The cold chill of winter may still be present in the Rocky Mountain region, but the welcome scent of spring is also in the air.

The intrepid art-appreciator will be rewarded this March with a preview of all the creative seeds that are being planted this season by our Resident Artist and Alumni community.

It’s time, once again, to celebrate all things photographic with the kick-off of the biennial Month of Photography festival, known simply as MoP. What better way to appreciate this regional touchstone event that’s been taking place for nearly twenty years than to visit Typed live, Excuse errors: A Mark Sink Retrospective?

With this exhibition, the originator and mastermind behind MoP, Mark Sink, will explore the interconnected world of family, community, and art. Join us on Saturday March 11th for the opening reception.

That same evening, RedLine will also be ushering in Ni Sin Mo’ Meh / To Weave Water, which is a new body of work by Jacob Meders that builds on the cultural connection between the Native Hawaiians, or Kanaka Maoli, of Sutter’s 1839 expedition and the Maidu families with whom they bonded. This combination of exhibitions is sure to inspire inquiry and spark conversations.

This March, we encourage you to explore all corners of the state of Colorado and see what our Resident Artists and Alumni are up to. If you’re planning an early springtime trip to other parts of the country, you can also see the work of RedLine artists in places as diverse and varied as the American Sign Museum in Ohio, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston!

There’s so much to see and explore, just in time for spring! Here are 7 projects and exhibitions featuring RedLine artists in March.

Ben Coleman - Artist Residency at Counterpath

*Photo of various surveillance tech installed on an American street pole*

What: RedLine Resident Alumni Ben Coleman begins an Artist Residency
Where: Counterpath—7935 E 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80220
When: February 7 - March 7, 2023

Programs:

ShotSpotter tour with the East Colfax walking group on March 1, 2023
Closing event scheduled for the weekend of March 3, 2023

About the project: Sound artist and East Colfax resident Ben Coleman will be at Counterpath for a residency from February 6 - March 6, 2023, during which time he will be researching the ShotSpotter technology installed in the neighborhood.

In conversation with local residents and other stakeholders (including local police), he will hear a variety of perspectives surrounding the implementation of this technology in East Colfax. Over the course of the month, Ben will map the presence of ShotSpotter in East Colfax—on the streets, in the daily lives of residents, and in our technological imaginary.

About the artist: Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is rooted in sound and performance making, but often plays with other media, including music, text, video and installation.

Coleman grew up in theater and music, forming his first bands in London while studying contemporary performance. Moving to the US in 2006, he dedicated some eventful years to musical projects- later returning to performance alongside new roles as composer, sound designer and installation artist. His practice now embraces curatorial projects, and frequent collaboration with choreographers, visual artists, and theater practitioners.

Contact: contactbencoleman@gmail.com
Artist site: http://www.bencolemansounds.com/
Instagram: @isthisbencoleman

**Jodi Stuart - Data Degrown, Two-Person Exhibition**

What: Data Degrown Exhibition
Where: Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center at Colorado State University —1101 Center Avenue Mall, Fort Collins, CO 80521
When: February 14 - March 17, 2023

About the exhibition: RedLine Resident Artist Alumni Jodi Stuart will be participating in a two-person exhibition with Gabe Duggan.

“Gabe Duggan and Jodi Stuart both explore ideas of digital & new media as well as virtual vs. physical spaces in their individual practices. This exhibition touches on these ideas translated into three dimensional artworks using both digital and handmade approaches, resulting in an exciting interplay of color, form, and imagery.”

About the artist: Through her practice, Jodi Stuart explores aspects of virtual culture in relation to its aesthetic of hyper-stimulation and sensory overload. Her works plays on aspects of the virtual versus the physical, using the tools and materials of high-tech/digital culture combined with the handmade and tactile. She aims to create works that simultaneously allude to craft traditions, weaving, knitting, basket making; as well as virtual space, neural networks, cloud computing, and biomimicry.

Contact: stuart.jodi@gmail.com
Artist website: http://www.jodistuart.com/
Instagram: @stuart.jodi

Ana María Hernando - 45 + Anniversary Exhibition

What: 45 + Anniversary Exhibition Series: Part II
Where: Robischon Gallery—1740 Wazee Street, Denver, CO 80202
When: February 23 - April 29, 2023

About the exhibition: “45+ PART II of Robischon Gallery's anniversary exhibition series; a dynamic offering highlighting the gallery’s far-reaching dialogues within overt abstraction including many new and impressive archived artworks by previously exhibited and represented artists including the preeminent artists Judy Pfaff, Ann Hamilton, Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, and Bernar Venet.”

About the artist: Ana María Hernando, from Argentina and based in Colorado, is a multidisciplinary artist. 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 and beyond, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to mountains of tulle, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the mountains.

Contact: ahernando8@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.anamariahernando.com/
Instagram: @anamariahernandoart

Melody Epperson - Solo Exhibition

“Innocence” image courtesy of the artist

What: Lifetime of Snapshots, Solo Exhibition

Where: Next Gallery—6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214

When: March 31- April 16, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, March 31, 5-10 pm

Light snacks and beer and wine will be served

Programs:

Next to the Mic: Saturday April 7, 7-9pm Share poems, stories, and songs about family.
Closing reception and Coloring Book party Sunday April 16, 12-3pm

About the exhibition: “Lifetime of Snapshots examines the complexity of all families through the lens of Melody’s own family. It includes figurative paintings, installations, and sound. All of which are snapshots from her story. But they also tell our collective stories. In this digital age when every image is curated to create the ideal, this exhibit harkens back to a time when images most often captured the non-curated moments. There is a mythology surrounding the notion of the ideal family, but all families are unique, ugly, beautiful, and…well, complicated.

Next Gallery is proud to announce Lifetime of Snapshots a solo exhibition of work by artist Melody Epperson. Lifetime of Snapshots includes 16 figurative paintings, like snapshots, each capturing a situation that is both specific and universal. As you enter the exhibit you encounter a wall of windows with graphs containing data pulled from the artists life. A mysterious vintage telephone tells our collective story through a variety of soundscapes from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Lifetime of Snapshots honestly addresses the reality of our family story while acknowledging the mythology surrounding them. As you look through the windows at the entrance of the exhibit, and peer into the lives of another person’s family, you realize that we are more alike than different. The hope is that, through this experience we can see our common humanity and how we are all connected.”

This exhibit is both deeply personal and universal because we all have a family. I hope you will recognize your family within mine.

— Melody Epperson

About the Artist: Melody Epperson's artwork focuses on her experience as a woman, both in society and within her own skin. Her creative process is central in her artwork. It starts when she becomes curious about a concept, she then reflects on it or investigates the idea and finally she takes creative action.

In this series Melody moves from a tragic loss of a family member to a place where she can investigate the mythology surrounding family. The series may seem to deviate from her previous work, but it ties directly to it, because both deal with the concept of connection. Trees form intricate networks to support the grove and so too do families. Especially in times of tragedy.

Melody lives her life in much the same was as she creates her art with curiosity, reflection, and creativity. She seeks to use her creativity to bring about change within herself and others. The artwork invites the viewer into her process, and in a way, into her own skin and her experience as a woman. Change is possible through this connection with the viewer and their personal response to it.

Contact: melodyepperson@me.com

Artist site: www.melodyepperson.com

Instagram: @melody.epperson

Marsha Mack - Three Group Shows

What: Dynamics of Flow, part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)’s 57th Annual Conference

Where: The Carnegie—1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, KY

When: March 15-August 19, 2023

About the exhibition: “Dynamics of Flow consists of sequentially selected objects and bodies of work alternating between ceramics and painting. The curators (Derrick Velasquez, Johanna Jackson, Matt Distel) will individually select projects that respond to the previous selection. The process involved will reveal a dialogue between specific objects and, broadly, between painting and ceramics. Embrace expansive definitions of these media, the exhibition will look to push both the similarities and differences between them. A curatorial game of telephone operating on a loop. Dynamics of Flow coincides with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts holding their annual conference in Cincinnati.”

Participating artists include: Saul Acevedo Gomez, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Sara Mayako Gernsbacher, Samara Golden, Rashawn Griffin, Zachary Herrmann, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Marsha Mack, Kyp Malone, George Perez, William Renschler, Richard Shaw, Cauleen Smith, Michael Stillion, Jenna Thornhill, Sara Torgison, Derrick Velasquez, Betty Woodman, Ilana Zweschi
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What: Current Conversations Down an L-Shaped Hallway, part of the NCECA Conference

Where: American Sign Museum—1330 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, OH

When: March 15 – 18, 2023

About the exhibition: Part of Ohio’s rich history with clay, this exhibition features current works by Ohio State University’s ceramics graduate students, faculty, and a collection of archived student-published zines for reading.

Participating artists include: Christine Fashion, Hannah McCasland, Jinblossom Plati, Breanna Hendricks, Alex Trippe, Koen Vrij, Marsha Mack, Cory Mahoney, Karen Tharp, Britny Wainwright, Steven Thurston

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What: Edge: Where Two Things/Materials Meet, part of the NCECA Conference

Where: ArtsWave—20 E Central Pkwy, Cincinnati, OH

When: March 15 – 18, 2023

Reception: Friday, March 17, 4–6pm

About the exhibition: “This exhibition explores the possibilities of ceramics as a contemporary art material. Its artists engage with space and inter-material play, asking, ‘how does material inform meaning within the work?’ Organized by Britny Wainwright.

Participating artists include: Carolina Alamilla, Emily Bayless, Brandi Lee Cooper, Katie Coughlin, Meredith Habermann, Emily Blythe Jones, Marsha Mack, Kelly O'Briant, Claudia Solórzano, Britny Wainwright

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About the artist: Working with a diverse range of materials and techniques, Marsha’s artistic practice serves as a means to analyze and subvert common symbols across cultural and emotional strata. Approached in a project-based fashion, with subject matter changing from one body of work to the next, meticulously constructed sculptural objects and installations play to the subconscious. Harnessing a decidedly feminine aesthetic, widely accepted associations of objects and ideas are playfully challenged, allowing for simultaneous delight and introspection.

Marsha holds an MFA in ceramics and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women's and Gender Studies from Syracuse University, and a BFA in ceramics from San Francisco State University. She is newly based in Columbus, OH where she is an adjunct professor of ceramics at The Ohio State University.

Contact: MarshaChristineMack@gmail.com

Artist site: http://www.marshamack.com/

Instagram: @yaymarshamack

Sarah Bowling - MFA Thesis Exhibition

What: thump, whoosh, rumble: Carnegie Mellon MFA 2023 Thesis Exhibition

Where: Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon—5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

When: March 25, 2023 - April 16, 2023

Reception: March 24, 6-8pm

About the exhibition: “The MFA program at CMU’s School of Art is an interdisciplinary, experimental, research-based program that challenges artists to recognize social context and civic engagement as paramount within contemporary art. Students are encouraged to employ a comparative and intersectional approach to critical and cultural theories, allowing this inquiry to inform and expand what it means to be an artist and to make art within our contemporary condition.”

Participating artists include: Sarah Bowling, Jessica Fuquay, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind, Rebecca Shapass, Caroline Yoo

About the artist: Sarah Bowling’s interests center around the malleability of bodies; the continuous cycle of becoming, both physically and emotionally; and the interior landscapes of memory and desire. She uses painting, sculpture, and bodybuilding to explore the degree to which “bodies” can be pushed and manipulated while still maintaining their essential integrity. Her work delves into the emotional and physical thresholds and boundaries that define us.

“Meticulously woven chain link fences, a motif throughout Bowling’s work, represent an (in)visible boundary of desire– one that can be seen through, sought after, fantasized about, but remains on the other side. The fence, like a body, contains memories of every encounter that has transformed it. Even a small misalignment causes repercussions throughout its labyrinth of steel, much like the ripple effect caused by a single experience. The fence weaves and sags into its own weight. While being distorted by the sun’s harsh brightness, it flirts between a dream space and reality

Bowling also explores porous bodily boundaries through inflatable sculptures that breathe deeply with exhaustion and lightly graze one another in their exhale. A large painting, blushing like a cheek, radiates hot pink from the corner of the gallery. Similarly, the trophy-like butt on the wall sweats… profusely. This self-contained fountain system echoes the rhythms of the human body. The sweaty butt occasionally leaves a mark. Sometimes embarrassing, sometimes a sign of hard work and exertion. Nonetheless, a reminder of touch. The concrete tears cast a heavy shadow, one felt by their material presence. Each work in this exhibition asks the question: what are the thresholds of a body and what is the weight of desire?”

Contact: sarahcbowling@gmail.com

Artist site: http://www.sarahcbowling.com/

Instagram: @_sarahbowling_

Taiko Chandler - Group Show in Boston

"Blue Surge" monotype prints on Tyvek - photo credit: Scott Dressel-Martin

What: Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence

Where: Museum of Fine Arts Boston—465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

When: March 26 – July 16, 2023

About the exhibition: “Taking a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), this major exhibition explores in detail his impact on other artists—both during his lifetime and beyond. Throughout a career of more than 70 years, Hokusai experimented with a wide range of styles and subjects, producing landscapes such as the instantly recognizable Great Wave and Red Fuji (both about 1830–31), nature studies known as “bird-and-flower pictures,” and depictions of women, heroes, and monsters. The exhibition brings together more than 100 woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books by Hokusai with more than 200 works by his teachers, students, rivals, and admirers. These unique juxtapositions demonstrate Hokusai’s influence through time and space—seen in works by, among others, his daughter Katsushika Ōi, his contemporaries Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, the 19th-century French Japonistes, and modern and contemporary artists including Loïs Mailou Jones, John Cederquist, and Yoshitomo Nara.”

About the artist: Born and raised in Nagano, Japan and originally trained as nurse, Taiko Chandler lives and works in Denver, CO. Since taking her first art class at the Art Students League of Denver, Taiko has focused on printmaking; more recently exploring other media, installation, sculpture to express her inner vision. Taiko’s work has been exhibited in Colorado (including solo exhibitions at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Botanic Gardens) and other states, as well as numerous print fairs throughout the U.S. Her work is in private and public collections in the U.S. and Japan, including the Cleveland Clinic Art Program, University of Colorado Denver Business school, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY) and the Denver Art Museum (Education Collection).
Contact: taiko_chandler@hotmail.com

Artist site: https://taikochandler.com

Instagram: @taikochandler