Heidi Jung's original works will be on exhibit in 3 of Baker Furniture's flagship locations in Manhattan, Chicago and Los Angeles. For more information on Baker Furniture's hours and locations visit http://www.bakerfurniture.com.
Jung's work chosen for Children's Hospital Show House /
Jung's work was chosen for the 2011 Denver Designer's Show Home to benefit Children's Hospital. Her work, on display in Tonya Frank, Petra Richards and Kristina Sterling's "Not Your Ordinary Family Room" in the show home. You can see more about the event here: http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/191458/346/Show-home-raises-funds-for-childrens-hospital?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Ct
About he home: 1625 was the first home built on Gilpin Street in Country Club over a century ago. Designed by Arthur Fisher of famed Fisher and Fisher Architects, this beautiful 1909 Tudor has been owned solely by the Cowperthwaite family since its original construction. The past century has seen an address change from its original 305 Gilpin Street, a sunroom and servant quarters’ addition and a handful of tasteful renovations. It remains in near-vintage condition and wonderfully, none of the remodels has significantly altered its character.
Jung Included in Hinterland's Sacred Bug Show - write up in Westword /
http://www.westword.com/events/the-sacred-bug-and-the-insect-1567945/
Beauty and the Bug
Cory Casciato
Except when they’re biting, stinging or otherwise annoying us, we spend most of our lives ignoring insects. But a closer look at our little exoskeletal fellow travelers can reveal not just utility, but beauty and deeper meaning. That’s the concept behind The Sacred Bug and the Insect, a group show at Hinterland Art Space featuring the work of Heidi Jung, Malea Ellison, Grant Williams, Gail Boyd, Norman Broomhall, David Zimmer, Robin Schaefer and Sabin Aell in mediums ranging from painting to installation and video. Aell conceived of the show when she realized that she and several colleagues were all working on pieces that explored the world of insects as it intersects with technology, nature, mysticism and dreams.
“People don’t usually pay too much attention to bugs, because they’re so small. They play a way larger role than we think. If you take just one little bug out of the food chain, it changes everything completely,” Aell explains. “They also play really important roles in religion and culture. If you look at bugs and how intricate they are, and how colorful and detailed, they’re like little artworks.”
The show opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. at Hinterland, 3254 Walnut Street, and runs through October 7. For more info, call 720-309-1764 or visit www.hinterlandartspace.com.
Jung's Solo Exhibition Opens at Sellars Project Space /
Taken from Westword Article:
Opening Reception: Friday, August 6th from 6 - 9 pm
THINGS OF BEAUTY
Michael Paglia - Art Critic - Westword
Sellars Project Space is an elegant little gallery in the west side’s Berkeley neighborhood that was founded by artist and arts promoter Jimmy Sellars. His latest offering, Heidi Jung, is a self-titled solo dedicated to a Colorado artist whose work has been all over town lately, with examples at Ironton and the Center for Visual Art in addition to this show. Jung combines the influence of abstract-expressionism with an interest in botany in works done in ink and charcoal on vellum that’s been mounted on panels so they look like paintings.
“I’ve yet to put them in a stylistic category,” explains Jung. “They’re representational and they’re not; there’s a looseness to them. My idols are Motherwell and Dine. “The series I’m focusing on right now is based on images from a ’70s houseplant book. I’ve been working on the series for a while, and in the process, I’ve tried to become an expert on plants.”
Gallery director Sellars is enraptured by Jung’s work. “A lot of people believe that Heidi’s pieces are either complex renditions of nature or a discussion on the fading of beauty,” muses Sellars. “But I think the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. Personally, I see them as representing the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. Her pieces exude imperfection, impermanence and transience — in a nice way, of course — and while aesthetically, each piece offers its own form of beauty, they also radiate sadness and a longing for more.”
The show gets under way with an opening reception tonight from 6 to 9 p. m. at Sellars Project Space, 4383 Tennyson Street, 1D, and continues through August. Call 720-475-1182.
The Sacred Bug and the Insects at Hinterland /
Bugs and insects were always associated with the symbols of life, the big creator and shared great respect in a lot of cultures. According to one Egyptian myth, honey bees were the tears of the sun god Ra. It was the fly in egyptian mythology which gave protection agains disease or misfortune. The ancient egyptians also believed that the scarab beetle came into being itself from a ball of dung (the idea of self-creation). It was worshipped under the name of Khepri, which means 'he who has come into being' or 'he who came forth from the earth'. The god Khepri was associated with the creator-god Atum and was regarded as a form of the sun-god Ra. Just as the beetle pushed its ball of dung over the ground, so Khepri in the form of a scarab beetle, it was thought, rolled the solar disc across the sky each day.
Opening Reception
August 27, 2010
Open 1st Friday
September 3, 2010
Closing
October 7, 2010
Participating Artists:
Heidi Jung
Grant Williams
Gail Boyd
Norman Broomhall
David Zimmer
Robin Schaefer
Sabin Aell
Jung included in CVAs Merge Exhibition /
MERGE: Metro State Alumni Exhibition 2010 – The Anniversary Year
July 16- August 28
Opening reception July 16, 6-7 pm: Private artist reception for members and special guests
Opening reception July 16, 7-9 pm: Public reception
MERGE was juried by Greg Watts, current Chair of the Metro State Department of Art and Barbara Houghton, Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University and former Chair of the Metro State Department of Art. As the CVA celebrates its 20th Anniversary it is significant that these two jurors have joined forces. Barbara Houghton played a considerable role in the creation of the CVA 20 years ago and Greg Watts has helped develop the CVA into its role today as contributor to the Rocky Mountain art scene and most recently, as an important anchor for the Santa Fe arts district.
Highlighting some of the best talent to come out of the Metro State Art Department, MERGE features both emerging and well established artists, juried from a local and national basis.
Eligibility to participate in MERGE was open to artists who graduated from Metro State in 2009 or earlier. All work was completed within the last three years. Profiles of the artists will be posted to the CVA Facebook page every week for the duration of the exhibition.
Artists:
Jeffery Ball, Phil Bender, Cristine Boyd, Mary Cay, Gabriel Christus, Evan Colbert, Terry Decker, Heather Doyle-Maier, Robert Dunahay, Mark Friday, Shawn Garvin, Jennifer Ghormley, Jason Gimbel, Kathryn Gregonis, Celina Grigore, Megan Harrison, Katie Hoffman, Conor Hollis, Jennifer Jeannelle, Heidi Jung, Josiah Lopez, Merlin Madrid, Dawn McFadden, Skyler McGee, Todd Muller, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Luzia Ornelas, Adesola Owolabi, J. John Priola, Marie Quinn, Brian Rendon, Claudia Roulier, Sean Rozales, Caroline Rutsche, Dave Seiler, Tony Stanzione, Sue Whitmore, Kyle Wimmer
The CVA is open late First and Third Fridays until 8 p.m. - August 6 and 20
For more information visit http://www.metrostateCVA.org
Inside: Ironton Studios & Gallery Creative juices run wild in the RiNo District /
MetroMix.com visited Ironton Studios this week. Look for the full special that airs this MY20 Saturday July 10th at 5:00pm
What do you get when you put six painters, two wood workers, two metal artists and two stone sculpting studios together in one building? No, this isn’t an intro to a funny joke—although you would think so with the setup. We’re talking about one of Denver’s most well-known artist studios, Ironton Studios & Gallery located in the heart of the RiNo District five minutes from downtown Read full story....
Jung in Group Exhibit at Ironton Studios /
Ironton celebrates 11 years in Denver with our annual 4th of July weekend party. We have a lot to celebrate this year with the addition of two new artists to the group; Chase DeForest and Yoshitomo Saito. Chase is an accomplished furniture and object-maker and Yoshi is a master bronze artist whose casting facility is now in the yard at Ironton.
The gallery will exhibit new work by each artist effectively illustrating the uniqueness of Ironton as a multi-discipline facility:
Andy Berg, painting
Jeff Bludeau, woodshop
Dan Brandemuehl, stone sculpture
Chase DeForest, woodshop
Sharon Feder, painting
John Ferguson, steel sculpture
Hugh Graham, multi media
Matt Holman, cartooning
Jill Hadley Hooper, painting
Heidi Jung, painting, photography
Mike Mancarella, sculpture and fabrication
Patricia ‘Murph’ Murphy, painting
Yoshitomo saito, bronze casting
Kagen Schaefer, puzzle making
Robin Schaefer, painting
Andy Sweet, stone sculpture
Hours are Mon thru Fri 10-4 pm and Saturday noon-4pm
Heidi Jung at The Dairy Center for the Arts: Full Circle, a Portrait of Botanicals from Beginning, to Decay /
June 25 – July 30, 2010
Opening reception Friday, June 25, 5 - 7 p.m. with a brief artist's talk at 4:00 before the opening. for more information visit www.thedairy.org
Jung Participates in RiNo's Riennial /
Ironton is open and serving art and wine for the 'RiENNIAL' our spring all-RiNo studio tour! 39 locations in RiNo are open for the Riennial. Win a case of Balistreri Wine or a gift certificate towards $1000 to spend with your favorite participating RiNo by getting a raffle ticket from each location. For each $100 spent on art you get TWO more raffle tickets.
Saturday June 19th from 11- 4pm, after-party and drawing at Casselman's at 26th and Walnut at 5pm
For more information visit http://rivernorthart.com
Heidi Jung's work showcased in Children's Hospital Designer Show Home /
Click on image for extended view. Photograph by Sharon Meriash.Heidi Jung was chosen as one of the featured artists in the Children’s Hospital 2010 Designer Show Home event. One entire room in the show-house will be filled Heidi’s contemporary botanicals.
Please join us to support The Children's Hospital by touring the show house at 100 Vine Street, one of Denver's most dignified landmark homes in Country Club Historic neighborhood.
For more information visit the link below...
To order tickets to the event please visit,http://www.thechildrenshospitalfoundation.org/realtypreview
For more information on Heidi Jung visit her website athttp://www.heidijung.com.
Heidi visits with K & 1st Graders at Foothills Academy /
March 2010 Heidi spent a day with the Kindergarten and 1st graders at Foothills Academy in Lakewood, Colorado teaching them how to draw lobsters, crabs, and shrimp as part of their learning about the ocean this block.
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Foothills Academy is pleased to announce an exhibition of the art of Heidi Jung and Grant Williams, with an opening reception Friday, March 12, from 6-9 p.m.. Both local artists have been substantially involved in the growing Denver art scene for many years.
Heidi is a Denver native whose works grace walls nationally and internationally. Kelsey Grammar and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia own some of her pieces. She exhibits locally at the Ironton Gallery, part of Denver’s growing River North Art District (RiNo). Incorporating ink, charcoal and photographic elements, Heidi’s paintings are full of detail and movement to interpret her love of plants and insects.
Grant Williams earned a BFA from the University of Denver in printmaking in 1991. He has exhibited prints, drawings and sculptures at Plus Gallery, Open Press, The Arvada Center, Space Gallery, Chicago’s Workshop Print Gallery and The Amity Foundation. His most recent series of drawings, “Fall”, explores the laws of gravity.
Heidi will also visit our campus Thursday, March 11 to do a workshop with some lower school students. We are excited for this opportunity and encourage you to come to the opening and bring your friends. Heidi is donating 25% of sales of her paintings to the school.
Pruned of color, floral artworks still bloom large /
Most floral artworks are like what they depict: voluptuous and highly colorful.
But in a new group of 10 drawings on view through Feb. 20 at Ironton Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place, Denver artist Heidi Jung has taken a less obvious and, in many ways, more interesting approach.
Working in black and white, she creates what are essentially memento mori — ruminative, partially shrouded looks at flowers, which are often dried and past their prime. These ghostly apparitions stand in as metaphors for the passage of time and the fleeting essence of beauty.
Some, like "Beyond the Fence," have a graceful beauty, while others are darker and, in the case of "Petit Roi," above, even a little menacing.
Working on vellum, which is later mounted on wood panels, Jung combines white and black ink and charcoal in surprisingly inventive ways. Allowing serendipity to play a role, she lays down washes and builds up layers and then erases certain elements to leave shadowy traces.
Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. 303-297-8626 orirontonstudios.com. Kyle MacMillan
Read more:http://www.denverpost.com/art/ci_14376936#ixzz0fMkwcUOR
Heidi Jung New Works exhibit at Ironton now through February 20th: /
Someone must have told Heidi Jung that her plant drawings were 'pretty', 'delicate', 'sensitive', maybe even 'feminine', and she may have responded with "Not anymore."
This new series, showing at Ironton, combines those previous botanical subjects, drawn with the aforementioned qualities, adding a strong, decisive willingness to experiment, and letting the media do what it will. The same plant subjects now become arenas of struggle, psychological crises, and battles of light and dark. ' Delicate' and 'sensitive' are still there but hovering over an abyss of darkness that we may recognize as our own subconscious fears.
Jung's draftsmanship is extraordinary, the natural line of a plant's movement is just right. But much more, she is using massive areas of black, a color we do not often associate with living plants, to create a maelstom of surging emotions. We cannot separate the plants from ourselves and our emotional involvement. The blackest ink washes, under layers of encaustic, speak of intensities in nature, and our own psyches. It is as if the artist is saying, "You think you know my work? There's a lot more than you realize..."
Whoever thought a botanical subject could be 'explosive', 'convulsive' or 'heart-breaking'?
Yet, these paintings are.
Peter Illig
From Left, Paige Sanford, Heidi Jung, Kristina Sterling
Opening Night "the drawers" From left, Bill Amundson, Heidi Jung, William Stockman
Jung's Tulips chosen for ICEBREAKER Exhibition /
Heidi Jung will be exhibiting her new piece, Tulips, at the Dry Ice Factory's new gallery, Ice Cube Gallery. Juried by Art Critic and writer Michael Paglia, this exhibition focuses on artists working/creating in the River North Art District. For more information visithttp://www.icecubegallery.com.
heidi jung: new work opens at ironton studios 1/15 /
DENVER, CO December 5, 2009 - Ironton Studios and Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of new works by artist Heidi Jung. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, January 15, 2010 with a reception for the artist from 6 - 10 p.m. This exhibition continues through February 20, 2010. Ironton Studios is located in the River North Art District (RiNo), just one mile north of downtown Denver at 3636 Chestnut. The Ironton gallery is open from 10 to 4 weekdays, noon to 4 on Saturdays, and by appointment.
Ironton Studios and Gallery - 3636 Chestnut Place - Denver, CO - 80216
jung exhibiting at sps in santa fe /
Sellars Project Space Santa Fe is pleased to host the opening reception for gallery artists Max Boschini, Sharon Bond Brown, Emmett Culligan, Michael Dowling, Sharon Feder, Maarten Haverkamp, Heidi Jung, Mauro Manuini, Tamara Riley, Kelly Schurger and Jimmy Sellars.
Opening reception from 6 - 9 p.m. on Friday, November 20 with artists Emmett Culligan, Michael Dowling, Marie EvB Gibbons, Heidi Jung and Jimmy Sellars in attendance. For more information or directions please call 505.467.8253 or visit http://www.sellarsprojectspace.com.
This exhibition continues through December 31, 2009.
worth interiors exhibition with michael dowling /
Ms. Jung will be exhibiting in Vail, Colorado during the month of July. Her work will be displayed with artist Michael Dowling in a two-person exhibit. For more information contact Worth Interiors.
sense of place at sellarsprojectspace /
Sense of Place is an exhibition of small works (4 x 4 inches) by artists Sharon Feder, Heidi Jung and Jimmy Sellars. The term sense of place can be defined in many different ways; geographically, a feeling or perception, or through human attachment and belonging. Each artist’s work in the exhibition touches on each (and in some cases all) of these definitions.
Sense of Place opens in Sellars Project Space’s new location at 4383 Tennyson Street on Friday, June 5, 2009 with an exhibition for the artists from 6 - 9 p.m. during the Tennyson Street Cultural District’s First Friday Artwalk. For more information (visit the Sellars Project Space’s website at http://www.sellarsprojectspace.com.