September is here—and so is an exciting new lineup of group and solo shows, closing and opening receptions, and artist talks featuring Colorado artists!
These exhibitions promise to offer a diverse array of perspectives, mediums, and stories that will leave you inspired. Join us in this world of creativity, passion, and innovation celebrating the boundless artistic journeys of the RedLine community.
We’re also launching our new exhibit Making Our Mark: An Exploration of Vandal Futurism, curated by RedLine Resident Alumni Anthony García Sr.. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, September 23, from 6-9 pm at RedLine!
Here are 9 must-see exhibitions and art events featuring RedLine Resident Artists and Alumni this September!
Tya Anthony - THREADED Group Show
Image courtesy of the artist.
What: Group Exhibition
Where: The Collective | Lafayette Cultural Arts Center - 201 N Public Rd, Lafayette, CO, 80026
When: August 15 - October 1, 2023
About the exhibition: Curated by RedLine Alumni/Art Education Director Tya Anthony. Featuring works by Adderly Grant-Lord, RedLine Resident Artist Jazz Holmes, RedLine’s Youth Art Education Coordinator Shaunie Berry, RedLine Resident Artist Yaz Atmore, and Tya Anthony.
Through the power of multi-generational collaboration, we pay homage to the women that paved the way for our journey and look towards the future with a spirit of creativity, possibility, and empowerment. We explore the idea of living an authentic life and forging our own paths.
Our art reflects a deeper connection to our identity as Black women and the rich complexity of our experiences. We draw on emotion and abstraction to bring the Black experience in the 21st century to life, envisioning new narratives that are as dynamic and diverse as the people themselves. In the wake of a global pandemic, we find strength and hope in the power of art to inspire and unite us all.
About the artist: Tya Alisa Anthony explores themes of Identity through photography, mined media and charged objects. Anthony’s identity-focused works offer exploration in both the shared and diverse experiences of Contemporary Western Culture. While approaching socially illuminated topics involving people of color, the core of Anthony's experimental work exists within research, collage, and abstraction. It’s Anthony's intention to create works that explore the intersections of humanity while creating a space of autonomy and regard for bodies of color.
Contact: tya.anthony@gmail.com
Artist site: http://www.tyaanthony.com/
Instagram: @tyaanthony
Ana María Hernando - CCNMWA's Colorado Women to Watch Group Show
What: Group Exhibition
Where: Center for Visual Art – 965 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204
When: August 18 – October 21, 2023
About the exhibition: Colorado Women to Watch features five widely acclaimed artists who will transform CVA’s galleries through works that defy the male-dominated narrative of art.
The work of Kim Dickey, RedLine Resource Artist Ana María Hernando, Maia Ruth Lee, RedLine Alumni Suchitra Mattai and Senga Nengudi breaks through boundaries, emphasizes the strength of female artists, and reshapes our perception of power. Through various media we witness these artists repossessing the discarded and retelling subverted histories with narratives of resiliency.
About the artist: Argentinian visual artist Ana Maria Hernando has been surrounded by fabrics from a very young age. Growing up in a family that owned a textile factory—where she spent many summers working as a teenager—it is no surprise that this influence would find its way into her art. Since becoming a visual artist, she has worked in a variety of mediums.
Contact: ahernando8@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.anamariahernando.com
Instagram: @anamariahernandoart
Ana María Hernando - Making a Mountain Closing Reception
Image by Drew Austin. Courtesy of The Dairy Arts Center
What: Exhibition Closing Reception
Where: The Dairy Arts Center – 2590 Walnut, Boulder, C0, 80302
When: July 14-September 9, 2023
Closing reception: September 9, 2023
About the exhibitions: For Making a Mountain, the community will be invited to sew together, sharing stories while building a large-scale installation made from pink and orange tulle. At the very beginning, visitors see a space with only chairs and sewing machines on tables arranged in a circle. As participants begin sewing ruffled tulle onto ribbons, these strands feed the central space with its volume. As the days pass, the joyful work, done together, becomes a mound—then a mountain. The installation will stay up after all the sewing is complete, but the growth of the installation can be watched again and again afterwards through time-lapsed video recording.
Marsha Mack - Happy Place Solo Show
Image courtesy of the artist.
What: Solo show
Where: Understudy – 890 C 14th St, Denver, CO 80202
Opening Reception: September 2, 6-9pm
About the exhibition: Understudy is proud to present Happy Place, a solo exhibition by Columbus, OH- based artist Marsha Mack. Through sculptural ceramic objects and installation, Happy Place is Marsha Mack’s constructed version of paradise. Paradise, imagined as an idea, feeling, and a place, is a utopian concept where existence is easy; pain and struggle are held safely at bay as happiness reigns.
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.
Contact: marshachristinemack@gmail.com
Artist site: http://www.marshamack.com/
Instagram: @yaymarshamack
Kenzie Sitterud - From, Dawn Artist Talk
Image courtesy of the artist
What: Artist Talk
Where: Leon Art Gallery – 1112 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80218
When: September 7, 6pm
About the event: A key critical component of Sitterud’s work is an uncompromising, yet playful interrogation of gender identity, navigating within the established structures and pervasive tropes of traditional American culture. Employing color palettes that telegraph gender binary associations, Sitterud assigns them to diametrically opposed objects, illuminating the often arbitrary and irrational constraints that popular culture enshrines within our generally accepted expressions of gender.
About the artist: Sitterud is a multimedia artist who works primarily in large-scale installations, commercial art, and public art environments. Sitterud's installations are designed to create the same dysphoric environment experienced by the queer community who exist in a society that is not designed for and is not inclusive of them. This body of work contains The Bathroom, The Kitchen Table, The Wardrobe, The Powder Room and The Bedroom.
Contact: sitterud.m@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.kenziemckenzie.com
Instagram: kenziesitterud
Kenzie Sitterud - Covid Ballads Perfomance
What: Performance/exhibition closing party
Where: Leon Art Gallery – 1112 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80218
When: September 14, 6pm
About the exhibition: A special musical performance, by exhibiting artist, Kenzie Sitterud, presenting Covid Ballads inside their solo show From, Dawn. This show is Kenzies first musical performance in eight years, coming out of retirement for one evening to perform a set of songs written during the Covid lockdowns. The music is dark, the music is visual, and the music is to give space to reflect of the past three years during the pandemic.
Daisy Patton - With Hands Clasped Tightly Solo Exhibition
Detail of "Untitled (Starry Sisters with Trilliums)," 83"x42." Image courtesy of the artist.
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: Foto Relevance – 4411 Montrose Blvd C, Houston, TX, 77006
When: September 8 - November 10, 2023
About the exhibit: Foto Relevance is pleased to present With Hands Clasped Tightly, the gallery's first solo show from multidisciplinary artist Daisy Patton. The works presented in the exhibition are an extension of Forgetting is so long, an ongoing series regarding memory, identity, and loss which explores the family portrait to reveal generational time.
Throughout Patton’s work, the use of abandoned photographs serves to dislocate the linear timeframe so commonly associated with the familial realm — the photo’s age is in constant conversation with its current presence, transforming the viewer into a time traveler.
About the artist: Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood moving between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural landscapes and the ambiguous absences within her family. Influenced by collective and political histories, Patton explores storytelling and story-carrying, the meaning and social conventions of families, and what shapes living memory. Her work also examines in-between spaces and identities, including the fallibility of the body and the complexities of relationship and connection.
Contact: daisy.a.patton@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.daisypatton.com/
Instagram: @daisy_patton
Katie Caron - Neuron Forest Solo Exhibition
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: The Dairy Art Center, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, Colorado, 80302
When: September 15 - November 11, 2023
Opening Reception: September 15, 5-8pm
About the exhibit: I have always been compelled to create work inspired by the nature’s geometries, specifically the self-similar branching fractals in our brains: neurons. These discrete nerve cells are composed of dendrites, a series of radiating appendages that gather input from other neurons. I am struck by their visual movement, how they creep as they change form and communicate through neural pathways. These neural circuits interconnect to one another to form a large-scale brain network, creating human consciousness, identity, life as we know it.
About the artist: Katie Caron is presently Chair of Studio Art and Head of Ceramics and 3D Design at Arapahoe Community College. Caron graduated from Boston University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in English Education and minor in Theater Arts. After graduation, she decided to pursue her art fulltime and moved to Colorado. In 2007, Caron was accepted to the graduate program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and graduated with a MFA in Ceramics.
Contact: katie.caron@arapahoe.edu
Artist website: https://katiecaron.com/
Instagram: @katiemcaron
Taiko Chandler - Thoughtful Intuition Solo Show
Image courtesy of the artist
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: Littleton Museum - 6028 S Gallup St, Littleton, CO, 80120
When: September 21 - January 7, 2024
Opening Reception: September 21, 5:30pm
About the exhibit: Thoughtful Intuition' is a solo exhibition featuring abstract artwork by Denver-based artist Taiko Chandler. This exhibit features prints, paintings, sculptures and installations, which are created through her incredibly thoughtful yet intuitive process. Chandler composes her work instinctively, combining shapes, colors, lines, and textures in order to express her imagination and react to the environment around her. The process is both both deliberate and iterative. She is constantly improvising with no fixed destination in mind. there is a sense of her pitting things in place, not systematically, but instinctively, as though a force of nature is at work. The resulting artwork is entirely precise and complete.
About the artist: Taiko Chandler is visual artist who lives in Denver, Colorado. She was born and raised in Nagano, Japan, where she originally trained as a nurse. She worked in this profession, in Japan, for 15 years before studying to transfer her qualification so she could work as a nurse in the UK. As an artist, Taiko focuses on printmaking, print based installations, and more recently has begun to explore three-dimensional sculptures. For her, creating art is a way to reflect on her life experiences and express her emotions and thoughts. She draws on her extensive experiences as a nurse to position her art as a filter for her view of humanity, and encourage community and social interaction.
Contact: taiko_chandler@hotmail.com
Artist website: https://taikochandler.com/
Instagram: @taikochandler
September Exhibitions & Art Events at RedLine
Making Our Mark: An Exploration of Vandal Futurism
On display September 23-November 3, 2023. Opening reception: September 23, 2023, 6-9 pm.
Curated by Resident Alumni Anthony García Sr. Part of our RedLine at 15 exhibition program.
Image: Designed by Anthony Garcia Sr.
