House of Cards - Preview Thursday

Artist Denise Weaver Ross opens a one-person show—“Selections from the House of Cards”—on August 4 at Jana’s RedRoom in Las Vegas’ Arts Factory. In 2016, Denise won “Best-in-Show” in the Las Vegas International Juried Art Competition. The winning artwork, “The Jacks of Jupiter” will be shown along with a dozen of the other pieces from her House of Cards Series.

The series reimagines a deck of cards in large-scale works on paper. Weaver Ross spent three years creating the vibrantly colored images: 52 cards plus four jokers/wild cards. The 26 x 40-inch images layer cultural, political, historical and mystical references. Clubs become trees, spades explore bones and fossils, and diamonds transform in to constellations and celestial bodies, and hearts draw inspiration from Egyptian Tomb paintings and the Tarot.