Exhibitions

Current

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 in... 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

Past

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

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

Paolo Arao
A selection of recent works 10 Mar - 1 May 2023 Paolo Arao is a Brooklyn-based, Filipino-American artist working with textiles. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Arao has shown his work widely and has presented solo exhibitions at David B. Smith Gallery (Denver), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), and Jeff Bailey... 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

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

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

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 - 15 Jan 2021 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

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 - 27 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

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 our... Read more

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