The Art Show is returning for 2019! Located in the vendor room, the art show will showcase pieces in a variety of media from local artists. These pieces will be available to bid on or buy outright, depending on your level of patience!
The 2019 art show is full!
Our confirmed artists are listed below.
Blair Bartlett
Blair has been doing photography of one type or another since the 4th grade. After trying his hand at various different forms, he decided to stop selling his services as a photographer and instead concentrate on photography as an art form. He has been showing his work in various local convention art shows for the past 5 years, and this year has started adding other forms of art to his skills.
Blair does all his own matting, and also photographs his wife Mitzi’s sculptures. In 2018 he joined with a group of fellow creatives to form the Convention Artists Guild in Colorado. Blair lives in Colorado with his lovely wife of 30+ years, Mitzi, and their feline overlords Koda and Sparo.
Brenna Deutchman
Brenna Deutchman, owner of Whimsical Whiskers, LLC, is a fiber and textiles artist who finds great joy in creating stuffed animals and accessories. She travels to conventions around the country, helping friendly dragons to find adoptive homes. Visit her website at www.whimsiwhiskers.com.
Brooke Lydick
Brooke is a Colorado native who enjoys finding inspiration for her artwork in a number of mediums. From textiles to traditional and digital illustration to ceramics and sculpture, her biggest inspiration is finding a light in the darkness and sharing that through her work.
Kameron Dornbusch
Kameron Dornbusch is a 17 year old artist. He has several reptiles and fish, including Vatican the ball python. He attends New Vista High School and lives in Superior, Colorado.
Lubov Yegudin
Lubov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Anxious for cultural and political freedom, Lubov immigrated to the United States. This move caused her to adapt to a culture very different than the one she had known. Although she has very few good memories of her youth while in Russia and of her move to the US, her early adversities forged a great strength of character that would benefit her for the rest of her life. It is this strength of character and her tenacious hold on truth that abounds in her art.
Perhaps oddly, it is the art of the fantastic – fantasy, phantasmagoric – that draws Lubov’s imagination and her skills as an artist. Her work has its own voice. It stands outside the cacophony of commercial art, the core purpose of which always will be to sell you something you don’t necessarily need. Lubov studied art at the Chicago Art Institute, one of the most prestigious schools in the country, but she maintains that her true knowledge of art – her sense and sensibility – comes via her own studies. Lubov’s work is singular in both imagination and execution. There is technical mastery in her work; mastery in the sense of the old masters. Lubov’s art is a return to the pre-Raphaelites’ storied imagination, a thesis of art that resonates for Lubov. (Lubov’s artistic inspirations include Adolphe-William Bouguerau, John W. Waterhouse, Maxfield Parrish, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Victor Mikailovich Vasnetsov, Arkhip Kuinji, Alphonse Mucha, and Rembrandt.) Lubov paints with oils, the most difficult painting medium of all. The technique itself is six hundred years old and nothing since devised can match the sheer power of this very human mode of expression when handled by such an expert.
Melanie Unruh
Melanie is a Denver-area artist and maker, specializing in decorative and functional pottery, and fantasy and historical sartorial arts. A life-long fan of science fiction and fantasy literature, alternate worlds influence the styles and themes of her art. Currently, Melanie is focused on Steampunk themes, and is an instigator for the Denver Victorian & Steampunk Society.
Mike Kloepfer
Mike (mikeyzart) Kloepfer is an award-winning artist with a career spanning over 3 decades. Along the way, Mike and his artwork have appeared in books and magazines such as ‘Classical Drawing Atelier’ (by Juliette Aristides) and ‘The Artists Magazine.’ He has been an electronic illustrator for Microsoft and Boeing, he has drawn over 1,000 commissioned portraits and over 12,000 professional caricatures for collectors from every continent on earth!
Mike is a founding member of the Convention Artists Guild (Colorado Chapter,) and a studio artist at Helikon Gallery and Studios in Denver’s Rhino Arts District. He teaches classes and workshops as well as panels, demonstrations and instruction at conventions across the United States.
See his artwork on Facebook and Instagram: @mikeyzart
Peri Charlifu
Peri Charlifu is a full time potter and graphic artist, he has been selling his work for over 40 years, and has been selling almost exclusively in the science fiction convention market for almost 22 years. He teaches workshops and seminars in Pottery, sculpture and theory on a regular basis. He is Guild Primus and founding member for Convention artists guild and a founding member of the Stoneleaf potters guild.
As of this year Peri has made over 58,000 individual pieces of art, most of which are functional handmade pottery pieces!
Although an accomplished and proficient graphic artist, Peri’s first love is pottery. He is highly skilled in both Wheel thrown and hand-built work. He mixes all his own stains and glazes, and has developed an underglaze technique that he uses in 90% of the items he produces.