Ghosts of Old Denver
Denver has always been a city of booms and busts, Chuvarsky explores this idea through portraiture and landscapes by painting historic people and places that have a connection to Colorado but with a contemporary twist. Chuvarsky recalls “While expanding upon this new series I got pretty nostalgic about what has been lost as the city expanded. The pandemic seemed to only intensify what I view as an homogenization of the city. Pretty much all of my old haunts from a 2019 are gone- either directly because of the pandemic or because of rising property values. While I understand and embrace the impermanence I still wanted to honor and acknowledge the sense of strangeness, the sense of wild west that made this city interesting.”
