One Woman Show: NICOLE HYDE & Group Show: A BOLD NEW WEST January 18, 2013

Abend Gallery presents

ONE WOMAN SHOW for NICOLE HYDE & A BOLD NEW WEST

January 18 through February 28, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 2013, 5:00-8:00 PM

Denver, CO. ABEND GALLERY kicks off 2013 with a solo show for Nicole Hyde in the west gallery and the group show spotlighting art of the West in the main gallery. Artists contributing to BOLD NEW WEST include Amery Bohling, Lorenzo Chavez, Bonnie Conrad, Ed Kucera, Judith Dickinson, Lindsey Bittner Graham, Peggy McGivern, Carolyn Miller, Warren Neary, Connie Renner, John Roush, Nathan Solano, Robert Spooner, Elsa Sroka, Cheryl St John, JM Steele, Teresa Vito, Lani Vlaanderen, Tracy Wall, and Seth Winegar.

Riding on the edge of abstraction, Nicole Hyde wields a palette knife in combination with her favorite brushes when working both in the studio and outside, painting plein air. Reacting intuitively, Hyde, a transplant from Canada, responds to her adopted land here in the Rocky Mountains as a way to express her inner thoughts and meditations. Her small, gestural canvases offer a quick glimpse into the window of her psyche, but it is with her larger canvases that she is able to really express more in the way of painterly mood and life.

Also showing at Abend, twenty artists converge in BOLD NEW WEST to fill the main gallery with works of art reflecting modern day themes of life in Colorado. From Lindsey Bittner Graham’s loose, impressions of rodeo scenes and Lani Vlaanderen’s bucolic landscapes and wildlife to Peggy McGivern’s bold brushwork and Robert Spooner’s intimate, modern interiors, this group show offers a gorgeous slice of life.

ABEND GALLERY

One Woman Show: NICOLE HYDE & Group Show: A BOLD NEW WEST - January 18 through February 28, 2013 - Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 2013, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Abend Gallery, 2260 E Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80206 - 303-355-0950 | 800-288-3726 - Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 - 6pm. http://www.abendgallery.com

For more information, please contact Christine Serr, 720-404-5074.