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.

Alfredo Nevarez

Alfredo has been in the graphic arts field for most of his life. Before becoming a Web Developer, he was working in Layout design and even dabbled with Hypercard. He is now building web sites using Drupal, Flash and your run of the mill CSS / XHTML programming. Alfredo got his Bachelor's in Interactive Media Design from the Art Institute of Denver and further developed his skills by becoming a certified Professional with Apple. He's a former instructor at a few Apple Stores, plus a former Drupal Instructor at the Boulder Digital Arts Center, Alfredo now uses his skills in "the real world" to create dynamic web sites and other interactive media programs.

Jonathan Howard