Photograph of "It's About Ya" by Wang Gongxin (2010)

Let us know your thoughts about Wang Gongxin's first solo exhibition in The United States at RedLine Denver. 

RedLine Young Artists classes offer children (ages 2-5) and a caregiver the opportunity to explore making art together in RedLine's new Community Studio. Art projects will be based on children's books and monthly themes. Kids will use paints, collage items, drawing and other exiting materials. Children will take home a finished art project each class. We'll read books all about snow and create artworks using snow as our theme.

Register Now For Our Upcoming February and March Classes:

3 Saturdays: February 25, March 10 & 17, 9:30-10:30am: OR 11am-Noon

*3 Week Session: $30 per child ages 2-5 + $10 materials fee

Or Try Out One Class:  

One Tuesday: February 28, 9:30-10:30am; or 11am-Noon

*1 Tuesday Class: $12 per child

Reserve a spot for your child by Feb 20 with Melinda (Please indicate time/session, child name & age). melinda@melindalaz.com or 303.522.9694  Payment due on first day of class.

Location: RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver - in the Community Studio

Note: Children must be accompanied by a caregiver. Children younger than 24 months may attend with a sibling at no charge, but must be supervised at all times.

Hybrid

An International Contemporary Art Exhibition

Exhibition curated by Rian Kerrane

August 11 – September 30, 2012

Initiated by Rian Kerrane, a native of Ireland, Hybrid asks fourteen artists to “cross over”. The artists’ work examines the experience of crossing the Atlantic in the current political climate while acknowledging historic influences from each artist’s perspective; identifying experiences of (dis)placement and immersion in cultural and social surroundings from either side of the Atlantic. RedLine provides the first venue for a pair of exhibitions, the second of which will take place in Ireland, allowing each artist to engage both with “local” proximity and “foreign” distance in turn.

The wide range of included media and the diverse origins of the participants are intended to incite a stimulating translation and critical examination of ongoing cultural conversations and personal experiences of the hybridization of our lives, expectations, ancestral backgrounds, geology, perceptions, identities, of immigration, and of both the geographic distance and human commonality of the artists.

Shaped by Kerrane’s personal ties with the included artists, Hybrid emerges from a reflective process of curatorial matchmaking. Working in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, film and installation, the works of these two groups of artists both mirror and confront one another. Hybrid acknowledges and pays tribute to complex local experiences in a common global culture, reflecting Kerrane’s eighteen years of continually (re)crossing the Atlantic.

The seven artists from Ireland are Lizzie Kinsella, Mark Joyce, James Hayes, Sara Lewtas, Ian Gordon, Aisling O’ Beirn, and Deirdre O’ Mahony.Seven Artists from the United States are Rian Kerrane, Eric Waldemar, Viviane LeCourtois, Christopher R. Perez, Homare Ikeda, Lee Lee, and Melissa Borman.

The Human Touch

Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection

Curated by William Biety 

March 17 - April 27, 2012

Member's Reception: March 17, 6-7pm

Public Reception:March 17, 7-9pm

The RBC Wealth Management Art Collection includes over 400 works featuring the human figure. This collection demonstrates how the human figure informs our understanding the human condition. Since the earliest cave paintings to present day artistic expression, there has been a focus on the human form as a representation of daily life and aspirations. As the representation of the form evolved into both realistic and figurative depictions, the understandings within society have remained the same. The human figure has the ability to define and reflect upon the time. Participating artists include, but are not limited to, Chuck Close, Roland Fischer, Roy Lichtenstein, Vik Muniz, Hung Liu, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

It’s About Relating- It’s About China
Featuring Video Installations By Wang Gongxin
Exhibition: January 28 - March 11, 2012

Member's Reception: January 28, 6-7pm

Public Reception: January 28, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: February 17, 6-8pm

Known as the godfather of Chinese video art, WANG Gongxin's first solo exhibition in the United States will be on display at RedLine this January. WANG Gongxin is one of China’s earliest and most influential video artists and his innovative conceptual videos reveal a deeply personal critique of contemporary life in China today. Organized by the Asian Art Coordinating Council and curated by Dr. Julie Seagraves, this exhibitoin will feature four video installations by Wang - My Sun, Always Welcome, Forward, and It's About Ya. Ranging from 2-18 screens per piece, this vanguard exhibition will bring visitors through an immersive video experience that explores the artist's reflections on contemporary and past chinese culture. Seagraves explains, "Wang’s featured exhibit pieces are mid career examples as well as recent work. All are intense video installations, flawless in execution, and compelling in presentation. Each video installation has a different emotive quality, and the exhibit takes the viewer though a wide range of emotions. Although Wang’s videos are personal statements about China, in reality they deal with universal issues that all viewers can relate to and have their own personal interpretations."

In addition to the exhibition, RedLine & The Asian Art Coordinating Council will co-sponsor an artist talk with Wang on Friday, February 17th from 6-8pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

Julie Dugdale and Daliah Singer interview Laura Merage in the December 2011 issue of 5280 Magazine. Categorized as Game Changers, the article speaks to individuals in the Denver community whose "names may not often make headlines, but their power as catalysts for transformational work is indisputable."To read the full article click here

The primary inspirational source and content of my artwork has centered around gift economies and the cultural and biological methods by which we regulate and maintain our social relationships. Exploring as direct, as intimate a relationship to audience members as I can, I create sculptural installations, conceptual performances and evolving relational projects. Often these include such elements as those of gender-specific experiences: hand-knitting and needlework techniques, arduously created and intended expressly for the dedication to a loved person. I also employ natural media, such as pheromones, heat and electricity, which are intended to enact human intimate association. My intent is to explore the unique resonance between organisms and the manners in which they embody the concepts of distribution and networks. The flavor of the work is often manipulative and sentimental.

Au: Exchange
Closing Reception & Discussion
December 29, 2011 6-9PM

Join RedLine Resident Artists & curator Cortney Lane Stell for a final viewing and roundtable discussion about the current exhibition Au: Exchange. This event is to celebrate the final viewing days of this exhibition, feature the publication of the Au: Exhange catalog, and give visitors an opportunity to join in a lively discussion about our relationship as artists, consumers, and citizens, to gold. Their will be a light reception following the discussion. 
 
Featured Artists: 
Conor King, Bob Koons, Jaime Carrejo, Donald Fodness, Justin Beard, Laura Merage, Joel Swanson, Viviane Le Courtois, Virginia Folkstad, Gretchen Schaefer, Derrick Velasquez, Theresa Clowes, Beau Carey, Sarah Wallace Scott, Sterling Crispin and Alicia Ordal.

Off the Beaten Path: violence, women and art
An International Contemporary Art Exhibition

Exhibition curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg from Art Works For Change

June 1 – July 29, 2012 - RedLine

Thirty-two contemporary artists from 25 countries address violence against women and girls and their basic human rights to a safe and secure life. Participating artists in this exhibition include  Wangechi Mutu, Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Hank Willis Thomas, Hung Liu, Marina Abramovic, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.  Off the Beaten Path combines the highest integrity of art with social messaging and storytelling to help create awareness and positive social change. RedLine looks forward to working with organizations to create programming that launch from the five subthemes of this exhibition - Violence and the Family, Violence and the Community, Violence and the Individual, Violence and Culture, and Violence and Politics.

For more information or to get involved please visit http://www.artworksforchange.org/exhibitions_otbp.htm or contact us at info@redlineart.org. 

EPIC Arts Fall 2011 Student Exhibition
Featuring works by students attending AXL Academy, Fairmont Elementary and Whittier ECE-8 and RedLine Resident Artists Justin Beard, Sarah Wallace Scott, and Derrick Velasquez

 December 9 - 31

Opening Reception: December 10, 2-4pm

RedLine’s Educational Partnership Initiative for the Creative (EPIC) Arts program provides a platform for RedLine Resident Artists to work in collaboration with educators from Denver area K-12 schools to implement an experiential curriculum that creates a body of artwork through a lens of contemporary social justice.  Through the partnership, artist and educator team up to create a new way of delivering instruction that combines artistic practice with the instructional and learning needs of the teacher and her/his students.  EPIC Arts empowers young people to become active interpreters within their own unique art practice alongside a professional artist both in and outside of the classroom.  The art making process and resulting artwork becomes a medium through which young people can hone their critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills and express their unique perspective and ideas about today’s world.

As an artist I use seemingly benign, somewhat enticing imagery to draw my audience into a layered and unsettling world of complexities. Among the kitsch and banal I cram the gross, grotesque, obnoxious and weird.

I am an opportunistic miner of "the cultural landfills". My imagery is a collision of sources, styles, and subjects that operate in an open-ended and non-linear construction of reality. Like the Internet and a good soap opera, there are numerous inlets and sub-narrative paths that intersect with a network of others. Crawling over, climbing out, hiding within, and digesting its surrounding; my work plays with image glut choc-full of cliché visual puns, and deadpan humor. I hope that this humor operates as a coping mechanism and ice breaker. 

I work with readymade systems and personal narrative as a departure point. These structures provide me some parameters to start finding, hiding, and projecting imagery. I embrace spontaneity and let the work take on its own life remixing the boundaries of the pre-existing source. While I hide personal narratives within the work I am less interested in autobiography, and more so in the viewer recognizing their self within the complexity.

My work explores the intersection between what is real and what is perceived. I am constantly searching for spaces where this boundary has become visible and through my work I try to examine this border.  I am broadly influenced by the history of depiction and illusionism in painting, stemming from my background as an oil painter.  The attempt to breach the physical world and move into a utopian space of perfection and beauty has propelled my work from the beginning.  I continue along this path using any medium and format at my disposal, including video, installation and animation.  I have found commonality in the role of mathematics, proportion and viewer perception in each piece that I do.  By simultaneously pulling the viewer into a work and pushing the process out into the physical world, through painting, performance or motion, I hope to negotiate a space somewhere in between.

Growing up on the U.S./Mexico border established my wonderment of deceptively benign, nonsensical sayings. People uttered little phrases in Spanish like “buscale tres patas de gato” (looking for three cat legs). If someone was looking for three cat legs it alluded to a person focusing on a portion of something, and not the whole, short sight vs. foresight. This method of dialog made it possible to discuss serious topics through a filter or a buffer. It became way of creating a space between something complex and transforming it into an experiential space. The artistic and social practices employed in the work are forged by this allegorical approach to cultural issues. The objects, digital drawings, and relational interactions exist as a venue for exploring community exchange, coded metaphors, and how the American Dream has changed over time. Some projects are dependent and respond to peoples’ interactions with the work, while others are explore material and iconography.

Initially, many of my projects begin as drawings and experimentation. By utilizing the process of drawing in traditional and non-traditional formats, I am able to map out a trajectory of where the larger interactive work may become. These minor works become the foundation of my explorations. Graphic images from the media, politics, snippets of film, and everyday occurrences act as metaphorical indicators of the pulse of social culture. The work created strives to be open and attempts to understand how objects and images are utilized within the social constructs of power while trying to understand the horror and beauty of the human experience in hope of creating a forum of communication and community engagement.

Lanny Frances DeVuono

I have long been interested in nature imagery as some kind of odd illustration of our own human nature.  What we feel is limitless and expansive, we want to own; where we find beauty, we try to ascribe purpose.  Whether devastated from war, ecological upheaval or simply our own use, the landscape maps our histories and hopes.

In this series, with a nod to the illusionary potential of drawing itself, perspectives, near and far are deliberately skewed.  Using landscapes as a foil, scenes of natural beauty are juxtaposed against references to the environment.  

For further information about her work, please see http://www.lannydevuono.com  

Creating art has really opened me up to the world. It is what made me read books, listen to different music, look at politics, and just see things in a different way. It seems the more art I do, the more ideas and experiences I am exposed to. My process is a process of creation - I think of things, or stumble on things, and make things that I never thought could exist. Every time I speak to someone and divulge that I am an artist, I am immediately asked, “What kind of art do you do?” It is always a hard question for me to answer. I usually tell them, “Well I get an idea and I try to find the best way to work with it. It could be a sculpture, video, performance, installation, or a photograph. I guess you could call me a conceptualist.” That being said, the inspiration for my works and ideas are drawn from daily life. I do not feel obligated to one idea or theme, because I don’t think that’s the way life works.

Reception: Saturday, November 12, 6-10pm

Artists who work in art museums explore their experiences in the group exhibition, So, I Work in an Art Museum.  This juried exhibit, featuring eight artists working in five art museums across the Front Range area, provides a critical look at the influence(s) that working at an art museum has had on their creative development and production of art.  Various media are employed in an effort to address this complex relationship including painting, photography, ceramics, animation and multimedia installations.

Exhibiting artists:

Erin Algiere

Amelia Carley

Dalton & McClellan

John P. Geiger

Harold

Keith Jenstzch

Jennifer Pokorny

Jen Schneider

REDLINE’S ANNUAL ARTIST EXHIBITION: AU: EXCHANGE

CURATED BY CORTNEY LANE STELL

NOVEMBER 11 – JANUARY 1, 2012

OPENING: NOVEMBER 11, 2011

MEMBER’S RECEPTION WITH CURATOR + ARTISTS 7-8PM

PUBLIC RECEPTION: 8-10PM

RedLine is pleased to announce its annual Resident Artist’s exhibition, Au: Exchange.  Cortney Lane Stell, gallery director at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design will curate the exhibition and symbolically transform RedLine through artist’s creative engagement with precious commodities.  She explains:

This exhibition reconsiders gold, and the relationship of RedLine artists with the material and the economy. Each resident artist was given a 2.5 gram gold bar to use in relation to the exhibition. Titled after the material’s relationship to the concept, chemical ele­ment symbol for gold as a material and exchange references organized markets, financial systems, and the exchange that happens between artist and curator.

Eighteen RedLine artists will be exhibiting in Au: Exchange and will present 18 individual testaments to the extraordinary relationship between artist and funding, artist and material, and artist and value. The concepts touched on in this exhibition also reflect the plurality of concepts embedded in the material - from consumerism to identity. Participating resident artist Conor King’s works explores the material properties of gold and its correlation to photographic processes, he comments “The Au exhibition has inspired a work that repositions my relationship to gold, one that originally rested in a conceptual realm of economy and world markets into a more physical understanding of gold and its’ aesthetic value. In my work, I will explore the material properties of gold in relation to photographic processes that deal with reflection and light.”

Artists:

Conor King, Viviane Le Courtois, Bob Koons, Terry Campbell, Gretchen Schaefer, Alicia Ordal, Joel Swanson, Sterling Crispin, Derrick Velasquez, Virginia Folkestad, Beau Carey, Sarah Wallace Scott, Justin Beard, Jaime Carrejo, Donald Fodness, Theresa Clowes and Laura Merage.

The opening reception for RedLine members will be held during Denver Arts Week on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 7pm, which will feature a curatorial walk-through with Ms. Stell. This will be followed by a public reception from 8-10pm. For more information please visit redlineart.org. 

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Art by Craft

October 1 - 15, 2011, RedLine Project Space

Members Reception: 6-7

Public Reception: 7-10pm

The Denver Handmade Alliance announces an upcoming exhibit exploring craft-based mediums in a fine art setting entitled Art by Craft. The third annual Art by Craft Exhibit will explore the work of local crafters working in various craft-based mediums ranging from fiber arts to metal works. In addition to the exhibit, there will be an Art by Craft Market that marks the midway point of the exhibit and allows the public an opportunity to meet with local crafters and purchase their handmade goods. The Art by Craft Market is scheduled for Sunday October 9^th from 10am – 6pm at RedLine Denver in the Main Gallery space and will feature the work of over 30 local crafters. There will also be swag bags for the first 30 people through the door full of crafty goodies from local handmakers and crafty activities for all ages throughout the day.

Artists: Adriane Horovitz & Marc Horovitz, Andrea Thurber, Becky Wareing Steele, Beth Wood, Dea Webb, Hope Morgan of Haunted Sparrow, Lara Nickel, Martina Grbac, Pamela Webb, Patrice Washington, Rebecca Peebles, Sandra Fettingis, Sarah Wallace Scott, Sista Luna, Vanessa Gochnour

Where the Waters Meet explores the history of Denver’s two main water streams and the city’s changing relationships to these two rivers throughout its existence since 1858.

Denver City and Auraria, the two settlements that were later united to become Denver, were founded at the confluence of two rivers, the South Platte and the Cherry Creek. This location had served as a campsite for the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians for decades, as well as for early white travelers who came through this country on their search for pelts and quest for freedom and discovery. A French-Canadian trapper lived with a Native tribe in the present-day Denver area for 7 years from 1815-22. In 1842 mapmaker and explorer John C. Fremont came through the area.

While the city founders chose this location explicitly for its water source, the rivers also caused immense trouble for early Denver. People built houses and businesses too close to the riverbanks and into their dry beds – coming from the Eastern states they were not familiar with flashfloods.

Denverites soon neglected and polluted the rivers – even more so in the 20^th century after Denver had secured other water resources from aquifers and by channeling Colorado River water across the Continental Divide. What had once been pleasant natural streams became stinking open sewers, their banks lined with the refuse of an ever-growing city.

After the flood of 1965 – the greatest in Denver’s history – the city’s attitude towards its rivers slowly changed course. Debris was removed from the rivers, former railroad and junkyards were developed into new neighborhoods, parks and trails were created. The confluence has become a vital part of Denver life again.

Where the Waters Meet is an immersive installation with 5 video projections, sound and narrative. The video projectors are placed so that the viewers’ shadows are cast into the image, making them an actor in the installation and a player in an environment that will likely be familiar to Denverites and inspire them to reflect upon their city, while offering an overview of a part of Denver’s history, also to those visiting from out of town.

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