Forthcoming
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Laura Ball
The sun was glad to see my shadow 31 May - 28 Jun 2025 -
Gretchen Marie Schaefer
Project Room 31 May - 28 Jun 2025
Past
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Sarah McKenzie
Displays of Power 29 Mar - 3 May 2025 EXTENDED BY APPOINT THROUGH SATURDAY, MAY 17TH. 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... Read more -
Aitor Lajarin-Encina
Open Rooms | Project Room 29 Mar - 3 May 2025 EXTENDED BY APPOINT THROUGH SATURDAY, MAY 17TH. 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... Read more -
Last Year's Wonders All Surpassed
Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David 23 Jan - 22 Feb 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.... Read more -
Esteban Cabeza de Baca & Heidi Howard
Night & Day Dreams 22 Aug - 28 Sep 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... Read more
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Miguel Arzabe, Jessica Cannon, Saskia Fleishman, and Michelle A M Miller
Desire Lines 25 May - 13 Jul 2024 CURATED BY KATE MOTHES Read more -
Paolo Arao
Devotion 13 Apr - 11 May 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,... Read more -
Susan Wick
Through an Open Frame 24 Feb - 30 Mar 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... Read more -
Matthew Brandt & Christine Nguyen
Garden Pictures | Project Room 20 Jan - 17 Feb 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... Read more
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Christine Nguyen & Chris Oatey
Indexing Nature 20 Jan - 17 Feb 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... Read more -
Anthony Sonnenberg
In A Time of Make Believe | Project Room 3 Nov - 16 Dec 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... Read more -
Paul Jacobsen
Spatial Vision 3 Nov - 16 Dec 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... Read more -
Margarita Cabrera
“Security” ... “Seguridad” ...“Seguridad”
“Control” ... “Control” ... “Control”
“Safety” ... “Protección” ... “Protección”
”Power” ... “Poder” ... “Poder“ 8 Sep - 20 Oct 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... Read more
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Leon Benn
Dead Leaves 16 Jun - 12 Aug 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... Read more -
Justin Favela
Ghostin' | Project Room 16 Jun - 12 Aug 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... Read more -
Gabriel Sanchez
They Devoured Everything 10 Mar - 1 May 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... Read more -
Laura Ball
Cosmos 20 Jan - 25 Feb 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... Read more
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Letitia Quesenberry
Future Maybe 4 Nov - 17 Dec 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... Read more -
Linda Nguyen Lopez
ʎpoqǝɯos | Project Room 4 Nov - 17 Dec 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... Read more -
Cody Hudson
What Is Time Stretching And When Would You Use It? 26 Aug - 15 Oct 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... Read more -
Maryam Yousif
Mishwar | Project Room 26 Aug - 15 Oct 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... Read more
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Hangama Amiri
Henna Night/ Shabe Kheena 29 Apr - 18 Jun 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... Read more -
Jason Middlebrook
Skies 11 Mar - 9 Apr 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... Read more -
Emily Joyce
RGBs and See I’m Okays | Project Room 11 Mar - 9 Apr 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... Read more -
Leon Benn
Nurse Logs 21 Jan - 26 Feb 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,... Read more
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Liz Nielsen
Rolling Aura | Project Room 21 Jan - 26 Feb 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... Read more -
Anna Valdez
New Patterns 30 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 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... Read more -
Robert Burnier
Song Cycle 21 Oct - 24 Nov 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... Read more -
Sarah McKenzie
Interim | Project Room 21 Oct - 24 Nov 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 Read more
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Don Stinson
The Anvil and Other Works 20 Aug - 25 Sep 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... Read more -
David B. Smith (Brooklyn, NY)
Same but Different 15 May - 26 Jun 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... Read more -
Amy Boone-McCreesh and Amber Cobb
Negotiating Spaces 27 Mar - 1 May 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... Read more -
Gustav Hamilton
A Sucker for the Souvenir | Project Room 27 Mar - 1 May 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... Read more
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Brian Rattiner
Hummingbird 13 Feb - 20 Mar 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... Read more -
Christine Nguyen
Lightness Within the Cosmic Universe | Project Room 13 Feb - 20 Mar 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... Read more -
Booth B4
Laura Ball, Leon Benn, Justin Favela, Linda Nguyen Lopez, & Liz Nielsen 9 Oct - 7 Nov 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... Read more -
Chris Oatey
Aerial Perspective | Project Room 9 Oct - 7 Nov 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... Read more
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Letitia Quesenberry
Somewhere in the Future I am Remembering Today 8 Aug - 25 Sep 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... Read more -
Paul Jacobsen
Spiritual Surveillance 13 Jun - 1 Aug 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... Read more -
Paolo Arao
Never Too Much | Project Room 27 Mar - 2 May 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... Read more -
Liz Miller
Structural Paradigms 27 Mar - 2 May 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... Read more
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Sarah McKenzie
Sanctum 7 Feb - 14 Mar 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... Read more -
David McDonalad
Project Room | Montello 7 Feb - 14 Mar 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... Read more -
Joel Swanson
Eight-and-a-Half-by-Eleven 13 Dec 2019 - 18 Jan 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... Read more -
Cody Hudson
I Came Home | Project Room 13 Dec 2019 - 18 Jan 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... Read more
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Christopher Russell
The Explorers 18 Oct - 11 Nov 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... Read more -
Shantell Martin
Underlined 27 Sep - 2 Nov 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... Read more -
Adam Milner
If digging something up makes it true, what does burying do? | Project Room 27 Sep - 2 Nov 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,... Read more -
Linda Nguyen Lopez
Stranger 16 Aug - 14 Sep 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... Read more
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Secret Love Collective
Gay Renaissance | Project Room 16 Aug - 14 Sep 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... Read more -
Leon Benn
Lion in the Kitchen 28 Jun - 27 Jul 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... Read more -
Su Su
Su Su: Extrusion Paintings | Project Room 28 Jun - 27 Jul 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.... Read more -
Zach Reini
Not Much Will Change When I'm Gone 17 May - 15 Jun 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,... Read more
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Sierra Montoya Barela
Living Room | Project Room 17 May - 15 Jun 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... Read more -
Justin Favela
Re/Presenting México: José María Velasco and the Politics of Paper 29 Mar - 4 May 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... Read more -
Mikayla Whitmore
Magic Circle | Project Room 29 Mar - 4 May 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... Read more -
Emily Joyce
Then Where Sun When There 15 Feb - 16 Mar 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... Read more
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Justine Hill
Bookends | Project Room 15 Feb - 16 Mar 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,... Read more -
Laura Ball
Chimera 14 Dec 2018 - 2 Feb 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... Read more -
Dennis Cooper, M. Page Greene, Christopher Russell, sweaterqueens, and Bobbi Woods
Teeth & Consequence | Project Room 12 Oct - 11 Nov 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... Read more -
Bruno Novelli
Turmalinas No Céu 29 Jun - 28 Jul 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... Read more
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Mike Womack
Love Letters to Rocks 18 May - 16 Jun 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... Read more -
Whitney Hubbs
Shutter Stutter | Project Room 18 May - 16 Jun 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... Read more -
Liz Nielsen and Dylan Gebbia-Richards
6 Apr - 12 May 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... Read more -
Michelle Blade
Night Visions | Project Room 6 Apr - 12 May 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... Read more
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Robert Burnier & Justine Hill
19 Jan - 24 Feb 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... Read more -
Tobias Fike
Stages | Project Room 19 Jan - 24 Feb 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... Read more -
Leon Benn
Fields of Vision 6 Oct - 4 Nov 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... Read more -
Laura Shill
Separation Perfected | Project Room 6 Oct - 4 Nov 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... Read more
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Joel Swanson
Sticks & Stones 8 Aug - 16 Sep 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... Read more -
Adam Milner
Desirable Objects 16 Jun - 22 Jul 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,... Read more -
Cabinet
Project Room | curated by Adam Milner 16 Jun - 22 Jul 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... Read more
