Bob Luna

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Bob Luna

• Painter, Sculptor, Mask-maker, Mosaic Muralist,
  and Mixed-media Artist

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Studio

• 3729 Lipan St.
• Denver, CO
• 80211
• 303.477.7909
• Robert.luna_at_colorado.edu

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Teaching Experience

• C.U. Upward Bound summer program for Native
  American high school students.
• 2004 - Spring break program at Cheltenham
  Elementary School
• May and June 2004 Mural teacher for Art Reach at
  Garden Place Academy.
• 1982-2004 - Visual arts teacher for El Dia de
  los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) work shops for
  Pirate Gallery exhibit and event.
• Summer 2003 - Visual arts teacher and supervisor
  for Arts Street. The Denver Mayors office of
  work force youth opportunity program.
• October 2002-January 2003 - Teller Elementary
  School of Denver, tiled mural project with
  students.
• June 2002 - University of Colorado, Boulder C.U.
  Pre-Collegiate Development program, visual arts
  instructor.
• July 2002 - Waco Arts Center Quinn Campus Art
  outreach Camp Director of one week arts camp for
  under served youth in Waco, TX.
• 2001- Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO Mexican mask
  making workshop.
• 1989-May 2000 - Denver Museum of Nature
  Science Art and Cultural/Natural Studies
  Teacher, Youth Programs, Classroom Adventures,
  demonstrations and Teacher Workshops.

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Education

• 1978 - graduate of Denver East High School.
• 1988/89 - Metropolitan State College Denver, CO
  Courses in Art Education (K-12) and Secondary
  Education.
• 1974-1978 - Rhode Island School of Design,
  Providence Rhode Island B.F.A. Degree in
  Painting. Courses included Liberal Arts, Art
  history, Philosophy, Design, Graphic Arts,
  Drawing, Sculpture Painting.

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Public Art Commissions

• 2004 - Regional Transportation District of Denver
  CO. Two 24 x 12 porcelain mosaic concrete
  benches for a bus station near Bronco Stadium in
  Denver.
• 2004 - Three 22 x 12 hand glazed porcelain tile
  murals. Exterior murals at Brighton Blvd. and
  46th St. in Denver, CO. Commissioned by the
  Colorado District of Transportation. Budget
  37,000
• 2003 - City and County of Denver Public Arts
  Program Family Crisis Center, Richard Castro
  Social Services Complex, Denver. Two ceramic tile
  murals One 35 x 14 hand-built ceramic tile
  relief mural, and a 9 x 7 x 7 tile Food
  Pyramid mural. Budget 37,000
• 2000 - Colorado Academy, Denver, CO A 20 x 17
  exterior tile and mosaic mural for the Stevens
  Art building. Budget 25,000
• 2000 - Lutheran Hospital, Wheatridge, CO Tile
  mosaic murals for main lobby. Budget 26,000
• 1999 - Denver Museum of Nature and Science Mixed
  media mask for the Metro Denver Hospice Mask
  Project exhibit. Budget 350
• 1998 - Childrens Hospital Ceramic tile mural.
  Border tiles painted by Denver North High School
  students. Budget 3,000

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Exhibitions

• October 2003 - Zip Gallery, Denver, CO. A two
  person show.
• November 2003 - Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO -
  Group show El Dia los Muertos annual exhibit.
• November 2003 - Group show at Commons Ground
  Café, Denver, CO. Paintings and masks.
• Zip Gallery - Masks displayed.
• Manos Folk Art - Current work displayed.
• August 2002 - Colorado State Fair. The Hispanic
  Cultural Art Center. Group show.
• 2002 - Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO. Group
  show invitational, The Art of Mexican
  Celebration
• 1998-2001 - CHAC Gallery - Member of the art
  organization. Exhibited in a variety of group
  shows at the gallery. Exhibited in 2000 at the
  gallery show titled Duality, a one person
  exhibition of paintings, drawings, mixed media
  and sculpture.
• 1998-2000 - Zip 37 Gallery, Denver, CO.
• 1982-2001 - Pirate Gallery El Dia de los
  Muertos show organizer, exhibitor, piñata maker
  and school tour guide.

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Affiliations Publications

• Finalist for Denver Broncos Stadium Public Art,
  2000.
• Manos Folk Arts, CHAC (Chicano Humanities and
  Arts Council), Zip Gallery.
• Pub. Black Bird Press The Human Family mural
  of Day of the Dead in the Denver Museum of
  Natural History (temporary).
• Panelist for State of Art in Colorado at the
  Arvada Center for the Arts.
• Corporate collection Media One, Englewood, CO.
• Tours and lectures of murals.
• 1999 - Tour of Neighborhood Epic mural for
  Denver Eclectic Cub with professor.
• 2000 - Tour of Neighborhood Epic for an
  international group from the Institute of
  Cultural Tom Noel of C.U. Denver, CO. Affairs.

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Artist Statement

• During my painting process, I pay particular
  attention to color and form. When I utilize an
  abstract style, (sometimes a combination of
  figurative elements), I strive to create a
  dynamic inter-dimensional space that lends a
  polymorphic quality. When I choose a particular
  subject matter, I first study it, then commence
  to draw or paint my translation, all the while
  referring to its inherent characteristics as I
  fashion and explore my own interpretation. Some
  of my paintings are non-objective and more of a
  conjuring up of spontaneous image making. This is
  like syncopation and rhythm for me, as form and
  color chords strike in specific areas, (almost
  like a solo), then orchestrate with other areas
  of the image. I know my orchestration is complete
  when all the sections are playing together.

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The Three Aztec Warriors

• Pastel
• 22 x 10.5
• 1994

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El Dia de los Muertos

• Pencil graphite and lead
• 18 x 14
• 2005

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The Buffalo Hunters

• Detail selection
• Pencil graphite
• 2005

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The Ice Chasm

• Acrylic and Gloss
• 4 x 2.5

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Tlacopan

• Acrylic on canvas
• 4.5 x 3

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Moctezuma II

• Sculptural Face
• Das Ponto Clay non-fired

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Quetzalcoatal

• Ceramic glazed clay
• 9 x 7

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Homage to an Artist

• Pastel
• 32 x 18
• 1983

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The Autumn Window

• Acrylic on canvas
• 1.5 x 28

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Joi d Mort

• Ceramic high-fire relief sculpture
• 16 x 5.5

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Kuklakan on T.V.

• Paper mache mixed media
• 5.5 x 3.5
• 2006

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Kuklakan on T.V.

• Detail

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Public Art Project for the City of Denver

• with co-collaborator Martha Keating
• and a crew of five assistant artists
• A loose history of the Highlands and lower
  Highlands, Denver, CO.
• Tiled mosaic series of ten 25 x 14 panels
• Borders 3,000 painted porcelain tiles by school
  children K-12 from Denver public schools and
  others 1,600 tiles painted by various adults.
• Mosaic series location West side of retaining
  wall off I-25 between 20th St. viaduct and 38th
  Ave., North-west Denver, CO.
• Finished in 1994

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Winter on the Platte River
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Winter on the Platte River (close-up)
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Summer on the Platte River
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Neighborhood Epic
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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Neighborhood Epic (cont.)
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• What the soul needs, it uses.
• -- James Hillman