As April blossoms across Colorado, RedLine is eagerly embracing the spring season by celebrating new work by our Resident Artists, Alumni, and REACH Core Artists!
From solo shows to group exhibitions, events and more, our artists have been pushing the boundaries of artistic expression, challenging norms, and enriching Denver’s ever-evolving art scene.
This month marks the return of RedLine’s highly anticipated annual EPIC Gala! We're delighted to come together for a night of cocktails, dinner, an art sale, performances, and more!
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Here are our top 7 art events to check out this April, featuring Resident Artists and Alumni & REACH Core Alumni!
Kenzie Sitterud - 5 Week Virtual Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp
What: Virtual bootcamp
When: April 2nd - May 7th, 2024
Time: Every Tuesday, 6-8PM
About the bootcamp: Join Resident Alumni Kenzie Sitterud for a 5-week journey where you'll learn to create art, logos, and more. Get personalized feedback and instruction as you explore the power of Illustrator.
Whether you're an aspiring artist looking to elevate your craft or an entrepreneur seeking to enhance your brand identity, this virtual bootcamp is designed for you.
About the artist: Kenzie Sitterud works as a multimedia artist and designer primarily producing immersive large-scale installations and designed experiences. Sitterud began their creative practice in 2008 with their first installation in Denver (The Bathroom), establishing interest in conflicts between queerness and domestic spaces.
Sitterud designs work expressing the dysphoric environment the queer community faces in a heteronormative world. The crafting of these spaces correlates to the precarious anxiety queer individuals experience in a society that is neither designed for, nor inclusive of, their queerness.
Contact: sitterud.m@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.kenziemckenzie.com/
Instagram: @kenziesitterud
Tony Ortega - BIG INK Group Exhibition
“Bonampak and Cholo.”
What: Group exhibition
Where: Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities - 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO, 80003
When: April 6th & 7th, 2024
About the exhibition: I will participate in the large format woodblock printing with Lyell Castonguay and 15 other artists on Sunday April 7. Please see links for more information. This event is free and open to the public. In 2012, Lyell Castonguay and Carand Burnet founded BIG INK to provide woodblock printmaking workshop opportunities for people of all skill levels.
As a result, thousands of individuals have learned how to carve wood by following Castonguay's online instructions, and numerous community members have attended BIG INK's workshops to witness the spectacle of the woodblock printing process.
About the artist: Tony Ortega holds an MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Colorado and is currently a professor for Regis University. Ortega’s lifelong goal is to contribute to a better understanding of cultural diversity by addressing the culture, history and experiences of Chicanos/Latinos through his art. His work can be found in Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He has exhibited extensively in United States, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Tony’s artwork can be found in Denver, Colorado, at the William Havu Gallery.
Contact: tortegaartist@cs.com
Artist Website: http://www.tonyortega.net/
Instagram: @tortegaartist
Melody Epperson - Remembering… Solo Exhibition
What: Solo exhibition
Where: Next Gallery - 6501 W Colfax Ave Lakewood, CO, 80214
When: April 19th - May 5th, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19th, 5-10pm
About the exhibition: Memories are such tricky things. You might even say that they are translucent. Studies have discovered that our memories change when we interact with them, and we know what time does to them. This exhibit explores the ephemeral, shifting, and translucent nature of memories. Visitors will encounter memory through interactive elements that engage all five senses. Faint, ghost-line multi-media art and installation art point to the many ways that we remember.
About the artist: Melody Epperson lives her life with deep curiosity and an almost insatiable thirst for personal growth and lifelong learning. Her artwork, which is primarily painting with wax, focuses on her experience as a woman. She delves into personal subjects such as the interconnection of life and universal truths as well as societal concepts like family and gender roles.
The exploration of her curiosities started with her parents’ values of self-directed learning and a lifetime of attending and then teaching at an open-concept school. It was there that Melody developed her artistic process that involves curiosity, reflection, and creative actions.
Contact: melodyepperson@me.com
Artist Website: https://www.melodyepperson.com/
Instagram: @melody.epperson
Victor Escobedo - Denver Art Museum Untitled Group Event
What: Group exhibition
Where: Denver Art Museum - 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204
When: April 26, 2024, 6-10 pm
About the exhibition: Join featured artists Victor Escobedo and Gabby Gutierrez-Reed for an evening of conjuring experiences and transforming individual perspectives, inspired by the exhibitions Have a Seat: Mexican Chair Design Today and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes . This will be a one night event at the DAM with comedy by Gabby Gutierrez-Reed, music by Felix Ayodele and the Cosmosmiths, dance, art workshops by RedLine Resident Artist Ray Munoz, Cal Duran, and Anthony Maes, Danza ceremony by Kalpulli Mikakuika, projection mapping and a brand new installation by Victor Escobedo.
About the artist: Victor Escobedo has developed a compelling style expressed in various forms of expression through the use of ceramic masks, marionettes, murals, paintings, and performances rooted in reimagined ancient iconography with dynamically textured installations. Heavily influenced by Hip Hop, graffiti, and culture Escobedo explores mythology, intuition and Shamanistic practices as inspiration for contemporary transformation. His artwork is a reinterpretation of ancient, indigenous art and mysticism for a contemporary audience, that integrates seemingly unrelated disciplines in search of something universal.
Contact: artofvictor.e@gmail.com
Instagram: @victor_j_escobedo
Ashley Frazier - Above/Below Solo Show
What: Solo show
Where: Denver International Airport
When: March 3-March 30, 2024
Opening Reception: March 2, 6-9 pm
About the exhibition: Installation for United Airlines A West Club at Denver International Airport Above & Below is made up of thousands of pieces of broken glass which were individually attached by hand to a sculpted substrate. The sculpture references formations found both on the ground and in the air while referencing stalagmites and stalactites caves found inside the Colorado landscape. In this way, the site-specific sculpture appears to symbolize a preserved formation unearthed during the construction phase of the building it resides in.
About the artist: Ashley Frazier is an interdisciplinary artist and curator. Her work explores concepts of place and identity with an emphasis on dichotomy.Her process involves collecting and cataloging, repeating and reflecting, demolishing and reconstructing. Ashley’s works are installation focused, incorporating sculpture, collage, digital and assemblage.
Ashley is a RedLine Artist Alumni, former member of Ice Cube Gallery, and is recognized as one of Westword’s Colorado Creatives.
Contact: ashleyfrazier4@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.ashleyfrazier.art/
Instagram: @ashley_frazier_af
Ana María Hernando - New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 Group Exhibition
“Amarillo para la Ñusta / Yellow for the Ñusta.” 2016. Silk, organza, acrylic wool, tulle. 105 x 90 x 70 inches.
What: Group exhibition
Where: National Museum of Women in the Arts - 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005
When: April 14 - August 11, 2024
About the exhibition: Visionary artists reimagine the past, present alternate realities, and inspire audiences to create different futures. During the past few years, our world has been transformed by a global pandemic, advocacy for social reform, and political division. How have these extraordinary times inspired artists?
Works by the 28 artists featured in New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 explore these ideas from perspectives that shift across geographies, cultural viewpoints, and time. One of the first major exhibitions to follow NMWA’s reopening after renovation, New Worlds will immerse visitors in the museum’s renewed spaces.
About the artist: Ana María Hernando is a multidisciplinary artist from Argentina, now based in Colorado. She is interested in making the invisible visible, and devotedly explores the sacred feminine through women's rich histories, their daily lives and relationship to hand-worked textiles and wares. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance, and includes the work of women from around Latin America, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the mountains.
Contact: ana@anamariahernando.com
Artist website: https://www.anamariahernando.com/
Instagram: @anamariahernandoart
Daisy Patton - The Photography Show, AIPAD Art Fair Solo Show
“Patton_Untitled.” This photo is only a rough, unretouched proof. Property of Afe Photo Studio.
What: Solo show
Where: Candela Gallery - 214 W Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23220
When: May 3 – June 22, 2024
About the exhibition: I will be showing work with Candela Gallery: As a gallery and publisher, Candela’s mission is to elevate and support contemporary photography through exhibition and educational programming, publication opportunities, and community-building. This will be a preview of my upcoming May/June solo with them this year.
About the artist: From Los Angeles, California, Daisy Patton moved back and forth between Oklahoma and California during her childhood. Inquisitive and an avid reader, she spent much of her early years perusing adventure and detective tales, history and art history books, and ghost stories. The effects of this youth soaked in such specific cultural landscapes continue today. Patton scrutinizes the lines between history and mythology, between memory and perceived experience, and between intrinsic behavior and learned tendencies.
Contact: daisy.a.patton@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.daisypatton.com/
Instagram: @daisy_patton
April Art Events at RedLine
2024 EPIC Gala
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5:30-10:30 PM
RedLine Contemporary Art Center
2350 Arapahoe Street
Denver, CO 80205
Monthly Collage Club at RedLine
Last Saturday of the month, 1:00-3:00pm
Join our monthly non-instructive Collage Club to meet other Colorado artists, develop your collage skills, and continue your creative journey!
Telegraph Valley
March 16-April 7, 2024
Created by LA Samuelson. In collaboration with sound artist Adam Stone and dramaturg Elle Hong.
