'7000 Reasons' Pop-Up Gallery Comes To Arvada Center

ARVADA, CO – Two Denver artists' dreams to create 7,000 unique 7 x 7-inch affordable oil portraits over seven months has been a wild success at the Dairy Block in LoDo Denver, and now the project comes to Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Painters Wes Magyar and Jonathan Saiz set off on an ambitious project to make the miniature to-order portraits based on provided photos and sell them for $143 (because somehow 143=I Love You!). So far they have created 377 colorful paintings of people and pets (which you can view on their website).

You can order one of the miniatures through Aug. 11, from Arvada Center at https://Arvadacenter.org/7000reasons. Completed portraits will be on display during a special pop-up exhibition at the Arvada Center through November 11, 2018.

Want to see more of the paintings? Check out the Arvada Center's Flickr Page.

About the Artists

• Wes Magyar is best known for his portraits and narrative oil paintings depicting people in mysterious situations. His faceted mark-making pushes the paintings away from the purely representational towards something more evocative. His solo work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum and represented by William Havu Gallery in Denver, CO.
• After 10 years of exhibiting in Denver, Mykonos, and London galleries, Jonathan Saiz has spent the last several years building his own experimental art market where he attempts to engage as many people as possible - often with messy but surprisingly expansive results. Painting, sculpture, Instagram, publishing, neon signage, art kiosks, and temporary artist-run projects like 7000 Reasons have become intermingling mediums for experimentation.

Image via 7000Reasons