"Journey through Awes" - August 1 - August 29, 2025 - Tointon Gallery

My solo exhibit with 147 works of art spanning 60 years of painting is being held at the Tointon Gallery at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, Colorado. You can find information about the show and the show catalog on the “Works” section of this website. Many of the pieces have already sold but you can contact Will Dillon at the Public Arts Department of the City of Greeley ( will.dillon@greeleygov.com ) for availability of the piece that you want to purchase. Shipping and taxes are not included in the sales price.

Plein Air Artists Colorado (PAAC) 27th Annual National Juried Fine Art Exhibition and Sale!

I am so excited to be juried into PAAC’s 27th Annual Art Exhibition. The show is sponsored by the Gilpin County Arts Association at the Art Gallery in Washington Hall in Central City, Colorado. The show is up from August 25th - October 5th, 2025.

My piece, “Spanish Peaks” oil- 16x20 inches, will be on display.

Estes Valley Plein Air Event - August 21 - 29, 2025

I am honored to be one of the juried artists for the 2025 Estes Valley PLein Air Event in Estes Park, Colorado this August. Artists gather on August 21 to get their canvases, papers, and panels stamped certifying that the art produced was created on-site and not in the artist’s studio prior to the event.

On Saturday, August 23, the artists will gather in downtown Estes along the River Walk and paint works that will be judged and auctioned off in a live auction 3 hours later. On Tuesday, August 26, the artists will gather at the MacGregor Ranch and enjoy a “paint-out!” Finally, after works are turned in and hung at the Art Center of Estes, there will be an Opening Reception on Friday, August 29,

2025 Update!

The past 2 years have been super busy with making art and traveling to see new places to paint. I have been posting all of the new work on my Instagram account @augensteindaniel . Drop b y and see what you might have missed in my new small works in Gouache and larger studio works in Oil.

(Featured image is “The Path Will Appear” Gouache - 7x10 inches - 2024. Painted near Taos, New Mexico.)

Monuments and Canyons Plein Air Event, Colorado National Monument, Fruita, Colorado

I was excited to be one of 24 artists who painted in the Colorado National Monument and McInnis Canyon Natural Conservancy October 1 through October 8, 2023. We were all able to display 6 works for sale at the Carlson Vineyards Tasting Room in downtown Grand Junction, CO. Three of my works sold! It was a great experience!

2023 Governor's Art Show

Every year for the past 30-something years, two of Loveland’s Rotary Clubs have sponsored the Governor’s Art Show featuring Colorado artists. The show is juried by a committee and only 62 Colorado artists were selected for this year’s show held at the Loveland Museum Gallery from May 6 - June 12, 2023.

I have been accepted to this show before and also rejected a few times! So, it is an honor to have been accepted this year!

I have four works that will be hung. Two of the pieces were inspired by the amazing seascapes that Deb and I saw in Maine this past September 2022. I have always wanted to paint in the places where Winslow Homer painted! The other two smaller works are inspired by the scenery in northwestern Colorado near Rangely.

2022 was a great year for travel!

Having finished the camper van in October of 2021, we began to travel and paint! From the time we purchased it till January 2023, we have put 28,000 miles on it!

It has been a wonderful experience! This painting< “Bear Run Above Falling Water” was completed in the front seat of the van while traveling home from Philadelphia at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water.

Augenstein Arts has a VAN!

In March of this year, my wife and I purchased a Ford Transit Cargo Van to convert into a traveling art studio camper! We drove it to Atlanta where my son, Justin, converted and outfitted it with all of our needs for trips around the country to plein air paint! I will start posting works here but also on my Instagram account: @augensteindaniel

June 27, 2020 - Loveland Museum Foote Gallery Show opens today!

This past 4 months has been an unusual experience with the Pandemic impacting our lives. Many art galleries have been closed down and art shows rescheduled or canceled. However, my solo art show “Daniel Augenstein: Educating Vision / Challenging Technique” at the Loveland Museum Gallery in the Foote Gallery opens TODAY!

64 paintings and drawings which illustrate my artistic journey for the past 13 years can be seen. I have written explanations about what my intention was for each piece. Specifically how the work either was educating my “vision” or challenging my technique.

To celebrate the reopening of the Loveland Museum Gallery, all but the small ink and pencil drawings are on sale for 15% discount. Drop in to see what you might want to hang up in your home. The show is up till September 13!

Inktober 2019

It’s October 29, 2019 and I have two more days to go to complete the Inktober challenge of creating an ink drawing every day of the month. This is the second year I attempted this. Last year i didn’t follow any of the optional prompts. This year I did! It was a great learning experience to plan and consider all of the possibilities for each word. I think the quality of my work also improved. Take a look at the work on the Inktober 2019 page of this site.

Surfaces - Above and Below Show is Hung at UNC!

The “Surfaces - Above and Below” art show features 58 works by Travis Krause and Dan Augenstein at the University of Northern Colorado’s Michener Library’s Mari Michener Gallery in Greeley, Colorado from August 26, 2019 through September 27, 2019. Both artists are UNC alumni.

The theme allows the artists to exhibit works that interpret the actual surfaces of their media, the relationship of their subject matter to a physical surface, and the metaphysical meaning that the subject has both with the artist and life in general.

A reception and artists’ talk will be held on Friday, September 13, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm at the gallery.

June 2019! Finally Summer!

Six months ago I had a rotator cuff surgery! Not being able to even lift up large canvases or even operate the saw to frame the pieces finished was a real mental challenge. But as of next week, I am cleared of all restrictions physically! Back to work in earnest!

Travis Krause, my good friend and my daughter’s life-partner, invited me to participate in a two-man show at the University of Northern Colorado in the Library gallery. The show gets hung August 24, 2019 and will hang through the end of September! We have titled the show “Surfaces - Above and Beneath.” The theme can be interpreted in so many ways. We hope to push it along into as many aspects as possible.

Check out Travis’s work on his website: www.traviskrausestudios.com

April 2018

This past four months has passed so quickly.  

The Principled Art Show at the Tointon Gallery in Greeley was hung exhibited and taken down!  We, the artists, feel it was a success!  There were discussions about taking on a third part of this exploration into design.  We'll see if the group decides to pursue it.  I for one really appreciate the incentive to produce that results from having some pending event on the calendar.

I was accepted to show at the 2018 Governor's Art Show!  This is a great honor as over 350 some artists applied and only 56 were accepted.  Some amazingly talented people were rejected.  I'm feeling extremely blessed for this opportunity.

The National Greeley Art Exhibition is happening again in April this year.  I no longer sit on the Board of Directors for this 501 C 3 event.  So other than volunteering to hang the work, I have some freedom to participate as an artist.  I was also honored to be juried into this show again this year.

November 2017 - Almost Winter Again!

Where did summer go?

The early summer began with a great painting trip with fellow Elemental artist, Berndt Savig and his college art buddy, Saul Maurer (www.saulmaurer.com) to western Colorado near where the Colorado River gets ready to pass into Utah.  The quiet beauty was inspirational and I have many studies and paintings that will be showing up in galleries and shows in the near future.

But then, summer got really busy.  And now I check the calendar to realize that fall is here and winter approaches!  

The result is that fall has been a bit like when my palette gets messy!  After the May trip, the summer was filled with an intensive 8 week online training class on how to teach - you guessed it! - an online painting class at Aims Community College.  That didn't leave a lot of time for painting but it did help me be ready for the Fall Hybrid Painting class!  However, some of the painting and critique activities I planned weren't quite right.  Either too extensive or too much time required away from the students' painting.  

To add to the "messy palette," this Fall has brought with it the final steps and painting for the next stage of the "Elemental" art show.  This time we have turned our creative focus onto the principles of design.  Each of the same five artists has produced one work for each of the selected principles.  Again our curator will tie all of the parts together with descriptions and commentary.  As in last time, we have been a bit innovative with what we are considering to be the design components.  But no "spoilers" here!  You'll have to check in when the show opens.

"Principled" will be hung on December 15, 2017 and stay up through February 3, 2018 at the Union Colony Civic Center's Tointon Gallery in Greeley, Colorado.  We are hoping to send the show out to other venues again as we did with the Elemental show.   (For a review of the past show, check out www.elemental2015.com )

Spring 2017

This spring has brought a frantic pace to my work days!  

The jury for the 2017 Governor's Art Show honored me by accepting my work.  The show opens up on April 28th.  Mark Bailey, also showing work and who has received awards at the Governor's Art Show in the past, was selected as the juror for the National Greeley Art Exhibition.  As a board member for the NGAE, I have enjoyed working with Mark.  I chair the scholarship committee for this organization. The NGAE show also opens on April 28th!  So after I award the NGAE scholarship choices and Mark awards the ribbons for the art show, we will make our way to the Governor's Art Show in Loveland.  

The following two days, I will help my co-curators hang the 30th Garden Show at the Madison and Main Gallery (the coop gallery in downtown Greeley).  That show opens on May 5 and will feature work by 11 of my advanced students from Aims Community College.

But wait, spring isn't over yet!  On May 12 and 13, the Columbine Gallery in Loveland will host a "plein air" painting event.  The works will be hung wet on a "clothes line" and sold directly to visitors!  I will be painting in the garden both of those days.  www.columbinegallery.com

On the following Saturday, May 20, the Governor's Art Show will have its annual Plein Air Event.  These paintings will be auctioned off later that day at 3:30PM at the Rialto Theater at 222 E. 4th Street, Loveland.  I will also be painting in that event.  www.governorsartshow.org

Along with all of these activities, I am still working on the pieces for the Principled Art Show due to hang in December 2017 at the Union Colony Civic Center in downtown Greeley.

Hope you will check out these events!

-Dan