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It’s a palpable wonder, the manual effort that Colorado artist Andrew Tirado puts into his sculptures. It’s no coincidence, either, that his subject is hands. He commemorates things that are man-made. He does so by showing the importance of craft. The further we go along in virtual realities, the less significant we find the hands. The human touch, that’s what he wants to preserve.
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Andrew Ramiro Tirado has been creating a series of large scale hands from reclaimed wood and other 3D and 2D media. Tirado finds a balance between traditional craftsmanship and the innovative ideas that enliven some of the best contemporary art.
COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER
Andrew Ramiro Tirado, who labored since mid-June on a centerpiece for his exhibition, Open, recently unveiled the result. For Andy, this has been about the journey, about the process. True to the name of his exhibit, he wants his work to be open and transparent, and he’s loved those moments when visitors have been bold enough to ask him what he and his assistants have been doing on those huge work benches.
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This portion is definitely one of the heavyweights, as far as art is concerned, for the Dairy Block. More permanent installations include works by Mario Zoots, Andrew Ramiro Tirado, Travis Hetman, Christine Buchsbaum, Jackie Barry, Valerie Savarie, Jill Hadley Hooper and Gary Emrich. Even the bathrooms, corridors and elevators are designed by local artists, with portraits inspired by historic Dairy Block people by Michael Dowling and a humorous installation by Jim Green, among others.
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Local artists shine on this afternoon hotel hop visiting the expansive collections of Hotel Born, The Crawford, and The Maven Hotel guided by experts. Members will end the jaunt at Dairy Block—a micro-district in LoDO featuring the work of 31 artists—to sip, see, eat and shop among friends.
COLORADO SPRINGS INDEPENDENT
Local artist Andrew Ramiro Tirado’s “Lacuna” was judged to be the best of this year’s crop. The sculpture, a reaching hand and arm, hangs in the Plaza of the Rockies building downtown. Tirado will also have a gallery of drawings at the Fine Arts Center starting on next Saturday, June 21, running through Sept. 28. For more information, check out his page on the FAC’s website.
WESCOVER
Andrew Ramiro Tirado has been creating a series of large scale hands from reclaimed wood and other 3D and 2D media. Tirado finds a balance between traditional craftsmanship and the innovative ideas that enliven some of the best contemporary art.
DENVERITE
Colorado artist Andrew Ramiro Tirado hung a massive hand made of found wood today in the lobby of the yet-unopened Maven Hotel, the chic ballpark-area digs whose lobby will host public market space and at least one new restaurant. The hanging of the hand means this development, better known as the Dairy Block, will soon be complete.
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Transporting and installing the hand sculpture, known as “The Quantifiable and the Ineffable” and weighing in at more than 500 pounds, required a U-Haul, a forklift and some ingenuity. “It went off without a hitch. I was constantly, literally, knocking on wood, though,” notes Tirado.
ART IN LOVE
It’s easy to see that Andrew Ramiro Tirado is mildly obsessed with hands. Working in a variety of mediums (wood and metal sculpture, painting and drawing, even kinetic sculpture) his works are keenly focused on the elegant complexity of the human hand.