In celebration of the exhibiting artists, Bitfactory Gallery is announcing the Us 5th Biennial Exhibition Artist Talk.
Plan on joining us this Friday- July 10th from 5- 6:30p to discuss the artwork by Madi Brunetti, Christopher La Fleur, Raven Rohrig, and Heather Schulte.
Each showcasing their unique styles and perspectives. Their ideas are brought
Bitfactory Gallery presents “All Day I Dream” with four local artists, Annie Decamp, Caitlyn Dolphin, Michael Dowling and Taylor Herda, on view now through April 11, 2026. Each artist, working in figuration, pushes the human form beyond straightforward representation and into something more unstable, interior, and unresolved.
Please join us for an evening of Art and Networking - January edition! BitFactory will host our happy hour featuring Jude Barton Clint Eccher & Brayden Espinosa. More information will be forthcoming.
Artist Reception & Book Signing Friday November 21, 2025 - 6pm -9pm
Artist Studio for Rent at Bitfactory Studios
Studio 207, 216 sq. ft., is available for immediate possession
Please direct all inquiries to studios@bitfactory.net
Form of Movement invites artists to explore the many dimensions of motion—whether literal, figurative, or abstract—through two-dimensional, wall-hanging work. From the human body in motion to the gesture of brushstrokes, visual rhythm, or conceptual momentum, this exhibition embraces diverse interpretations of movement in form and composition.
Works by the late Don Van Dall on exhibition. Join us to honor Don's mid-century modern oils, acrylics, and other works.
Art District on Santa Fe, First Friday, Weekend
June 7th through the 9th, 2024, Garage at Bitfactory
BEST OF DENVER® - ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - 2024
BEST GALLERY EXHIBIT TO SET HISTORY STRAIGHT
When John Lennon called his relationship with May Pang "the lost weekend," it remained a thorn in her side. The pair had a year-and-a-half-long committed relationship, and she has the evidence to back it up. Pang decided to set history straight with her...
Bitfactory Gallery presents “Human”, an exhibition by Christos Collective, running March 15 through April 13. This thought-provoking visual exploration asks, “What sets us apart in the animal kingdom?” The public is invited to an opening reception from 6-9 p.m. March 15 at 851 Santa Fe Drive, and to visit during regular business hours from 11:30 am
May Pang is setting history straight, with photographic evidence to back her up. For too long, Pang grappled with John Lennon reference to their year-and-a-half relationship as "the lost weekend," and Yoko Ono's claim that she orchestrated the whole affair. Pang decided to go on tour with her collection of candid photographs she snapped during...
At Bitfactory Gallery’s next Solo Exhibition on view from August 18th through September 14th, 2023, visitors will be welcomed with a “riot of color and texture” that invites them into the bold landscapes and cityscapes of artist Bruno D’Anna. Using the impasto painting technique, D’Anna lays down thick layers of paint, creating a texture that allow
Few people knew John Lennon as intimately as May Pang. Pang was Lennon's lover during the infamous "Lost Weekend" which lasted 18 months during late 1973 through 1975. During this highly creative time for Lennon, Pang took candid photos of Lennon in a comfortable, relaxed environment.
Opening Reception: Friday, August 18, 6 to 9 p.m.
Whether landscape or cityscape, Italian Bruno D’anna, who lives in Denver part-time, is on it, as evidenced by a new show following both themes, with street scenes, groves of trees, tall buildings and majestic mountains.
Renowned rappers and their visual art, art show and concert
Denver artist Dan Drossman came to Bitfactory’s Bill Thomason pitching a brainstorm: He wanted to bring Visible Planets, a collection of hip-hop rappers who also made art, to the gallery for an art show. But that’s not all. Drossman also hoped he could find a stage where they might perform.
Art by Aesop Rock and Other Famed Hip-Hop Artists Comes to Bitfactory.
The exhibit will be followed by a hip-hop concert at Herman's Hideaway with Blu, Sandman, Deca, Quelle Chris, Kid Acne and Isaac Sawyer.
LGBTQ+ artists have been, and always will be, active in the art world but are often underrepresented in galleries and exhibits. Bitfactory Gallery aims to bring attention and awareness to marginalized groups of artists and demonstrate the universal nature of art while fostering inclusion across communities.
4th Annual – US. Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive. 6-9 p.m. (First Friday Art Walk). No cover.
Start preparing for Pride week at the opening of Bitfactory’s fourth annual Us show, an LGBTQ+ showcase with local queertrepreneur Christopher La Fleur and Raven Rohrig, whose work currently centers on two contemporary bodies of work: Intrinsic Illustrations and The Wisdom of Women.
Denver sculptor Ira Sherman has had a long, lucrative career with his iconic kinetic, wearable sculptures, which have been collected by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Ornamental Museum in Memphis, among others.
Bitfactory Gallery presents the exhibit “Spring Awakening” from April 21 to May 11, 2023, with work by Colorado artists from the virtual Cherry Creek Art Gallery.
Bitfactory welcomes spring vibes by giving viewers a chance to see work by the artists of the virtual Cherry Creek Art Gallery in person, as one of the brick-and-mortar galleries where CCAG is planting art for IRL viewing this year. Spring-friendly visuals with flowers, bright colors and a sense of coming to life will prevail in this edition.
Bitfactory Gallery welcomes the artists of Christos Collective and their new exhibition “Salt” on view March 17 through April 13 at 851 Santa Fe Drive. The group has chosen this essential element to bind their hearts, minds, and artwork together for this exhibition, much as salt binds all humanity and living creatures together.
Bitfactory’s first show in 2023 is the annual invitational No Show, for which fourteen local artists were invited to hang three works each, highlighting their individual art styles. It makes for a great range of variety in mediums and genres side by side in one room.
Bitfactory Gallery is proud to present “West by Midwest” a Tenet Podcast Showcase. Since 2019, likable podcasters Todd Pierson and Wes Brown have been posting weekly conversations with individual artists discussing their beginnings, influences, process, and how they make a living as an artist.
The arc of Denver sculptor Ira Sherman’s career in metalsmithing jumps the rainbow from handmade jewelry to Judaica, but he’s best known, notoriously, for his strange, wearable “prostheses” and interactive kinetic sculptures loaded with human sensors that offer a bio-engineered experience to participants.
A cross-section of Denver’s hardest-working muralists, street artists and graffitists (including a few who cross state lines) share the limelight for Bitfactory’s Wall 2 Wall exhibition, curated by graffiti artist and graphic designer Emit, who helped found the legendary DF Crew graffiti association thirty years ago..
Bitfactory gallery presents a new collection of AL Lummus’ powerful Mettle Martyr series. Like the first iteration at Bitfactory in 2020, Mettle Martyr Volume 2 is much more than an art exhibit.
This weekend, Denver’s art scene includes a deep grab bag of shows about cultural heritage, ecology (scientific and personal), headstones, great accomplishments and more, more, more. Pastel Society of Colorado, Taking More Chances Through November 10. Opening Reception/Awards Presentation: Friday, October 21, 6
Exhibit features Pastel Society of Colorado's Master and Signature Artists. The “Taking More Chances” show is meant to highlight the challenges, experimentation, and growth of artists at this level while they explore subject, technique, or format within the soft-pastel medium.
Bitfactory Gallery is pleased to announce an evening with sculptor Ira Sherman. Attendees will be treated to an up-close, hands-on demonstration of Sherman’s form-fitting forged steel sculptures and how the intricate pneumatic aspects of each piece function.
Space is limited to 20 attendees.
OFM was a part of this June's Art Bar at the Bitfactory Gallery for their third-annual Us Exhibition to display the work of four queer artists this Pride Month. The gallery displayed the work of Christopher La Fleur, James Mullane, Clint Ramstetter, and Louis Trujillo. Historically...
If art is a battlefield, then Denver-based artist Amy Lummus is a soldier and her brush is the gun. Lummus’ fight is for women’s safety, but don’t misunderstand: she is no martyr, nor does she need to be. Lummus says that while gender equality has made significant strides, the idea that a “good woman” is a martyr....
In today’s episode, we have two quick interviews. The first is with Laurie Dale Marshall (LDM), executive director of the EVICS Family Resource Center about the lack of housing here in Estes Park..
No Show- Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
Friday, January 21, through March 10, Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 6 to 9 p.m.
The Rise exhibition will showcase the disciplines of painting, sculpture, soft pastel, digital art, and photography will be represented. Covering neo-expressionism, pop, realism, primitivism, figurative, conceptual, and abstract art styles. The feelings about the show and the work is best expressed by the curator and participating artists....
Bitfactory Gallery is proud to welcome the Pastel Society of Colorado (PSC) back to the gallery with a new exhibition. Let’s Celebrate is a juried exhibition of small pastel paintings showcasing a variety of styles and subjects including landscapes, still life, figurative and abstract.
Tadashi Hayakawa, Waku, Waku (My Heart Is Beating With Excitement)
Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
Through November 11
To watch artist Tadashi Hayakawa in action painting his bold, energetic abstracts you would not immediately realize that he is acutely aware of his own aging. Having experienced a premonition in 2006 about his own death, he peppers into casual conversation how he is not long for this world
In tribute, Bitfactory Gallery is proud to present “Three Kings” a group exhibition that reunites three old friends, Vincent Cheap, Jason Cope and ...
Vincent Cheap, Jason Cope and Josh Finley, Three Kings
Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
September 17 through October 7
Opening Reception: Friday, September 17, 6 to 9 p.m.
First Friday Art Walk: Friday, October 1, 6 to 10 p.m.
Westword: Viral Hope
Westword: Jeff Velarde: City Beats, Light and Shadow
Art opportunities abound, for art lovers and artists alike. Babe Walls is in the air, bringing four days of mural painting to Ralston Creek in Arvada, along with a few sideshows. In other areas, there are co-ops and films and T-shirt sales to explore.
Bitfactory Gallery “Us” Exhibit: The gallery in the Art District on Santa Fe is once again showcasing LGBTQ+ artists as part of its second-annual “Us” exhibit, designed to demonstrate the universality of art. This year’s showing features work from LGBTQIA+ artists Jeremy Patlen, Clint Ramstetter, Louis Trujillo, Autumn T. Thomas and Jason Van Tate
Bitfactory Gallery proudly presents the 2nd Annual “Us” exhibit, a showcase of LGBTQ+ artists. In keeping with the theme of the previous Us exhibit, the intention is to not further segregate and separate any community from one another, but to demonstrate that, regardless of the pronoun one uses, art is universal.
Bitfactory Gallery “Us” Exhibit: The gallery in the Art District on Santa Fe is once again showcasing LGBTQ+ artists as part of its second-annual “Us” exhibit, designed to demonstrate the universality of art. This year’s showing features work from LGBTQIA+ artists Jeremy Patlen, Clint Ramstetter, Louis Trujillo, Autumn T. Thomas and Jason Van Tate
Bitfactory Gallery proudly presents the 2nd Annual Us exhibition, a showcase of LGBTQ+ artists. In keeping withthe theme of the previous Us exhibition, the intention is to not further segregate and separate any community from another, but to demonstrate that, regardless of the pronoun one uses, artis universal.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 18, 6 to 9 p.m.
Denver-based queer artists Jeremy Patlen, Clint Ramstetter, Autumn Thomas, Louis Trujillo and Jason Van Tatenhove share their non-straight points of view in artistic form for Us, a group nod to Pride that invites understanding
Art Attack: Fourteen Ways to See Great Art in Denver This Weekend
Alongside Bender's trademark grids and collections, gallery associate ... Don't miss the concurrent student-run exhibition, eLINKED (Living In New ... Bitfactory Gallery will have that honor by sharing Drossman's mixed-media and ...
Artist Dan Drossman has only been in Denver for three years but is starting to make his mark on the art scene. In addition to recently launching “The Waiting Room” Gallery in RiNo, he has been hard at work creating a new mixed-media series for a solo exhibition at Bitfactory Gallery...
Bitfactory Gallery Celebrates 6th Anniversary with Solo Exhibit
Art Attack: Eleven Ways to See Great Art in Denver This Weekend
Thomason will unveil a new series of cityscapes splashed by a rainy blur, while looking forward to many more years helming Bitfactory’s exhibition space.
A.L. Lummus, Mettle Martyr
Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
March 19 through April 8
Opening Reception: Friday, March 19, 6 to 9 p.m.
Jason Van Tatenhove is a local artist who Estes Park residents might first recognize by the array of artwork that covers his body. For those on the Colorado art scene, he is Jason Van Tat, the creator of artwork that is currently being displayed as part of the Fifth Annual No Show Invitational art exhibit at the Bitfactory Gallery in Denver.
Sculpture Ira Sherman will be giving an artist talk and demonstration from his studio via Zoom. Shown above are Sherman's newest pieces currently on display in the gallery at the No Show exhibition.
To preview Sherman's other works on models and in action at runway shows please visit his website Ira Sherman - Chastity Couture.
DO 303 - Coming off a year where the art world feared the pandemic would shut down exhibits for the foreseeable future, artists and galleries got busy using their creative minds to keep their businesses afloat. Some quickly added or enhanced their online presence with ecommerce shops, switched up their schedules and, as soon as retail spaces were a
Coming off a year where the art world feared the pandemic would shut down and have no shows for the foreseeable future, artists and galleries got busy using their creative minds to keep their businesses afloat. Some quickly added or enhanced their online presence with e-commerce shops, switched up their schedules and, as soon as retail spaces were
More galleries and museums are now open, albeit under safety restrictions, making art-viewing a little less spontaneous — but no less fulfilling. Masks are required across the board, as is limited or timed-entry visitation, so beware: We don’t need any sick artists.
On the positive side, this week is hoppin’ with new and continuing shows.
Pastel artists take chances in new exhibit at Bitfactory Gallery
November 20, 2020 – January 14, 2021
Bitfactory Gallery is pleased to announce a special exhibit called “Taking Chances” by the Pastel Society of Colorado (PSC). Signature and Master Signature member artists were invited to embark on a personal visual exploration of a subject, place or an approach to the medium of pastel and that demonstrates their ability to take risks and break the
As it’s your last-minute opportunity to enjoy art before the holiday season starts in earnest, here’s where to go (possibly virtually) to clear your mind with holiday group shows, a feel-good photographic exhibition of beautiful Black faces at the Arvada Center and even a Santa-palooza of photographs and stories at Gallery MFC. Mask up or stay safe
Bitfactory Gallery is pleased to announce a special exhibit called Taking Chances by the Pastel Society of Colorado (PSC). Signature and Master Signature member artists were invited to embark on a personal visual exploration of a subject, place or an approach to the medium of pastel and that demonstrates their ability to take risks and break the...
DENVER (KDVR) – The Bitfactory Gallery announced the opening of a new exhibit called Taking Chances, art from the Pastel Society of Colorado.
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Denver artist and gallery owner, W. Max Thomason, started drawing at the very young age of three or four. His parents wanted to foster his natural talent and enrolled him in private art classes taught by an older, very eccentric, German artist out of North Glen....
W. Max Thomason created "Isolation," hoping it will help us feel more connected during the pandemic. The exhibit can be seen at Bitfactory Gallery until Oct. 25.
Bitfactory is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of Denver’s Santa Fe Art District. They curate rotating exhibitions from up-and-coming local, national, and international artists. The building also houses studios, providing a perfect space for collaboration and artistic influence.
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Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
November 15 to January 9
Opening Reception: November 15, 6 to 9 p.m.
Sublime sculpture, street art on gallery walls, flashy neon, co-op fare, a witches' market: Variety in art is the stuff of a gallery-lover’s dreams. Here are twelve ways to scratch your art itch this week:
LGBTQ+ artists have been, and always will be active in the art world but are underrepresented in galleries and exhibits. In keeping with Bitfactory Gallery’s goal to showcase emerging artists, they proudly present “Us”, an art exhibit by Denver local queer artists, on view October 18 through November 7, 2019.
Bill will play two sold out shows on September 12th at Bitfactory Gallery kicking off his solo tour.
Whether your body is covered in “tats”, or you would never think of getting ink, the level of skill and talent behind the original artwork that inspires body art is undeniable. Four of these dedicated tattoo artists from Black Sage Studio in Evergreen, Colorado are featured in the new exhibit The Dark Side of Sage at Bitfactory gallery, 851 Santa F
September 20 through October 10
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
Our society has a difficult time any dialogue dealing with sexual violence. My work is designed to force individuals to talk about this disturbing topic and at the same time enjoy the beauty and craftmanship of the objects inspired by sexual assault; an “entertaining provocation”. I create art that paradoxically melds elegant sexuality....
It’s another banner weekend for art across the metro area, with everything from an Eames-chair paean at the Kirkland to an exhibition of chastity regalia. Get out while the sun is high and make the rounds. Here are fourteen shows that should be on your itinerary:
303 Magaizne: Bitfactory Gallery presents an Opening Reception for Beyond Worlds. The group exhibition features works from artists Annamarie Mead, Janet Rundquist, Lydia Riegle and Cyncie Winter. Their pieces focus on abstract theme pushing the boundaries of material existence and imagination.
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Bitfactory Gallery presents Beyond Worlds, an all- female, group exhibition with a focus on Abstract Art.
Bitfactory Gallery partners with The Firm Graphics to present Remix. The exhibition features a showcase of local Denver artists that have been part of The Firm Graphics in past and present. The exhibition includes works from artists such as Lucas DeGraw, Thomas Weaver, Seth Grym and Jake Martin.
Sandra Esparza worked with Bitfactory Gallery in Denver to put together a final exhibition of Henry Esparza's finest work. A tribute to a living artist took a loving wife, dozens of pieces of art and an art class. Here's how it all came together.
Lutheran High students complete unfinished works by the late Henry Esparza
Promising a “riot of colors and textures,” the new abstract expressionism exhibit “Output” at Bitfactory Gallery (May 18 to June 7) features the work of four women: Kari Bell, Prerna Kapoor, Anna Marie Mead, and Elaine Wendt. We recently spoke with the gallery’s owner, Bill Thomason, about what visitors can expect.
The results are in for 2018's Denver's A-List voting. Bitfactory broke into the top 5 on the A-List this year!