S*Park Artist Collection
View the pieces created by our quarterly S*Park Visiting Artists, RedLine Resident & Resource Artist Alumni, and community artists.
Ainhoa Garden Mural - Ramiro Smith Estrada
Paint on exterior panel, 7' x 30.' 2019.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ramiro Smith Estrada, 1984, lives and works in Buenos Aires. He pursued Engraving as a career at Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2007. He was selected for an exhibition at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in the field of Engraving in 2010 and 2013, and to the Williams Award in 2012. In 2017 he presented CHETO his fifth solo exhibition at Mundo Nuevo Art Gallery (Buenos Aires), curated by Santiago Bengolea (Fundación PROA’s Contemporary Space coordinator). In 2018 he was invited to join two art residency programs in Denver, becoming a RedLine + S*Park Visiting Artist in June, and a Taxi Studio Artist in Residence in October. His first U.S. solo show was hosted by Leon Gallery in June of 2019 in Denver.
Still Life Series - Mark Sink
Photographs: 32" x 32," 38" x 38,” 40" x 40." 2018.
Mark Sink, a private art consultant, represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. Mark is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and founder of the Month of Photography Denver and The Big Picture street art projects. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected world wide. Currently Mark is specializing in Collodion Wet Plate Photography with his wife Kristen Hatgi Sink. Together they run studio photography services that include, portraits, product, architectural, fashion and wedding photography.
Wetlands & Study in Ecologoical Topographies - Libby Barbee
Cut paper and ink, 20" x 52." 2019.
Libby Barbee is a contemporary Colorado artist. She currently lives in Denver, CO where she creates artwork focused on the relationship between culture and the landscape. Barbee’s practice is centers on the tenuous relationship between humans and the natural wold and is focused primarily on American frontier myth and the meditating role it plays in the construction of both American identity and the American landscape. She explores these themes through various media and forms. Her work included intricate collages, interactive kinetic sculptures, and cut paper installations. Barbee received her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland College of Art in 2011 and she currently teaches at the University of Denver.
T/HERE W/B & B/W - Joel Swanson
Letterpress on paper, 11"x 20." 2018.
Letterpress on paper, 11"x 20." 2018.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Joel Swanson lives and works in Denver and Boulder, CO. Joel Swanson is an artist and writer who explores the relationship between language and technology. Exhibit nationally and internationally, his work critically subverts the technologies, materials, and underlying structures of language to reveal its idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies. His work ranges from interactive installations to public sculptures that playfully and powerfully question words and their meanings. Swanson teaches courses on typography, creative coding, and media theory at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his MFA at the University of California, San Diego in Computing and the Arts.
Concrete Pillows - Sarah Bowling
Enamel, sealer, concrete. 4" x 4" each. 2018.
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.
Colorado Folly 1 & 2 - Nikki Pike
Digital photo collage. 18" x 24." 2018.
Digital photo collage. 18" x 24." 2018.
Nikki Pike’s work is engaged in positive yet critical engagement with society. She recognizes the human need for belonging and connectedness and our need for environments that promote togetherness. Influenced by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, she makes postmodern, social/relational projects that range from community skill sharing to sustainable structures to large and small-scale sculptures employing whimsy and play. Pike intends that viewers become collaborators as active participants – whether through hard work and a committed laborious process, active charge, or by a momentary spark of wonder and hope. These approaches foster interdisciplinary exchange, inclusivity and fluidity through various media.
Tirohanga #3 - Jodi Stewart
Abs plastic. 66" x 33" x 8." 2018.
Jodi Stuart, originally from New Zealand, received her Bachelor of Visual Arts from Manukau Institute of Technology, and a MFA from Auchland University. Jodi has lived in the US since 2010. She aims to inherent biomorphic forms that are exaggerated, producing tactile affects that border on the grotesque. Through visual ambiguity, the works attract and repulse, reference the primordial, and resonate with the body. Currently her approach involves using mixed media drawings and printed geological forms to interrupt the hermetically sealed appearance of digitally produced imagery. The forms are material expressions of immanence and potentiality, and convey the immeasurable forces at work beyond our human perception.
Circle Back
Eileen Roscina Richardson
Resin, pressed flowers, mirror. 5-10" diameter each. 2018.
Eileen Roscina Richardson is an artist, chef and naturalist from Denver, Colorado who works in a wide variety of mediums. Eileen is an experimental filmmaker with a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA a botanical illustrator, trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver, CO, and a Natural Food Chef, trained at Nutritional Therapy Institute. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines and seeks to raise questions about human’s spiritual and social (dis) connection with nature.
La Gentes Sentados - Tony Ortega
Monoprint on paper. 22" x 30." 2018.
Tony Ortega holds an MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Colorado and is currently a professor for Regis University. 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). He has been a working artist and teacher for the past 36 years. 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 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.
Remnant Series - Ashley Frazier
Concrete, glass. 10.5" x 3" each. 2018.
Ashley Frazier is a Colorado Native currently working in Denver, CO. She received her BFA in Painting from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Frazier’s work is a focused mixture of sculpture, drawing, photography and installation. The duality between past and present informs my process which involves collecting and cataloging, repeating and reflecting, demolishing and reconstructing. Her work often explores the relationship of people and their surroundings by pairing the allure with grotesque, alongside the natural and artificial. Through this process, Frazier’s work reveals a personal vulnerability in creating a visual autobiography based in the memory.
Pyramid & Far Pyramid - Bruce Price
Acrylic on canvas, 8" x 10." 2018.
Acrylic on canvas, 8" x 10." 2018.
Bruce Price received his MFA from Maine College of Art and is currently Director of the Institute for Experimental Studies at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design where he also teaches. With numerous solo exhibitions in New York and Denver his work has been collected internationally. Mr. Price lives and works in Denver, Co. He is an independent artist/entrepreneur residing in Denver, Co. Former Director of the Institute for Experimental Studies and founding resident advisor at RedLine. Price brings an extensive exhibition history with solo exhibitions in New York and Denver, with works in several museums and collected internationally.
Untitled & VS - Wong Zheng a.k.a. Catty
Enamel on cement retaining wall. 8' x 41' x 3.'
Plastic & passport. 18" x 22." 2019.
Harbin, China
Wong Zheng (aka "Catty") is a multidisciplinary artist from Harbin, China. During her Visiting Artist Residency at S*Park in 2019, WONG installed a mural on the west side of the outdoor garden, as well as the wall between the living condos and Uchi Restaurant. The landscape imagery in the murals reflects both Ukiyo-e, a traditional mural style painting of Japan, and Mogao, Dunhuang Buddhist Cave Paintings in China. Her visual integration of these distinct styles speaks to the site-specificity of the work next to Uchi while also acknowledging the historical protection of sacred murals in her home country of China. More information on Wong can be found on her website, https://cattywong.wordpress.com/about/.
Every Falling Forest - Regan Rosburg
Iron, hand cut and laser cut mylar, oil paint, hardware. 9' x 9' x 20,' 2019.
Denver, CO
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.
Sourced - Darya Warner
Photograph. 20" x 16." 2021.
Buffalo, NY
Darya Warner is a bio-artist (Buffalo, NY). She is the Director of Operations at Cayo Art + Science Residency. Warner is fascinated by the beauty of living organisms that often goes unnoticed. She has mastered the art of microscopy and has led multiple workshops on this subject (School of Visual Arts in NYC; Queens New York Botanic Gardens; Cayo Residency, Bahamas). Warner works with fungi, researching ways that everyday mass-produced items can be replaced with more ecologically friendly materials.
Warner’s sculptures and installations often include biologically living material and scientific data. She is an educator on the subject of sustainable art practices, sustainable living practices, urban farming, and plastic consumption reduction.
Tears - Jody Guralnick
Acrylic on panel. 30" x 20." 2021.
Aspen, CO
Jody Guralnick has shown work nationally and internationally, including the Flomenhaft Gallery in Nyc, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, and closer to home, the Aspen Art Museum, the Denver Contemporary Biennial, the Boulder Art Museum, as well as a visiting Artists residency at the American Academy in Rome. She has degrees from St. Martin’s School of Art in London and Pratt Institute in New York. Her next show is at the Denver Botanic Gardens Art and Science gallery in December 2020.
As an artist I attempt to serve as intermediary, merging many worlds: the world of insects, animals, plants, fungi, microbes and the man-made. I invite indoors the creations of the outdoors in order to form a new hybrid made by hand, paw and claw.
I am engaged in a partnership with these materials, alternately transforming, observing, seed saving, elucidating. I am studying them botanically, naming, categorizing. By using both the tools of science and art I hope to explicate a time and place in three dimensions, a time and place that is rapidly undergoing climatic change, social change, change at the human level and change planet wide.
By applying traditional rules of taxonomy overlaid with new combinations, I am making hybrids that speak of both past present and future.
In my practice, I attempt to collaborate with the world rather than create something with no past, no history. My work is about dissection and classification in order to transform, to disrupt in order to know, to join two things that do not easily cohabitate.
This work is about memory and amnesia, mosses and lichens and fungi, alchemical plants and the rapture of the tiny. It is about amazement, longing, definition, and comprehension. It is about the forgotten detail, and blurring the line between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is about shock and the quotidian, just as it is about the space where nature and domesticity rub up against each other. I try to work at the point where two worlds touch; where there is a call, and a response.
I am not taming wilderness, I am making new introductions.
House and Home Series - Susan Hopp
Digital image collage on paper (2). 9" x 9", 13" x 18." 2022.
Savannah, GA
Susan Hopp’s work is an investigation into the idea of “place,” and how that has been changed/manipulated/redefined within the new context of a digital, social media age. The installations and small collages are appropriated photographic images sourced from social media sites. Digital and physical collages are then created from image fragments and partials, which are then reformed into landscapes. In her own words, “My process removes the image from the post on social media and evokes a larger conversation about the idea of place: where am I/where are we?”
Hopp is the Associate Chair of Foundations at Savannah College of Art and Design, where she encourages her students to critically think about the digital age of which they are a part. Hopp has exhibited nationally, including the prestigious Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.
Untitled (Tumbleweed) & Untitled (Phenomenon) - Ashley Williams
Oil on Canvas. 2018.
Oil on Canvas. 2018.
Ashley Eliza Williams is an interdisciplinary artist exploring new ways of interacting with nature and with each other. She shows her work nationally and internationally and has attended artist residencies in the United States, Germany, Thailand, and China. She has taught at The University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She currently lives in Western Massachusetts.
Jodie Herrera
Photo, Spraypaint on Board. 2018.
Jodie Herrera is a Northern New Mexican painter with Latina, Apache, and Comanche ancestry. She has been an artist her whole life and started formally painting in 2011. Herrera received her BFA with honors from the University of New Mexico and currently resides in Albuquerque, where she works as a full time Artist and Curator.
Herrera is currently focusing on two art projects. Herrera”s main project is locally based, where she creates semi-photorealistic figurative oil paintings portraying women that are going through or have persevered through trauma. Addiction, abuse and cancer are but some of these traumas. Herrera takes great care with each story, building personal and supportive relationship with each of her participants. Herrera then narrates their experiences using symbolism within her paintings and explains it with a write up that accompanies each piece. She strives to celebrate the beauty and resilience of these women and hopes they can provide inspiration for others.
Women Across Borders, is an International Arts and Activism project. She specifically works with refugee and immigrant women and creates paintings that illustrate their personal journeys. She provides monetary and emotional support for all her participants and hopes to bring attention the issues they face and have overcome, as well as to educate and activate others around the subject.
Herrera’s ultimate goal is to connect and uplift all women, while providing a platform for important issues around intersectional feminism. Herrera hopes her work can be a catalyst for positive change.
Herrera was awarded “Best Visual Artist of 2017” by Albuquerque The Magazine, and her art has been featured in such settings as The Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz, The Albuquerque Art and History Museum, The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Arts, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine(online), Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, among many others.
Rainbow Curve Long Fellow & Middle Distance - Laura Noel
Chromogenic print. 30" x 20.” 2018.
Chromogenic print. 30" x 20.” 2018.
Laura Noel is a Coastal artist and musician, currently living and working in Bandon, OR. She grew up in the rainy, verdant lands of the Pacific Northwest, where she credits the poor weather and seasonal darkness to developing a strong sense of creativity and imagination. An undeniable influence from her youth spent in Washington State is evident in her work, as many of her paintings favor rich earth tones, moss-like forms, and evoke a feeling of forests. Laura migrated to California in the early 2000’s to attend the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she earned a BFA with an emphasis in Animation. She cultivated her craft and built her art career in California until the fall of 2020, when she relocated to the Southern Oregon Coast to start the next chapter of her life and artistic development.
Laura is a passionate and prolific painter. Her primary medium is acrylic paint and her style could best be described as “nature-inspired abstract.” She often creates work in series or diptychs and triptychs.
Laura has created hundreds of paintings in her artistic career. She has also been recognized for her talent through several high-profile public art projects. In 2014 she was selected to participate in the Vallejo Downtown Window Art Project. The goal of this yearly installation is to fill downtown Vallejo’s empty storefronts with art to bring more life and culture to the downtown and encourage new businesses to move in.
In 2015 she was selected to paint a utility box in downtown Vallejo as part of a participatory budgeting grant. That same year she was also selected to paint one of the well-known “Hearts” sculptures in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation’s annual fundraiser.
In 2018, she was selected to participate in a project for the Oakland Athletics baseball team. As part of their 50th anniversary season, she was selected to paint one of 50 life-size mascot statues that were been placed all around Oakland for the 2018 season.
