Dikeou collection

The Dikeou Collection is a private collection of contemporary art, located in downtown Denver, Colorado, near the Denver Art Museum, 16th Street Mall, and Civic Center. The Dikeou Collection is operated as an extension of Manhattan-based zingmagazine and is known for its installation art, photographs, drawing, and sculpture. The Dikeou Collection does not hold auctions and is therefore not a gallery. It is one of the few private art collections to be open and available to the public in Colorado, and is the only one in Denver.

History

2003, Denver natives, Devon and Pany Dikeou, open the Collection to the public, located in the Colorado Building, which dates from the 1800s and still has the original mail shoots, floors and architecture.

September 2006, Exhibition space expands by nearly double to include seven more artists, featured in zingmagazine.

October 2006, Hosts the Invisible Museum's, "Unwrapping the Wing" exhibition, curated by Devon Dikeou.

February 2007, Founds a poetry reading series, which includes writers primarily from the Denver and Boulder regions.

September 2007, Exhibition space expands to include three new artists.

October 2007, Curator Devon Dikeou collaborates with the Museo de las Americas and artist, Lee Stoetzel to produce the Muniz Remastered exhibition.

Featured artists

Involvement with literary community

Since beginning a poetry reading series in February 2007, the Dikeou Collection has become a venue for expression of literary art in Denver. The reading series focuses on the theme of collaboration and invited readers are in turn asked to bring local or out of state readers with them to perform poetry or other written work. Readers have included: Bin Ramke, Elizabeth Robinson, Maureen Owen, Jake Adam York, Noah Eli Gordon, Sara Veglahn, James Belflower, Selah Saterstrom, Marina Graves, Betty Emmanuel, Sasha Steensen, Gordon Hadfield, Dan Beachy-Quick and Jen Tynes.

External links

• Dikeou Collection web site
• Zing Magazine
• USA Today article