I get to do a lot of cool things with @playgroundensemble .
This time we had artists build instruments and we are composing for them. The show is on display thru May with concerts on 5/30 and 5/31 @ifoundleon
New exhibit alert! Join us for the opening reception of Sculpting Sound on Saturday, April 25th.
Sculpting Sound features new sonic artworks by local visual and installation artists. The best part? You're invited to interact and experiment with the pieces yourself. These works will then transform into a living 'orchestra' for a series of newly commissioned pieces performed by The Playground Ensemble.
The exhibition runs through June 6th, culminating in two concerts premiering the commissioned music on May 30th, followed by an improvised music concert on May 31st.
This is your last week to "Dans Le Rêve" by @sandicalistro
Stop by soon to see the celebrated works by Sandi Calistro and pick up a print or one of three available originals.
Gallery Hours are 10-6 Wed - Fri and 12-5 Saturday.
XOXO
📸 @amandatiptonphotography
Friday night! Denver! Leon Gallery! @onestraw.co hosts the inimitable @sandyewen for a rare appearance here on the Front Range. $20 at the door, NOTAFLOF. Disintegrate w. us.
Join us tonight from 7-11pm for Wax Knight, Denver’s chillest Chess & Vinyl Social Club. Free & Open to the public, Wax Knight celebrates the gymnasium of the mind, the joy of community, & the tactile ecstasy of vinyl & turntables.
All levels welcome. Box with the best or discover how to play for the first time.
Announcing a new print drop!
@sandicalistro will be at Leon Gallery from 12-4 this Saturday, April 4th to meet collectors & guests and celebrate the release of "Lose Your Dreams and You Will Lose Your Mind".
Each print is a 16" x 20" signed and numbered, limited edition of 40 archival prints.
Sandi will also be releasing prints of "Je Vais Bien, Je Pense". 16" x 20" archival limited edition print of 40, signed and numbered.
Announcing a new print drop!
@sandicalistro will be at Leon Gallery from 12-4 this Saturday, April 4th to meet collectors & guests and celebrate the release of "Je Vais Bien, Je Pense".
Each print is a 16" x 20" signed and numbered, limited edition of 40 archival prints.
Sandi will also be releasing prints of "Lose Your Dreams and You Will Lose Your Mind". 16" x 20" archival limited edition print of 40, signed and numbered.
I will be @ifoundleon Saturday April 4th from 12-4pm if you have not had a chance to come see the show, or if you purchased a piece and wanted to know more about the work✨
We’ve also got prints available with a shipping option through the gallery
Photos by @jamescromwellholden
Next up - @onestraw.co is SUPREMELY stoked to host the one & only prepared guitar maestro @sandyewen for a special engagement at @ifoundleon in Denver, CO. April 10th, doors at 7pm MT. Opening set from @luke.leavitt & @edenfigs . See you there?
Dumond
30" x 40"
OIl on Canvas
Available - DM for pricing
Notice the play of shadows with the textures of the fabric and how the shadows are limited only to the figure. Sandi creates a play between background and subject, bending the laws of physics and subtely hinting towards to a dreamworld inhabited by the sublime figure.
"Dans Le Réve" new works by Sandi Calistro
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 7th, 2026
On Exhibition:
March 7th, 2026 - April 18th, 2025
Sandi Calistro, long celebrated for her work in tattooing and large-scale murals,has returned to the studio with a renewed devotion to painting. Her previous practices have been focused on media that demand immediacy, endurance, and an acute sensitivity to scale. Calistro now turns inward, embracing the slower, more meditative temporality of oil on canvas.
This return marks not a departure from her established practice, but a profound evolution of it. The discipline honed through tattooing, with its precision of line, its intimacy with the body, and the irrevocable mark, translates into a heightened attentiveness within her paintings. In oils, she encounters a material language that resists finality. The medium’s viscosity, luminosity, and capacity for revision invite a dialogue with time itself. Painting in oil also introduces a slower, more iterative process. It is these qualities of oil that heighten and reflect her themes of loss, grief, and growth.
Pictured:
"Grounded"
30" x 40"
Oil on Canvas
