LMP PDA
Curated by Brooke Tomiello
August 10, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Opening Reception: Every other Monday, starting August 10, 2020
Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present LMP PDA: a program where artworks will be on view in our public-facing window vitrine every 2 weeks, until we open at full capacity. 100% of the sales will go directly to the artists, who have agreed to donate a portion to an organization of their choice.
LMP PDA is viewable 24/7 and we invite you to stop by anytime while wearing a mask and practicing social distancing - it’s our way to propose a new way of thinking and looking together, while we’re staying apart.
All photos by John Roemer, unless otherwise noted.
May 03, 2021 - June 30, 2021: Maia Ruth Lee
Maia Ruth Lee is an artist and educator born in Busan, South Korea. Lee’s recent exhibition is currently on show at MCA Denver through August 2021. Lee’s other solo exhibitions took place in 2016 and 2018 at Eli Ping Frances Perkins (NY) and Jack Hanley Gallery (NY) respectively. Lee participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial 2019, CANADA gallery, Studio Museum 127, Salon 94 in New York, Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles. Lee was director of Wide Rainbow, a non profit after school art program from 2016 to 2020. Lee’s work is held in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She lives and works in Salida, Colorado.
Bondage baggage atlas, 2021, India ink on raw canvas, 42 x 42 in., SOLD
Bondage baggage prototype 9, 2021, Recycled fabrics and bedding, canvas, rope, SOLD
Maia has decided to donate 100% of sales to Joy as Resistance.
Joy as Resistance creates space for queer youth to hope for the future and find joy in the present by providing mental health, healing and wellness supports. Joy as Resistance supports the mental health and wellness of Colorado LGBTQIA+ youth aged 10-24 and their families.
May 03, 2021 - May 16, 2021: Michael Childress
Michael Childress (b.1987, New York), was the recipient of the 2018 Leslie Lohman Museum Queer Artist Fellowship. He has exhibited in New York at Half Gallery, New Release, Hesse Flatow, Cuevas Tilleard, Radiator Gallery and False Flag. Childress curated a group exhibition “The Small Exceeds” at New Release in 2017. He is currently working towards a solo presentation in the project space at Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris. Childress received his BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2009 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Projective Ornament / Cubist Oculus, 2021, Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 36 x 36 in.
Michael has decided to donate 40% of sales to the Trans Justice Funding Project.
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. We make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists from around the country to carefully review every application we receive. We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Every penny we raise goes to our grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached because we truly believe in trans leadership.
April 19, 2021 - May 02, 2021: Rochelle Johnson
Rochelle Johnson was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, where she discovered her passion for drawing at an early age. As a child she discovered the work of Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence. In 1989, Johnson enrolled at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design where she learned to create stories using oils and watercolors. She attained a degree in Illustration.
In 1992 she moved to Seattle Washington and returned to Denver eventually resumed pursuing the idea of storytelling through painting. Today, Johnson continues to develop her unique style of storytelling and has also added to her accomplishment as curator. In 2017 she curated Inclusion: Diverse Voices of the Modern West at the McNichols Civic Center Building in Denver, Colorado and in December 2018 curated The Search Within: Daughter of the Diaspora at the Western Colorado Center of the Art in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Release, 2021, Oil on linen mounted on panel, 24 x 24 in.
Rochelle has decided to donate 5% of sales to Redline Contemporary Art Center.
Redline Contemporary Art Center fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. Founded in 2008, RedLine was created to support emerging artists, and provide creative opportunities for local residents. RedLine serves as an incubator for a thriving group of resident artists, through an in-depth, two-year residency program that includes free studio space, community engagement opportunities, and professional development. The organization also offers a range of programming that responds to the needs of the varied communities that live in the surrounding neighborhoods. Viewing art and arts education through a lens of social issues, the organization ensures equitable access to the arts for under-resourced populations by working to fulfill a vision of empowering everyone to create social change through art.
April 5, 2021 - April 18, 2021: Chris Bristow
Chris Bristow Graduated from Pratt Institute in 2014 with a BFA in painting. He worked as an art handler at Sotheby's flagship in New York City, an art handler in Aurora CO, for an art consultant in Denver, and currently works doing art restoration in Centennial. He has a personal collection of over 20,000 Marlborough menthol lights, and overall is doing not bad.
I Will Sell This House Today, 2021, Acrylic and glitter on canvas. 36 x 48 in., SOLD
Chris has decided to donate 50% of sales to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, CO.
St. Joseph’s Hospital provides a tradition of healthcare that includes compassionate caregivers, stellar clinical expertise and active clinical partnerships with Kaiser Permanente, National Jewish Health and community physicians. Saint Joseph Hospital is part of SCL Health, a nonprofit faith-based health system with eight hospitals, more than 150 physician clinics, and home health, hospice, mental health and safety-net services primarily in Colorado and Montana. Saint Joseph's new state-of-the-art hospital opened in December 2014.
March 22, 2021 - April 4, 2021: Kate Casanova
Kate Casanova is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the posthuman through sculpture and video. Casanova has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Barbican Centre (London), Le Poisson Rouge (New York), and the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis). She was a featured artist in Doug Aitken's exhibition, "Station to Station," which toured the nation by train in 2013. She is represented by the Kolman & Pryor Gallery (Minneapolis). She received an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2013 and a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Denver.
Deep skin #1, 2021, Gelatin bioplastic, artificial nails, eyeshadow, artist's hair, barbells, chains, scouring pad, window screen, thread, tree moss oil, SOLD
Deep skin #2, 2021, Gelatin bioplastic, artificial nails, eyeshadow, artist's hair, barbells, scouring pad, window screen, tree moss oil
Kate has decided to donate 25% of sales to the Asian Pacific Development Center and 25% to the Minneapolis College of Art & Design MFA 2020 Fund.
The Asian Pacific Development Center in Aurora, CO, is powered by its rich heritage of AANHPI advocacy and exists today to serve and support all immigrant, and refugee communities with a whole health, community-based engagement approach through health, education, and advocacy. The Minneapolis College of Art & Design MFA 2020 Fund is a scholarship that will support BIPOC MFA students.
March 8, 2021 - March 21, 2021: Jorge Elbrecht
Jorge Elbrecht (b. San Jose, Costa Rica, 1978) is a composer, performer and visual artist holding a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works between Denver, Los Angeles and Costa Rica. Information about Elbrecht largely comes from the executors of his estate, which claim full control over the artist’s creative output, both past and present. According to his estate, Elbrecht’s dissatisfaction with the milieu of the day had developed into a pathology by his late twenties, resulting in dangerously high levels of stress and anxiety as the thematic content of his work grew darker. His deterioration culminated in the onset of rapid aging that saw his health decline markedly. Today, though menaced by horrific imagery on a daily basis, the artist is said to only paint traditional-style oil paintings of landscapes, floral arrangements and the like. The executors of his estate, feeling this does not fully represent the entire picture, have hired outside artists to interpret Elbrecht’s abstract visions, as well as to document him and the artifacts that surround his practice. These supplementary images are presented as Elbrecht’s artwork in conjunction with any paintings or drawings completed by his own hand. Previously, Elbrecht’s work has explored connections between sound, performance, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video and animation. His work as a member of the art company Lansing - Dreiden (2000-present) seeks to utilize the blurred line between art and commerce as a vehicle for fictional stories. More recently, scattered live music performances feature a decrepit-looking Elbrecht, aged far beyond his years and helped onstage by a nurse. This, according to the estate, is confirmed by a test of Elbrecht’s DNA which shows his genetic age at 76.
Voltur, 2021, 26 x 18 in., Mixed media on linen, SOLD
Jorge has donated 50% of sales to the Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group with the mission to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science and economics, the EDF finds practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. What distinguishes EDF is the combination of what they protect and how they protect it. The EDF works to solve the most critical environmental problems facing the planet. This has drawn them to areas that space the biosphere: climate, oceans, ecosystems and health. Since these topics are intertwined, the EDF’s solutions take a multidisciplinary approach. The EDF works in concert with other organizations - as well as with business, government and communities - and avoids duplicating work already being done effectively by others.
February 22, 2021 - March 7, 2021: Matthew Pevear
On The Chance That You See It
Matthew Pevear (b. 1993, Winthrop, MA) is an artist currently based in Denver, Colorado. He received his BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in 2015. Traditionally working in photography, Pevear’s work looks to explore the banal and ubiquitous. Focusing on simple scenes found in the everyday, his work extracts the subtle, yet complicated, imagery that exists in daily life. Pevear recently completed solo exhibitions with the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts in Boulder, Colorado and DATELINE Gallery in Denver, Colorado, and has self-published two volumes of art photography books.
Banana phone, Color inkjet print, 11 x 14 in; Untitled, Color inkjet print, 8.5 x 11 in; Untitled, Color inkjet print, 11 x 14 in; Summer evening 2020, Color inkjet print, 11 x 14 in; Rainbow, Color inkjet print, 13 x 19 in; Candy, Color inkjet print, 11 x 14 in; Marsha in the garden, Color inkjet print, 8.5 x 11 in; Untitled, Color inkjet print, 8 x 10 in; Noon, Color inkjet print, 13 x 19 in; Dish towel white/red, Color inkjet print,
Matthew has decided to donate 60% of sales to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains - which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Southern Navada, and Wyoming - has been empowering individuals to make responsible choices for over 100 years. Since 1916, we have been committed to delivering the highest quality reproductive and sexual health care; teaching medically accurate, age-appropriate sexuality education; and working diligently to protect the right to access safe, legal abortion. Each year, nearly 100,000 people visit our 24 health centers throughout our region. To make an appointment, call PPRM at 1-800-230-PLAN (7562) or visit their website.
February 8, 2021- February 21, 2021: Conrad Guevara and J Rivera Pansa
Banana Hammock
Conrad Guevara works in so-called Oakland, California. Conrad makes abstract paintings, sculptures, assemblages and hosts a weekly Instagram Live talk show. He uses everyday objects, cheap import goods, case off construction detritus and corner store staples to create stubble, casual and intimate works which speak to ideas of repurposing, resistance, ingenuity, tensile strength, balance and most importantly improvisation. Conrad is also one third of Bonanza, a collaborative practice with L. Williams and L. Tully. Guevara was born in Tacoma, Washington. He completed a BA in Printmaking from the College of Charleston in 2008 and completed an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. He has a forthcoming show at the Right Window Gallery in San Francisco opening March 2021.
J Rivera Pansa works in occupied Chochenyo Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). Currently, Rivera Pansa incorporates the “grid” as an expansive field tethering association involving connectivity and physical structural systems. They produce responsive works reflecting upon humanistic systems in regards to seriality stemming from contemporary capital structures such as digital networks, electrical grid, graphic data and cartographic mapping. These systems serve as a foil in their navigation into self-determinative networks of kinship - of QTPOC chosen family and diasporic community, presented as installation/sculpture platforms of forum and gathering to convey larger connectivity. Rovera Pansa was born in Olongapo, Philippines and completed their BA in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley in 2017.
J Rivera Pansa, GMP x 120, 2020, Aluminum eyelet, steel jumpring, photoprints, 35 x 22 in.
Conrad Guevara, Mango Sliver, 2020, Acrylic, gouache, and Poweraid on wood, 40.5 x 3.5 x .75 in.
Conrad and J have decided to donate 40% of sales to Sogorea Te' Land Trust
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
January 25, 2021 - February 7, 2021: Alex Nazari
Alex Nazari was born in Colorado Springs, CO and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, LAXART, The Box Gallery, and Other Places Art Fair. Recently, her writing appeared on LACMA’s Unframed blog. In 2020, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Surefooted, 2020. 24 x 30 in., Digital C-Print, Edition of 5
Alex has decided to donate 100% of sales to the Summaeverythang Community Center
Summaeverythang is a community center based in South Central Los Angeles dedicated to the empowerment and transcendence of black and brown folks socio-politically, economically, intellectually and artistically. SCS donates and delivers organic produce from Southern California farms to South Central Los Angeles. Summaeverythang Community Center is 501c3 nonprofit founded in 2019 by artist and fantasy architect, Lauren Halsey.
January 11, 2021 - January 24, 2021: Corey Presha
Corey Presha is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Astral Projecting At Throop and Vernon (Hank Too), 2020, 24 x 20”, Acrylic on canvas
Corey has decided to donate 50% of sales to Mutual Aid Denver
Mutual Aid Denver is a collective of local community members. Their goal is to organize themselves and their communities through mutual aid projects and initiatives which offer resources, education, support, and services rooted in solidarity, not charity. Initiatives include COVID-19 Response, Winter Survival for the Unhoused and Monthly Community Meals, among others.
December 28, 2020 - January 10, 2021: John Roemer
John Roemer (b. 1986) was raised in Memphis, Tennessee and received his MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. His practice often takes a commonplace object that has its own associations and stimulus, and integrates it into an artwork so that it no longer is instantly recognizable. With this process, He hopes to inspire the viewer to rediscover something that one might overlook or disregard in everyday life. John's last solo show was at Бükü in Liepzig, DE and he has been a resident at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
Address of a Place, 2020, 27 ¼ x 27 ¼ in., Dye sublimation photo prints, Edition of 2
John has decided to donate 100% of sales to the Colorado Freedom Fund
Colorado Freedom Fund (CFF) is a revolving community bond fund that pays ransom for our neighbors unjustly detained in cages across Colorado who cannot afford to buy their own freedom. Founded in 2018, they are an abolitionist organization working to end wealth based detention via legislation, litigation, and direct action. Posting money bond (paying cash bail) is one way they work to #BringOurNeighborsHome.
December 14, 2020 - December 27, 2020: Jessica Langley
Jessica Langley (b. 1981, USA) is based in Colorado where she is an avid mushroom forager and artist. Her work considers how spiritual concepts of nature are intertwined with and complicated by a capitalist, anthropocentric vision. Her paintings contain abstraction as a form which dehumanizes place, and Langley investigates the analogous dichotomy of abstraction/representation and the objective/subjective perspectives. Langley has exhibited her work internationally in such cities as Belfast, Berlin, Mexico City, New York, Reykjavík, and Santa Cruz, as well as being featured in the Pittsburgh Biennial and the Queens International. She has been an artist-in-residence in numerous programs including Skaftfell Center of Visual Art in Iceland, Askeaton Contemporary Art in Ireland, the SPACES World Artist Program in Cleveland, and the Digital Painting Atelier at OCAD-U in Toronto. She was a recipient of both the J. William Fulbright Scholarship and the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation Scholarship for research in Iceland. She earned her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008 and her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is an amateur mycologist, and her artwork and writings have been published in New American Paintings, NPR, Hyperallergic, Temporary Art Review, and the New York Mycological Society Newsletter. She is co-founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run-gallery in Brooklyn, NY; The Stephen and George Laundry Line, a project space in Queens, NY; and The Yard, a site for public art in Colorado Springs.
The painting is part of a series that refers to the psychedelic experience of seeing the inter-connectedness and “intrinsic significance” of all things that Aldous Huxley described in Doors of Perception. The paintings reference networks, doodles, systems, wandering, and getting lost.
Stillness, 2020, 22 x 22 in., Oil on canvas
Jessica has decided to donate 50% of sales to the Coalition for the Upper South Platte
The Coalition for the Upper South Platte works to protect the water quality and ecological health of the Upper South Platte Watershed, in cooperation with community partners and stakeholders, with emphasis on community values and economic stability. CUSP has been the boots on the ground to complete projects ranging from river restoration to wildfire mitigation.
November 30, 2020 - December 13, 2020: Noah Travis Phillips
Noah Travis Phillips is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator; (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). Their research and creative interests integrate fictional autobiography, the anthropocene and the posthuman, engaging appropriation and digital/analog remix strategies. They create adaptable and multicentered artworks incorporating 2D/3D digital fabrication, videos, books, performance, and the internet. Phillips is Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor in Emergent Digital Practices at University of Denver. Their most recent exhibitions include group shows at Alto Gallery in Denver, CO (ARTIFACTS), Miriam Gallery in NYC (Friendly Ghost) and the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art (Künstlerpublikationen: analog – digital!). They live and work in Boulder, Colorado.
Light My Pyre, 2020, 39 x 59 in., Collaged drawings, graphite on paper
Noah has decided to donate 100% of sales to the Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (WRV) is a Colorado nonprofit 501(c)(3) that organizes thousands of volunteers each year to complete more than 100 wild lands conservation projects in Colorado and southern Wyoming. Projects range in length from just a couple of hours to a weekend or longer. WRV has a diverse Youth and Inclusiveness Program and a comprehensive Volunteer Leadership Development Program. WRV’s mission is to foster a community spirit of shared responsibility for the stewardship and restoration of public, protected, and ecologically significant lands across Colorado and beyond.
November 2, 2020 - November 29, 2020: Terence Koh
Terence Koh is a conceptual artist who translates his ideas through a wide variety of media and by synthesizing different art forms. From sculptural installations to theatrical performances, he explores a broad range of subjects such as identity, sexuality, politics, and the natural world. The work often stems from opposing themes: life and death, purity and perversion, beauty and repulsion, chaos and order. Ritualistic in its production and evocative in its final presentation, Koh’s work expands the discourse on conceptual art.
Terence Koh was born in Beijing, China and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. He received his BA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Koh’s work has shown at institutions internationally, the subject of solo exhibitions at Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2011); MUSAC, León, Spain (2008); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2006); and the Vienna Secession, Austria (2005). His work has also been shown at Tate Modern, London, UK; MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; and The New Museum, New York, NY. Koh is included in many notable collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MUSAC, León; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
03 nov 2020, 2020, 12 x 53in. variable, Cathedral frame, stained glass, beeswax, wonder bread, tree, apple, lighting
Terence has decided to donate 50% of sales to the Colorado Wildlife Foundation
The Colorado Wildlife Foundation’s mission is to ensure a wildlife legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship, conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat. The Colorado Wildlife Foundation supports all 960 wildlife species and the habitats they need to survive in Colorado.
October 19, 2020 - November 1, 2020: Anna Tsouhlarakis
Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Tsouhlarakis received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University with a focus in Sculpture.
Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Heard Museum, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art. Her recent awards include fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Tsouhlarakis’s work appears in several anthologies of Native American art including the recently published Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices from 1950 to Now.
Tsouhlarakis is Greek, Creek, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.
Her Words Still Echo, 2020, approx. 40H x 30L x 2D in., Paint, graphite, glitter, beads, shell, adhesive, string, board, SOLD
Anna has decided to donate 50% of sales to American Indian Academy of Denver
American Indian Academy of Denver collaborates with students, educators, families, and community members in creating a school where indigenous principles and knowledge are placed in a student-driven STEAM curriculum to prepare all students to be college, career, and life ready.
October 4, 2020 - October 18, 2020: Paul Verdell
Finding inspiration from post-impressionist and the fauvist color palette, Paul Verdell produces expressionistic portraiture and still life paintings using oil sticks, oil pastels, and crayon. In his vibrantly colored oil stick paintings he emphasizes form and movement to heighten the familiarity of the imagery without having to go into extensive detail. The works are full of textural marks and vigorous line work displaying the immediacy of it. Verdell will paint friends within intimate settings like home or inside his studio capturing life as he sees it.
Verdell graduated with his BFA from Bowling Green State University. He has participated in the Macedonia Institute residency in Chatham NY and has had Artwork commissioned by Spotify and Library Street Collective for Rocket Mortgage Field House. Verdell currently works out of his studio in Toledo, Ohio.
Paul has decided to donate 60% of all sales to the BEAM
Monstera in blue - SOLD, Rubber plant in yellow - SOLD, Rubber plant in blue - SOLD, Monstera in pink - SOLD
BEAM’s (Black Emotional and Mental Health) mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing. BEAM does this through healing justice based organizing, education, training, grantmaking and advocacy.
September 21, 2020 - October 4, 2020: Laleh Mehran
Laleh Mehran was born in Iran and relocated with her family to the United States at the start of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Mehran creates elaborate environments in digital and physical spaces focused on complex intersections between politics, belief systems, and science. In a political climate in which certain views are increasingly suspect and can have extreme consequences, Mehran’s artworks are invitations to think again about each of these paradigms and the profound connections that bind them. Mehran received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Her work has been shown individually and collaboratively across the USA and international venues including the ISEA (United Arab Emirates), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), FILE (Brazil), ACT Festival (South Korea), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), Mattress Factory Museum (Pennsylvania), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), The Georgia Museum of Art (Georgia), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pennsylvania), Denver Art Museum (Colorado), Biennial of the Americas at MCA Denver (Colorado), 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (Argentina), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Boulder MCA (Colorado), and Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival (New Mexico). Mehran is a Professor and Director of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver.
Within Belief Lies, 2020, 24 x 24 in. unframed, Acrylic and mixed media - SOLD
Laleh has decided to donate 100% of all sales to the Multicultural Mosaic Foundation
The Multicultural Mosaic Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to help cultivate moral and cultural values in our society by promoting understanding and dialogue and by helping the community through social, cultural and educational activities.
Within Belief Lies; 2020; Acrylic and mixed media; 24 x 24 inches, $300 - SOLD (100% donated to the Multicultural Mosaic Foundation)
September 7, 2020 - September 20, 2020: Shadows Gather
Shadows Gather is a photography project that documents the alternative nightlife scene and the colorful individuals that thrive in it. Based out of Denver, Colorado, Shadow uses non-conventional techniques, such as pairing a Fuji Instax Neo Classic Mini with lighting from an iPhone flashlight, to create striking instant photographs that preserve and celebrate underground culture. In her photos you’ll find energetic portraits from a mixture of scenes, gutter punks, drag queens and creatures of the night.
Shadow has directly experienced the growth and cultural changes that have occurred in Denver and has focused her work on ensuring that the visual narrative of her subjects remains as the city continues to evolve. She celebrates the beauty of those on the cultural fringes and provides a sense of community and a safe haven to folks that have been deemed misfits by mainstream culture. Following the project launch in March of 2019, Shadow has since become a staple in music venues, nightclubs, and bars across Denver, as well as traveling to locales like Austin, Texas and Los Angeles to further her work. Shadow has created an ardent online audience and will be exhibiting her work in her first solo art show at the Lane Meyer Projects Gallery in Denver, Colorado date TBD.
Blue Smiles; Photo scanned from its original Fuji Instax film; printed on 285gsm Ultasmooth, natural 100% cotton fine art archival paper inkjet; 20x30 inches unframed; 1/3: $1200 framed print; 2/3: $1000 unframed prints
Shadow has decided to donate 50% of all sales to The Martha P. Johnson Institute
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of black transgender people. They do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to deal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.
August 24, 2020 - September 5, 2020: Patty Ortiz
Patty Ortiz built her core artistic practice based on 20 years of being an artist, 25 years of art management, and 15 years of being a curator of contemporary art. From this broad base, she has constructed a hybrid approach that reflects her longstanding interest in collective activity. Ortiz believes that art intrinsically is a social object and when placed as an action in relationship with the viewer and participant the art carries a profound interconnectedness within real experience.
Conflict #5: A Prolonged Struggle of Principles, 2020, Graphite on found photographs, 61 x 38.5 in unframed
Patty has decided to donate 50% of all sales to Raices Texas
Raices Texas (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to under-served immigrant children, families, and refugees. With legal services, social programs, bond assistance, and an advocacy team focused on changing the narrative around immigration in this country, RAICES is operating on the national front lines of the fight for immigration rights.
Curated by Rose van Mierlo
August 10, 2020 - August 23, 2020: Marsha Mack
Marsha Mack is a visual artist currently living and working in Denver, CO.
Round About, 2019, 8 x 8 x 3.5 in., Ceramic, sticker earrings
Feelings Mixed, 2020, 10 x 9.5 x 1 in., Ceramic, glass rhinestones, beads- SOLD
Blue Gem, 2020, 6 x 8 x 1 in., Ceramic, glass rhinestones, glass gem, freshwater pearls, beads
Marsha has decided to donate 50% of all sales to CHARG Resource Center
CHARG Resource Center was established in 1989 (Capitol Hill Action & Recreation Group) which serves adults with major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and major depression. The mission of CHARG Resource Center is to advance a model of genuine partnership among individuals who live with mental illness, mental health professionals, and the larger community through respectful and comprehensive services.
Installation Images: John Roemer ; Artwork Images: Matthew Pevear
