Taking On the Jungle

The GorillArts Group is a small band of professionals who have been lifelong specialists in our particular branches — branches that form the whole of the media marketing tree. So we planted our own tree in the jungle, with a treehouse for GorillArts, as a place where we could let our imaginations run wild. Before we could even send out smoke signals, our individual allies were already showing up around the campfire to discover what we can do as a team. Let us introduce you to the tribe.

James Gritz

James Gritz has an extensive background in photography, multi-media, advertising, printing, and exhibit design and production. He graduated from Washington University with BA’s in Comparative Religion and English Literature. He has been making photographs for the last four decades. His work speaks of the essence of place and his portraits poignantly communicate the diversity of the human condition.

James has a diversity of business experience. He was the founding president of Gritz-Ritter Graphics, one of Colorado’s finest four-color printing and color separation business. He has run a stock photo agency, Global Pictures, a greeting card business, Global Editions and currently also runs Studio Lucida, a fine art inkjet printing business specializing in limited edition printing for artists and photographers.

His photo work has been published in books and magazines around the world including Outside Magazine, New Age Journal, Worth, Diversion, National Geographic on-line, Audubon, Bodhi Magazine, GEO, Oceans (Harper Collins-contributor and photo editor) and Spirit of the Whale (Voyager Press), The Book of Man (Scribner 1994, book cover) and many others. Recently James was the still photographer on the just-released documentary film Blessings, produced by Chariot Productions and narrated by Richard Gere.

His awards include Gold medal, Art Directors Club of Denver, Best of Division PIA Awards (Underwater Calendar), Nature's Best Magazine", Scala/PDN Black & White Award, Kodak, "Photographers Forum", International Color Awards 2007, Black and White Magazine, June 2008.

His fine art photography has been show in numerous exhibitions.

Jim is one of the founding principles of GorillArts Group and serves as chief sales and social media ape.

"Jim is a brilliant photo-journalist and artful photographer, I have appreciated his work for many years and it continues to surprise and delight me."
—Liza Matthews, Art Director, Shambhala Sun Foundation

"James Gritz has produced an exceptional archive of photographs, formally beautiful and technically always on the cutting edge. Jim was working with digital mediums long before most of the photo community and his gicleé prints are exquisite. I always look forward to seeing whatever I can of Jim's work."
—Caroline Hinkley, Associate Professor of Visual Art, Naropa University

Bob Truemper

How do you condense over thirty years of design innovation in a few words with no portfolio?
Perhaps Bob Truemper's motto embraces a wide swath of this path: "Keeping it simple."

Aside from stacks of magazines and scattered client files you'll often find strewn around Bob's office, you can also expect to find arresting creative work, clean and convincing.

His talents for condensing complexity into powerful communication have earned him a Telly, eight Alfies, thirty Gold Key and Gold Spike Awards, and six Art Directors Awards.

His work in photography, design, video production, and art direction helps his clients achieve striking visibility and memorable distinction in a cluttered world.

Bob is a graduate with honors of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He began his career as an art director for a New Jersey advertising agency. His clients included American Express, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Ross Bicycles and Volkswagen of America.

He moved to Denver to become art director for DENVER Magazine, where he formulated design concepts, supervised the art department, and learned to meet demanding deadlines.

Bob left publishing to become the senior art director and then associate creative director of Griff Advertising in Boulder.

His clients included Humana Hospitals, COBE Labs, Symbion (JARVIK-7 Heart), and Domino's Pizza.

He then joined Henry-Gill, an advertising firm in Denver as senior art director. There his clients included Affiliated Banks, AMI, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Denver Museum of Natural History.

After a successful stint at this respected Denver agency, he started Art Direction, LLC. His clients include Regis University, Coors Light, Allegro Coffee, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Village Inn, Hewlett-Packard, Gerry Baby Products, Teledyne, B. Braun Medical, Maxtor, Norgren, Arabian Horse America, Denver Event Services and Meyer Natural Angus.

Here’s Bob's impressive career, simply summarized: Work with respected clients, generate great ideas, execute masterfully.

Matthew "Fenwick" Ewing

Our Chief Web Monkey began wrangling code at age nine and fell in love. His second passion, the written word, led to an early career in print publication from book and newsletter design through copywriting and illustration. By 1995 he found a happy blend of programming and publication by building websites and went on to earn his B.S. in Information Technology with a Web Management minor.

Fenwick cut his teeth in the dot-com era at TowerRecords.com, the e-commerce site of a 43-store international media retail chain, where he built content management systems, currency conversion tools, and set new company-wide documentation standards with his web application manuals. He left Tower to build complex data analysis and Decision Support Systems for BioMarin Pharmaceutical and GreenPoint Mortgage, developed an intranet with CASE tool integration for the Texas Instruments WLAN Group, and continued building websites for a wide variety of groups with differing website needs such as Jeriko Estate (winery), Santa Rosa Junior College (Staff Resource Center and Staff Development Days websites), Garbed In Time (historical clothing and corsetry), BREATH (The California Smoke-Free Bar Program), the Pharmacy Partnership Project (health advocacy), Annwfn (non-profit forest preserve), and more.

With the maturation of Open Source Content Management Systems, Fenwick re-tooled his web career with a focus on Drupal and WordPress to deliver rich websites built on solid community-supported software. When he's not eyeball-deep in code, Fenwick can be found working in his garden, reading advanced science books for fun, or tending his lastest home-made batch of award-winning meads and wines.

Jonathan Howard