Artist Event & Exhibition Roundup: October 2022
Who doesn’t adore October? Cool weather, crunchy leaves, RedLine’s EPIC Gala kicking off on October 6th…what’s not to love?
Not to mention all the exciting things our Resident Artists, Alumni, and Reach Artists are doing around Denver (and beyond).
Solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, visual essays, and more — check out our top 5 October art events you can’t miss!
Amber Cobb - A Wink is Just a Wink Solo Exhibition
What: Solo exhibition
Where: GALLERI GALLERY at Meow Wolf Denver - 1338 1st St, Denver, CO 80204
When: September 8-November 30, 2022
To a Certain Extent, materials: Wood, Plaster, Paper Pulp, Enamel Paint
About the exhibition: In the exhibition A Wink is Just a Wink, a series of new paintings and sculptures playfully explore the nuances of body language through an illustrated typeface of the artist’s own creation.
Somewhat biomorphic, the typeface appears as abstracted hieroglyphs, each having a specific shape and designed to fit within a system of grids.
As they adopt gestures and nonverbal methods of communication, the forms push against the system and expose the failings of preconceived definitions. Like our bodies, they expand, swell, droop, and lengthen, leaving us guessing and reading between the lines.
Amber Cobb’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings address the ambiguity within intimate experiences.
Beginning with the body as a point of departure, she unpacks the physical and psychological responses to life’s complicated interactions through abjection, attraction, and humor.
Mattresses, furniture, and domestic objects are abstracted through layering and subtracting.
Familiar yet strange, these forms invite and confront a collection of emotions related to sensuality, the absurdity of gender roles, and sexual innuendos.
Galleri Gallery at Meow Wolf is a rotating, flexible space within the Meow Wolf Denver exhibition that offers artists in Denver a national platform to exhibit work inside Meow Wolf. From traditional paintings and sculpture to experimental immersive experiences, you never know what you’ll find in Galleri Gallery.
About the artist: Cobb received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011. Since then, her work has been exhibited in institutions both nationally and internationally, including the Hunan Province Art Museum in Kaifeng, China, Galeria Hilario Galgura in Mexico City, MX, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO. Cobb’s mattress works were highlighted in New American Paintings, #114 and her solo show Solace was reviewed in the 2016 May issue of Sculpture Magazine. In addition, she has shown in numerous exhibitions in galleries and institutions in the Colorado region, including Gildar Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Black Cube, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, and David B. Smith.
Contact: amberdawncobb@gmail.com
Instagram: @amberdcobb
Katie Caron - Neuron Forest: An Immersive Environment Solo Exhibition
Neuron with Red, polystyrene and acrylic, 48" h x 48" w x 5" d
What: Solo Exhibition
Where: Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities - 13080 E. 19th Ave. Aurora, CO, 80045
When: September 22-December 20, 2022
About the exhibition/event: Artist Katie Caron is creating a unique, imaginary experience of the human brain using fiberglass, tree branches and video projection mapping.
I have always been compelled to create work inspired by the nature’s geometries, particularly 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 form a large-scale network in the brain—creating human consciousness, identity, and life as we know it.
Neurons were discovered in 1887 by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, father of modern neuroscience. Since then, researchers have probed and mapped the brain with a vast array of sophisticated methods and technologies, from MRI scanners to molecular devices to unveil a beguiling architecture.
Our perspective of the invisible world of the brain is entirely dependent upon the nature of these hidden processes, exclusively mediated by the technologies we have invented to image what takes place at an almost impossibly small scale and in the dark.
These mediated images reveal chaotic systems and uncanny beauty. We can observe the brain’s familiar branching fractals in roots, electricity, rivers, and especially biology such as passages in the lungs, networks of arteries, and the nervous system.
Intriguingly, in the body, neural fractals exist between dimensions. They can be considered objects with a dimensionality that is not an integer, meaning they are not three-dimensional like a cube or two-dimensional like a square. By existing between dimensions, the fractal networks can reach throughout the body’s volume without filling it up.
I investigate these dimensions between through formal exploration and material practice and seek to give form and understanding to human consciousness using new scanning technologies from neuroscience and the world of design.
In collaboration with Maureen Stabio, PhD, Director of the CU Modern Human Anatomy Program.
About the artist: Katie Caron is presently Head of Ceramics and 3D Design at Arapahoe Community College. In 2011, Caron created Apoptosis in collaboration with Martha Russo for the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition Overthrown: Clay Without Limits. She has completed numerous site-specific installations for Project Miami, Santa Fe Art Institute, University of Michigan, University of Northern Colorado, Redline contemporary Art Center, and Republic Plaza in Denver. She was reviewed for Drosscapes, an immersive environment, in Sculpture Magazine’s June 2013 issue. Caron recently collaborated with the renowned Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf, and is represented by William Havu Gallery. Katie Caron resides in Littleton, CO with her family.
Artist website: www.katiecron.com
Instagram: @katiemcaron
Megan Gafford - Pushing Daisies Visual Essay
The daisies in this drawing will be part of my visual essay. The title of the drawing is "Pushing Daisies (Progression of Mutation)" 50x14in, graphite on Bristol, 2022.
What: Visual Essay
Where: Tilt West Journal, Vol. 4: Art and Science
When: Released on October 3, 2022
About the publication: Megan Gafford will have a visual essay titled "Pushing Daisies" published in the Tilt West Journal, Vol. 4: Art and Science.
It’s a "visual" essay because it includes drawings that carry equal weight with the writing to convey Gafford’s ideas.
Gafford dissects the relationship between art and science by contemplating what she’s learned from using scientific materials in her art practice.
Learn more about Tilt West and purchase a journal here >
About the artist: Megan Gafford received her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2016, and her BA in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2011. She repurposes unsettling scientific tools like radiation and cybernetics as art materials, to create work that mingles eeriness and elegance together. Gafford has exhibited at galleries and museums nationally, including SITE Gallery Houston, David B Smith Gallery in Denver, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Backyard Ballroom in New Orleans. Her essays have been published in magazines including Quillette, Arc Digital, and Areo, and by Denver art nonprofits Tilt West and RedLine Contemporary Art Center, where she completed a two-year artist residency in 2018, and currently serves as a member of RedLine’s Board of Directors. She teaches painting and drawing at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Artist website: www.megangafford.com
Instagram: @megan.gafford
Sam Grabowska - Future Forging: Mythos of the Cybernaut Group Exhibition
What: Group Exhibition
Where: CU Experience Gallery (AKA Next Stage Gallery) - 1025 13th St, Denver, CO, 80202
When: September 17-October 31, 2022
About the exhibition: Future Forging: Mythos of the Cybernaut is a new media art exhibition curated by Sharifa Moore and Cherish Marquez taking place at the CU Denver Experience Gallery in the Arts Complex in Downtown Denver, providing wide exposure to artwork utilizing technology to explore important themes through expansive art practices.
Opening September 17, 2022, coinciding with Silent Screen walking tour and Supernova’s event at the Buell Theatre, directly across from the Gallery
Featured Artists: Sam Grabowska, Sophie Kahn, Nima Bahrehmand, Paloma Kop, Maria Paula, Maggie Mather, Mary Grace Bernard, Laura Hyunjhee & Kevin Sweet, Red Pig Flower, Jameel Paulin, Bryan Leister, Michael Sperendeo, and Benjamin Burney
About the artist: Dr. Sam Grabowska is a child of immigrants, a recovering academic, and a conjurer of spaces. In their current art practice, Grabowska combines corporeal traces such as human hair and animal sinew, with industrial building materials like concrete and PVC conduit to create sculptures where bodies, real or imagined, can seek refuge from emotional trauma. The work emerges from the intersection of the human body and architectural language.
Grabowska holds a PhD in architecture with a cognate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, an MH in interdisciplinary humanities from the University of Colorado Denver, and both a BFA in film and a BA in architecture from the University of Colorado Boulder. They have exhibited their work at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Art Museum, Rino Art Park, and Union Hall; among other venues. Grabowska currently lives in Denver and is an artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
Artist website: https://www.manifolding.com/
Instagram: @sam_grabowska
Sarah Bowling - “Slime Time” Installation
Slime Time, 2022, slime, polycarbonate, metal, LEDs, 30x30 inches
What: Slime fountain installation at the Year in Art 2022 Reception
Where: Children's Museum of Pittsburgh - 10 Children's Way, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
When: Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022, 6-9 PM
RSVP for reception by October 7 >
About the event: Join the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and MuseumLab to celebrate the artists that make its North Side campus a place of inspiration and creativity! See the 2022 Tough Art artworks and the artists who created them to engage audiences and withstand the rigors of child (and adult) play.
Meet and mingle with other artists and individuals who help create, manage and support the many interactive artworks and programs at the Museum.
Sarah Bowling's piece, "Slime Time'' is a slime fountain.
The Archimedes screw is hand propelled with a crank and hidden pulley system which elevates the slime to the top of the course.
About the artist: Sarah Bowling lives and works in her native home of Denver, Colorado. Bowling received her BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the country, including Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA, as well as Sullivan Gallery, Archer Beach Haus, and LVL3, all in Chicago, IL among others. In 2017 she was selected to attend the ACRE Residency in Steuben, Wisconsin. Her work is in several private and corporate collections throughout the US.
Artist website: www.sarahcbowling.com
Instagram: @_sarahbowling_
October Exhibitions at RedLine
It’s the last week to experience the End of Silence: A Punk Survey of Gregg Deal exhibition at RedLine!
Similar to a Punk rock anthem, this exhibition amplifies this erasure and captures an honest and authentically articulated experience and thus ends the silence.
On display through October 9th, you don’t want to miss this radical exhibition!
Learn more about End of Silence: A Punk Survey of Gregg Deal >
While you’re in, you can also view the newly-opened exhibition Memento Amore: Works by Vinni Alfonoso in the Project Space! On display October 1-November 6.