal of look-but-don’t-touch, her work is intended to be interactive, inhabitable, and a multi-sensory experience so that patrons can connect to each other physically, emotionally, and spiritually through the medium of the art and the place that it transforms.

Katy’s creativity thrives on a collaborative process that shares the therapeutic effects of creating something by hand; connecting culturally diverse perspectives and building community through art. This is why at the end of 2014, she started working full-time for Arts Street, a small non-profit that teaches visual art and creative technology job skills to underserved youth. Here, she has found her calling working with youth to create real-world, architectural design/build projects for clients including murals, signage, furniture, interior design, and creative displays. (The Arts Street EntrpreMural youth team will be integral in helping with Katy’s mural installation at the West Colfax MuralFest.)

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Muralist: Patrick McGregor

Patrick is interested in painting as much as he can here in his hometown of Denver, as this has been his profession of 20 years and he wants to beautify the city with what he has learned along his path so far. Patrick has been painting mostly advertisements on the sides of buildings for 3 major billboard companies from coast to coast for his profession, but wants to steer toward permanent works of art here in Denver. His style is photo realism and figurative portrait work along with old school billboard and sign painters techniques using only brushes and rollers. There are hundreds of pictures of his body of work at his website patrickkanemcgregor.com.

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Convention Center Video –  A time lapse of 4 floors of murals, conceptualized and hand-painted by Patrick Kane McGregor of the four seasons of aspen trees in Colorado.

Muralist: Jade Phillips

Art, essentially at this point in Jade’s life, is cathartic. Within her process, she labors over large forms and minute details; this method of making art is highly preparatory and strict. Recently, in 2013, Jade graduated from Centralia High School in Illinois. Her yearning for an artistic lifestyle as dedicated and rigorous as this blossomed from an early inspiration via her high-school art teacher, Mr. Chris Tucker. Consistently advancing her technical skill and fundamental knowledge of all known arts, Chris paved a path for Jade within the art world. She is inspired by all that is natural – and everything that branches off from the natural. Just as the surrealists fused reality and the subconscious together during the mid-1900s, Jade works her compositions towards an unnerving familiarity with ties between ‘logic’ and ‘illogic’. After strenuously painting everything exactly the way she envisions it, there is a sweet release for herself. A burden seems to be miraculously lifted after she has completed a painting that has become alive with the help of her mind’s eye.

Jade classifies her work into a few definite categories: representational and figurative. Yet, for her to file away what ‘type’ of art she does would be wasteful at this particular point in her life. Jade is still in the beginning stages of discovering exactly what ideas and illustrations she wants to disburse unto the greater population through her artwork. Until this major turning point become apparent in her subject matter, her mentality, and within her dreams, she will continue to experiment with the various elements of aesthetics in ways that she find emotionally, physically, and intellectually stimulating.

Although Jade’s work is ever-changing, there are multiple subcategories that can be said to exist as various ‘bodies of works’. In her recent attempts, she seek to explore the most essential characteristics of our strongest human emotions and various imagery that is recurring throughout her life – either directly or indirectly correlating with the particular emotion and/or feeling portrayed in the artwork. There are multiple other conversations that she wants to hold through her creative process, although, at the moment, she feels the most empowered exploring what is not tangible and what cannot exactly be said: our human passions and sentiments.

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Muralist: Victoriano Rivera

Through Victoriano’s practice as a painter, he explores the relationship between a subject’s identity and the uncanny; his work derives from the ideology of graffiti writing and its custom to stay hidden and to keep ones identity cloaked. The subjects he paints have no true face and are fused with elements of form, color, and symbolism, to evoke the mystical.

“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.” — Willem De Kooning

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Muralist: Sandy Toland

Sandy Toland has been making art her entire life. She earned a BFA at Colorado State University in 1981 and has been a professional artist for the a last 34 years. During that time, she has been active in creating and exhibiting her 2D and 3D art in Denver’s alternative art galleries. For the last 26 years she has been doing commissioned art for residential, business, and government clients. Acrylic paints are the medium for her colorful, luminous and whimsical murals. Human Nature and Mother Nature are inspirations for her artwork and her hope is that her love of art and life shines through her creations to delight others. Commissions include doing art for:

• Denver’s Children’s Hospital

• Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Hospital

• Phoenix’s Children’s Hospital

• Denver’s Family Crisis Center

• Denver’s 16th St. Mall

• Storage Tek

• TIAA-CREF

• Pinnacol Assurance