Museum of Outdoor Arts
Greenwood Village, Colorado
MOA is an outdoor museum. It has an outdoor art collection of nearly 100 pieces of art, ranging from sculpture to murals. We also host a variety of art events.
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Artist: Mario Rivoli (1943-2021)
Mario was born in New York City in 1943. Upon graduation from the High School of Industrial Arts he took a job with a real estate company drafting images of apartment layouts. A talented but uninterested draftsman, Mario quit after a week, and spent the next 60 years supporting himself as an artist and dealer in antiques and jewelry.
While still living in New York in the 1970s, Mario received several commissions to paint murals in Denver, and these trips eventually led to his relocation there.
Despite his skill as a painter and draftsman, Mario's favored medium was assemblage. He collected buttons, game pieces, and every other kind of small object and liberally worked them into the lavish decoration of anything - from furniture to clothing to jewelry.
He showed his elaborate pieces in galleries across the country, including Julie's Artisan's Gallery in New York City, Pismo Gallery in Denver, as well as Lewis Bobrick Antiques in Denver. For years Mario participated in the World Wide Antique Show in Denver as well as other national antique shows. He also operated his own antique shop, Finders Keepers, in Denver, where he would sell his artwork along with antiques.
Mario also revived the home-craft of beaded flower making, and took the art form to a new level of creativity and excellence in the past twenty years.
Mario's work is in many public and private collections. Most recently (2019-2020) some of his clothing pieces were featured in "Off the Wall: American Art to Wear" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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