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Sky of blue and sea of greenRingo Starr artwork anchors in at Fascination St.

The art of Ringo Starr will be exhibited Monday, June 27, at Fascination St. Fine Art in Cherry Creek North. Artwork courtesy of Fascination St. Fine Art

When you’re talented in one aspect, you want to express yourself in other

avenues—that’s what you do.-Neal Glaser, Ringo Starr’s art publisher

gallery opening in Denver will be a rare spotlight on the “other” art of rock’s most famous drummer. All of Starr’s profits from the art will be donated to his nonprofit

Lotus Foundation.The stop at Fascination St. pre-

cedes a concert by Starr’s All Starr Band at the Paramount Theater the following night. The gallery show is the only such event scheduled during the band’s 21-city U.S. tour. Although Starr is not expected to attend, Glaser hopes to bring along members of the band, which in-cludes the likes of singer-songwrit-er Todd Rundgren and Gregg Rolie, a former lead singer for Santana.

Starr is among a growing list of top-tier musicians who have tried their hand at fine art—Ron Wood, John Entwistle and Grace Slick, among them. As far as Glaser is concerned, is hard to find musicians who have not taken a mixed-media approach to their artistry.

“When you’re talented in one aspect, you want to express your-self in other avenues—that’s what you do,” the curator said. “There are musicians that are actors and actors who want to be musicians, athletes who put out rap albums. When you’re in the entertainment business, there are no boundaries.”

Starr is also a photographer, by the way.

Much as Beatles music was ceaseless in genre-bending creativ-ity, Starr’s pop art is playful in its no-stroke-barred approach to the canvas. While some sketches re-call perhaps an Andy Warhol take on Picasso, “Right Gun (Knot for Violence),” with its twisted gun barrel, could have been lifted from the Beatles’ psychedelic Revolver cover.

Among Glaser’s favorites is the bizarre “Peace Forest,” which finds a couple of Russian step dancers in

a wonderland overseen by, well, a frog face. Go figure.

“That was a present to me,” Gla-ser said. “I think he was having a lot of fun with that piece, just fooling with different things. Since it was a gift to me, it had to be published.”

In addition to the gallery show, Fascination St. is offering a full-on “Ringo Starr Mile High VIP Experience.” For $4,995, fans get two seats in the first 15 rows at the Paramount, a chance to meet Starr backstage before the show and take a photo with him, and a piece of his autographed artwork, among other mementos.

But even those with shallower pockets—or hole in them, as Starr’s character once professed in Yellow Submarine—are likely to have a fab time at Fascination St.

“People should come out to the gallery. I think they’ll get a big kick out of it,” Glaser said.

Ringo Starr Art Exhibition

June 15 5:30-7:30 p.m.Fascination St. Fine Art

315 Detroit St. in Denver

303-333-1566Visit fascinationstart.

com for information on the “Ringo Starr Mile High VIP Experience.”

Ringo Starr’s “Right Gun (Knot for

Violence)”Artwork courtesy of Fascination St.

Fine Art

Another art “peace”

The Beatles’ story is so rich with music and legend that Ringo Starr’s artwork has been largely lost in the shuffle of Beatlemania.

“They were all done on the

road in hotel rooms,” art publisher Neal Glaser said of the first round of Starr’s work he discovered. “He was having fun and I took a look at them. I thought they were really good and we just decided to do something with them.”

That “something” comes to Cherry Creek North’s Fascination St. Fine Art on Monday, July 27, when Glaser will present a range of Starr’s work, from those peri-ods when the musician has effec-tively traded in his drumsticks for

p a i n t -brushes.

“ H e s t a r t e d out doing faces—he called them ‘my heads’—and then he went on to some abstract pieces, and now he’s do-ing these wooden sculptures,” Glaser said.

Although John Lennon was fa-mously an irrever-ent illustrator, Starr’s work has labored on the B-side of Beatles history. The curated show and