Artist Statement Cymon Padilla fuses disparate elements of contemporary visual culture in his paintings and drawings. Using traditional oil painting techniques, Padilla combines, collapses, and remixes “the imitated world” onto the flat surface of the picture plane. Recent bodies of work mash-up classical European figurative work with the ... read more
Artist Statement Born in Colorado in 1982, Bradley Benedetti attended Rhode Island School of Design from 2000-2004, and received a BFA in film/animation/video. In 2009, Benedetti started the project SAFARINON, a "multi-species friend-group merger". Through the concept of SAFARINON's platform, each work takes an existential exploration ... read more
Artist Statement Deborah Schoen is an artist whose work investigates generational and matrilineal dialogues that explore traditional notions of femininity, transformative qualities of female personas, and the value of one’s time. Her practice explores the fluidity of found materials, a deconstruction of the old and recontextualization of th... read more
Artist Statement Erica Green is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on the “seemingly unending process of repairing and rebuilding one's self”. Working with fibers and thread in a meditative and obsessive manner, her large-scale sculptural works gradually become a visual accumulation of the time it take... read more
Artist Statement Jeff Page is a multi-disciplinary artist who frequently expresses a queer and DIY aesthetic through works in video, installation, performance and beyond. Page’s recent work is particularly focused on “transforming the affect of shame into new bodily and architectural forms”. He is a community-minded collab... read more
Artist Statement Marsha Mack’s texturally rich, process-intensive sculptures and performances focus on decadence, decoration, and beauty, with an emphasis on materiality. Aesthetically a maximalist, Mack is a firm believer that “more is more”. With materials ranging from glazed ceramic to candy wrappers, ideas are pursued through layere... read more
Artist Statement Matte Refic is a multimedia artist currently based in Pueblo, Colorado. Matte’s artistic practice includes large-scale murals, paintings, illustrations, videos, performance art. A major thread running through his work and life is community engagement and participation. To that end, Refic works with the Creative Arts... read more
Artist Statement Robert Martin grew up in the Midwestern United States and references the wildlife art that was prominent in many homes they knew in their childhood, including in their own family. Wildlife art as a genre has a deep history in the U.S., dating back to ... read more
Artist Statement Sean Winters and Kevin Sweet are frequent collaborators producing and performing interactive works using emergent technologies to “reambiguate the obvious”. Their last collaborative work “Anything on this Earth” was a live audiovisual exploration ruminating on parallax and jazz by feeding multichannel audio signals through hacked v... read more
Artist Statement Sierra Montoya Barela is an artist from Denver, Colorado. Barela earned a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015 and was an Artist-In-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Horned Dorset Colony later that year. Recently, her work has been included ... read more