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Dmitri Obergfell
The Idiot's Defense | Project Room 7 Marzo - 2 Mayo 2026 Chess match at the gallery: Thursday, April 9, 6–8 PM David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present The Idiot’s Defense , by Denver, CO-based artist Dmitri Obergfell. Obergfell presents a series of sculptures––including vases, figural sculpture, smoking paraphernalia, and a chess set––set atop clear pedestals and custom wood furniture.... Leer más -
Sylvia Fernández
The Illusion of Paradise 7 Marzo - 2 Mayo 2026 Featuring stretched paintings mounted back-to-back and suspended throughout the Main Gallery, themes of paradise as an emotional and physical territory, nature as solace, and the potential for optimism are among the many paths laid out in The Illusion of Paradise . Tracing our attention over a ghostly, shadow-cast embrace, whispers... Leer más -
Susan Wick
More by Wick | Project Room 17 Enero - 21 Febrero 2026 For this vibrant exhibition, the twin elements of creation and discovery are imbued into each of the works, showcasing Wick’s adept sense of composition and confident approach to symbolism, balancing surprise and delight. Working within her visual vocabulary—including motifs such as birds, domesticity, travel, mortality, and social constructs of gender—More... Leer más -
Emily Joyce
Deal, or, How I Became Radioactive 17 Enero - 21 Febrero 2026 In Deal, or, How I Became Radioactive California-based artist Emily Joyce uses geometric abstraction to explore hidden systems, art history, and games, bursting to the surface in this expansive yet sharply focused exhibition. Joyce investigates systems and connections: natural, mathematical, scientific, and philosophical. Explored through her special brand of visual... Leer más
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Gustav Hamilton
Forgot I left you here 25 Octubre - 13 Diciembre 2025 Forgot I left you here presents Hamilton’s new body of acrylic on panel paintings with glazed ceramic inlays in handmade wood frames showcase the artist’s painterly and sculptural skills. With a long history of working with ceramic materials, Hamilton’s current treatment of the material spans 2D and 3D realms. Much... Leer más -
Sarah Allwine
Something for the Familiar | Project Room 25 Octubre - 13 Diciembre 2025 David B. Smith Gallery is delighted to welcome Brooklyn, NY-based artist Sarah Allwine for her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Something for the Familiar . Featuring intricately glazed ceramic sculptural works that speak to the present post-Internet mentality, combining a mash up of early 2000’s references alongside ominous forest... Leer más -
Laura Ball
The sun was glad to see my shadow 31 Mayo - 12 Julio 2025 For her 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, Ball leans away from the fantastical amalgamated creatures she has become known for, instead focusing on imagined landscapes and otherworldly environments. With landscapes at the forefront, Ball is able to draw the viewer’s attention to spatial depth, mark-making, brush strokes, and color... Leer más -
Gretchen Marie Schaefer
Enduring Gravity | Project Room 31 Mayo - 12 Julio 2025 In her sculptures, performances, and works on paper, rocks serve as the entry point of Schaefer’s work. Ubiquitous and elemental, rocks speak to physics and the natural world while carrying multiple metaphorical interpretations. Firstly, rocks invoke the ground or Earth and its counterpart the moon. Both celestial bodies, bound by... Leer más
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Sarah McKenzie
Displays of Power 29 Marzo - 3 Mayo 2025 Sarah McKenzie is known for her paintings that analyze the aesthetics of institutions, often esteemed art venues, which offer a lens into the psychology of architecture. Through their design, buildings communicate the values of the society in which they were created. Through myriad elements, architecture reflects social codes and priorities—guiding,... Leer más -
Aitor Lajarin-Encina
Open Rooms | Project Room 29 Marzo - 3 Mayo 2025 In keeping with his interest in philosophical ruminations about life, interpersonal relationships, the environment, and the conventions of painting itself, Open Rooms serves as a visual summary of recurrent themes in Lajarin-Encina’s practice of recent years. His familiar yet enigmatic scenes and figures inspire curiosity, delight, and a hint of... Leer más -
Last Year's Wonders All Surpassed
Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David 23 Enero - 22 Febrero 2025 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present Last Year’s Wonders All Surpassed , a collaborative exhibition by Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David. The exhibition, whose title is drawn from the advertising phrases of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, examines the place of the Filipino cowboy on the world stage.... Leer más -
Esteban Cabeza de Baca & Heidi Howard
Night & Day Dreams 22 Agosto - 28 Septiembre 2024 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present Night & Day Dreams , a collaborative exhibition by New York-based artists Heidi Howard and Esteban Cabeza de Baca. Featuring paintings made individually and collaboratively by the artist couple, poetic and deeply resonant messages on human connection to celestial bodies, landscape, and... Leer más
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Miguel Arzabe, Jessica Cannon, Saskia Fleishman, and Michelle A M Miller
Desire Lines 25 Mayo - 13 Julio 2024 CURATED BY KATE MOTHES Leer más -
Paolo Arao
Devotion 13 Abril - 11 Mayo 2024 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to announce Devotion by Paolo Arao, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Presented in the Main Gallery and Project Room, Devotion features new loom and textile works alongside collaborative totemic sculptures. The concept of devotion, the invisible connective tissue woven throughout experience,... Leer más -
Susan Wick
Through an Open Frame 24 Febrero - 30 Marzo 2024 David B. Smith Gallery is honored to present Through an Open Frame , the first solo exhibition at the gallery by the esteemed Denver and San Francisco-based artist Susan Wick. The exhibition, co-curated with Adam Gildar, celebrates Wick’s highly imaginative 50-year journey in art. The symbols Wick employs in her... Leer más -
Matthew Brandt & Christine Nguyen
Garden Pictures | Project Room 20 Enero - 17 Febrero 2024 David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to present Garden Pictures , a special collaboration between Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Brandt and Denver-based artist Christine Nguyen. In their collaboration, Brandt and Nguyen compiled, manipulated, and layered images taken of their home gardens to produce vibrant photo collages that hark back to... Leer más
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Christine Nguyen & Chris Oatey
Indexing Nature 20 Enero - 17 Febrero 2024 Presented in the Main Gallery, Indexing Nature will feature large-scale works on paper that each artist created in unique conversation with both natural and manmade environmental factors. Sunflowers harvested in late summer are the focus of Christine Nguyen’s mixed-media cyanotypes. Stemming from her Stars, Constellations, and Sunflowers series, an ongoing... Leer más -
Anthony Sonnenberg
In A Time of Make Believe | Project Room 3 Noviembre - 16 Diciembre 2023 In a Time of Make Believe features porcelain and stoneware sculptures, within whose accumulated layers contain found ceramic tchotchkes. Emblems of the material world, Sonnenberg’s aesthetic is one of excess and delight, while alluding to the hidden, obscured, or concealed. Encased in a thick exterior shell of crackled porcelain, Sonnenberg’s... Leer más -
Paul Jacobsen
Spatial Vision 3 Noviembre - 16 Diciembre 2023 David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce Spatial Vision , by New York-based artist Paul Jacobsen. This show builds on two distinct art movements: Romanticism and Minimalism, and is soaked in deep purples, indigos, violets, and oranges, and studded with his signature lens flares. Jacobsen’s adept technical skills shine... Leer más -
Margarita Cabrera
“Security” ... “Seguridad” ...“Seguridad”
“Control” ... “Control” ... “Control”
“Safety” ... “Protección” ... “Protección”
”Power” ... “Poder” ... “Poder“ 8 Septiembre - 20 Octubre 2023 For her debut with the gallery, Cabrera’s exhibition will present selected sculptures and works on paper from three ongoing series. Crucial topics surrounding personhood, citizenship, and the right to exist are expressed with gestures of beauty and humor, invoking the complexity of the wrought U.S. immigration system. In her presentation... Leer más
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Leon Benn
Dead Leaves 16 Junio - 12 Agosto 2023 Drenched in gentle sunbeams, the glow of what Benn calls “heavenly light” illuminates the subjects of each painting. Plants—flowers, vines, weeds, and pollinators alike—are thrust into the spotlight where they take on psychedelic, atmospheric qualities. With background and foreground starkly contrasted by use of blurring effects and the warm tones... Leer más -
Justin Favela
Ghostin' | Project Room 16 Junio - 12 Agosto 2023 Dovetailing with two other large scale installations opening in Denver this summer, Favela returns to the gallery for his second solo exhibition wherein he will transform the project room into an immersive, piñata-style interior of a lowrider. Alluding to celebration and Mexican culture, Justin Favela’s iconic style uses traditional piñata... Leer más -
Gabriel Sanchez
They Devoured Everything 10 Marzo - 1 Mayo 2023 Sanchez's intimate portrait-focused paintings distill his experience as a Cuban-American artist by capturing the raw emotional reality of a generation of young Cubans steeped in struggle. There is palpable affection in the rendering of Sanchez's subjects, one that carefully exposes the vulnerability and strength of people whose very survival is... Leer más -
Laura Ball
Cosmos 20 Enero - 25 Febrero 2023 Throughout human history there have been recurring themes linked to animism. Across disparate cultures, spanning millennia, metaphors reflecting the psyche and the dark reaches of the galaxy have been linked to beasts great and small. Tapping into the collective unconscious, Ball draws inspiration from the primordial, dreamlike state of mind... Leer más
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Letitia Quesenberry
Future Maybe 4 Noviembre - 17 Diciembre 2022 Future Maybe features the newest permutations in Quesenberry’s As of Yet series, an expansive collection of mixed media images set into handmade wooden frames that suggest the manufactured white square format of Polaroid film. Quesenberry uses the beloved format of instant photography as a framing device for viewing her own... Leer más -
Linda Nguyen Lopez
ʎpoqǝɯos | Project Room 4 Noviembre - 17 Diciembre 2022 Meticulously hand-built via hundreds of stained porcelain and glazed earthenware components individually attached to create each work, Lopez’s Furries are an amalgamation of inventive form, playfulness, and material mastery. Though chemically sim ilar to stone, Lopez’s colorful Furries appear at first to be soft or squishy objects that have been... Leer más -
Cody Hudson
What Is Time Stretching And When Would You Use It? 26 Agosto - 15 Octubre 2022 Blending concepts from drastically different modes of artistic creation, Hudson borrows the term “time stretch” from music production lingo, where it is used to refer to adjusting the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch. Working from a cache of abstract shapes, Hudson adjusts scale and... Leer más -
Maryam Yousif
Mishwar | Project Room 26 Agosto - 15 Octubre 2022 Mishwar, an Arabic word that translates to journey or short trip, speaks to the journey through time Yousif's work takes as it lovingly reinterprets timeless relics. Charismatic and colorful, Yousif draws upon devotional artifacts of the ancient world which she modernizes with a playful contemporary flare. Her work often features... Leer más
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Hangama Amiri
Henna Night/ Shabe Kheena 29 Abril - 18 Junio 2022 In this new body of work, Amiri sensitively explores the complex interior landscapes of domestic spaces. Through imagery that honors close bonds and togetherness, she places particular emphasis on women within these spaces, a subtle form of resistance against the reality of limited rights and visibility of women in Afghanistan... Leer más -
Jason Middlebrook
Skies 11 Marzo - 9 Abril 2022 Based on skyscapes observed during his travels and throughout a lifetime living in various locations around the United States, memories of transitional skies overhead connect to specific experiences. In this way, infinite variations of the sky are interpreted and abstracted across works, taking form via cues in color, form, and... Leer más -
Emily Joyce
RGBs and See I’m Okays | Project Room 11 Marzo - 9 Abril 2022 Evocative in imagery and language, Joyce balances the personal and cathartic against the potential of subjective interpretation. Humor and tempo are touchstones of Emily Joyce's artistic sensibility, which she uses to create visual rhythm across works. Combining moments of visual abstraction with poetics, RGBs and See I'm Okays represents Joyce's... Leer más -
Leon Benn
Nurse Logs 21 Enero - 26 Febrero 2022 In the forest, as a fallen tree decomposes it offers plentiful resources that sustain other life as its nutrients are returned and recycled back into the ecosystem. Through natural processes of generation and destruction balance is maintained in the forest, where the smallest organisms such as fungi, bacteria, and moss,... Leer más
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Liz Nielsen
Rolling Aura | Project Room 21 Enero - 26 Febrero 2022 Abstracted landscapes serve as entry point to poetic and philosophical discussion. Appearing as a snippet in time, Nielsen's glowing landscapes speak to a state of being that is ever-changing. Where natural landscapes are concerned, what may physically exist in the current moment is the sum of countless factors and chance... Leer más -
Anna Valdez
New Patterns 30 Noviembre 2021 - 15 Enero 2022 Through both staged and chance arrangements in her studio, Valdez creates a sense of intimacy with viewers, set to the backdrop of her vast collection of ornate textiles and lush potted plants. Various objects in her paintings act as both personal symbol and chance captured moment, offering a playful glimpse... Leer más -
Robert Burnier
Song Cycle 21 Octubre - 24 Noviembre 2021 About this body of work Burnier writes: The folded and compressed forms of the works in this exhibition retain a history of their own becoming -- the colors in ancient African, Mediterranean and Mesopotamian objects yield inspiration. But the work has its demands, as do I, a communion of what... Leer más -
Sarah McKenzie
Interim | Project Room 21 Octubre - 24 Noviembre 2021 At first glance, these works don't appear to directly address the COVID-19 pandemic, but McKenzie sees her paintings as reflective of the cultural moment that we have collectively experienced: a period of transition and uncertainty, characterized by feelings of isolation, suspension, grief, and longing Leer más
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Don Stinson
The Anvil and Other Works 20 Agosto - 25 Septiembre 2021 After decades spent proximal to Colorado’s mountainous Continental Divide, Stinson’s recent move to Des Moines, Iowa has offered insight into the Midwest’s major geographical divide: the Mississippi River. Depictions of contemporary Americana have maintained their place as the center of focus, with Stinson’s iconic retro gas stations and sweeping landscapes... Leer más -
David B. Smith (Brooklyn, NY)
Same but Different 15 Mayo - 26 Junio 2021 What started as a humorous recognition by gallerist and artist that they share the same name led to broader questions: What is self? What if each of us contains and shares many selves? What if other worlds existed where we can observe these selves taking actions we never made, almost... Leer más -
Amy Boone-McCreesh and Amber Cobb
Negotiating Spaces 27 Marzo - 1 Mayo 2021 Physical space, punctuated by interior design and encased by architecture, draws attention to the people and things we surround ourselves with. As living bodies move past each other, negotiations are made. Day in and day out we are reflected in our selections. We may better understand ourselves through these choices... Leer más -
Gustav Hamilton
A Sucker for the Souvenir | Project Room 27 Marzo - 1 Mayo 2021 A ubiquitous material often understood as utilitarian and three-dimensional, the assumption of ceramic as best suited to function offers opportunity for exploration. Hamilton’s interest in creating what he calls “ceramics about ceramics” doubles as a form of self-portraiture, often including scenes of his native Midwestern landscapes, Western art influences, and... Leer más
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Brian Rattiner
Hummingbird 13 Febrero - 20 Marzo 2021 Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Rattiner’s connection to nature is splendidly nuanced. Originating from a densely populated cityscape, regular trips to his family’s bungalow colony in the Catskills were an essential part of Rattiner’s childhood. Years later, during the tumultuous months of 2020, extended stays at the colony... Leer más -
Christine Nguyen
Lightness Within the Cosmic Universe | Project Room 13 Febrero - 20 Marzo 2021 Manifesting in a variety of experimental photographic processes and finished with glittering salt formations, Christine Nguyen’s personal explorations into nature’s mysterious forms and structures beautifully mirror thought patterns and internal landscapes. In Lightness Within the Cosmic Universe , Nguyen invites viewers to pause and reflect on the tiniest details of... Leer más -
Booth B4
Laura Ball, Leon Benn, Justin Favela, Linda Nguyen Lopez, & Liz Nielsen 9 Octubre - 7 Noviembre 2020 For the past 10 years, participation in international art fairs has been an integral part of David B. Smith Gallery’s programming. While many fairs have pivoted to a digital format in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the experience of moving through a curated booth is lost. With Booth B4... Leer más -
Chris Oatey
Aerial Perspective | Project Room 9 Octubre - 7 Noviembre 2020 The works in Aerial Perspective are the result of disparate yet connected sites of production. For example, Oatey drives over large swaths of paper in parking lots, using the car’s mass to index cracks, potholes and patterns of weathering. Back in the studio, one process informs another, resulting in intersections... Leer más
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Letitia Quesenberry
Somewhere in the Future I am Remembering Today 8 Agosto - 25 Septiembre 2020 In her inaugural exhibition with the gallery, Quesenberry’s visually stunning, labor intensive works feature a wide range of media. From hypnotic pulsing light boxes to tinted resin wall works inspired by SX70 Polaroid film, dazzling colors, pattern, and symbol take on mesmeric qualities. Adept in the language of abstraction, Quesenberry... Leer más -
Paul Jacobsen
Spiritual Surveillance 13 Junio - 1 Agosto 2020 Posed as a complicated modern narrative, Spiritual Surveillance celebrates the awesome beauty of sweeping canyons and saluting Joshua trees, while nodding to the psychological imprint digital technology leaves on our memory and long-term interpretation of images. Embedded in the works is the recognition of nature’s immense power in contrast to... Leer más -
Paolo Arao
Never Too Much | Project Room 27 Marzo - 2 Mayo 2020 Fabric, a material that seemingly begs for human touch, is something we all have a level of familiarity with. Whether it is clothing worn or removed from the body, commercially bought, hand dyed, or recycled weathered canvas, Arao harnesses the tactility and multiple interpretations of fabric, often alluding to its... Leer más -
Liz Miller
Structural Paradigms 27 Marzo - 2 Mayo 2020 Laborious construction and an adept compositional sense are the hallmarks of Liz Miller’s quasi-architectural works, effortlessly giving rise to awe and curiosity. In her sculptural wall works, Miller’s coiled and bound loops of patterned cords and ropes tumble in, out, and over each other in harmonious disarray. As is indicative... Leer más
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Sarah McKenzie
Sanctum 7 Febrero - 14 Marzo 2020 In Sanctum , Sarah McKenzie’s third solo exhibition with David B. Smith Gallery, the artist presents the newest works in her ongoing White Walls series. Through her paintings of museum and gallery interiors, McKenzie examines the architecture of exhibition space and the role it plays in framing and orienting our... Leer más -
David McDonalad
Project Room | Montello 7 Febrero - 14 Marzo 2020 David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to present Montello , a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist David McDonald. While steeped in stillness and solitude at The Montello Foundation, a remote Nevadan artist residency, David McDonald spent two weeks in the summer of 2019 creating the five... Leer más -
Joel Swanson
Eight-and-a-Half-by-Eleven 13 Diciembre 2019 - 18 Enero 2020 David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce Denver-based artist Joel Swanson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Eight-and-a-Half-by-Eleven . Recognized as both ubiquitous yet shaped by systems of class and privilege, language’s unwavering written and spoken rules are inevitably internalized in the individual. From youth, the weight of the... Leer más -
Cody Hudson
I Came Home | Project Room 13 Diciembre 2019 - 18 Enero 2020 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present I Came Home , a solo exhibition of sixteen new paintings and powder coated steel sculptures by Chicago-based artist Cody Hudson. In his introductory presentation with the gallery, Hudson’s signature abstract color-block style effortlessly transcends media, featuring evocative shapes and bold use... Leer más
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Christopher Russell
The Explorers 18 Octubre - 11 Noviembre 2019 Russell’s process-intensive works begin with photographing scenes from nature that he intentionally obscures with sheer fabrics, effectively destroying what would otherwise serve as a documentative image. Into these hazy, abstracted fields Russell laboriously scratches intricate designs into the emulsion of the printed image, adding paint to some areas. The result... Leer más -
Shantell Martin
Underlined 27 Septiembre - 2 Noviembre 2019 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present Underlined , a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Shantell Martin. Born in London, Martin’s reputation as a visual artist, designer, and cultural influencer is recognized around the globe. A textbook mover and shaker, Martin transcends media, bringing energy and authenticity to... Leer más -
Adam Milner
If digging something up makes it true, what does burying do? | Project Room 27 Septiembre - 2 Noviembre 2019 Returning for his third solo exhibition with David B. Smith Gallery, Denver-born, Brooklyn-based artist Adam Milner continues his dialog with the various ways we keep and let go of the things around us. Milner’s deeply personal practice attempts to reconcile the things in his life through gestures of clinging, containing,... Leer más -
Linda Nguyen Lopez
Stranger 16 Agosto - 14 Septiembre 2019 Focused primarily in sculptural ceramics, Lopez’s curious and colorful forms have received national and international acclaim. In Stranger , Lopez considers the concepts of object and other. Presented in vibrant gradients of color, ceramic sculptures rear their bulbous heads as hundreds of porcelain fingers endlessly pour over one another as... Leer más
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Secret Love Collective
Gay Renaissance | Project Room 16 Agosto - 14 Septiembre 2019 Bounding with vibrantly colored handmade pom poms, carefully stitched banners, and mound upon mound of soft sculpture, Gay Renaissance brings a sense of maximalist celebration to the gallery’s Project Room. Impervious to, or perhaps in spite of increasing societal and political divisiveness, Secret Love Collective unapologetically infuses radical love into... Leer más -
Leon Benn
Lion in the Kitchen 28 Junio - 27 Julio 2019 After spending a season indoors with mind adrift on the frozen winds of the East Coast winter, Benn found refuge in the pages of the Sunday comics. In what he calls a form of “poetic freestyle,” commonplace conditions of modern living such as artificial light, parking lots, and plastic-wrapped groceries... Leer más -
Su Su
Su Su: Extrusion Paintings | Project Room 28 Junio - 27 Julio 2019 Su Su continues her dialog with visual culture through the lens of her Chinese-American heritage. Borrowing pop culture imagery culled from global corporations such as Disney and Del Monte or iconic Western art imagery via Vincent Van Gogh, Su Su fluidly deconstructs and blends loaded aesthetics, altering corresponding cultural meaning.... Leer más -
Zach Reini
Not Much Will Change When I'm Gone 17 Mayo - 15 Junio 2019 For his debut with the gallery, Reini will present a diverse array of works ranging from shaped canvas panels to found object assemblage. Rendered in his meticulously crafted style, he takes inspiration from cultural ephemera of the ‘90s, namely, Pogs. Envisioned as the embodiment of disposable trends, imagery, color palette,... Leer más
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Sierra Montoya Barela
Living Room | Project Room 17 Mayo - 15 Junio 2019 In her latest body of work, Montoya Barela delves into questions of perspective, traditional representation, still life, and symbolism. Articulated in four substantial works, impossible spaces where laws of physical matter are broken and reconstructed yield familiar yet strange results. In these dreamlike spaces, Montoya Barela juxtaposes detailed textures with... Leer más -
Justin Favela
Re/Presenting México: José María Velasco and the Politics of Paper 29 Marzo - 4 Mayo 2019 Continuing his dialogue with the works of Mexican landscape painter José María Velasco, row by row, Favela meticulously replicates Velasco’s iconic works in strips of brightly colored tissue paper. Velasco, recognized as one of Mexico’s most prominent artists of the late 19 th century, leaves behind a legacy of Mexican... Leer más -
Mikayla Whitmore
Magic Circle | Project Room 29 Marzo - 4 Mayo 2019 Magic Circle taps into the lore of Western landscapes mingled with the art historical symbolism of the mirror and the shape of the circle. Through her use of light and reflection Whitmore alludes to the mirage, the storied symbol of salvation, particularly when one is lost in the desert. An... Leer más -
Emily Joyce
Then Where Sun When There 15 Febrero - 16 Marzo 2019 In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Joyce presents a new body of paintings that playfully synthesizes the languages of contemporary abstraction and mathematics. Reaching across centuries of human accomplishment to artists and thinkers who initially identified sacred geometric patterns and systems, inspiration for Joyce flips between the immediate... Leer más
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Justine Hill
Bookends | Project Room 15 Febrero - 16 Marzo 2019 Bookends tests the boundaries of the rectangular canvas, challenging what Hill views as the three classic component parts of paintings: figure, landscape, and background. Identified as independent from one another yet essential to the whole, the perimeter of each element is both distanced and linked by negative space. Eluding containment,... Leer más -
Laura Ball
Chimera 14 Diciembre 2018 - 2 Febrero 2019 The Chimera, as known in ancient lore and modern science, is a beast that holds the genetic material of two separate entities. As described by Ball, “The creatures that crawl out of this mystic muck, the Chimeras, grow up from twisting masses of genetically different tissues, as mutations and irregularities... Leer más -
Dennis Cooper, M. Page Greene, Christopher Russell, sweaterqueens, and Bobbi Woods
Teeth & Consequence | Project Room 12 Octubre - 11 Noviembre 2018 Language develops at such a rate that words enter wide usage only to disappear in a few years, if not months. This speed has defined the rate at which culture moves and evolves. Centuries-long struggles enter political discussion only to have their participants made into caricatures—piteous by the left and... Leer más -
Bruno Novelli
Turmalinas No Céu 29 Junio - 28 Julio 2018 Novelli expands on his visual language defined by luscious colors, tropical imagery, and collage-like layered compositions. Roughly translating to “tourmaline sky,” Turmalinas No Céu explores what Novelli terms a “tropical delirium,” a type of aesthetic utopia where imagery imbued with personal meaning materializes into paradisiac landscapes. Exotic and yet familiarly... Leer más
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Mike Womack
Love Letters to Rocks 18 Mayo - 16 Junio 2018 Love Letters to Rocks employs reductive abstraction as a method to explore futility in representation paintings as well as a means to display the subject of devotion, rocks. According to Womack, true depiction is a problematic gesture and “the separation between an image and the essential truth of an object/being... Leer más -
Whitney Hubbs
Shutter Stutter | Project Room 18 Mayo - 16 Junio 2018 Los Angeles-based artist Whitney Hubbs will show large photographic works featuring folded, pleated, and cinched texture-rich fabrics and household materials, posed alongside and between human bodies. Light and shadow, performativity and spectator, shape and color, each play a starring role when reading and absorbing her works. The human form is... Leer más -
Liz Nielsen and Dylan Gebbia-Richards
6 Abril - 12 Mayo 2018 This exhibition provides two unique interpretations of landscape, disparate in medium but equal in their pursuit of transcendence for artist and audience. Nielsen and Gebbia-Richards achieve something exotic, yet familar and in defiance of scale they depict infinite worlds—simultaneously macro and micro. These works evoke a geometry, allowing the viewer... Leer más -
Michelle Blade
Night Visions | Project Room 6 Abril - 12 Mayo 2018 Featuring a new body of ethereal ink paintings, Blade explores layers of interior and exterior landscapes and their correlating psychologies. Inspired by humanity and the spectacular in nature, Blade takes cues from German Expressionism as well as the changing conditions of her own lived experience. The human element is a... Leer más
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Robert Burnier & Justine Hill
19 Enero - 24 Febrero 2018 Robert Burnier’s folded and twisted aluminum wall sculptures draw attention to spatial relationships and corresponding visual language, with meaning inadvertently following form. Each of Burnier’s works are titled in the manufactured utopian language Esperanto, which was conceived in the late 19th century in what is now Poland, in order to... Leer más -
Tobias Fike
Stages | Project Room 19 Enero - 24 Febrero 2018 This work, like much of Fike’s oeuvre, offers full sensory experience incorporating sight and sound elements in performative collage. Stages began with the image: light casting shadows of trees through the windows of his family’s home, that of his father’s childhood. This meditation of those fleeting moments provides a multi-layered... Leer más -
Leon Benn
Fields of Vision 6 Octubre - 4 Noviembre 2017 Inspired by his deeply rooted relationship with nature, in particular the forests and coastlines surrounding his studio in Portland, ME, Benn’s Fields of Vision come in and out of focus, blending aesthetic and conceptual elements into a distinctly textured presentness. The process involved in creating these works is key, starting... Leer más -
Laura Shill
Separation Perfected | Project Room 6 Octubre - 4 Noviembre 2017 Separation Perfected constructs a contemporary altarpiece to the omniscient presence in the lives of contemporary humans—the smart phone. In the face of corrupt systems and uncertain times, the masses find solace in a curated and virtual reality. Named for the first chapter in Guy Debord’s prescient 1967 text The Society... Leer más
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Joel Swanson
Sticks & Stones 8 Agosto - 16 Septiembre 2017 Sticks & Stones addresses language as a political act. Using words, phrases, and symbols, this exhibition makes material the typically intangible, but very real, use of language by public figures in today’s politics and journalism. Swanson produces visual acts that subvert contemporary power structures and acknowledge a fluidity of interpretation... Leer más -
Adam Milner
Desirable Objects 16 Junio - 22 Julio 2017 With works that contemplate corporeality and shared space between bodies, Milner uses blood, flowers, hair, belly button lint, false eyelashes to close gaps between natural and artificial, human and non-human, inside and outside. The works, comprised of rigorously collected and mined material from himself, friends, strangers, and other living things,... Leer más -
Cabinet
Project Room | curated by Adam Milner 16 Junio - 22 Julio 2017 Cabinet is a space for things. Over one hundred works mingle and share the space, creating new narratives and frameworks which the viewer must actively sort through. The exhibition is simultaneously intimate and sprawling, modest and monumental. Works point to pasts and futures: at times, an object serves as an... Leer más -
Don Stinson
What Lies Beneath 5 Mayo - 3 Junio 2017 An established and respected figure amongst artists, aficionados, and critics of the American landscape tradition alike, Stinson’s panoramas of endless skies and sweeping fields serve as both detailed documentation of a changing landscape as well as commentary on a culture fixated on progress. As technically masterful as it is conceptually... Leer más
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Chris Oatey & Dylan Gebbia-Richards
20 Enero - 18 Febrero 2017 At its surface, this pairing juxtaposes high contrast black-and-white drawings and overly saturated wax panels, but together these works delve into human perception of nature and the interplay between entropy and order. In this exhibition, each artist has dedicated himself to a single medium—carbon on paper for Chris Oatey and... Leer más -
Donald Fodness
Duets | Project Room 20 Enero - 18 Febrero 2017 Fodness explores multiple facets of his interdisciplinary practice including drawing and sculpture. He embraces a latent grotesqueness in pop culture and our current social milieu through his found-object drawings and utilizes elements of low culture and elevates ubiquitous objects—novelty coffee mugs, record album covers, movie posters—through doodles and assemblage. His... Leer más -
Bobbi Woods
Educated Guess | Project Room 14 Octubre - 19 Noviembre 2016 David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present Bobbi Woods’ first exhibition in Denver, Educated Guess , featuring works in our Project Room that present a survey of new and recent examples of her practice of obscuring and manipulating American film promotional posters. Through her intervention of tearing, folding, and... Leer más -
Sarah McKenzie
White Walls 9 Septiembre - 8 Octubre 2016 McKenzie continues her exploration of architectural spaces, but enters into the austere walls of art world spaces: art fair tents, galleries, and museums. White Walls enters into those unnoticed angles of presumably hallowed art halls confronting their assumed simplicity in order to explore their architectural and conceptual complexity. McKenzie grants... Leer más
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Jason Middlebrook
Drawing Time 3 Agosto - 3 Septiembre 2016 Middlebrook has long explored man’s complex relationship with nature by painting bright abstractions across the surface of cut planks and slices of indigenous hardwoods. Sourced locally to his home in upstate New York, timber is cut into lengths and slices left raw to highlight the organic quality of the material.... Leer más -
Guido Ignatti
Tapiados 30 Junio - 30 Julio 2016 The exhibition includes a number of Ignatti’s characteristic “tapiados,” works made of painted wood and electrical lighting that evoke contemporary urban landscapes and engage with the history of abstraction, as well as photographs that reflect on the tapiado genre. “Tapiado” is the Spanish word for structures—made of wood, cement, or... Leer más -
Michelle Blade, Ala Ebtekar, Tobias Fike, Cameron Gainer, Paul Jacobsen, Becca Mann, NASA/STScI, Chris Oatey, and DJ Spo
Metagalactic 18 Marzo - 30 Abril 2016 Metagalactic brings together a body of work that relies on the aesthetics of outer space to explore themes about vastness, infinitude, darkness, and exploration into the unknown. Since the beginning of time, humans have been fascinated with the cosmos. We have searched for the meaning of our own existence through... Leer más -
Dave Eggers
Project Room 16 Octubre - 14 Noviembre 2015 Eggers’ drawings and paintings feature strange, powerful images of animals, and plaintive text. Phrases such as “Don’t Cry For This One He Went To Law School” accompany an anteater and “Courage: May It Be Common” appears next to a sprinting rabbit. The resulting effect is oddly spiritual, often profound, and... Leer más
