Cold war horse created by gipe as a visible symbol of the danger that rocky flats workers faced in the decades before the plants closure in the 1990s had been looking for a home since gipe.

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Sunday october 18 2015 was a ceremony commemorating artist jeff gipes cold war horse he prepared the horse for the 25th anniversary of the fbi raid on rocky flats event at the arvada center in june 2014. Cold war horse is a creepy powerful thought provoking statue in the expanding suburbs of western arvada co northwest of denver. The large horse sculpture wears a red hazmat suit goggles and a gas mask to protect it.

When artist jeff gipe talks about his sculpture cold war horse a renegade art piece he created to protest the construction of a toll road and housing development near the former plutonium plant and superfund site rocky flats it sounds as though hes reading from the pages of a john grisham novel. The setting and expanding suburbs is part of the reason it is displayed here. The sculpture was pulled out of the ground with a truck then it was beaten with a sledgehammer gipe wrote in an e mail.

Its a beautiful part of the denver metro area at the base of the front range mountains. The damage is really extensive cold war horse created by gipe as a visible symbol of the danger that rocky flats workers faced in the decades before the plants closure in the 1990s had been looking for a home since gipe finished it in december 2013. Tang san cai horse chinese art pottery figurine tanbrown collectible vintage.

A striking example of conceptual realism and of political art cold war horse is a life sized depiction of a horse made of fiberglass steel and resin that gipe sculpted from the ground up.