The Galleries of Contemporary Art are pleased to present We Are the Sky, a group exhibition featuring artworks created by 40+ Pikes Peak region artists! We Are the Sky will be on-view from July 11 – October 5, 2024, at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at the Ent Center for the Arts. The opening reception is on Thursday, July 11th from 4-7pm, with a collection of site-specific activations and performances that can only be experienced during the opening!

Featuring more than 40 artists from throughout the Pikes Peak region, We Are the Sky is inspired by the work of late Colorado Springs artist Starr Kempf, whose monumental kinetic sculptures punctuate our local landscape. More than 80 artists responded to a call for entries, challenging them to respond not to Kempf’s forms or subjects, but instead to powerful themes present in the artist’s life and oeuvre. Mental health and wellness, community identity and interpersonal connection, and a spirit of innovation are central to each offering, inclusive of 2D and 3D gallery works to performances and ephemeral experiences.

Over the course of three months, We Are the Sky will create space for poignant narratives around our unique and shared human experiences, a testament to the power of art in fostering dialogue, understanding, and healing. Within the gallery exhibition and related events, artists illuminate the interconnectedness of individual struggles and collective resilience, inviting viewers to engage in discourse and introspection. These 19 artworks address complexities of mental health, inclusion, and invention with empathy and solidarity, and all are new creations, born out of creative experimentation and collaboration.

ALMALGAMATED LANDSCAPES

This series of cross-processed artworks creates a multilayered map of the artist’s meandering through our local landscape over the last three years. Consciously collected natural artifacts—stones, bark, flowers, seeds, fungi, and more—were scanned then returned to their place of origin. The resulting cyanotypes are each etched with a unique pattern that delineates the associated hiking path as recorded by GPS. Resembling wind movement and shadows, these “drawings” tell a story of artist and object in a time and place: the complex, changing ecology of Colorado. Inspired by nature and driven by climate change, Warner’s art always includes intense scientific research that weaves into the creative process. Originally from Eastern Europe, Darya Warner states that, since arriving in Colorado in 2021, “all I see is the SKY. I flood my mom with images of the landscape that are always followed by one word comment from her: ‘Cosmos.’ I thought working with cyanotypes might bring me closer to describing how I felt every time looking up: the sky consumed, melted and dissolved me - the dive into the blue reminded me of the seawater that I miss so much. The heat and the burn of the laser amalgamated with cyanotype process embodies the sun, the sky, and surrounding landscape into one entity, encapsulating the feeling I get when I go outside: radiance of life despite it all.”

The exhibition tells the story of how Coloradans are experiencing interrelated challenges of fire, drought, and water and air quality in their communities. Artist and scientist teams share how collaborations with each other, and communities around Colorado, tell the story of climate change from multiple perspectives and modalities. 
 

The CASE Fellowship program is led by CU Boulder's Office for Outreach and Engagement, in collaboration with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA).

The exhibition, originally featured at the Colorado State Capitol, will be on the CU Boulder Campus at the Sustainability Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) building from Jan. 10 through Feb. 24, 2024.

The program's collaborations work to build a basis for connection and relationship among scientists, artists and communities to support Coloradans in collectively addressing pressing climate change issues. The exhibition will tour statewide throughout 2024, including stops in Boulder, Breckenridge, Grand Junction and Durango

Join the Colorado Art Science Environment Fellows (CASE Fellows) for an art exhibition opening reception on Thurs., Jan. 18, 2024.

Exhibition Opening Reception
Coloradans and Our Shared Environment in Times of Challenge and Change
 
Thurs., Jan. 18, 2024
5:30–7:30 p.m. 

Sustainability Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) Building Lobby
4001 Discovery Dr., Boulder, CO 80309
CU Boulder Campus

This event is free and open to the public.
​​​​​​Please RSVP here by Jan. 10.
 

Light refreshments will be served, and the program will feature short talks by CASE Fellows Darya Warner and Suzanne Anderson (HydroEcologies, Unseen of the Front Range Urban Corridor) and Amy Hoagland and Tania Schoennagel (Reflecting on Wildfire in the Colorado Front Range).
 

The exhibition tells the story of how Coloradans are experiencing interrelated challenges of fire, drought, and water and air quality in their communities. Artist and scientist teams share how collaborations with each other, and communities around Colorado, tell the story of climate change from multiple perspectives and modalities. 
 

The CASE Fellowship program is led by CU Boulder's Office for Outreach and Engagement, in collaboration with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA).

The exhibition, originally featured at the Colorado State Capitol, will be on the CU Boulder Campus at the Sustainability Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) building from Jan. 10 through Feb. 24, 2024.

The program's collaborations work to build a basis for connection and relationship among scientists, artists and communities to support Coloradans in collectively addressing pressing climate change issues. The exhibition will tour statewide throughout 2024, including stops in Boulder, Breckenridge, Grand Junction and Durango

The exhibition tells the story of how Coloradans are experiencing interrelated challenges of fire, drought, and water and air quality in their communities. Artist and scientist teams share how collaborations with each other, and communities around Colorado, tell the story of climate change from multiple perspectives and modalities. 
 

The CASE Fellowship program is led by CU Boulder's Office for Outreach and Engagement, in collaboration with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA).

The exhibition, originally featured at the Colorado State Capitol, will be on the CU Boulder Campus at the Sustainability Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) building from Jan. 10 through Feb. 24, 2024.

The program's collaborations work to build a basis for connection and relationship among scientists, artists and communities to support Coloradans in collectively addressing pressing climate change issues. The exhibition will tour statewide throughout 2024, including stops in Boulder, Breckenridge, Grand Junction and Durango

HYDROECOLOGIES,UNSEEN

How do we see the unseen?

The HydroEcologies series explores the hidden story of relationships between groundwater and human impact on climate along the Front Range Urban Corridor. Data from selected wells is transformed into a visual narrative using locally sourced materials to address the ongoing drought crisis in the area. We leave traces of our impact on the surrounding world that becomes a part of the unseen story of water. From November 2022- May 2023 I worked closely with Suzanne Anderson, Ph.D., USGS, and local communities to reveal the hidden narrative of groundwater- its history, data collection, and its relationship with local communities, and potential future through creating a series of activated light sculptures.

The resulting sculptural work provides a complex narrative of the water reservoir hidden beneath our feet. For more information, see https://www.usgs.gov/publications/ground-water-and-surface-water-a-single-resource.

The project is aimed to bring awareness to the drought issue, data collection of the wells, and its accessibility to the general public. The project invites participants to contribute by sharing insight on groundwater (usage, distribution, information and data availability, and other issues ). Darya has traveled to 5 locations and done talks and geolocation walks with different communities to hear the stories and record them via a collective drawing.

In collaboration with Susan Anderson, Ph.D. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mike Clark, USGS, Waterdata Support, William Andrews and Katharine Dahm, USGS, Denver, Waterdata support, Kirk Weiss, USAFA Well monitoring, David Jadric, data processing support.

Community Engagement and Collaborative Artwork Creation: MSU Environmental Art class with Prof. Natascha Seideneck( for Denver) BloBack Gallery (for Pueblo), CU Denver Bioart Class Department of Architecture and Wild Futures Labs with Prof. Assia Crowford (for Denver) Air Force Academy cadets and faculty (for Castle Rock), Boulder County Arts Alliance and Dairy Art Center (Boulder, Manitou Arts Center( for Colorado Springs)

The project was funded through The Office for Outreach and Engagement Colorado Art Science Environment (CASE) Fellows program, as the latest incarnation of the office’s work to connect the arts, sciences, and community for shared action on Colorado’s interrelated social and environmental issues.

CASE Fellows are artists from all corners of Colorado and CU Boulder scientists who will work in teams to produce artworks that will be exhibited at the Colorado State Capitol as part of the Colorado Creative Industries Creative Capital program, May-September 2023 (opening date May 19, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m). The exhibition, Coloradans and Our Shared Environment in Times of Challenge and Change will tell the story of how Coloradans are experiencing interrelated challenges of fire, drought, and water and air quality in their communities. The CASE Fellows aim to build a sense of connection around Colorado environmental issues by co-ideating artwork with input from communities.

For more info please visit https://chttps://casefellows.buffscreate.net/asefellows.buffscreate.net/unseen-hydroecologies-of-the-front-range-urban-corridor/

https://outreach.colorado.edu/article/announcing-the-colorado-art-science-environment-fellows-and-colorado-state-capitol-exhibition/

The phrase “I do, we do, you do” refers to a scaffolded and interactive method of teaching art. With this method, students move from being instructed, to working collaboratively, and then to working independently. In the I Do / We Do / You Do exhibition, art educators reflect on the intersections of teaching and art making practices. This exhibition includes invited national artists, a collaboration among an art educator research group, and a juried selection of Colorado art teachers. Works reflect the challenges particular to teaching art.

I Do features invited artists:

Jorge Lucero
Jen Delos Reyes
Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett of KSMoCA

How does an art educator maintain a contemporary art practice while simultaneously teaching and participating in dialogue about the art education process? Jorge Lucero recorded 102 “permissions” that he has pulled from other artists and creatives as concepts to use in his own art making practice. His work titled Conceptualist Permissions for Teacher Posture explores the idea that teaching is an art practice and what happens in a classroom is material for creating art. The work of Jen Delos Reyes supports this concept as the three photographs on display, titled After Mondrian, Blow, and Totem, were created in collaboration with her students as a means to address a constant disruption to her teaching practice in the form of cell phones. Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett founded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) to unite artmaking, art exhibition, and teaching within classrooms. KSMoCA is the merging of a museum of modern art with an elementary school, radically reimagining the way art is taught, created, and experienced across generations.

We Do features a collaborative artwork by art educators participating in Theory Loves Practice (TLP), an MSU Denver sponsored research group. TLP was created out of a need for community and support for art teachers working in primary, intermediate, and secondary schools. Most often, art teachers at these levels are the only ones of their kind within a school, facing unique situations and challenges without the support of similarly situated colleagues. TLP provides teachers with a way to share their classroom challenges and successes, learn from each other’s experiences, and experiment with new methods. Current TLP participants have collaborated on an installation that examines what is happening in their classrooms right now. The work provides viewers with a snapshot of current issues and a critical analysis of the education system in the hope of creating conversation around the complex situation of education.

You Do celebrates the work of current and retired Colorado art educators (in K-12 and higher education) in a juried selection of work. The jurors for this group of artists are Cecily Cullen, CVA Director & Curator, Pablo Rivera, Visual Arts Teacher at Denver’s South High School, and Katie Taft, CVA Education Manager. Artists were asked to create work addressing their classroom experiences. The thirty-four artists invited to participate in the exhibition were selected based on the conceptual aspects of their work with a specific focus on works that invite conversation about unique topics.

Artists selected for the exhibition:

Becky Bechthold  Timothea Biermann Leslie Burns-Campbell Michael Cellan Jim Cliff Janis Takami Couey Kimberley D’Arthenay Genevieve Deits Karen Eberle-Smith Melody Epperson Pam Farris Maria Fleming Ashley Fulton Abby Gregg Kevin Hoth Tracy Hughes Peter Illig 

Kathy Kane Rachel Kinney Hayley Krichels Christine Loehr Jennifer Lowell William Martin Amanda Metsala Elizabeth Morisette Jonathan Nicklow Alexandra Overby Reid Portscheller Anita RoHa Deb Rosenbaum Tim Ryckman Anne Thulson Darya Warner Diane Wright 

The Western New York Book Arts Center presents an exhibition by WNY artist Darya Warner on view March 13 – April 11, 2020. An opening reception to celebrate the exhibition will be held Friday, March 13th from 6-9pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

“My projects explore the Biophilia Hypothesis as a crucial factor in reconnecting humans and nature. The Biophilia Hypothesis is also known as, “the love of all living things” specifically in the era of climate change. This is done via interactive installations, visual displays, photography, sound, time-based media, and biology-based research. Sustainable art practices constitute a vital aspect of this work. Through this research, I address issues of environmental impact among artists and connect creative processes to earth-conscious practices. I am interested in shifting our relationship with nature from a human-centered perspective to that of a world-centered perspective, where recognition of intelligence expands through all the layers of our planet’s Biosphere. I have been working with mushrooms for the past 5 years and discovered their unique and extremely important role in many of nature’s processes. They are the ultimate communicators and creators of the networks that are vital in healthy ecosystems. With my work, I aim to connect human and mycelium-made networks as a hybrid entity.”  -Darya Warner

“Networks, entangled” envisions a hybrid space of mutual empathy between mycelium and humans.

ART+SCIENCE

The Undivided Mind 

edition III

Darya Warner and Puneet Kishor are presenting their 5 month research project MycoPrinter 1.0 supported by Khoj International Artist Associations grant among 3 other teams 

AXIS MUNDI BRINGS THE WORK OF TWENTY-ONE ARTISTS FROM THE USA AND CANADA TO THREE LOCATIONS IN DENVER FROM SEPT. 16 – OCT. 7 AS PART OF DENVER’S BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS

New Exhibition Will Be Presented in Denver by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, with Special Kick-Off Event and Film Screening Sept. 14

DENVER – Axis Mundi is a new exhibition presented by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, featuring twenty-one artists from across the US and Canada. This series of events will be part of Denver’s Biennial of the Americas. Through the lens of Ecopsychology, Axis Mundi explores three branches of our relationship to the Earth: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia. The exhibition will include exhibits at three different locations near downtown Denver – at PlatteForum, The Olympic Building and The Land Library between Sept. 16 and Oct. 7. All programming, including the kick-off event and film screening on Sept. 14, will be free and open to the public.

Information on locations can be found HERE.

Environmental Melancholia regards the pathology of being melancholic about the collapse of the environment. Collective Social Mania explores the pathology of being manic and the defense mechanisms that are manifested in society in two ways: mind-numbing, distracting behaviors (watching TV, drinking/drugs, staring at handheld devices, social media, packed work schedules) and as a rationalized, normalized allegiance to materialism and shopping. And finally, biophilia explores science, wonder and beauty, with some artists including living plants and animals into their works. Biophilia is a term coined by Edward Owen Wilson, who argued that because we co-evolved on this planet with all other living organisms, our affinity for other life is rooted in our DNA.

Visit the Axis Mundi BLOG HERE.

Axis Mundi’s three exhibits include a group show at PlatteForum, a solo warehouse installation of Regan Rosburg’s “Omega” at the Olympic Building and outdoor experiential artworks by Vivian Le Courtois and Eileen Richardson in the East lot of the Land Library Building. Axis Mundi is a part of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, as well as coinciding with a corresponding conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, which is being held on the 60th anniversary of the first Conference on Science and World Affairs at Pugwash and will feature Axis Mundi artists as presenters.

Prior to the launch of the exhibitions, Axis Mundi will kick off with a special screening of Chris Jordan’s film, Albatross at the Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm. Filmmaker Chris Jordan will be present for a talk-back discussion following the screening.

Reserve your FREE tickets for Albatross  HERE.

Albatross is a powerful visual journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on Earth, tens of thousands of albatross chicks lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic. Returning to the island over several years, Chris and his filming team witnessed cycles of birth, life, and death of these magnificent creatures as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. Albatross was an Official Selection at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival in May 2017, and the movie trailer was viewed and discussed at the United Nations on World Oceans Day in June 2017.

An opening reception for the Axis Mundi art exhibitions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16, 6 – 9 p.m. at the main exhibition site at The Temple, in PlatteForum’s gallery, 2400 Curtis St. This artist reception will include a brief talk from Axis Mundi curator, Regan Rosburg, on the exhibit and environmental melancholia. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the additional exhibits in The Land Library (2612 Champa St.) and Olympic Building (2565 Curtis St.) over the course of the evening. Each of the additional exhibition sites are within walking distance of PlatteForum.

Darya is presenting her "Tribute To Edison II" interactive installation dusring the show.  

School of Visual Arts presents “The Biophilia Hypothesis,” an exhibition of work by BFA Fine Arts students. Curated by department chair Suzanne Anker, “The Biophilia Hypothesis” is on view Saturday, September 17, through Saturday, October 15, at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York City.

Taking its name from biologist and author E.O. Wilson’s belief that human beings share an instinctive bond with other living systems, the work in “The Biophilia Hypothesis” reflects on humanity’s “urge to affiliate with other forms of life,” as Wilson describes it. Speculating on this phenomenon, curator and BFA Fine Arts Chair Suzanne Anker wonders: “Why do people have pets, houseplants or gardens? What is it about life forms that are so intriguing and vital? As humankind moves into the Anthropocene, our biochemical natures and cosmological understandings require sustainable strategies.” Select projects include Steph Mantis’s exploration of the different forms and colors of salt crystals; Mingyi Yan’s chemical gardens, which are reminiscent of geological formations; and Leah Xie’s flower installation and ode to the interconnections of matter.

Additionally, the exhibition showcases a collaborative project entitled MyoTomato*, in which a tomato was injected with myoglobin (a protein found in animals).

Participating artists Leman Akpinar, Viktorea Benois, Sebastian Cocioba, Andrew Cziraki, David Hanlon, Marguerite Li, Bo Liu, Steph Mantis, Kirin Pino, Shannon Pollak, Gina Proenza, Tarah Rhoda, Victor Taboada, Darya Warner and John Wells.

LIMNER GALLERY

123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534.

May 14 - June 6, 2015

Reception: Saturday, May 16, 5-7pm

Art | Bastion
2085 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Fl
April 30 – June 4th, 2015

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 30th 7 to 10 pm
 

Art Bastion is pleased to present Through the Looking Glass, the inaugural Miami solo exhibition of Darya Warner. The exhibition introduces «Tissue Sample of Undisclosed Origin», a series of 17 mixed media works, and an interactive installation «Tribute to Edison».

Originally from Belarus, Darya Warner arrived to the US in 2001. Her work revolves around the complexity of nature and global environmental consciousness, in which living organisms are the major focus. Through bio-processing and engaging with living matter (e.g. mycelium, bioluminescent algae, glowing E.Coli), combined with the use of modern technologies (CNC machines), Darya creates interactive installations, visual displays, and sculptures to engage the viewer into becoming more aware of the world around them and to encourage her audience to rethink their place as ‘sapiens’ in the complexity of living organisms that make up this Earth.

Darya draws inspiration from her dreamlike voyages to the distant worlds she discovers through microscopy. This fantastical journey is manifested in her 3D sculptural piece – a humanoid figure that is wrapped in the imagery of the painting it faces – which is shown reflected. This pays tribute to microscopic research, as well as to the second of Lewis Caroll’s acclaimed novels “Through the Looking Glass”, where Alice revisits a fantastical world by climbing through a mirror.

« Tribute to Edison » is an interactive installation of suspended light bulbs filled with bioluminescent algae (founded in warm coastal waters) suspended from enlarged laser cutouts of the microscopic images of the algae as a single cell. The viewer is encouraged to touch the bulbs so the algae react and produce a phosphorescent glow. The

planktons’ light cycle was altered by the artist so the viewer can experience the artwork "in action" during daylight. The idea of biological control and substituting non-living material with living organisms is shown in this artwork.