Artist Event & Exhibition Roundup: February 2024
February is the shortest month of the year, but at RedLine, there’s never a shortage of art events and exhibitions to fill your calendar!
Plan a visit to experience Home Dreams, our annual Resident Artist exhibition on display through March 10th. See the diverse, dynamic work of our 2020-2022 Resident Alumni and our 2022/2023-2024/2025 Resident Artists.
As winter settles in, stay warm and inspired with these 6 February art events around Denver and beyond—featuring our Resident Artists & Alumni!
Tya Anthony: Black History Month Art Exhibition Group Exhibition
What: Group exhibition
Where: Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library - 2401 Welton St. Denver, CO, 80205
When: February 5 - March 2, 2024
Opening Reception: February 20, 5-7pm
About the exhibition: Join us for a reception honoring the Colorado artists featured in our Black History Month Art Exhibition, on display for the entire month of February! Enjoy light refreshments and music while you view the artwork, meet the artists, and learn about their creative styles.
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. As an integral component of her tactile studio practice, Anthony draws from photographs acquired online and removed from her extensive archive of family photographs.
Contact: tya.anthony@gmail.com
Artist website: www.tyaanthony.com
Instagram: @tyaanthony
Collin Parson - Derealization Solo Exhibition
What: Solo exhibition
Where: Parker Arts, Culture & Events Center (PACE) 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue, Parker, CO, 80138
When: January 5-February 27, 2024
About the exhibition: By overlaying and slightly offsetting lines, “interference” fringes—also called the Moiré effect—Colorado artist explores the fascinating perceptual patterns caused by these overlaid patterns. As part of his Interference series, these works explore his fascination with light, space, and perception.
About the artist: Born and raised in Colorado, Collin Parson (b. 1982) currently serves as the Director of Galleries and Curator for the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, Colorado. His creative work involves the control of light, pattern, and color to create perceptual light and space works. Parson has had the privilege of jurying for many arts festivals and exhibitions and is the recipient of many awards and recognitions for his curatorial and art projects.
Contact: collin@collinparson.com
Artist website: www.collinparson.com
Instagram: @collinparson
Laura Merage - By Hand Group Exhibition
What: Group Exhibition
Where: Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon St #100, Roseville, CA, 95678
When: January 20-March 24, 2024
Opening Reception: January 20, 5-7pm
3rd Saturday Reception: February 17, 5-7pm
About the exhibition: The COVID Community Quilt, a piece by Laura Merage, was accepted into the international fine craft competition “By Hand” at Blue Line Arts, a gallery in Roseville, CA. This competition showcases only handmade creations that capture the spirit of human connection and individual artistic paths. The COVID Community Quilt is a large crochet quilt and installation measuring approximately 9 feet tall and 17 feet wide. Its creation unfolded over a two-year period, beginning in 2020, coinciding with the onset of the global pandemic. Laura's aim in crafting this piece was to foster unity within her community during a period of isolation.
About the artist: My work is autobiographical. I enjoy exposing hidden emotions and expressing them through art. The process can be cathartic, challenging, painful and beautiful all at once. I use different materials, textures, shapes, shadows and light to convey these emotions. Incongruity and ambiguity are part of my life. I get inspiration from beauty, hideousness, juxtapositions and ironies that exists around me and within me.
Contact: imaginelaura@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.lauramerage.com/
Instagram: @laura_merage
Ana María Hernando - Textile Art Across Generations Panel Group Show
What: Group Exhibition
Where: Madison Square Park - Sarabeth’s 381 Park Ave South at 27th Street, New York, NY, 10010
When: February 5, 6-7pm
About the exhibition: In conjunction with Ana María Hernando’s To Let the Sky Know/ Dejar que el cielo sepa, this public conversation convenes three artists — Hernando, Elaine Reichek, and Jacqueline Surdell — across generations and backgrounds to reflect on the significance of fiber and textiles to their work. Art and culture journalist Julia Halperin moderates. Artists will reflect on the influential role of communities including teachers, families, and elders to their practices and the responsibilities of sharing knowledge on materiality with the next generations.
Ana María Hernando - Workshop: Embroidery
What: Embroidery Workshop
Where: Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010
When: February 7, 5:30-7pm
About the event: Take inspiration from artist Ana María Hernando’s, To Let the Sky Know / Dejar que el cielo sepa in a quick tour of the exhibition followed by a short instructional workshop led by the artist herself. In the workshop, participants will listen to pre-recorded sounds of the park and translate them into an embroidery piece. Free and open to the public. All levels are invited to join. Reservations are required to participate. Materials to be provided.
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, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the mountains.
Contact: ana@anamariahernando.com
Artist website: https://www.anamariahernando.com/
Instagram: @anamariahernandoart
Eileen Roscina - Heavenly Bodies Group Exhibition
What: Group Exhibition
Where: O'Sullivan Art Gallery at Regis University Fine Arts Building, 3333 Regis Blvd, Denver, CO, 80221
Opening Reception: February 1, 5-8pm
Artist Q&A w/ Emma Powell and Eileen Roscina: February 8, 6-8pm
Painting Workshop with Sarah Darlene: February 15, 6-8pm
About the exhibition: Heavenly Bodies features RedLine Resident Alumni Eileen Roscina and Sarah Darlene, Julio Alejandro, and Emma Powell. Curated by John Lake.
About the artist: Eileen Roscina Richardson is an artist, chef and naturalist from Denver, Colorado who works in a wide variety of mediums. Eileen is an experimental filmmaker with a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA a botanical illustrator, trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver, CO, and a Natural Food Chef, trained at Nutritional Therapy Institute. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines and seeks to raise questions about human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature.
Contact: eileen.roscina@gmail.com
Artist website: www.eileenroscina.com
Instagram: @eileenroscina