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Article: ART WITH AN EDGE PROVOCATIVE WES MAGYAR EXPLORES BRAVE NEW WORLDS MAGYAR: GALLERY OWNER LIKES PAINTER'S 'ALMOST CLASSICAL APPROACH'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 29, 2002
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Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
When Denver painter Wes Magyar was juried into the 2001 Cherry Creek Arts Festival, friends asked him whether he was going to change his style.
``They said my work was too edgy for that show,'' says Magyar, who has shown several series of his figural pieces at Pirate a Contemporary Art Oasis. ``I decided to put it in.''
And it sold, including one piece of the seven he exhibited, to the Denver Art Museum.
Magyar, who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1998, is on the roster of the 2002 festival, invited back because he won one of three juror's awards last year. But he ...