Hyperlink at Axis Gallery

2024

This exhibition is the beginning of an exchange between the members of Axis Gallery and the collective Hyperlink. The show will take place in two parts. The first stage is an exhibition of Hyperlink members’ and associates’ work at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA in April 2023. Hyperlink artists’ works in this exhibition constitute the start of a conversation. During the run of the exhibition, Axis members will have a chance to spend time with the works on display and choose a conversation to join, a work that they are interested in responding to, then create a piece of their own in response. These works will be exhibited alongside the Hyperlink members’ pieces in Denver, CO at a future date.

TRYST Alternative Art Fair, 2023

Del Amo Crossing. Torrance, California.

inter/ loper is a performative installation by Hyperlink art collective developed for an experimental art fair hosted by Torrance Art Museum in a defunct medical office. The project was led by Theresa Anderson who asked her fellow Hyperlink members to respond to her prompt1, participate in person and/or send objects, images, paintings, light/ projection, sound artwork, tape elements, etc. to activate the space and/ or be material for performance.

Focusing on the idea of the camera, photograph/er as an interloper in culture, performance art, + contemporary art- Hyperlink participants wore greenscreen shirts and responded to our made environment, interjecting bodies in crevices, interceding between viewers and the work with the act of photography, redefining the space multiple times with tape elements and decidedly photographing and rephotographing as part of the performance. We provided zines explaining the project and disposable cameras for viewers to use and as a point of conversation.

High Beams #7: Cruising

Event Date & Time: September 16, 2023, 5-9 PM

Location: Plummer Park North Parking Lot

1200 N Vista St., West Hollywood, CA

Once again, Hyperlink participated in a High Beams event in California.

In “Skitching”, Hyperlink members used the automobile as an instrument to produce sound with mics and mini amps. Additionally, members from across the country Zoomed in to produce their own audio contributions, which ranged from readings to original music.

Transportation can take many forms. The automobile can physically get us from one place to the next, while the internet has given us the ability to interact with anyone, anywhere across the globe.

Artists: Members of Hyperlink and Land Report art collectives.

Permanent exhibition left to entropy starting: August 20, 2023

Shirley Basin, WY.

Free and open to the public willing to take the pilgrimage.

Hyperlink and Land Report Art Collectives are curating an exhibition in the ghost town of Shirley Basin, Wy. This exhibition reflects on the eerie history and vast spaces of the American West, specifically the nuclear legacy of spaces like Shirley Basin. Each artist in this show has responded to the exhibition in unique and personal ways reflecting the diversity of each collective and contributing to the already existent strangeness of the site. While there are a variety of approaches to the site by the various artists in both collectives, each artist has ensured that their work will “glow” as a way to unify the works in the show and set these objects apart from the decaying ruins they are exhibited amongst. Another thoughtful facet to the works selected for the show is that they were once incomplete and abandoned projects that the artists re-activated for this project.

Philip J. Steele Gallery, Denver, CO

2023

“I have a crazy, crazy love of things. I like Pliers, and scissors. I love cups, rings, and bowls, not to speak of course of hats. I love all things, not just the grandest, also the infinitely small – thimbles, spurs, and flower vases.”

- Pablo Neruda

In the 1994 “Odes to Common Things,” Chilean poet Pablo Neruda captured the delights of his everyday world. Saltshakers, socks, and crinkle-cut French fries are treated as wonderous relics.

Art helps to refocus the inattentional blindness we develop for things we encounter in our daily lives. Though we interact with the creatures, things, and space around us, we often do not truly perceive them unless they are brought to our immediate attention.

Featuring the Hyperlink and Tiger Strikes Asteroid: Chicago artist collectives, Daily Specials examines how the commonplace presents itself in contemporary art. Through puddles, plastic bags, jet streams, and rocks, selected works encourage us to consider uncomfortable oversites and marvel at the profane becoming sacred.

Dairy Art Center, Boiulder, CO

2022

Group show curated by Hyperlink members.

Featured Artists: Holly Berg, Kathryn Cameron, Roger Allan Cleaves, Marina Eckler, Philippe Hyojung Kim, Christopher Lin, London Matthews, Aida Lizalde, Ricardo iamuuri Robinson, and Claire Simpson

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The internet has become a hotbed for communication, collaboration, and connection in ways that no one could have imagined. With the rise of social media, artists and creators around the world are able to disseminate imagery and gain exposure to other artists and institutions in the blink of an eye. While this has greatly increased a sense of global participation, the internet and social media often hinders one’s ability to make the same meaningful connections that are cultivated when co-existing in proximity.

Hyperlink, formed in 2014, is a nebulous artist collective dedicated to alternative artistic experiences, practices, opportunities, and expanding community. With Fan Mail 2.0, Hyperlink aims to straddle the boundary between virtual connection and physical action by asking each of its members to select an artist they are interested in, inspired by, and a fan of and then inviting them to show their work in the context of our community.

Purposely, Fan Mail 2.0, doesn’t privilege the buddy-system but seeks a new paradigm. We ask each other how we, as artists, may create new connections and present artworks we desire to share and voices that we long to hear. Through collaboration with distant communities, we can form lasting relationships that continue to influence the creative practices of those involved and those who come to view it. We envision that through thoughtful conversations and shared efforts, the divisions created by time, space, and geography collapse.

HIGH BEAMS #6: Convoy

The LA-based nomadic art collective, High Beams, partnered with Hyperlink to arrange a curate a one-night outdoor exhibition at RMCAD

Event Date & Time: 5-9 PM, August 20, 2022

Location: Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD)

1600 Pierce Street, Lakewood, CO

The curators of High Beams (Los Angeles) have partnered with Hyperlink (Denver) for HB6: Convoy, the latest in a series of nomadic outdoor exhibitions, slated for the evening of Aug. 20, 2022, at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Lakewood. The exhibition was organized by Carl Baratta (LA), Tobias Fike (Denver), and Donald Fodness (Denver), and features over 60 artists from points around the country.

For the sixth installment of High Beams, the Los Angeles crew will be hosted by Hyperlink as they hit the road simultaneously with several other collectives from around the Midwest and the South, partaking in their own classic American road trip that is one-part logistical, one-part performance, and one-part block party.

Situated on the main Lakewood campus, HB6: Convoy showcases a series of experimental works that include sculpture, video, performance, painting, and new media that respond to the site of the former Jewish tuberculosis sanitarium. Artists will display works in parking lots, in trees, along greenways, and in other public spaces around the historic campus.

Examples of work include a film by Andrew Murray (LA), showing various temporary, in situ installations that he fabricated from materials found on hikes and campsites along his trip to Colorado; a sound art piece by Hyperlink (Denver), repurposing CB radios to filter an auditory palimpsest of each member of the collective describing their artistic practice; a performance by The Art Dominatrix (LA), which explores various professional goals, including firmly-guided creative unblockings, studio visits, and portfolio reviews; a new media sculpture by Sean Noyce (LA), which evokes the spirits of the artist's paternal Mormon ancestors in Utah; a provocative 1970s-themed car wash by The Bridge Club (Denver), nodding to the original Roe v. Wade decision; a new media projection by The Experiential Co. (LA), which augments classical Greco-Roman statuary with digitized particle swarms; and text installations by Diego Juarez (LA), which consists of various poems, handwritten on translucent linen paper and hung on trees around the campus.

Participating artists: Richard Alpert, Tatyanna Anderson, Dominic Angerame, Leticia R Bajuyo, Bryan Birch, Emily Bivens, Ellenor Boettner, Chelsea Boxwell, Michael Broberg, Jason S Brown, Nicole Cassidy, Charles Chadwick, Chris Corrente, Casey De Bie, Rachel de Cuba, Vamp DeVille, Kevin Eichorst, Marshall Elliott, Isabella DeSantiago, Sophia Ericksen, Tobias Fike, Ian Fisher, Donald Fodness, Elizabeth Folk, Jacob Fronk, Anthony Garcia, Danielle Glickman, Deidre Greenly, Matthew Harris, Claire Jackel, Brian R Jobe, David L Jones, Diego Juarez, Patrick Kikut, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Anita Kucharczyk and Dylan Roscover, Abigail Lynn, Maciej Makalowski, Daisy McGowan, Sharifa Moore, Andrew Murray, Sean Noyce, Clover Nusz, Walt Ohnesorge, Paul Onorato, Christine Owen, Alice Marie Perreault, Grace Rockwell, Shelby Shadwell, Shokai Carter Sinclair, Kim Stangl, Annie Strader, Denise Susanne Townsend, Katya Usvitsky, Cristina Velazquez, Summer Ventis, Vivian Vivas, Robin Walker, Halle Warren, Ingrid V. Wells, Julie Wills, Ashley Williams, Kathryn Wingard, Momo (Yuntong) Wu, Ivar Zeile, and Xi Zhang

Participating collectives: 515, Birdseed Collective, The Bridge Club, Denver Digerati, Hyperlink, Land Report Collective, New Genres Collective, Noysky Projects, San Francisco Artists Alumni, Technicolor Skies, Tiger Strikes Asteroid

About: High Beams was formed in May 2020 by Carl Baratta, Dani Dodge, Alanna Marcelletti, Sean Noyce, and Katya Usvitsky as a collective of collectives. Each artist within the High Beams curatorial group is an artist/curator with one of Los Angeles’ collectives, including Durden and Ray, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Last Ditch, and 515, who have galleries located in Los Angeles' contemporary art hub, the Bendix Building. Others, such as Museum Adjacent and SF Artists Alumni, eschew the four-white-wall paradigm for a more nomadic curatorial existence.

High Beams #6

On view: Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022, 5-9pm.

Location: 1600 Pierce St., Lakewood, CO

Facebook: @HighBeamsArt

Instagram: @highbeamsart

Media contact: Sean Noyce, sean.noyce@gmail.com

installation, 2021

Installed as part of High Beams outside the Torrance Art Museum in CA.

2021

Hyperlink and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles are proud to present “Flat Rate”, an art exchange between artists working in the Rocky Mountain West and Southern California. Members of each artist collective were paired directly to exchange works of art to be exhibited and documented in one another’s homes. The only confines given were that the work be sent inexpensively by flat rate packaging through the United States Postal Service. Documentation of works in domestic spaces will be shared on social media, creating a digital exhibition installed inside the participating artists’ homes

As we spend more time in our homes and less time in public spaces due to the global pandemic, we have experienced extended periods with our private collections. “Flat Rate” allows the participating artists to enjoy new work in their homes while granting each artist agency to create installations and exhibitions on their own. By displaying these works in our domestic spaces, participants bring new life to both the work and the home where they are exhibited. Art is often experienced in the home, and while many of us miss experiencing art in galleries and the public nature of art events, this exchange acknowledges the intimacy of experiencing and living with a work of art. This intimacy and the connections involved in the exchange will foster new ideas about collaboration the potential for future projects.

Carl Baratta <-> Kathryn Wingard

Alex Paik <-> Derrick Velasquez

Brittany Mojo <-> Ian Fisher

Katya Usvitsky <-> Amber Cobb

Cait Finley <-> Ashley Williams

Kari Reardon <-> Theresa Anderson

Chris Ulivo <-> Xi Zhang

Liz Nurenberg <-> Tobias Fike

Jackie Rines <-> Matthew Harris

Vanessa Chow <-> Donald Fodness & Daisy McGowan

Jordynn Nusz <-> Summer Ventis

Beverly Siu <-> Laura Shill

A Group Exhibition Organized by Hyperlink Artist Collective Members 

June 29 - August 4, 2019
Public Reception: June 29, 2019                                                                                                                      

Programs
Visiting Critic Series: Featuring Evan Garza, August 3, 2019: 1PM, $5    
Junk Drawer: Featuring DJs NEW DAD + ROUTING NUMBER, August 3, 2019, 9PM, $10 
                                                                                     
Participating Artists: Theresa Anderson/ Michael Brodeur aka New Dad, Amber Cobb/ Rachel Niffengger, Tobias Fike/ Adam Basanta, Ian Fisher/ Dan Gratz, Matthew Harris/ Jennifer Arnold, Ashley Williams & Sarah Williams/ Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Kathryn Wingard/ Derek Barker, Donald Fodness/ William Dalton Frizzell, Daisy McGowan/ Caitlin Goebel, Laura Shill/ AJRR/AdamJonRoseRoses (Adam-Jon Williams and Rose Gelderblom Waddilove) Derrick Velasquez/ Suzy González

Hyperlink is a diverse collective of artists based in Denver whose mission is to foster meaningful connections between artists, curators, institutions, and viewers through the organization of exhibition exchanges in partnering communities.

FAN MAIL is the third exhibition in D | Vision, a series of exhibitions that will explore the relationship between social, cultural or political division and artistic vision. Throughout the year, RedLine's exhibits, special events, and programs will seek to investigate the ways in which division opens space for new creation and perspectives or how culture makes vision out of division. 

RedLine would like to thank the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, Denver Arts & Venues, Lynda M. Goldstein Foundation, Hemera Foundation, The David & Laura Merage Foundation, The Louise Merage Foundation, The Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation, the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and our supporters and members for making this program year possible.

Hyperlink is a diverse collective of artists based in Denver whose mission is to foster meaningful connections between artists, curators, institutions, and viewers through the organization of exhibition exchanges in partnering communities.

While the internet and social media provide artists with ample opportunities to both disseminate imagery and gain exposure to other artists, it often hinders one’s ability to make the same meaningful connections that are cultivated when co-existing in proximity. The dynamic that is created between viewer and art is crucial, and it is our aim to really emphasize this.

Through collaboration with those communities, we can form lasting relationships that continue to influence the creative practices of those involved and those who come to view it. We envision that through thoughtful conversations and shared efforts, the divisions created by time, space, and geography collapse.

The exhibition, Fan Mail, takes this one step further. Based on RedLine and Hyperlink’s mission statements and the current status of the reign of capitalism on contemporary art, Hyperlink asked each of its members to research and select an underrecognized artist of merit. The definition of underrecognized was intentionally vague and left up to each Hyperlink member to interpret. Some members of our collective chose artists who have had success, but they believe that the work is not widely enough viewed, others chose artists whose type of work is difficult and often left out of contemporary art conversations. Purposely, Fan Mail, doesn’t privilege the buddy-system but seeks a new paradigm. We ask each other how we, as artists may create new connections and present artworks we desire to share and voices that we long to be heard. 

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Evan Garza is co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), a New York 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and the first residency program in the United States exclusively for LGBTQ artists, where he served as Assistant Director from 2011–2014. He recently served as Director of Public Art at Rice University from 2016-2019 and was responsible for all public art initiatives on the Rice campus, including curatorial and budget oversight, acquisitions and major gifts, conservation and storage of the Rice Public Art collection, and the management and programming of the James Turrell "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace, an iconic Houston landmark. He was responsible for the commission and acquisition of permanent public artworks on the Rice campus, including recent acquisitions by Sol LeWitt and Ursula von Rydingsvard, and was curator of temporary projects, exhibitions, and programs. 

Garza served as Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin from 2014–2016, where he was managing curator of temporary exhibitions and worked on a comprehensive reinstallation of the Blanton collection. In 2014, Garza was selected by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as Commissioner for the Boston Art Commission, a discretionary appointment for distinguished service in the arts.

He has curated several exhibitions nationally, including "Warhol By the Book" at the Blanton Museum of Art (2016) and "PAINT THINGS: Beyond the Stretcher" at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2013), and his writing has been published by Artforum.com, The Drawing Center, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, and is included in several book and monographs.

JUNK DRAWER Special Event at RedLine- 21+

Saturday August 3, 10-2 am  (doors at 9)

$10 suggested donation.... but no one turned away

   Tickets purchased online in advance come with one complimentary drink ticket 

FEATURING:

NEW DAD {HOUSTON} - Live Set!

ROUTING NUMBER {DENVER} - 3-hour set!

////  ABOUT JUNK DRAWER

JUNK DRAWER is a bi-monthly queer + art + techno party in Denver.   Follow us on IG: @junkdrawerparty 

  /// JUNK DRAWER featuring NEW DAD and ROUTING NUMBER

On Saturday, August 3rd we are doing a special event at Redline.  We will be transforming part of redline into a pop-up queer nightlife space to bring the magic of Junk Drawer into Denver's best community art space.  This is going to be one exciting party featuring a live one hour set by NEW DAD from Houston followed by a three-hour set from Denver's ROUTING NUMBER.   Get weird with us, wear a look.... or not... but BRING THE GOOD VIBES:)  Come and get hot, sweaty and fully junk'd at this sexy, queer AF, ecclectic party till 2 am.

NOTE:  This party is at its cutest when there is a vast array of different types of bodies, genders, demeanors and looks all VIBING TOGETHER on that dancefloor.  While we certainly want everyone to feel their sexiest we also want everyone to feel respected.  Be mindful of how we touch and how we flirt....plus, consent looks cute on you!!!!  

//// NEW DAD on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/newdadnewdad

//// ROUTING NUMBER on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/routing-number

 ////  ABOUT JUNK DRAWER BTW, Junk Drawer is Jeff Page + Justin + Aleks Rodriguez.  

SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 8, 2018

Yes Ma’am, Denver, CO

Opening Reception – Saturday September 8, 2018 6:00-9:00+ pm

Yummy Yummy features works by six artists – Maddie Butler, Andy Delaney, Conor Dowdle, Lauren Flynn, Dylan Redford, and Robbie Seltzer. All have ties to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where in 2016 they collectively founded Yeah Maybe, a house gallery project and critique space showing propositional works by emerging and established artists. The project has operated in parallel to their respective practices, which while individually distinct connect through the collaborative curatorial projects and events manifested in the Yeah Maybe space. 

Yeah Maybe is part of a groundswell of artist-runspaces that have bounded over traditional cultural gatekeepers and put control in the hands of artists, decentralizing the art world in the process. Projects like Yeah Maybe that exist on the periphery of the established art world connect to the late 1960s and ‘70s phenomenon of historically significant artist-run spaces emerging globally and in the U.S. While that era has at times been cast as a period of naïvete with utopian ideals at the core, the legacy of artists manifesting their own realities reverberates in our current art world today. Manifesting and connecting community through experiences outside the mainstream art world are at the heart of these projects, and in two short years Yeah Maybe realized this in spades. 

Maddie Butler is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, MN. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in art, concentrating in sculpture and new media. Butler is a founder of Yeah Maybe Project in Minneapolis. She currently works as the studio manager of Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul, a new residency program that provides free studio space to artists who identify as women or gender non-conforming. She is also the art director of ORAL, a bilingual journal of web-based art and literature. Maddie’s personal practice investigates the processes of acting and observing, and how these processes relate to learning, growth, and the malleability of identity. www.maddiebutler.com/.

Andy Delany received his BFA from Grinnell College in Iowa in 2013, and currently lives and works in Minneapolis. His work explores the interplay between the body, the surface, and space of images, and the architecture within which we
encounter images. For the past year and a half these interests have been filtered through a fascination with free fall, skydiving, and aerial images. He is a frequent collaborator with OOIEE, and is a co-director of Yeah Maybe. www.andydelany.com

Conor Dowdle received his BFA in Studio Art from University of Denver in 2015 and is currently a Minneapolis based artist. Dowdle primarily works in painting and drawing, in addition to his role as co-director of Yeah Maybe gallery in South
Minneapolis. Recently, he has had projects hosted by Radical Abacus in Santa Fe NM, Basement Projects in Santa Ana CA, and Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space (C.A.C.t.T.U.S.) in Long Beach CA. Following the exhibition at Yes Ma’am Projects in Denver, Conor will take part in an artist residency at the Burren College of Art in Ireland. www.conordowdle.com

Lauren Flynn received her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa where she double-majored in mathematics and studio art. This duality continues to inform her work and thoughts. After Graduating she moved to Minneapolis, where she printed at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, first as a studio intern and later as a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Printmakers. In 2017, she was accepted as an MFA candidate in Sculpture and Ceramics at the University of Minnesota. Flynn’s work has been exhibited locally at the White Page Gallery, the Quarter Gallery and
Tuckunder Projects, and nationally at the DeVos Art Museum in Marquette, Michigan and Basement Projects in Santa Ana, California. Flynn and Andy Delany’s collaborative writings have appeared in 3x5 and InReview. As an artist and curator based in the Twin Cities, Flynn’s practice continues to incorporate both a visual studio practice and a collaborative practice working within social spaces. Flynn recently completed a period of working and researching in Berlin through the Berlin Artist Residency Program. 

Dylan Redford is an artist and educator working at the intersection of documentary arts, film, and performance. Redford’s research-based practice is concerned with implementing investigative and critical strategies that visual practitioners (artists, filmmakers, journalists, architects, and visual anthropologists) employ to understand the world around them. Dylan is currently
the Director of Education at Borscht Corporation, a filmmaking nonprofit based in Miami, Florida, where he is currently based. Previously, Dylan was at the Walker Art Center as the Bentson Research Associate in Moving Image. He is a founder of Yeah Maybe Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota. www.dylanredford.com 

Robbie Seltzer as an artist has worked primarily with photography and graphic design and has investigated visual representation of a Vermont dairy farm, the churn of change in gentrifying Oakland, California, and the death of a childhood friend in an automobile accident, among other projects. His current artistic practice primarily manifests through the Yeah Maybe project, with his work outside focused in the civic, non-profit and architectural arenas for the Twin Cities. He is a founder of Yeah Maybe Project in Minneapolis. www.robbieseltzer.com 

Daisy McGowan is a curator based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she works as director of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA). McGowan has independently and collaboratively curated and produced over 90 exhibitions over the past 16 years at GOCA, Colorado College IDEA/Inter Disciplinary Experimental Space, Colorado College Coburn Gallery, as well as regional and national contemporary sites including RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver) and Durden and Ray Gallery (Los Angeles – August 2018). Daisy McGowan received her BA in Studio Art from Colorado College in 1997, and MPA with a focus on Arts Administration (non-profit management and non-profit fund development) from the University of Colorado in 2010. McGowan is on the faculty of the UCCS Visual and Performing Arts Department, teaching for the Museum Studies and Gallery Practice program.

Aug 4 – Aug 25, 2018

DURDEN & RAY, 1206 Maple Ave. #832, Los Angeles, CA 90015

GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART • COLLECTIVITY EXHIBITION: Artists are continuously envisioning new models for the art world and bringing them to fruition by working together—collectively—with other artists. Collectivity will investigate points of connection between artists from two international artist collectives based out of the Western United States, Hyperlink (Colorado) and Durden & Ray (Los Angeles), in two exhibitions across two states. Artist collectives are as varied in their scope as are the individual artists who band together, taking a “yes, and…” approach to the art world. These artists embody the Western ethos of blazing your own path and defining art world success in new ways.

GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART GOCA: GOCA is a regional hub of contemporary art, culture, and conversation. By featuring world-class artists, hosting artist and expert talks, and offering meaningful events, GOCA engages UCCS students, faculty, staff and Pikes Peak region community members in contemporary culture and life.

DURDEN & RAY: Founded in 2009, Durden and Ray is comprised of 24 artist/curators who work together to create exhibition opportunities at their downtown Los Angeles gallery as well as in concert with artist groups and gallery spaces around the world. Durden and Ray concentrates on small, tightly curated group shows at the gallery, organized by the members, and hosts international artists as part of a commitment to global exchange and alternative networks.

ARTISTS: Carl Berg, Jorin Bossen, Sijia Chen, Ian Fisher, Donald Fodness, Ben Jackel, David Leapman, Laura Shill, Summer Ventis, Ashley Williams and Xi Zhang

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June 1 - July 7, 2018

GOCA, Colorado Springs, CO

GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART • COLLECTIVITY EXHIBITION: Artists are continuously envisioning new models for the art world and bringing them to fruition by working together—collectively—with other artists. Collectivity will investigate points of connection between artists from two international artist collectives based out of the Western United States, Hyperlink (Colorado) and Durden & Ray (Los Angeles), in two exhibitions across two states. Artist collectives are as varied in their scope as are the individual artists who band together, taking a “yes, and…” approach to the art world. These artists embody the Western ethos of blazing your own path and defining art world success in new ways.

GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART GOCA: GOCA is a regional hub of contemporary art, culture, and conversation. By featuring world-class artists, hosting artist and expert talks, and offering meaningful events, GOCA engages UCCS students, faculty, staff and Pikes Peak region community members in contemporary culture and life.

DURDEN & RAY: Founded in 2009, Durden and Ray is comprised of 24 artist/curators who work together to create exhibition opportunities at their downtown Los Angeles gallery as well as in concert with artist groups and gallery spaces around the world. Durden and Ray concentrates on small, tightly curated group shows at the gallery, organized by the members, and hosts international artists as part of a commitment to global exchange and alternative networks.

ARTISTS: Theresa Anderson, Carl Berg, Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Amber Cobb, Sijia Chen, Dani Dodge, Lana Duong, Tobias Fike, Ian Fisher, Donald Fodness, Ed Gomez, Matthew Harris, Ben Jackel, Brian Thomas Jones, David Leapman, Alanna Marcelletti, Max Presneill, David Spanbock, Laura Shill, Derrick Velasquez, Summer Ventis, Ashley Williams, & Xi Zhang.

Yeah Maybe #29

May 19 & 20, 2018

Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN

The exhibition, Yeah Maybe #29,  is the visualization of a larger cross-pollination at work. Contained within the rooms of Yeah Maybe are works by a group of artists collectively known as Hyperlink. The very title of their collective, “Hyperlink,” refers to the hyperlinked nature of our existence vis a vis the internet and social media. Based in Denver, the collective engages new communities across the United States through exchanges. Almost in defiance to our hyperconnected state of mind, the purpose of these exchanges are to foster open communication and forge new connections with artists and viewers in person. To view art on Instagram or the Internet is different compared to experiencing it in real life. Tangible and meaningful connections are made and solidified

On the first floor, are works by Theresa Anderson, Tobias Fike, and Donald Fodness. Upstairs are selections by artists Amber Cobb, Ian Fisher, Matthew Harris, Derrick Velasquez, Summer Ventis, Kathryn Wingard and Xi Zhang. The layout was made by practical decisions, but there is are nebulous connections that thread across all of the artists in Hyperlink despite their seemingly disparate practices. Many share an aesthetic that blurs the grotesque with the surreal. Others share a common visual language that uses vernacular forms and media to pose complex critiques. Collectively, the artists are interested in the liminality that occurs through relationships. “Liminality” represents the threshold between previous ways of structuring knowledge, and new ways of understanding. Each create objects that ask you to pause, examine, and reassess. To examine your engagement with the environment. To question authorship and historical narratives. To assess how you corporally engage the world. To cross a threshold into a new form of understanding.

First Date

University of Minnesota Morris in the Edward J. & Helen Jane Morrison Gallery

August 24 – October 12, 2017

Together With (Denver, CO)

Denver, CO at the Philip J. Steele Gallery on Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design's campus.

Curated by Kate Mothes

September 7th - October 5th, 2017

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7th, 2017

Together With is an exploration of duality, specifically addressing the so-called middle distance between two extremes. The premise of the exhibition was an artistic and geographic exchange, taking place both in Denver, CO, and Madison, WI, in order for artists in the Denver-based artist collective Hyperlink to engage with artists in other parts of the country and vice versa. Whether Denver and Madison are considered West or Midwest, they are both situated within the vast expanse between, and apart from, the two major American art hubs of Los Angeles and New York. Together With draws artists and their work from both coasts while emphasizing the Midwest as a meeting place, a middle ground.

The theme of duality is so broad as to be practically an anti-theme; it invites a diverse range of interpretations. Some artists’ work deliberately explores sub-themes such as the transition between life and death, inside and outside, or body and soul. Some of the work formally interprets duality by using materials we associate with barriers, or creating pieces and spaces that transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Additionally, some work operates in a more conceptual sense by juxtaposing the beautiful and the grotesque, the limits or barriers of the body, views on privacy and publicity, and perceptions of the real and the imaginary. The eclectic group of artists and artwork meet in an exhibition wherein multiple dualities revolve around and touch off of one another.

Non-Hyperlink artists: 

Sofia Arnold

Mandy Lyn Ford 

C. Anthony Huber 

Kyle Kogut

Esau McGhee

Brian Prugh

Mariana Russell

Joni Van Bockel

Sara Willadsen

Jason Yi

Together With (Madison, WI)

Madison, WS at The Bubbler

Curated by Kate Mothes

May 5th - May 25th, 2017

Together With is an exploration of duality, specifically addressing the so-called middle distance between two extremes. The premise of the exhibition was an artistic and geographic exchange, taking place both in Denver, CO, and Madison, WI, in order for artists in the Denver-based artist collective Hyperlink to engage with artists in other parts of the country and vice versa. Whether Denver and Madison are considered West or Midwest, they are both situated within the vast expanse between, and apart from, the two major American art hubs of Los Angeles and New York. Together With draws artists and their work from both coasts while emphasizing the Midwest as a meeting place, a middle ground.

The theme of duality is so broad as to be practically an anti-theme; it invites a diverse range of interpretations. Some artists’ work deliberately explores sub-themes such as the transition between life and death, inside and outside, or body and soul. Some of the work formally interprets duality by using materials we associate with barriers, or creating pieces and spaces that transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Additionally, some work operates in a more conceptual sense by juxtaposing the beautiful and the grotesque, the limits or barriers of the body, views on privacy and publicity, and perceptions of the real and the imaginary. The eclectic group of artists and artwork meet in an exhibition wherein multiple dualities revolve around and touch off of one another.

Non-Hyperlink artists: 

Sofia Arnold

Mandy Lyn Ford 

C. Anthony Huber 

Kyle Kogut

Esau McGhee

Brian Prugh

Mariana Russell

Joni Van Bockel

Sara Willadsen

Jason Yi

Kate Mothes is an independent curator-coordinator-collaborator-producer living in Northeast Wisconsin. She is interested in contemporary art and alternative modes of art exhibition, education, and experience, with an emphasis on artist-run initiatives. She has collaborated with artists and organizations both nationally and internationally. She runs a blog and nomadic curatorial platform called Young Space (young-space.com) and more information about past projects can be found at kate-mothes.com.

Image left: Mandy Lynn Ford Judge (acrylic, oil paint, sparkles, gesso, and canvas on canvas adhered to wood panel)

Image right: Ashley Williams and Sarah Williams Necessary Language: Berlin / Doi Saket (clay, wire, foam, paint)

Rule Gallery. Denver, Colorado 

Denver, January 20 - February 25

Chinese artists:

Chuan Feng

Zhang Xiao Wei

Sun Wei Hao

Ge Hui

Yang Tao

Zhang Zhong Ge

Yu Ai Jun

This group exhibition explores the idea of collaboration in art making through multiple creative interpretations varying from traditional collaborations to audience-activated works. The participating artists include: Fike and Harris, Hannah Givler, Miller and Shellabarger, Peter Reese, and Tatiãna.

A Fine Line

03/20/2015 - 04/10/2015

Opening Reception Friday, March 20, 2015, 6:00-9:00 P.M.

A Fine Line is a group show about artists who straddle the space between graphic illustration and fine art and flirt with the inherent hierarchy of that dynamic. Some of the artists in this show lean toward the cartoon and comic while others a more diagrammatic stylization. All of the work is representational and often directly includes the human figure, it's parts, or an allusion as a way to generate emotive content.

Featuring works by: Jazzmyn Barbosa, Michael Bernhardt, Molly Bounds, Donald Fodness, Mary Lou Novak, Nate Otto, Daisy McConnel, Larry Bob Phillips, Monica Rameirez,

Feb 20 - Mar 16, 2015

As individuals, we each inhabit a very specific physical and emotional world. As humans, we have complex languages that we use to communicate across these landscapes, but distance and disruption often prevent our worlds from overlapping. Throughout our lives, we search for people who might inhabit similar landscapes, or who may be willing to share and understand our personal world. It is a rare and wonderful thing when a landscape can be shared between two people.

In this exhibition, artist pairs who desire to connect with each other across a distance, create mirroring artworks. Using the visual format of a circle and addressing the theme of communication across physical and emotional landscapes, each pair creates two artworks that serve a "portal" to reach the other. The painters, sculptors and photographers in this exhibition approach this project with a range of materials, visual styles, and personal philosophies.

"I didn't go to the Moon, I went much further: For Time Is the Longest Distance Between Two Places" - from The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

Jan 16 - Feb 18, 2015

"I would never stand there ever" examines how fear and desire shape our relationship to nature. In works by Karin Davis, Summer Ventis, and Dan Cheek, this conflict reveals itself through bridges, barriers, and simulations. The natural becomes strange as we attempt to contain it, to mitigate our contact with it, or to contain ourselves within it.

Nov 21, 2014 - Jan 13, 2015

The next show at Hyperlink Gallery, Dashing and Crashing, which consists of work by juried and preselected artists,opens the third weekend of November, just a few days before Thanksgiving weekend. Each year the ridiculousness surrounding the insanity of holidays seems to out do the year before. The theme of this show draws from the madness of holiday shopping, the over indulgence at family gatherings, and every crazy moment in between.

Oct 17 - Nov 12, 2014

Join us next Friday for Hyperlink's October exhibition, Pink Days and Blue Days featuring work by artists Theresa Anderson, Amber Cobb, Sandra Fettingis and Laura Shill. Pink Days and Blue Days borrows its title from a 1997 Louise Bourgeious assemblage and references interdisciplinary approaches to art-making as a survival tactic that allows artistic careers to have longevity in the face of uncertainty. Each artist in this exhibition explores form through material but in varied and ever changing ways.

Sep 19 - Oct 22, 2014

Hyperlink announces artist Xi Zhang for Samples, his first official solo exhibition at the gallery. Samples connects six of Xi Zhang's ongoing bodies of work, ones that reflect on hyperrealisim, nihilism and existentialism, the undertones for his current practice. Born in 1984 in Kaifeng, China, Xi Zhang has become one of the most celebrated artists to emerge in Colorado, where he began sharing his paintings in 2004. This exhibition is his first solo effort in Chicago since last year's elaborate undertaking "21st Century DNA," presented by the City of Denver in conjunction with Plus Gallery at the McNichols Civic Center Building, following his selection by the Denver Biennial of the Americas to represent the United States at the URRA artist residency program in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Aug 15 - Sep 17, 2014

Certain elements within a romantic relationship aid a couple in bonding. Different couples use different elements. What happens when the connecting feature is art making?

Hyperlink is excited to present Couple Things, which takes a snap shot of artist couples who work together with visual creativity. The artist couples are represented by showing each individual's work as well as the couple's collaborative work. By showing the couple's collaborative work alongside their individual works, the viewers get a glimpse of their new artistic identity, as a pair. The show also demonstrates how art can be a tool for partners to unify and grow together.

Participating artist couples are Amber Cobb and Jason Below, Kathryn Wingard and Xi Zhang, Shaun C. Gibson and Myriam Gibson, Matt Weedman and Annie Strader, Thomas Scharfenberg and Emily Moyer.

July 18 - August 12, 2014

Colorado, Chicago, and Milwaukee Based Artists Interact with Visual Dialogue

Xi Zhang and Kathryn Wingard start Hyperlink's 2014/15 season with React, Reshape, Alter, Affect. Curated by Xi Zhang, this show will be an artistic investigation, featuring work by Kathryn Wingard and guest Chicago and Milwaukee based artists, which looks into how one image affects another.

June 20 - July 16, 2014

Hyperlink's debut show! The drafts have been drawn, and the models have been built. The physical space Hyperlink uses as a gallery is still being modified. "Under Construction" is a casual introduction to our space, still a work in progress, as we prepare to officially launch next month. The show offers a glimpse of what is to come, with sample pieces by the ten artists who are working together to create this new exhibition space that reaches out to bridge the gap between art communities in various cities.