ARTISTS

JEFF AELING

JEFF AELINGJeff Aeling was born in Iowa City, Iowa and currently resides in St. Louis, MO Missouri. Aeling’s painting travels take him all over the Southwest. He finds himself returning to particular areas that allow clear observations of the weather, atmosphere, and...

BILL AMUNDSON

BILL AMUNDSON Bill Amundson draws upon the unpredictable and erratic conditions of contemporary life for inspiration in creating his detailed pencil drawings. Modern culture is reflected in his humorous portraits, landscapes, and interiors by means of familiar...

JACK BALAS

JACK BALASJack Balas is an artist originally based in Chicago and Los Angeles, who divides his time between painting, drawing, and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media. A recipient in 1995 of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the...

CHARLES BIRNBAUM

CHARLES BIRNBAUMAn artist for over 25 years, Charles Birnbaum studied ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute with Ken Ferguson, and after receiving a BFA, he did his graduate work at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Over the next two decades, despite working...

LYNN BOGGESS

LYNN BOGGESSA plein air landscape painter from West Virginia, Lynn Boggess braves the weather of all seasons, armed with canvases and cement trowels for brushes, to capture the beauty of nature in his unique landscapes. He received his Bachelor’s in Fine Art from...

RICHARD CARTER

RICHARD CARTER Richard Carter’s 50 year career has been guided by intense curiosity, a drive to master his craft and intriguing themes that captivate him and ultimately define his bodies of work. Carter’s unique interpretation of modernist painting and design was...

CHRIS CASSIMATIS

CHRIS CASSIMATIS Chris Cassimatis received a Bachelor of Science degree in Art from the University of Oregon. His interest in stone sculpture solidified during an intensive summer course offered by the university. After graduating, Chris further honed his skills by...

MICHAEL CLAPPER

MICHAEL CLAPPER Originally educated in design at the Wendell Castle School in Rochester, New York, Michael now focuses on creating contemporary public and residential sculpture. The winner of numerous commissions and awards, Michael maintains a studio in Denver...

JAMES COOK

JAMES COOK James Pringle Cook is a native Kansan who now lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and fellow artist, DeAnn Melton. Cook’s paintings are in the best tradition of American landscape painting. They are big and gutsy, full of virtuosity, with lavish,...

STEVE COPE

STEVE COPE Steve Cope graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art, and received his MFA from Boston University.  A long time fixture of New York and Philadephia art scene, Steve has taught at the New York Studio School among other places. His exhibition history is...

ROBERT DELANEY

ROBERT DELANEY Robert Delaney was born in Philadelphia in 1951 and grew up in Colorado Springs. Interested in art since childhood, Delaney made his first mobiles when he was only 13 years old. In 1971 and 1972, Delaney attended Western State College in Gunnison,...

STEPHEN DINSMORE

STEPHEN DINSMORE Stephen Dinsmore’s paintings can be found in public and private collections both nationally and internationally. Dinsmore, a Nebraska-born artist, presents paintings that testify to the vitality of representational art as a means of communicating...

WERNER DREWES

WERNER DREWES WERNER DREWES | 1899-1985 Werner Drewes initially studied architecture before enrolling in 1921-22 at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Klee, Kandinsky, Itten, and Feininger. For four years – 1923 to 1927 – he traveled the world with his bride, before...

RICK DULA

RICK DULA A realist painter of “factoryscapes” and urban views, Rick Dula finds inspiration in the majesty of aging industrial scenes and explores the vitality they once possessed. With his work he aims to realize a deeper history for American culture. Dula recently...

CARLOS ESTEVEZ

CARLOS ESTEVEZ Carlos Estevez’s work is animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality. His stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm to the spirit that lies hidden beneath the visible world, a process that he refers to as an...

SUSHE FELIX

SUSHE FELIX Sushe Felix is a Denver-based artist. She is both a painter and sculptor. Her work is abstract and based on the movements of nature and the landscape. The Modernist painters from the 1930s and 40s and the transcendental painters from Santa Fe, NM influence...

TRACY FELIX

TRACY FELIXTracy Felix is a Denver-based artist whose work consists of stylized landscapes of Colorado and the West. The Hudson River School painters and the American Regionalists influence him. Tracy has works in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum,...

JOHN GIBSON

JOHN GIBSON John Gibson is a native of Massachusetts, born in Boston in 1958. He attended the Rhode Island School of design (where he earned a BFA in 1980), before earning his post-graduate degree from the prestigious master’s program at Yale. Gibson had his first...

JEAN GUMPPER

JEAN GUMPPER Colorado print artist Jean Gumpper describes the woodcut as a way to express her experiences in nature. The carving of the woodblock and the layering of the ink she likens to natural processes such as the layering of leaves, water, and trees reflected...

BILLY HASSELL

BILLY HASSELL Texas-based painter Billy Hassell has established a name for himself as a contemporary interpreter of the natural world. Informed and inspired by nature, his paintings explore pattern ranging from the scales of fish to the flight patterns of birds, as...

WES HEMPEL

WES HEMPEL Wes Hempel was born in El Monte, CA, in 1953 and received his BA from Cal State Northridge in 1985 and his MA from CU Boulder in 1988. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. since 1987 and his paintings are included in numerous private and public...

WES HEMPEL & JACK BALAS

HEMPEL & BALAS Wes Hempel and Jack Balas have been collaborating to varying degrees on paintings since the mid-1990s.    Contact Us The William Havu Gallery1040 Cherokee StreetDenver, CO 80204 Telephone: 303.893.2360Email:...

MICHAEL T. HENSLEY

MICHAEL T. HENSLEY Hensley studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art and received his BA from Portland State University. His work is held in many private and corporate collections, including those of Oregon Health and Science University, City of Portland Portable...

JEREMY HILLHOUSE

JEREMY HILLHOUSE Jeremy Hillhouse1940 – 2009 Born in Colorado Springs, Jeremy earned his bachelors degree in fine arts from Colorado College, going on to graduate school at UC Davis. Returning to Colorado in 1970, Jeremy was hired by the Denver Art Museum as an...

HOMARE IKEDA

HOMARE IKEDA To painter Homare Ikeda, a blank paper can be a breath of the infinite. “As I make marks on paper, I am aware and not aware of the forms emerging. The forms and marks interact with each other. I feel they are voices trying to signify something.” Perhaps...

HART JAMES

HART JAMES Hart James explores the inherent connection between the individual and their home, the Earth. With a deep knowledge of the Northwest Mystics. She paints in an abstract manner to carry this tradition forward to the present. James’s work speaks of the energy...

CLAY JOHNSON

CLAY JOHNSON Clay Johnson was born and raised in Durham, NC, where he studied art and art history at Duke University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1985. He then worked for several years as assistant to painter Robert Natkin in Connecticut and New York City. He began...

HEIDI JUNG

HEIDI JUNG Brought up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Heidi Jung as an artist has naturally been drawn to a subject matter most timeless and familiar to her. Through draughtsmanship and technique acquired over the years in both college and career,...

JEFF KAHM

JEFF KAHM Jeff Kahm (Kahmakoatayo) 1968 – 2021, Plains Cree, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1990 to study painting and photography and soon after was awarded a painting scholarship to attend the Kansas City Art...

SCARLETT KANISTANAUX

 SCARLETT KANISTANAUX Scarlett Kanistanaux is a ceramic and bronze sculptor residing and working from her studio in Erie, Colorado. Scarlett knew she had found her calling after several experiences of seeing people moved to tears in the presence of her simple yet...

MARGARET KENWAY HAYDON

MARGARET KENWAY HAYDONMargaret Haydon earned her MFA in ceramics in 1989 from San Francisco State University. She has been a working artist and teacher in the Colorado-Wyoming area since 1991. She is an Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Wyoming,...

JOANNE KERRIHARD

JOANNE KERRIHARD Joanne Kerrihard received her BA in Asian Studies in 1979 at the University of Arizona, after studying Chinese in Hong Kong at New Asian-Yale in China, University of Hong Kong. In 1988, she received her MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona....

SANDY KINNEE

SANDY KINNEE Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the...

RICKI KLAGES

RICKI KLAGES Ricki Klages was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and her MA and MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally,...

HYUNMEE LEE

HYUNMEE LEE After three years of research, experimentation and personal exploration, Hyunmee Lee’s artistic path has blossomed into this new series of vibrant paintings. While these paintings draw on her past series, she unleashes a powerful sense of newfound freedom...

JIVAN LEE

JIVAN LEEJivan Lee is an oil painter based in Taos and Santa Fe, NM. He grew up in Woodstock, NY, and studied painting at Bard College with Joseph Santore and Laura Battle. His work explores the nature of paint as raw material, creator of image, and catalyst for...

MAX LEHMAN

MAX LEHMANMax Lehman is a ceramic sculptor based in northern New Mexico. Born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, he studied video production, installation, and performance art at Arizona State University. Max has called the Santa Fe area home for...

ANDY LIBERTONE

ANDY LIBERTONE Andy Libertone moved to Colorado in 1969 after recieving his MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Libertone has taught at such various institutions as the University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Colorado,...

RYAN MAGYAR

RYAN MAGYAR "My work takes its cues from visual perception, perhaps calling to mind naturalistic form, depth, light, and so on,  though they’re not representational per se. I’m interested in the way the mind tries to find a meaningful signal, even where only noise...

BETSY MARGOLIUS

BETSY MARGOLIUSAfter two years of studying painting at the School of Fine Arts at Boston University, Betsy went on to receive her BFA at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she studied printmaking with Garo Antresian, one of the founders of the Tamarind...

JAMES MCELHINNEY

JAMES MCELHINNEY James McElhinney is an author, visual artist, oral historian, independent scholar and publisher. In his recent works, McElhinney turned his attention to the Rio Grande, following the historic river across New Mexico, collecting images and stories...

AMY METIER

AMY METIER Amy Metier was born in Wyoming and grew up in Colorado. She obtained a B.F.A. from Colorado State University, an M.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a professor of art at Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University of...

DENNIS LEE MITCHELL

DENNIS LEE MITCHELL  VDennis Lee Mitchell captures elusive and ephemeral smoke on paper in his unconventional drawings. He applies acetylene torches directly to the surface of archival paper, creating rich brown-blacks and faint gradations left by moving smoke. The...

LOLA MONTEJO

LOLA MONTEJO Through varied techniques and processes, Lola Montejo creates paintings which are emergent and sharp, offering complex layers and assemblages of the emotional, intellectual, and active. Believing that her paintings are a manifestation of emotion, time or...

STEVE MURPHY

STEVE MURPHY “I am dealing with the classic elements of sculpture; form, volume, surface and edge. This current, nine-year body of work is the result of a continued reductive investigation of those sculptural elements. Minimalism is not strived for in these pieces but...

TONY ORTEGA

TONY ORTEGA Tony Ortega was born in 1958 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he is chair and associate professor of drawing and printmaking at Regis University. He holds MFA (1995) and BA (1980) degrees from the University of Colorado at...

TALIA SWARTZ PARSELL

TALIA SWARTZ PARSELL Born in Maumee, Ohio, Talia studied art and education at the University of Toledo's Center for Visual Arts at the Toledo Art Museum campus. She holds a master’s degree in art and painting from Adams State University. After three years teaching...

JEANETTE PASIN SLOAN

JEANETTE PASIN SLOAN Jeanette Pasin Sloan’s paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. The artist uses a photo-realistic style to depict reflective objects set against patterned backgrounds. However, she subverts both genre and style,...

PHILLIP & SCOTT

PHILLIP & SCOTT Phillip Maberry and Scott Walker "For over 25 years we have created one-of-a kind ceramic sculptures, reliefs and objects for gallery and museum installations as well having fulfilled numerous residential and commercial commissions. Our emphasis...

REBECCA RICH

REBECCA RICH Rebecca Rich was born in New York and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She has a BA from Occidental College and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Rich works in a variety of media including painting, video, installation, and public...

ZACHARIAH RIEKE

ZACHARIAH RIEKEZachariah Rieke studied painting at three universities over the course of seven years and then taught at the University of Alberta while living in Canada during the Vietnam war. Rieke has been represented by a succession of top galleries in Santa Fe...

YOSHITOMO SAITO

YOSHITOMO SAITO Yoshitomo Saito was born in 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. After finishing college work and some professional training in glassblowing, Saito came to the United States to study glass art at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Yoshitomo Saito...

DEBRA SALOPEK

DEBRA SALOPEK Born in California, raised in Mexico, Debra Salopek grew up bilingual, straddling 2 cultures. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in printmaking and drawing, has traveled and lived abroad for several years and makes the American...

HANK SAXE

HANK SAXE Hank Saxe has been working in ceramics for more than four decades in Taos, NM. He states, “A fascination with natural sciences led me to ceramics, an original meeting ground of art and technology. Starting out, I didn’t know how clays and minerals worked,...

NAOMI SCHECK

NAOMI SCHECK Naomi Scheck’s studio practice is influenced by the struggle of existence within the natural world. Her dimensional drawings address themes of time, vulnerability, and transformation. Scheck works primarily with water-based paints and inks on synthetic...

SAM SCOTT

SAM SCOTT Painter Sam Scott is known internationally for his monumental abstract oil paintings collected in the US and Europe. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents an installation of twenty surprisingly small watercolors, studies of light and color, painted during...

RALPH STEADMAN

RALPH STEADMAN Ralph Steadman was born in 1936. He started as a cartoonist and through the years diversified into many fields of creativity. He has illustrated such classics as Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and Animal Farm. His own books include the lives of...

JUDITH STEWART

JUDITH STEWART Judith Stewart has been a resident of the community of Rancho Linda Vista, in Oracle, Arizona, since arriving as a guest artist in 1991. At RLV she has a home and a studio, and the company of other residents – artists, kindred spirits, and parades of...

CURT SULLAN

CURT SULLAN Curt Sulland was born in Florida and soon moved to Chicago where he was raised. Having a great interest in art from an early age, Curt went to work at the National Zoo in Washington DC as a graphic artist for several years. Curt then pursued a career in...

CHERYL ANN THOMAS

CHERYL ANN THOMAS Cheryl Ann Thomas was born in Santa Monica, California and graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a BFA. Before practicing art full time in the late 1990s as a ceramic sculptor, Thomas worked as a grade school teacher. She lives and...

LAURA TRUITT

LAURA TRUITT   Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over...

LAURA WAIT

LAURA WAITMy current work is inspired by symbolism and handwriting along with paleography, the study of historical letterforms. I paint largely in acrylic on paper, canvas, and panels, using abstractions of calligraphic forms. Environment, words, calligraphy,...

DAVID WARNER

DAVID WARNERContact Us The William Havu Gallery1040 Cherokee StreetDenver, CO 80204 Telephone: 303.893.2360Email: info@williamhavugallery.com Fax: 303.893.2813Open Hours Tuesday – Friday  10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Saturday  11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Sundays and...

SHERYL ZACHARIA

SHERYL ZACHARIA Sheryl Zacharia was born and raised in the New York area and lived in Manhattan all of her adult life. At Southhampton College, she majored in painting but spent many years pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter. She performed in the NYC club circuit...