About the Exhibition:

In celebration with the Month of Photography, Seidel City is pleased to present “Salon Selective.” a Survey of the Denver Salon. The exhibition will feature a large range of Colorado photographers. The show will be open with a public reception Saturday, March 8th from 5:00-9:00pm, and will be on view March 8th until May 10th by appointment only. The exhibition will finish up with a closing party Saturday, May 10th. Many members, active working photographers today will be present at the opening. Special walk and talk presentations to be announced soon. Open hours are sporadic, for more information or to make a appointment email info@seidelcity.

The Denver Salon was formed by Mark Sink in 1993 to gather fine art photographers that he admired who were pursuing higher ideals in the use of photography. The Denver Salon prides itself with presenting bold experiments--risky and revealing subject matter as well as ambitious photo-installations. This group is committed to taking the fine art photography to new places. In researching his great grandfather (James L. Breese), a photographer, who held midnight salons in New York City in the 1880’s. Sink became enamored and wanted to emulate his legacy. Breese called his group, “The Carbonites”, taken from the carbon print--a rare and difficult printing process Breese produced at his Carbon Studio. Like Breese’s salons, The Denver Salon gathers to show work, discuss art, share ideas and techniques of artistic experimentation. The group likes to reconstruct the French salon setting that boasts a candelabra, draping curtains, and fine food, drink and discussion. Sink soon found that there was power in numbers and he started to successfully approach galleries and museums to host exhibits of the groups’ artwork. They have shown at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, David Floria Gallery in Aspen, on 57th street at the Artopia Gallery in NYC and in Japan where an exchange show was organized with a similar group out of Gallery Soap in Kitikisu City.The exhibits openings were simultaneous, broadcasted live over the Internet for the world and each to see and meet. “I’ve always been aware that the Denver and front range has a particularly strong art community,” Sink says. “And a powerfully strong core group of artists using photography as their medium.” Sink also likens Colorado to Prague with a similar “self-contained art movement not involved with the east or west but with its own quiet cultural hot bed.”

Artists include:

Eric Havelock-Bailie, Bryan Boettiger, Shaun Gothwaite, John Hallin, Christoper James, Kevin O’Connell, Reed Weimer, Paul Schroder, Mark Sink, Inna Valin, David Zimmer, Wesley Kennedy, Eric Helland, Joel Dallenbach, Susan Evans, Anne Arden McDonald, Tamaki Obuchi, Frank Yantorno, Katie James, Jeff Hersch, Chris Perez, Micheal Ensminger