Meet 2022-2024 RedLine Resident Artist Scottie Burgess!
Scottie Burgess is a native to Colorado. He received dual BFA’s with emphases in Digital Design and Sculpture/Transmedia at the University of Colorado Denver, graduating with honors.
Burgess earned a scholarship to study at the Bemis School of Art as a child. Later, his interests took him to explore other creative disciplines, including philosophy and music technology, revolving around the transpersonal ritualistic nature of rave and club culture manifested through electronically driven live sound.
While exploring audio engineering with the Denver Theater Company at the DCPA, he pivoted from sound towards more visual technological expressions, leading to a predominantly installation-based and sculptural creative practice ranging from the digital to the physical. He was recently a resident artist and fellow at the MOA: Museum of Outdoor Arts, was a member at Pirate: Contemporary Art and is active in the performance iron casting community.
His work has been exhibited nationally including in the Biennial 600: Textile/Fiber at the AMoA, Amarillo Museum of Art, has been honored to be part of the meaningful pro-feminist exhibition Pink Progression and has been featured in publications including The Guardian and Colossal.
In addition to studio and public art, Burgess has a background in design, including studying in Copenhagen at DIS. His design endeavors have involved the development of The Center of Arts as Systemic Change, employing interdisciplinary creatives to advance profound awareness-based change.
He has collaborated with Farm-to-Spaceship, bridging the digital and physical with interactive installations using PLAY as the mode to assist local artists, stimulate local businesses and spark creativity during the pandemic. He has also been certified by INDEX: Design to Improve Life, aiming to use creativity as a tool to facilitate positive change worldwide.
Watch the video of Scottie below to learn more about him and his practice!
"My name is Scottie Burgess, and my practice largely revolves around sculpture and installation.
"I use meditation as a means to focus on the moment through process. I gravitate towards the physicality of materials. I follow my instincts and traverse through layers. I tend to deconstruct and reconstruct, cut up, put things back together as a means to find ineffable, textural languages.
"As of late, I have been reflecting on how we are influenced and how we cope, not just as artists, but as people and human beings living within the crazy, and sometimes beautiful, and oftentimes challenging cultural climate we are currently existing in.
"I applied to RedLine largely because of the creative community here, and I can say that RedLine is truly an altruistic organization, which is hard to find nowadays.
"There are an incredible cohort of creatives that come through here, and I'm looking forward to being inspired, and being challenged, and collaborating with the many just amazing creatives that are here and are surrounding."
Meet Resident Artist Shieka Leslie-Eke!
Shieka Leslie-Eke, a Denver-based artist & educator, is forever mystified about life's interconnects.
Reflecting on her ethnic heritage & American culture, Shieka digests and confronts what she sees as western brainwashing using materials such as paint, clay, beads, photography, and organic elements through various mediums such as animations, sculpture, print, music & curation.
Watch the video of Shieka in her studio at RedLine to learn more about her and her practice >
