Denver artist Jared David Paul Anderson creates paintings, sculptures, installations, and performance works to explore concepts of self, death, nature, past, and future. He has a BA from the University of Colorado Boulder and has studied at universities in China, Australia, and the Czech Republic.

Katy Batsel is a fiber artist living in Denver, Colorado. She explores both the subject matter and process of craft and DIY in her work. She has a B.A. from the University of Georgia in Sociology and Women's Studies. 

With dual histories as an artist and furniture maker, Boulder, CO artist Michael Beitz uses furniture as a subject to address the intricacies of social interaction, personal relationships, and self-investigation. He holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA from the University of Buffalo.

Chloé Besson’s cyanotypes combine images from her photographic practice with original, poetic text. She received her BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has exhibited in New York, Chicago, and the South Pacific.

Denver artist Phil Bender uses the matrix as a structuring and organizing principle of his found object assemblages. His work calls attention to discarded and forgotten objects by asking viewers to re-examine the mundane, the ubiquitous, and the common. Phil graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver and is a founding member of Pirate: Contemporary Art, Denver’s longest-running co-op gallery.

Broomfield artist Lauren Berley practices both photography and mixed media. She explores themes of rank, status, and self-definition and often integrates vintage toys or childhood emblems in her work. She’s worked as a photographer since her early twenties, working in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and New York, and took up painting and drawing in 2013.

Denver artist Jamesia Byrd focuses her practice primarily on the figure and uses charcoal and spray paint to explore notions of nostalgia and femininity. She graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Denver artist Katie Caron explores fantasy, technology, the environment, and contemporary society in her mixed media works, sculptures, and installations. She holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Southern California artist Marie Perrin-McGraw is inspired by the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement: fair wages, local production, ecological awareness, and independent business. She works as the lead ceramicist and painter at Lustered Walnut. She earned an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Boulder printmaker Sam Cikauskas explores the intersection between the environment and civilization, specifically through agriculture and gardening, in his practice. He earned his BFA from Northern Illinois University and his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as director of printmaking at Flatiron Press.

Denver artist Amber Cobb investigates the primal and sensual nature of sexuality through manipulated mattress, stuffed animals, and bedding. The objects simultaneously imbue both the abject and the seductive. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Represented by Gildar Gallery.

Denver artist Johnny DeFeo explores human imposition on the natural environment. He creates paintings, photographs, latch-hook rugs, textiles, and wallpaper. Johnny earned his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA from Western State Colorado University.

Artist Kalindi DeFrances is a fifth generation Denverite. During the day, she works an art installer and fabricator. Her art practice grows out of a childhood experience at a wolf preserve in Durango. While there, she witnessed the staff chop up a dead horse that died from a throat infection to feed the wolves. Since then, she has wrestled with an enchanted and morbid fascination of the animal form. She now recreates animal skulls through careful observation, sculpting each one from scratch.

Denver artist Michael Dowling uses elements of classical style and technique combined with contemporary colors, icons, and shapes. His subjects showcase his signature expressive, gestural, haunting, and humorous style. He studied at Florence, Italy’s Il Instituto de Art, Scuola Lorenzo de Medici.

Denver artist Jessye Ebbinghouse’s current practice stems from a previous series of photographed tangled ribbons as well as her dreams of snakes and water. Her water slide paintings are based on actual Google Earth images from Denver’s Water World. The slides simultaneously embody levity and joy but also abandonment of control. She graduated with a BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. She grew up in Peachtree City, Georgia driving a golf cart.

Cory Feder is an animator, comics illustrator, sculptor, tattoo artist, and musician. She earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Denver artist and filmmaker Lares Feliciano believes in the power of stories to connect us and incite change. Her mixed media collage works and Polaroid photographs have a vintage aesthetic. She earned an MFA from San Francisco State University and a BA from Smith College.

Boulder artist Dylan Gebbia-Richards creates his unique works by building up layer after layer of brightly colored wax and resin. The finished works simultaneously evoke the textures of coral reefs, snow drifts, mountain ranges, lava flows, crystal formations, rock candy, and snow cones. He received a BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Denver writer and artist Deanne Gertner explores toxic masculinity and feminine empowerment in her Things Men Said to Me series in which she sews phrases said to her by strangers, a Bumble date, and a former boyfriend unto the crotch of size small Tommy Hilfiger cotton skivvies. Deanne earned her BA from Regis University and her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Denver artist Jason Gimbel is known for his abstracted, expressionistic figurative paintings. His instinctual approach, unusual color palettes, and lines complicate the boundaries between figure and background. Jason graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Denver artist Stephanie Kantor explores the paradoxical aspects of culture in her work. Inspired by family heirlooms, idiosyncratic collections, and her childhood landscape, she utilizes ornamentation and decoration to subvert and undermine reality and artifice. Stephanie earned her BFA in Ceramics from Penn State University and her MFA in Ceramics from University of Colorado Boulder.

Denver artist Paul Keefe often uses an illustrative style and strong sense of humor in his work. He earned his BFA from Colorado State University and his MFA from the University of Kansas.

Self-described “mountain coast” artist Noah Larsen creates his marker illustrations through stream-of-consciousness drawing. His graphic works feature cartoonish characters and scenes from his imagination.

Denver artist Marsha Mack focuses her practice on social dynamics and subjective experience. Her process-oriented, richly textured, and saccharine works address notions of affect, beauty, sexuality, and the body. Marsha holds a BFA from San Francisco State University and an MFA and Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s and gender Studies from Syracuse University.

Denver curator and artist Sophie Lynn Morris explores pop culture in her practice that includes sculpture and painting. She maintains a studio at TANK.

Denver artist Dominic Muttel works by day as a UI/UX designer and half-stack developer. He has shown work at Pirate: Contemporary Art and worked with Denver Digerati on Supernova, an outdoor festival of digital animation and art.

Denver artist George P. Perez investigates the banality of everyday in his interdisciplinary work with a foundation in photography. He often uses found photographs, including those of his childhood, as the materials in his art. George earned a BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Boulder artist Erica Podwoiski explores sexuality and power dynamics through an autobiographical lens. Her work is based on photographs and film stills taken during intimate moments either alone or with a partner. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design.

Denver artist Bruce Price earned his BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art and his MFA from Maine College of Art. His mirrored digital collages that literally and metaphorically turn the male gaze, sexuality, and subjectivity on its head.

Denver photographer Heather S. Pridemore explores sexuality and relationships in her art practice. She earned an undergraduate degree from South Florida University and a graduate degree from Ryerson University. She also performs burlesque.

Denver artist Jonathan Saiz explores big nature, mysticism, rituals, crystals, and pop culture in his diverse artistic practice. He is one of the creators of The Fountain Tarot, a contemporary re-imaging of the Tarot Deck connecting geometry, internet culture, art, and spirituality. He studied at Parsons School of Design in both New York and Paris and at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Denver artist Meagen Svendsen explores tensions between nature and society in her practice that utilizes ceramic, found natural materials, and auditory field recordings. Inspired by biology, ecology, and neuorscience, she instills her viewers with a broader sensory experience. Svendsen earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MH from the University of Colorado, Denver. Meagen will be playing the UMS with her band Avifauna.

*Represented by Walker Fine Art

Denver artist Frankie Toan works mostly with craft and DIY materials to explore the complexities of touch, connection, and embodiment. Frankie holds a BFA in Craft/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.

Fort Collins-based artist Cyane Tornatzky uses hyrbidized methods to create two-dimensional and time-based work. She focuses on discovering and illuminating both the positive and negative aspects of the digital experience. She holds a BA from the College of Wooster and an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University.

Denver Matt Tripodi creates screen prints and paintings that meld the graphic and emotive. He does freelance graphic design and photo editing in addition to his own creative work. He earned his degree from Western Kentucky University.

Denver artist Kaitlyn Tucek is known for her boldly textured, brightly colored abstract paintings and mixed media works that viscerally meld the organic and linear. Kailtyn earned a BA from Pratt Institute and an MA from CUNY Queens College.

Denver artist Rebecca Vaughan works in sculpture, installation, and performance and often uses gender-specific elements such as hand-knitting and needlework techniques in her practice. She investigates ideas of power, desire, relationships, and gender in her work. Rebecca received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Denver artist and poet Joshua Ware’s FASHUN STUPH series began as material experiments that sought to develop a process for creating archival-quality, collages. The abstract geometries that comprise its content are indebted to an artistic trajectory that runs through Suprematism, Constructivism, Neo-Plasticism, and Bauhaus. Contemporary fashion magazines served as the source of its paper elements, focusing on a single season’s color palette. FASHUN STUPH, to this end, aggregates twentieth century high art with twenty-first century consumer culture and fashion.  While these disparate touchstones foster conceptual or ideological dissonance, they produce continuity within its visual aesthetic. He earned an undergraduate degree from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of Colorado - Denver.

Denver artist Peter Yumi practices collage, graphic design, music, and videography. His Culture Vulture series appropriates imagery from art history (Renaissance portraits) to pop culture (Squirt soda logo.) Yumi attended Vermont College, earning a BFA in media studies, before obtaining an MFA at Mass Art Boston.

Denver artist Mario Zoots uses classic film stills, vintage postcards, found photographs, and other detritus to create collages and mixed-media works simultaneously nostalgic yet uncanny and absurd. Mario received his BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver and his MFA from the University of Denver.