Recent Exhibitions
March 13rd - April 27th, 2025
Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995 at The Vicki Myhren Gallery ↗︎
Curated by Rupert Jenkins as part of the biennial Month of Photography in Denver. Jenkins’ exhibition brings together more than 130 works by 60 artists working across media such as print photography, video, installation, and ephemera. Outside Influencetraces the state’s history of fine art photography from the end of the Second World War to the cusp of the 21st century. The show’s title acknowledges landscape’s prominence as a subject for photographers in Colorado and alludes to the influx of artists and educators whose arrival expanded the state’s demographics and photographic practice. This exhibition highlights the rich history of creative photography in Colorado, challenging longstanding regional biases that have overshadowed the medium and its artists in favor of more traditionally celebrated art forms. Jenkins organizes the exhibition thematically, highlighting the urban and natural landscape, expressions of identity via portraiture, and experimental and alternative processes. This exhibition offers a glimpse into Jenkins’ forthcoming book Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995, to be published by University Press of Colorado in autumn 2025.
Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995 at The Vicki Myhren Gallery ↗︎
Curated by Rupert Jenkins as part of the biennial Month of Photography in Denver. Jenkins’ exhibition brings together more than 130 works by 60 artists working across media such as print photography, video, installation, and ephemera. Outside Influencetraces the state’s history of fine art photography from the end of the Second World War to the cusp of the 21st century. The show’s title acknowledges landscape’s prominence as a subject for photographers in Colorado and alludes to the influx of artists and educators whose arrival expanded the state’s demographics and photographic practice. This exhibition highlights the rich history of creative photography in Colorado, challenging longstanding regional biases that have overshadowed the medium and its artists in favor of more traditionally celebrated art forms. Jenkins organizes the exhibition thematically, highlighting the urban and natural landscape, expressions of identity via portraiture, and experimental and alternative processes. This exhibition offers a glimpse into Jenkins’ forthcoming book Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945–1995, to be published by University Press of Colorado in autumn 2025.
March 3rd - April 15th, 2017
Up Close and Far Away at Pattern Shop Studio ↗︎
The Pattern Shop Studio is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Up Close and Far Away: The Photographic Art of Jim Milmoe, held in conjunction with the Month of Photography (MOP) Denver. The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, March 3rd, 2017 (6 to 9pm) and continue through Friday, April 7th and Friday May 5th, from 6 to 9pm. Mr. Milmoe will talk about his work at a Salon on Saturday, April 15th (4-6pm). As usual, the Pattern Shop Studio will also be open to groups and individuals any time by appointment 303.297.9831.
James O. Milmoe is a renowned photographic artist whose work is featured in many museums, private collections, and corporate collections. He is also an internationally respected photographer of fine art, paintings and sculpture whose work has appeared in major books, catalogs, magazines and newspapers around the world. Art books based on his photographs have been honored with many awards, including the Colorado Governor’s Award for the excellence of his photography and his dedication to the recognition of photography as fine art. He is a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America and a Charter Member of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Large fine art reproductions of his work are sold in museum shops and galleries such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Denver Art Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum and many others around the world.
The photographs selected for this show do not appear in any other exhibit celebrating Milmoe’s long and distinguished career. Some are new, some have not been seen for decades, and many have never been exhibited before.
Up Close and Far Away at Pattern Shop Studio ↗︎
The Pattern Shop Studio is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Up Close and Far Away: The Photographic Art of Jim Milmoe, held in conjunction with the Month of Photography (MOP) Denver. The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, March 3rd, 2017 (6 to 9pm) and continue through Friday, April 7th and Friday May 5th, from 6 to 9pm. Mr. Milmoe will talk about his work at a Salon on Saturday, April 15th (4-6pm). As usual, the Pattern Shop Studio will also be open to groups and individuals any time by appointment 303.297.9831.
James O. Milmoe is a renowned photographic artist whose work is featured in many museums, private collections, and corporate collections. He is also an internationally respected photographer of fine art, paintings and sculpture whose work has appeared in major books, catalogs, magazines and newspapers around the world. Art books based on his photographs have been honored with many awards, including the Colorado Governor’s Award for the excellence of his photography and his dedication to the recognition of photography as fine art. He is a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America and a Charter Member of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Large fine art reproductions of his work are sold in museum shops and galleries such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Denver Art Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum and many others around the world.
The photographs selected for this show do not appear in any other exhibit celebrating Milmoe’s long and distinguished career. Some are new, some have not been seen for decades, and many have never been exhibited before.
Video Interviews
April 14, 2017
Arts District Season 5, Episode 522 Rocky Mountain PBS
James Milmoe: Stop, Look and See
Colorado photographer James Milmoe has been taking pictures for 80 years, becoming well-known in the commercial world for shooting fine art for museums. But Milmoe’s favorites are his own series -- cemeteries, aspens, flowers — which were recently on display at the Arvada Center.
Arts District Season 5, Episode 522 Rocky Mountain PBS
James Milmoe: Stop, Look and See
Colorado photographer James Milmoe has been taking pictures for 80 years, becoming well-known in the commercial world for shooting fine art for museums. But Milmoe’s favorites are his own series -- cemeteries, aspens, flowers — which were recently on display at the Arvada Center.
January 19 – March 26, 2017
Stop/Look/See - Photography by James Milmoe at Arvada Art Center
Stop/Look/See features works by esteemed photographer James Milmoe. Milmoe resides in Golden and has lived in Colorado for over 50 years. Milmoe works in various series of photographs, compiling a cohesive yet vast oeuvre. The Upper and Theatre galleries will be filled with this photographer’s work from various series.
Stop/Look/See - Photography by James Milmoe at Arvada Art Center
Stop/Look/See features works by esteemed photographer James Milmoe. Milmoe resides in Golden and has lived in Colorado for over 50 years. Milmoe works in various series of photographs, compiling a cohesive yet vast oeuvre. The Upper and Theatre galleries will be filled with this photographer’s work from various series.
Past Exhibitions
February 17 – April 15, 2023
LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: Permanent Collection Highlights at Colorado Photographic Arts Center↗︎
“To celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 60th Anniversary, we invite you to take a journey through the history of photographic art with a special exhibition of works from CPAC’s Permanent Collection"
LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: Permanent Collection Highlights at Colorado Photographic Arts Center↗︎
“To celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 60th Anniversary, we invite you to take a journey through the history of photographic art with a special exhibition of works from CPAC’s Permanent Collection"
February 28 – March 22, 2019
Settlers at Art Gym Denver
“Using photographic media as a foundation for their work, the seven artists in Settlers convey, figuratively and abstractly, the colonization of the American southwest. Whatever their motive and means—most came voluntarily, others were forced or coerced—the occupation of indigenous land is something that continues with every wave of Colorado “native” and newcomer.
“Collectively, the images in the show represent settlers from the late-19th century to the present decade. Looked at from a Native American perspective, these people might be thought of as alien invaders. Settlers is not a judgment of this, but it is a reminder that for every “new” territory there is an old, stolen one.
“The show’s deliberate ambiguity is intended to kindle subjective associations and tangential connections. Settlers takes place during the 2019 Denver Month of Photography and works have been selected to align with the range of art-making conducted at Art Gym, most especially print-making. All the artists are from the Denver metro region; their works span more than 60-years of artmaking, 1950-2015.”
Settlers at Art Gym Denver
“Using photographic media as a foundation for their work, the seven artists in Settlers convey, figuratively and abstractly, the colonization of the American southwest. Whatever their motive and means—most came voluntarily, others were forced or coerced—the occupation of indigenous land is something that continues with every wave of Colorado “native” and newcomer.
“Collectively, the images in the show represent settlers from the late-19th century to the present decade. Looked at from a Native American perspective, these people might be thought of as alien invaders. Settlers is not a judgment of this, but it is a reminder that for every “new” territory there is an old, stolen one.
“The show’s deliberate ambiguity is intended to kindle subjective associations and tangential connections. Settlers takes place during the 2019 Denver Month of Photography and works have been selected to align with the range of art-making conducted at Art Gym, most especially print-making. All the artists are from the Denver metro region; their works span more than 60-years of artmaking, 1950-2015.”
January 31, 2010
Jim Milmoe: Choice at Byers-Evans House Gallery
Jim Milmoe: Choice at Byers-Evans House Gallery
December 9 – May 19, 2006
Early Colorado Contemporary Photography at Mark Sink Gallery↗︎
"This was a group of extraordinary experimenters pushing the medium. Using then little known methods as solarization, reverse printing, photograms and dye transfer, producing conceptual abstract expressionism studies of form and light. Much of the work in this exhibition reflects its time, the expressionist period in art in NY, but this is a formative use with the medium of photography as art. The work is amazingly fresh standing in today’s image saturated world. Features artists are:"
Winter Prather | Jim Milmoe | Walter Chappell | Arnold Gassan | Nile Root | Syl Labrot↗︎
Early Colorado Contemporary Photography at Mark Sink Gallery↗︎
"This was a group of extraordinary experimenters pushing the medium. Using then little known methods as solarization, reverse printing, photograms and dye transfer, producing conceptual abstract expressionism studies of form and light. Much of the work in this exhibition reflects its time, the expressionist period in art in NY, but this is a formative use with the medium of photography as art. The work is amazingly fresh standing in today’s image saturated world. Features artists are:"
Winter Prather | Jim Milmoe | Walter Chappell | Arnold Gassan | Nile Root | Syl Labrot↗︎
October 6 – 24, 1974
A Retrospective Exhibition of Photography by James O. Milmoe at Clara Hatton Gallery Visual Arts Building, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
A Retrospective Exhibition of Photography by James O. Milmoe at Clara Hatton Gallery Visual Arts Building, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Press
March 16, 2017
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Jim Milmoe ↗︎ by Susan Froyd in Westword
#26: Jim Milmoe Just weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, Golden photographer Jim Milmoe is deservedly basking in the 2017 Month of Photography limelight with two shows of his work running concurrently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Pattern Shop Studio.
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Jim Milmoe ↗︎ by Susan Froyd in Westword
#26: Jim Milmoe Just weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, Golden photographer Jim Milmoe is deservedly basking in the 2017 Month of Photography limelight with two shows of his work running concurrently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Pattern Shop Studio.
January 28, 2010
Jim Milmoe at the Byers-Evans House Gallery ↗︎ by Michael Paglia in Westword
"Jim Milmoe is a legend in the local photo scene, with a career more than six decades long — most of it in Colorado. He moved to the state in the 1940s to attend Colorado College, where he graduated in 1949; he later earned an MFA from the University of Denver. Over the years, Milmoe has worn a number of different hats. He's been a teacher, a freelance photographer, a commercial photographer and a fine artist..."
Jim Milmoe at the Byers-Evans House Gallery ↗︎ by Michael Paglia in Westword
"Jim Milmoe is a legend in the local photo scene, with a career more than six decades long — most of it in Colorado. He moved to the state in the 1940s to attend Colorado College, where he graduated in 1949; he later earned an MFA from the University of Denver. Over the years, Milmoe has worn a number of different hats. He's been a teacher, a freelance photographer, a commercial photographer and a fine artist..."