2019 Exhibitions at RedLine
Explore our 2019 contemporary art exhibitions featuring emerging Colorado artists.
Red Bull Presents: Detour's The 5 Pointers
November 8, 2019-January 26, 2020
Presented by RedBull, The 5 Pointers an experiential performance and exhibition, designed by Thomas “Detour” Evans and presented in collaboration with RedLine.
Detour is a visual artist and past RedLine Resident Artist based in Denver, experimenting with the intersections of art, music, and technology. Inspired by Afrofuturism, The 5 Pointers centers around the fictional band of the same name from the year 2120.
The 5 Pointers reimagines the rich musical history of Five Points, known as the Harlem of the West, through a futuristic lens that can critique contemporary issues impacting the community, such as the rapid development that is impacting the neighborhood, making property unaffordable for long-term residents. Through this creative place-keeping project, residents and passersby can convene about the future.
The interactive instruments from the band will be installed at RedLine and available for visitors to interact with. The four instruments imagine what music sounds like in the future, featuring a Synthesizer, Harp, Wall Harp, and Hand Drums. Each instrument is mapped to a digital sound bank.
While on display, RedLine hosted free public performances featuring the fictional band, played by Denver musical collaborators, who performed the interactive body of work.
counterART: Aesthetics of South Korean Activism + Global Perspectives
October 4-December 15, 2019
Curated by Sammy Lee and Yang Wang
In the wake of the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square and ongoing protests in Hong Kong, CounterART: Aesthetics of South Korean Activism will examine public protest in East Asia through the lens of art. It is the first exhibit in the U.S. to focus on works of art created during the 2016 South Korean Candlelight Revolution, a distinctively peaceful anti-government protest that led to the dramatic impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, the first female head of state in East Asia.
The widespread protests and creative participation that took place are an empowering case study for how art can shape political narratives and become an outlet for public participation. CounterART features works of art created as mechanisms for socio-political change within the political discourse of South Korea.
The exhibit will feature 30 works of art by 14 established and emerging artists, including Oksang Lim, a Seoul-based artist who was a key figure in the historic Minjung (“People’s”) Art Movement, a political and populist art movement in the 1980s. Through Lim’s art one sees the intersection of South Korean history, politics, and visual traditions that gave rise to the forms employed by the artist-protesters.
With a growing Asian American population and host to one of the largest turnouts of the 2017 Women’s March, another protest with ricocheting political impact, Denver is the unexpected but appropriate site for this unique exhibition. The widespread protests and creative participation that took place in South Korea offer a case study for how art can shape political narratives and create avenues for public participation.
CounterART: Aesthetics of South Korean Activism artists: CHOI Byungsoo, KIM Jongku, KIM Sundoo, LEE Jonggu, LEE Yunyop, LIM Oksang, Ma C, MUN Seungyeong, NOH Suntag, OAK Jungho, PARK Younggyun, SONG Joowon, YANGACHI, YOO Yeonbok
CounterART: Global Perspectives will be on display concurrently featuring artists from six different countries and feature examples of how other artist-led protests took shape as a result of similar political tensions and protests against statehood.
CounterART is the fourth and final exhibition in D | Vision, a series of exhibitions that will explore the relationship between social, cultural or political division and artistic vision. Throughout the year, RedLine's exhibits, special events, and programs will seek to investigate the ways in which division opens space for new creation and perspectives or how culture makes vision out of division.
CounterART: Global Perspectives artists: Lares Feliciano, WONG Zheng, Dinh Q. Lê, Andres Michelena, Goran Vejvoda, Tenzin Rigdol.
RedLine would like to thank the following sponsors for making this exhibition possible:
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, South Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, Fund for Korean Art Abroad. Visiting Artist support provided by Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation, David and Laura Merage Foundation, Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, Colorado Creative Industries, National Endowment for the Arts, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Collective SML | k.
Place in Line
September 6-September 29, 2019
Curated by Ashley Frazier
Place is often defined and described in relationship to geographic and social attributes.
In Place In Line, place emerges through use of lines as a form of mark making that both captures and translates placeness or placelessness.
Within these works, repetition of line is utilized to demarcate and shape the moments within and between physical, biographical and abstract locations to capture or reflect our perception of the places around us.
Participating Artists: Ramón Bonilla, Trey Duvall, Ashley Frazier, Clay Hawkley, George P. Perez, Jodi Stuart
Image Credit: Ramon Bonilla
Was it Worth it?
RedLine’s 6th Annual Juried Exhibition
Curated and Juried by Ivar Zeile
Participating Artists:
Alexandra Basford, Brenda Biondo, Sarah Bowling, Karen Breunig, Bug, Jessica Cannon, Niri Cath, Christian Cumber, Rodney Durso, Ross Everett, Mark Farrell, Jarvis Fosdick, Brian Fouhy, Lili Francuz, Camila Galofre, Lindsay Garcia, Monica Goldsmith, Jeremy Grant, Jay Hollick, Ronald Knepper, Cindy Konits, William Krieg, William Laemmel, Trevor Leach, Ryan Lewis, William Lewis, Joshua Littlefield, James Long, Max Maddox, Don Manderson, Cherish Marquez, Addie Kae Mingilton, John Morrison, Aaron Mulligan, David Namaksy, Selena Nawrocki, Catherine Nelson, Christy, Nelson, Duncan Parks, Caroline Peters, Victor Proulx, Jabari Reed-Diop, Paul Rodgers, Suzy Savoy, Heather Schulte, Elspeth Schulze, Stephen Shugart, Bill Sieber, Brady Smith, Alexander Stark, Emilie Trice, Austin Turley, Devin Urioste, Joshua Ware, Jen Watson
Image Credit: Heather Schulte
Curator statement:
I was struck immediately and deeply by the four simple words: Was it worth it? that Heather D. Schulte embroidered onto “Confederate Grey” 18-ct Cotton Aida Cloth as one of her submissions for RedLine’s Annual National Juried exhibition. Her decision to amplify the question through use of a stately, dimensional font was a choice designed to speak to all Americans, yet the combined words themselves beg not to be restricted by that context.
The work’s actual title is “A question of values,” though I chose to embrace the artist’s textile visualization as a headline for this exhibition, one composed of a great number of works by artists from Colorado and around the country, more than I had anticipated drawing into the show. I haven’t seen Schulte’s art in person, but what I’ve viewed online I really like, and this simple phrase she’s given us has stirred in my head the last few weeks as I’ve considered and reconsider what to assemble. They serve as a great summation of, well, life itself. How can they not get in your head?
The list that fired up in my brain started with career choices and relationships, and other such elements with far reaching consequence, then easily dovetailed into simple decisions such as cats, how many? or which fucking road to take home during rush hour today? They expanded into politics, naturally, and the ethos we all can’t help but carry with us regarding who we are, who we want to be, how and why we forge our paths, and where they lead. At each and every moment in time. Ugh. Life. Art. Wow!
Ultimately these words inspired me to reflect on the vast culture and history of making, showing, purchasing and collecting art; where art has been and where (god, or someone, help us!) the ecosystem of art is going. These words assisted in delineating a path for this show’s selections, as well as dismissing those that did not have the “fortune” of getting in. Was it worth it for the artist’s to take the time to enter? Was it worth it to create these works at all, the ultimate ego-trip, passionate pursuit in order to inspire humanity, or simply as a saviour of oneself?
I’m certainly on the side of the artists and patrons, and want little to do with those who are not. But this is really a question without need for an answer. It’s as simple as black and white, or glass half-full or empty. Do we really even have the capability to reflect meaningfully on our choices in today’s every changing, super-sped-up world? Let’s sure hope so.
There’s much to be discovered and enjoy that’s on view in the exhibition, and so much more in the studios of all who submitted work, as well as those who did not. They are deserving of deeper attention, rather than a quick glance or aside. Maybe not just today, but perhaps again tomorrow or ten years from now.
Whether these selections reflect on the state of contemporary art today is superfluous, they are selections made with intent and composed in a specific manner, which I’ve defined through particular “Zones” that were initiated by particular artworks submitted for the exhibition. The opportunity to work within RedLine’s vast chamber is a major challenge, one with tremendous appeal. Many have done it so much better. But that too is besides the point, because it is worth it and should always be.
Puddle Drop: An Exhibition Presented by Hardly Soft
June 29th–July 28th, 2019
Puddle Drop is a lighthearted exhibition about finding balance amidst realities unpredictability. Inspired by puddles and their ability to stretch, grow and form as well as inform reaction, they are analogous to the human condition.
The works in this exhibition explore and enact this condition and how our choices illustrate the underlying methodologies for dealing with life’s daily absurdities.
Call it accidental self-help or psychotherapy in the form of dad jokes, Puddle Drop offers visual demonstrations on how to cope with life’s sometimes comedic or tragic, but always persistent unpredictability.
Hardly Soft, started in 2018, is a collaboration featuring Amber Cobb and Mario Zoots. While young in its inception, Hardly Soft is well-seasoned with immaturity.
Participating Artists: Vinni Alfonso, Justin Beard, Neil Bender, Megan Bray, Sommer Browning, Marco Cousins, Tobias Fike, Matt Harris, Madeline Jo, Severin Moore, Coleman Mummery, Ben Siekierski, Kristen Hatgi Sink
FAN MAIL: A Group Exhibition Organized by Hyperlink Artists
June 29-August 3, 2019
Hyperlink is a diverse collective of artists based in Denver whose mission is to foster meaningful connections between artists, curators, institutions, and viewers through the organization of exhibition exchanges in partnering communities.
Hyperlink asked each of its members to research and select an under-recognized artist of merit and send them a form of fan mail. The works in this exhibit represent the outcome of these transnational collaborations and conversations between 29 artists.
These aesthetic interactions foster authentic relationships between artists that are geographically, culturally and socially distanced.
While the internet and social media provide artists with ample opportunities to both disseminate imagery and gain exposure to other artists, it often hinders one’s ability to make the same meaningful connections that are cultivated when co-existing in proximity.
FAN MAIL was the third exhibition in D | Vision, a series of exhibitions that explored the relationship between social, cultural, or political division and artistic vision.
Participating Artists: Theresa Anderson/ Michael Brodeur aka New Dad, Amber Cobb/ Rachel Niffengger, Tobias Fike/ Adam Basanta, Ian Fisher/ Dan Gratz, Matthew Harris/ Jennifer Arnold, Ashley Williams & Sarah Williams/ Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Kathryn Wingard/ Derek Barker, Donald Fodness/ William Dalton Frizzell, Daisy McGowan/ Caitlin Goebel, Laura Shill/ AJRR/AdamJonRoseRoses (Adam-Jon Williams and Rose Gelderblom Waddilove) Derrick Velasquez/ Suzy González
RedLine would like to thank the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, Denver Arts & Venues, Lynda M. Goldstein Foundation, Hemera Foundation, The David & Laura Merage Foundation, The Louise Merage Foundation, The Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation, the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and our supporters and members for making this program year possible.
Annual Youth Art Exhibition
May 18-June 9, 2019
Student art sale inspired by social issues! Proceeds from student work sold will be donated to organizations working directly with Denver’s homeless population.
EPIC Arts provides opportunities for students to explore social justice issues through contemporary art. Each semester, RedLine Resident Artists and Denver community artists are matched with educators and students, resulting in a unique art collaboration.
EPIC Arts is student-generated and begins with asking students what is fair and unfair in their schools, communities, their lives and the world.
Schools: Academy of Urban Learning, Bruce Randolph, Denver Green School, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, and McMeen Elementary School.
NEST
March 9-March 31, 2019
Organized by Kim Shively, Stephan Herrera, and Mark Sink
The exhibition NEST is a celebration of the beautiful, creative chaos of Rhinoceropolis and of Colin Ward, who embodied the spirit of Rhino in his 24/7 art and music output.
Participating Artists: Peniel Apantanco, Theresa Anderson, Chris Bagley, Genevieve Bieber, Rianna Brown, Laura Conway, Frances Creegan, Milton Melvin Croissant III, Ben Donehower, Travis Egedy, Valerie Franz, Stephan Herrera, Madeline Johnston, Anton Krueger, Ryan McRyhew, Samuel Mata, Coleman Mummery, Dmitri Obergfell, Alicia Ordal, Zach Reini, Thom Scharfenberg, Mark Sink, Kathryn Taylor, Luke Thinnes
Delirium: Three Visions
March 9-April 7, 2019
Curated by George P. Perez, John Lake, and Mark Sink
Eschewing traditional notions of imagery, this exhibit aims to shake, disrupt, and dizzy our understanding of visual culture and modern society.
Photography is both a broken concept and an ever expanding medium; fluctuating between complacent states of being and important diverse artistic models.
Delirium: Three Visions is a photo-based exhibit highlighting critical contemporary voices and amplifying challenging artists working in and around modes of photography.
Presenting: Yumna Al-Arashi, Sam Cannon, Micah Danges, Adán De La Garza, Colby Deal, Magali Duzant, Luís Filipe Branco, Brian Fouhy, Clay Hawkley, Gregory Eddi Jones, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Thibaut Kinder, Jenna Maurice, Kasimir Pillé, Kit Ramsey, Eileen Roscina Richardson, Marja Saleva, Giovanna Silva, Hollie Smith, Aline Smithson, Elisabeth Tonnard, Sherry Wiggins, Letha Wilson, and The Big Picture
Full Circle
February 1-February 24, 2019
Curated by Damon McLeese
RedLine’s Reach Studio is an opportunity for socially engaged artists to collaborate, create, and share ideas in an inclusive community.
Artists participating in this year’s exhibition will explore the idea of full circle which is a broad-reaching theme that lets artists interpret their creative path, the circular nature of life, a symbol or metaphor for our shared collective journey.
Circles connotate inclusivity and exclusivity depending on one’s perspective. We often hear people say they have come full circle in their journey.
Participating core artists include: Gonzo, Sevilla Stinnett, Carolyn Pooler, Carol Reeves, Bernadette Douaiday, Carol Ausman, Vittoria Whitsett, Barbara Allphin-Johnson, Ravero Stinnett, Roshieka Seward, Nicole Mackenzie, Josephine Ferons, Juannean Young, Patti Kurtzman, LeeAndra Lujan, Lisa Troilo, Risa Murray, and Sharon Morrison.
The Reach program and exhibition are made possible by the generous support of the Buck Foundation, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Colorado Fund, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Guiry’s Color Source, David and Laura Merage Foundation, Virginia W. Hill Foundation, Morris and Joyce Price Art Bank, Harvey Family Foundation, The Roy and Ana Zellars Foundation, The Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation, Bonfils Stanton Foundation, Cynda Collins Arsenault, Colorado Creatives Industries, and the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District.
Now That I Have Your (Un)divided Attention…
Annual Resident Artist Exhibition
January 25-February 23, 2019
Curated by Nicole M. Crawford
Now That I Have Your (Un) divided Attention… was the annual resident artist exhibition and formally launched the 2019 theme of D | Vision, a series of exhibitions that explored the relationship between social, cultural, or political division and artistic vision.
Throughout the year, RedLine's exhibits, special events, and programs sought to investigate the ways in which division opens space for new creation and perspectives, or how culture makes vision out of division.
Participating Resident Artists: Tya Alisa Anthony, Sarah Bowling, Mackenzie Browning, Colby Deal, Trey Duvall, Lares Feliciano, Anthony Garcia Sr., Caleb Hahne, Clay Hawkley, Juntae TeeJay Hwang, Marsha Mack, Tony Ortega (Resource Artist), Charles Parson (Resource Artist), Eileen Roscina Richardson, Kate Speer, Michael Sperandeo, Kenzie Sitterud, Carley Warren (Resource Artist)
Participating Alumni: Ashley Frazier, Megan Gafford, Esther Hernandez, Andrew Huffman, Stephanie Kantor, John Lake, Sammy Lee, Ella Maria Ray, Becky Wareing Steele, Mario Zoots
