2018 Contemporary Art Exhibitions
Explore RedLine’s 2017-2018 art exhibitions, featuring emerging contemporary Colorado artists.
Not Even Human
November 10-December 9, 2018
Curated by Alicia Ordal
In this exhibit, fundamental connections are explored between other living creatures and our comprehension of existences beyond ourselves.
Contributors from various fields offer their unique perspectives through images, humor, and performative collaborations with animals. This collection of work considers other life forms through a multi-species lens informed by experimentation, appreciation and curiosity.
Featured artists: Bradley Benedetti, Coleman Mummery, Colin Ward, Cows, Jessica Langley, Justin Beard, Margaret Neumann, Neal Agarwal, Porscha’ Danielle, Sarah Gamble, Tucker Marder/Sharks.
Reality Bytes
September 21-October 28, 2018
Curated by Ivar Zeile/Denver Digerati. Presented in Conjunction with Supernova Digital Animation Festival.
Much of what we see, hear about, or experience in the world today often seems unimaginable. The steady flow of video games, virtual reality, consumer apps, computer programs and social media outlets derived from the “digital age” promote an existence that is becoming more “dreamlike” every day, often invoking complete wonderment.
Reality Bytes aims to capture the zeitgeist brewing through the use of digital tools in the hands of contemporary artists. Presented by Denver Digerati, the works in the exhibition utilize their expansive laboratory operating within Denver’s public landscape over the last seven years.
Reality Bytes, shown in conjunction with Supernova Digital Animation Festival, delivers a fascinating snapshot into a rapidly advancing world through some of the most imaginative artists in the field, celebrating digital animation as a wide, immersive realm unfettered by boundaries- changing how we experience art and the physical world.
Featured artists: Chiho Aoshima, John Butler, Emily Brout/Maxime Marion, Chris Coleman, Jeremy Couillard, Milton Croissant III, Sandrine Deumier, Elliot Dodd, Atomic Elroy, David Fodel, Jeff Jurich, Faiyaz Jafri, Bryan Leister, Michael Mallis, Keiichi Matsuda, Alex McLeod, Laleh Mehran, Brenna Murphy, Jonathan Monaghan, PNSY Studio, Mike Pelletier, Zach Tatham, Katie Torn, Jack Wedge, Barry Whittaker, and Mario Zoots.
Valley Boy: Jon Geiger
August 17-September 9, 2018
Presented in Collaboration with Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Valley Boy is a solo exhibition by Detroit-based artist Jon P. Geiger, and the artist’s largest solo exhibition to date.
Valley Boy features a new body of work that continues Geiger’s interest in both meditative and physical landscapes. Geiger transforms the gallery space into a reflection of the scenery and sensibilities of the artist’s adopted home, the San Luis Valley.
ARTS&: A Survey of 2016/2017 Arts in Society Projects
August 10 - September 9, 2018
Arts in Society is a funding initiative between the Bonfis-Stanton Foundation, Hemera Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and RedLine that has the expressed mission to support cross-sector work through the arts.
This exhibit represents a survey of the projects that received funding in 2017 and are currently taking place across the state of Colorado.
Rethinking Urbanism
June 22 - July 22, 2018
Image Credit: Francsico Chavira, The Zipper, 2017 (detail)
The works featured in Rethinking Urbanism explore the social, cultural and political complexities of urban space.
These complexities emerge in part through abstracted representations of density as with the work of Ramona Freeman, or the distillation of color that conveys a sense of bleakness as with Frank Lucero's "Traces of our Hands."
The urban aesthetic and tone that connect the selected works all contribute to the defining of a metropolis-state. In this case, that definition takes shape in multiples and en masse, but with curiously a lack of human representation thus conveying a sense of urban isolationism rather than shared or communal space.
Mastering Illusions: Contemporary Ink Paintings of Jin Sha
June 1 - June 17, 2018
Jin Sha’s preferred painting method is gongbi, which is considered China’s most conservative and most difficult brush technique. It’s characterized by combining fine lines with multiple layers of both ink-shadings and colors to achieve its three dimensional qualities.
Mastering Illusions featured the Angel paintings series (2018), where he has painted everyday images out of context. Each Chinese fan format features Jin Sha’s protagonist: a figure wearing a Magritte-style suit, bowler hat, and angel wings, but all are missing a body.
These everyman figures that are inherently good, indicated by their wings, were featured among a collection of ordinary objects, including children’s blocks, representing an ideal world that the “everyman” hopes to encounter. But like most Beijingers today, Jin Sha’s “every man” is trapped in a grim everyday reality not of his own making.
RedLine would like to thank the Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation for their generous support of RedLine's national and international visiting artist program.
10x: RedLine’s 10th Anniversary Retrospective Resident Artist Exhibition
February 2-April 1, 2018
Curated by Cortney Lane Stell in collaboration with Black Cube.
RedLine's 10th anniversary program series launched on February 2nd with the opening reception for 10X, an exhibition that celebrated ten years of RedLine's Artist-in-Residence program.
The entire 29,000 square foot building was curated (inside and out) to celebrate the contributions and works of over 86 resident artists and alumni.
What Lies Between: A Margaret Neumann Retrospective
November 10, 2017-January 6, 2018
Curated by Simon Zalkind
Few living artists in Colorado can claim the widespread influence and impact that Margaret Neumann has had on the art-practice of generations of artists–both those who have already been critically and institutionally embraced as well as a cohort of younger, aspiring artists, many of whom have never met her but whose work is clearly indebted to Neumann’s enduring imprint.
Neumann has achieved a near mythic stature and she has served as mentor, teacher, guide and inspiration to countless artists in Colorado and the surrounding region.
Margaret Neumann was a singular figure in the emergence of RedLine as an “incubator” for young artists and her role as one of RedLine’s first “mentor” (Resource) artists speaks to her centrality in this institution’s visibility and mission.
This retrospective exhibition celebrates RedLine’s 10th anniversary, as well as Margaret Neumann’s return to the place that deeply nourished her and those artists fortunate enough to have encountered her.
What Lies Between was part of RedLine’s 10X - 10th Anniversary exhibition platform that celebrated 10 Years of Supporting Artists in Denver and Colorado.
RedLine would like to thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, the Lynda M. Goldstein Foundation, David & Laura Merage Foundation, RBC Wealth Management, RULE Gallery and the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District for making this exhibit and platform possible.
