When most people think about February, Valentine’s Day is the first thing that comes to mind. Celebrating love can come in many forms—be it love for your partner, friends, family, pets, or your local art community!
At RedLine, we look forward to celebrating another month filled with exciting exhibitions by current artists and alumnis of our Artist Residency and Reach programs.
From upcoming exhibitions to events, recent art sales to awards, stay in-the-know about where to catch our artists this February.
Chinn Wang - “magical personified vulnerable” Solo Exhibition
Image courtesy of Chinn Wang - Site 1 (detail), Screenprint on paper, 2021
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at Ent Center for the Arts - 5225 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80918 (719) 255-3232
When: February 3-April 17, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, February 3
Lecture: 5-6 pm
Reception 6-8 pm
Free - pre-registration requested >
About the exhibition: “This solo exhibition by Colorado-based Chinn Wang will explore themes of invisibility, erasure, identity and the immigrant experience in her mixed media artworks. The artist shares, ‘As an attempt to better understand my family’s history and my heritage, I am particularly interested in the visual expression of the tethered experience, in both life and death, that immigrants face as they seek to assimilate while also striving to maintain connections to their home cultures’...Utilizing primarily photographic and print media, Wang seeks a non-passive viewing experience to compel a questioning of material, space, and image by highlighting the shifting balance between what is real and what is imagined.”
About the artist: Chinn Wang’s work employs coded visual languages and symbolic iconography to examine, problematize, and humorize the subjective nature of personal narrative and history. Current interests include floriography, sacred symbols, fortune-telling, and moments of spectacle in popular culture. Wang earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a dual BA in Art Practice and Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is Teaching Associate Professor and Foundations Coordinator in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Denver and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Contact: chinnwang@gmail.com
Artist website: www.chinnwang.com
Instagram: @chinww
Daisy Patton - “Remembrances, Recollections & Retrospect” Exhibition
Image courtesy of Daisy Patton - "Untitled (City Photo Studio Day & Night Service 84 Lawani Street New Benin Benin City Date _____)," 90"x60", detail, 2021. Photo from Nigeria, sourced from the United Kingdom.
What: Group Exhibition
Where: The Delaware Contemporary, 200 South Madison Street Wilmington, DE 19801
When: January 22-May 29, 2022
Opening Event & Art Loop Featured Exhibition: Friday, February 4, 2022
Daisy Patton will have 3 paintings included in this group exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary:
Image info: "Untitled (City Photo Studio Day & Night Service 84 Lawani Street New Benin Benin City Date _____)," 90"x60"
"Untitled (Father with Two Daughters and Painted Backdrop with Campions)," 90"x64"
"Untitled (The Bridal Party)," 90"x68"
About the exhibition: “The feeling of nostalgia is universal; an innate human quality that employs our senses to recall comfort, love, or pain, but always invariably the past. Nostalgia distills memories within the impact of a moment in time, an often indescribable experience that is wholly personal and uniquely individual…This group exhibition examines the complexities and nuances of memory and time through artistic perspective.”
About the artist: Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural ways of being. Influenced by collective and political histories, as well as memory and the fallibility of the body, Patton’s work explores the meaning and social conventions of families, relationship, connection, storytelling and story-carrying.
Contact: daisy.a.patton@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.daisypatton.com
Instagram: @daisy_patton
Tony Ortega - “Fronters del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond” Exhibition
Images courtesy of Tony Ortega - Wonder Woman, hand colored etching 8" x 10"
What: Exhibition
Where: National Hispanic Cultural Center - 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
When: March 11, 2022-January 9, 2023
Resident Artist Alumni Tony Ortega will have 3 pieces in this exhibition.
About the exhibition: “Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond features artworks that explore the intersections of art, science, technologies (both ancient and modern), cosmic-musings, future-oriented visions, and more. The exhibition engages with themes that are relevant in New Mexico (and beyond) with contributions from artists in New Mexico, across the nation, and internationally.”
Images courtesy of Tony Ortega - Super Hombre, Lithograph, 15" x 20”
About the artist: Tony Ortega has been a working artist and teacher for the past 36 years. He is the recipient of the coveted Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1999) and the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1998). Tony 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 the Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Latin America and other parts of the world.
Contact: tortegaartist@cs.com
Artist website: www.tonyortega.net
Instagram: @tortegaartist
Sarah Bowling - “There Are Seams in Purgatory” MFA Exhibition
Image courtesy of Sarah Bowling - “The shadow of tears,” 2021. Concrete, enamel, Bondo, resin. 8 x 7 x 6 inches.
What: MFA Exhibition
Where: McDonough Museum of Art - One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH, 44555
When: January 21-March 5, 2022.
About the exhibition: Sarah Bowling (2018-2020 RedLine Resident Artist Alumni) is featured in a group show with her Carnegie Mellon MFA Class of 2023 cohort (Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Kurth, Rebecca Shapass, Caroline Yoo) at McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
The show is titled “There are seams in purgatory.” This show challenges the agenda of becoming; a perpetual state of progress that is never quite realized, desired, or admired. “There are seams in purgatory” exists where the boundaries of identity, intimacy, and power are tested and transgressed.
About the artist: Sarah Bowling lives and works in her native home of Denver, Colorado. Bowling received her BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the country, including Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA, as well as Sullivan Gallery, Archer Beach Haus, and LVL3, all in Chicago, IL among others. In 2017 she was selected to attend the ACRE Residency in Steuben, Wisconsin. Her work is in several private and corporate collections throughout the US.
Contact: sarahcbowling@gmail.com
Artist website: www.sarahcbowling.com
Instagram: @_sarahbowling_
Jodi Stuart — Art of the State 2022 Juried Exhibition
Image courtesy of Jodi Stuart. Super Wicked, 2021, 3D pen-formed ABS Plastic, 'Blackest Black' pigment, motor, 48" x 60" x 48"
What: Juried Exhibition
Where: The Arvada Center - 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Arvada, CO 80003. Main, Upper, and Theatre Galleries.
When: January 20–March 27, 2022
Opening Reception: March 17, 6-9 pm
RedLine Alum Jodi Stuart will have a piece on display at The Arvada Center’s Art of the State 2022 Exhibition.
About the exhibition: “Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected.”
Jurors for Art of the State 2022:
Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Ellamaria Ray, Artist/Anthropologist, Professor of Africana Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Collin Parson, Director of Galleries and Curator, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
About the artist: “Through my practice, I explore aspects of virtual culture in relation to its aesthetic of hyper-stimulation and sensory overload. My works play on aspects of the virtual versus the physical, using the tools and materials of high-tech/digital culture combined with the handmade and tactile. I aim to create works that simultaneously allude to craft traditions, weaving, knitting, basket making ; as well as virtual space, neural networks, cloud computing, and bio-mimicry.”
Contact: stuart.jodi@gmail.com
Artist Website: http://www.jodistuart.com/
Instagram: @stuart.jodi
Regan Roseburg - “Human/Nature” Exhibition
Photo courtesy of Darya Warner - “Monument”
What: Exhibition
Where: Weinberg-Newton Gallery - 688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL, 60642
When: Jan 14-April 16, 2022
Roseburg will be in an exhibition at Weinberg-Newton Gallery, guest curated by Cyndi Conn. She will have 3 pieces in the show: "dear future" (a short film), the "Everything is Fine" letter project, and “Monument.”
About the exhibition: The gallery partnered with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to offer programming that will include a cross-over between climate change science, art, and policy. There will be a panel discussion with the Bulletin members, scientists and artists in February. Other artists include Matthew Ritchie, Laura Ball, Stas Bartnikas, Donovan Quintero, Obvious, and Karen Reimer.
About the artist: Regan Rosburg is an artist, naturalist, and writer; she works in a variety of materials to blur the boundary between nature and culture. Her work is founded in the principles of Ecopsychology, which she describes as society's collective grief, environmental melancholia, and “collective social mania” (her term). She fervently believes that artists are a crucial voice in discussing climate change and human impact. Rosburg is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Cayo Residency in Eleuthera (Bahamas). Her worldwide residencies/research trips include Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, Washington state rainforests, Appalachia, Colorado's Black Forest, the Arctic Circle (Svalbard, Norway) and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA). She is an adjunct professor at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Contact: reganrosburg@yahoo.com
Artist website: https://www.reganrosburg.com/
Instagram: @reganrosburgartwork
Melody Epperson - “Over, Under, Further, Forever” Exhibition & “Contributing Artist” Exhibition
What: Women's Caucus for Art Members Exhibition
Where: Core New Art Space - 6851 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, CO 80214
When: Jan 28-Feb 13, 2022
About the exhibition: “2022 marks the 33rd year of the Colorado Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art. Our members exhibition this year celebrates womxn's accomplishments and the ways that their fight for equal rights, power, and respect has improved our world. And just as womxn's work and accomplishments have seeped into almost every aspect of culture, this show features work that pervades the gallery space and appears everywhere: overhead, under our noses, pushing the idea of art further, and imagining a bright future where womxn's contributions continue on forever.”
What: Contributing Artist Show
Where: SYNC Gallery - 931 Santa Fe Drive - Denver, CO
When: February 18-March 13, 2022
About the artist: “My artwork focuses on my experience as a woman, both in society and within my own skin. My creative process is central in my artwork. It starts when I become curious about a concept. Then I reflect or investigate the idea, and finally I take a creative action. The concept of the artwork, and the discovery of its meaning, is often more important to me than the media itself. And thus, I feel free to switch media to better express my meaning. My process of curiosity to creative action is evident within my series of suffrage portraits. I became curious about my own history as a woman. Then, I began to investigate the individual leaders involved in woman suffrage. From this research I created a series of almost fifty portraits and twenty assemblage pieces telling the story of woman suffrage. Sometimes my creative action manifests with the actual artwork, but other times it comes in the form of social activism such as registering voters.”
Contact: melodyepperson@me.com
Artist website: www.melodyepperson.com
Instagram: @melody.epperson
Katie Caron - “The Middle Landscape” Solo Exhibition
Image courtesy of Katie Caron - styrofoam, rubber, acrylic paint, video projection mapping.
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: Loveland Museum - 503 N. Lincoln Avenue, Loveland, CO, 80537
When: December 4-March 13, 2022
Public lecture via Zoom : Monday, February 28, 6pm
About the exhibition: “In 2010, photographer Palíndromo Mészáros documented the aftereffects of a toxic aluminum spill in Hungary. The accident at the Ajkai Timföldgyár aluminum plant released about 35 million cubic feet of aluminum-infused caustic mud from holding reservoirs, resulting in a spill that affected 15 square miles and killed at least nine people. In some places, the wave of sludge reached seven feet high.
“The red color is from aluminum byproducts that killed the underbrush and left a red stain on trees. The Middle Landscape and Cross Sections were inspired by this environmental tragedy. There is a red line that bifurcates the space; above in balance with nature, and below marking environmental degradation as the natural world absorbs and adapts to the toxicity.”
About the artist: Katie Caron is presently Head of Ceramics and 3D Design at Arapahoe Community College. In 2011, Caron created Apoptosis in collaboration with Martha Russo for the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition Overthrown: Clay Without Limits. She has completed numerous site-specific installations for Project Miami, Santa Fe Art Institute, University of Michigan, University of Northern Colorado, Redline contemporary Art Center, and Republic Plaza in Denver. She was reviewed for Drosscapes, an immersive environment, in Sculpture Magazine’s June 2013 issue. Caron recently collaborated with the renowned Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf, and is represented by William Havu Gallery. Katie Caron resides in Littleton, CO with her family.
Contact: katie.caron@arapahoe.edu
Artist website: www.katiecron.com
Instagram: @katiemcaron
New February Exhibition at RedLine: “Beyond the Horizon”
Join us in celebrating our Reach Core Artists in their annual exhibition: “Beyond The Horizon.”
The exhibition will be on display in our Project Space from February 4-27, 2022.
The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 4th at RedLine, from 6-8pm.
There will be a corresponding Reach Program exhibition in the Community Studio from February 4-27, 2022.
