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Theresa Anderson (b. 1967, St. Paul, MN) lives and works in Denver, CO. Developing interdisciplinary work through performance art, sculpture, drawing and painting she explores concepts dealing with conflict, and/ or, oppositional categories, and recitations on agency and inadequacy. She is alum of artist residencies at Redline Denver, PlatteForum, and Vermont Studio Center where she received fellowship funding for her sculpture. Anderson has received multiple commissions and stipends through organizations such as the Biennial of the Americas, Black Cube Nomadic Museum with curator Cortney Lane Stell, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the presentation of a master artist demonstration on drawing at the Denver Art Museum. Notable exhibitions include everything squiggles at 808 Projects, curated by Mardee Goff, every length of a drawing at Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis curated by Nicole Soukup, Performativity at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, curated by Michol Hebron, Thief Among Thieves at Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Adam Lerner and Nora Abrams and some kind of cuddle at Gray Contemporary, Houston, where she is represented.

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Representing action-based inquiry into ideas about oversaturation and conflict my interdisciplinary work is an accumulation, appropriation and infiltration of the daily grind. Objects exist as if reams of information gathered from the insides (of walls and body), random magazines found in waiting rooms, focused research and reading (whether it’s Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology, Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings, or Arielle Greenberg’s Gurlesque) could become thing-like.

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Lynné Bowman Cravens is a conceptual artist working in an interdisciplinary method. She takes a wide range of approaches in her practice as a response to her autobiographical narrative. The work is poetic and expressive, re imagining first-hand experiences through an exploration of contemporary self-portraiture, manipulated landscapes, and physical layering. Cravens works primarily with photography, making unique pieces from an infinitely reproducible medium. Through meticulous physical distortions and transdisciplinary techniques, she creates artworks that address identity and form. Each piece ranges from large-scale installations to delicate one of a kind objects. Linking the physicality of each artwork to the concepts and themes behind the piece.

Lynné Bowman Cravens is a conceptual artist and photographer. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas and currently lives in Colorado. Cravens received her BA in Photocommunications from St. Edward’s University in 2009, and her MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas in 2015. She currently resides in Colorado Springs, working as the Exhibitions and Events Manager at the Galleries of Contemporary Arts at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Cravens’ work has been featured in multiple publications such as Volume 6 of Friend of the Artist, Austere Magazine, and Voyage Dallas Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the Bradbury Art Museum in Arkansas, Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth, during Fotofest in Houston, in the 2018 KAUNAS Photo Festival in Lithuania, and with a site-specific outdoor installation in Marfa, Texas. Cravens is a former member of 500X Gallery, Texas' oldest artist-run collective. She co-curated the exhibition Sequential Self: Gender and Identity in Comics with Iris Bechtol, the Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and Founder of Terrain Dallas. Cravens most recently finished Beauty in Becoming, a large-scale public art commission for the City of Fort Worth’s Public Art Program, installed in August 2022.

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Tobias Fike is an interdisciplinary, contemporary artist who lives and works outside of Denver, Colorado. The form of his work is incredibly varied and he approaches a range of concepts, from his personal experiences of family, place, and grief, to our temporal relationship with the universe and observations of time. 

Fike was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, moved to Kansas City when he was ten, then later returned to Lincoln to attend the University of Nebraska, where he earned a BFA in 2000. He earned his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. In addition to national tours showcasing his rich performance and collaboration-based projects, including sound performances with the Flinching Eye Collective, Fike's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in cities Berlin, Germany; Coimbra, Portugal; Houston, TX; and Tucson, AZ, among others.

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Donald Fodness earned a BA degree in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MFA in Painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fodness has an interdisciplinary practice that includes drawing, sculpture, furniture and installation. His drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Regionally he has created site specific installations for the Denver Art Museum, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Gallery of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs, two Biennial of the Americas, and Harmony Hammond's Material Engagements at Redline. His work has been published in New American Paintings, Sculpture Magazine, Yahoo home page, Found Magazine, Vice Magazine’s Creators Project, art LTD, and as a guest on Modern Art Blitz along with Oriana Small.

Fodness is an active community member, curator, and collaborator with The Flying OHNO Twins and The DMB Collective. He co founded Showpen Residency, is a founding member of Hyperlink art collective. Since 2007 he has served in higher education at various institutions including University of Denver, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and Metro State University of Denver.  He currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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D. Dominick Lombardi is an artist, writer and curator. Before Covid, he was represented by Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY. Currently, Lombardi is represented by Artego in Queens, NY and Prince Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition to those two relationships, Lombardi has been a part a series of exhibitions, curating shows at a variety of institutions including the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL; and the Hampden Gallery in Amherst, MA.

Feature articles and reviews of Lombardi's exhibitions have appeared in The Weird Show (part 1 of 3), The Weird Show (part 2 of 3), The Weird Show (Part 3 of 3), The Long Island City/Astoria Journal, Art Spiel, dart, Sculpture, WHITEHOT (Canada), ARTES magazine, ARTnews, The New York Times, artscope, O2magazine (China), Creative Loafing, Post Road Magazine (issue 19), Post Road Magazine (issue 20), nyartbeat, The Advocate & Greenwich Time, The M magazine, Time Out New York, Skin & Ink, The Record Review, Art New England, San Antonio Express, San Antonio Current, Riverdale Press, Art in Culture (S.Korea), ZING magazine, THE NEW YORK GAHO (cover and feature-Japan), Poetry and Thought (Japan), ANIMALmagazine, artnet, NYARTS magazine, culturecatch.com, NY Arts Journal, and BLURRED VISION (cover art issue #1 and interior pages issues #1-3).

Lombardi has written features and art criticisms that have been published in the New Art Examiner, Art & Antiques, Whitehot, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTES, The Huffington Post, ARTslant, Art Experience NYC, Public Art and Ecology Magazine (China), The New York Times, Sculpture, Sculpture Review, d'ART (U.S. Editor), Art in Asia (S.Korea), Art Papers, Art Lies, ARTnews, & magazine, Juxtapoz, New Art Examiner, Art New England, NYARTS magazine, culturecatch and others.

As a curator, Lombardi has worked with numerous artists on such shows as A Horse Walks Into a Bar, I Am..., Foodie Fever, Waterworks, Where to Draw the Line, Photo A Go-Go, Parallel Fields, Natural Impact, Water Over the Bridge, Pattern, Power, Chaos and Quiet, Free Form Five, Emily Berger: Rhythm and Light, Self Indulgence, Counterpoints to the Narrative (artes review) (culturecatch review), Duchamp's Plumbing, Tondo, Tondo, Tondo, NewCopenYork, SPORTSVERGNÜGEN, Facie: Self Portraiture Interpreted by 25 Artists, Raid Envy, Exquisite Porch (creative loafing review), Through the Veil of the Soul, Shaky Ground (artes review) (culturecatch review), HEAD (Hampden Gallery/UMASS Amherst), reVision, A Tangled Web, HEAD (Bosi Contemporary, NY, New York), Eye on the Storm, In Their Own World, Kerosene Garden, Monkey Spoon (culturecatch review), Anonymous (culturecatch review), Suspect Reason, Nature Calls, The Intelligent Design Project, Bóm: How art can disrupt, reorient or destroy, Art Noir, Fear is a Four Letter Word, Speaking in Strings: Ken Butler & Kurt Coble, Scapes, Critics Select I & II, The Reality Show, East Vs West, Over the Top - Under the Rug, FUNKADELICIDE, The Impact of War, The Waking Dream, Obsession (Food), Lights - Sound - Action!, The Tradition of Icons, and Champions of Modernism: Non- Objective Art of the1930s & 40s and Its Legacy.

Catalogs and Books: I Am..., High+Low: A Forty Five Year Retrospective (Review of High + Low), (Review of High + Low), Unfoldingobject, Water Over the Bridge, Saints, Sinners and the Collective Unconscious (artscope review) (culturecatch review), The Right to be Human, SPORTSVERGNÜGEN, Facie: Self-Portraiture Interpreted by 25 Artists, Raid Envy, Tattooed Tokyo: a Combination of Factors..., Exquisite Porch, Through the Veil of the Soul, Shaky Ground, reVision, HEAD (Hampden Gallery/UMASS Amherst, A Tangled Web, HEAD, Eye on the Storm, Hidden Worlds, Post Apocalyptic Tattoo comic book, Under the Influence, Post Road/Issue #19, Apocalyptic Pop, Characters: Scene I and II, Contemporary Korean Artists in New York, Accelerating on the Curves/The Artist's Roadmap to Success,

Videos: Resilience and Focus: Visual Voices, George Mason University, A Horse Walks Into A Bar, WINTERFELL, Relief, Particle Physical, Tell Me a Story, Exquisite Porch, Five Windows, Recontextualizing the Found, Monkey Spoon, Gorky's Granddaughter,

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Jade Ariana Phillips is an artist based out of a small town in rural Illinois. She is currently working in Austin, Texas.

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design with Summa Cum Laude honors in 2016. She thrived in that rich and blossoming art community as Student Ambassador of RMCAD. Jade received various artistic scholarships during her time at RMCAD, such as the Carla Miranda and Dustin Peletier Memorial Award through the Philip J. Steel Foundation.

Jade graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Master in Studio Art in May of 2018. While researching in the studio for two semesters, Jade maintained an assistantship that allowed her to teach an introductory art course at the university while going to school. She was awarded Distinguished Graduate of The Master of Arts program at Eastern Illinois University, and additionally maintained a 4.0 GPA.

Her life’s journey is dedicated to empowering students to become artistic advocates for themselves, as she has learned how to be her own agent from her previous mentors. Jade’s work revolves around the figure, reflection, and self-contemplation.

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Julie Puma was born in Brooklyn but currently lives in Denver. She received her BA from Western Illinois University; her first Masters is in art therapy from The School of The Art Institute in Chicago, and finally her masters of fine art in visual art from Vermont College of Fine art. She has been teaching for about fifteen years and is currently Full Professor + Head of Foundations Online at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally. Mostly she paints, but is also interested in installation, video, sculpture and photography. You can see her work at juliepuma.com

Puma’s current work explores childhood amnesia and autobiography. After her mother died when she was six, she experienced a period of seven years of amnesia. The process of making art has been transformative and healing for Puma. In her own words “I’ve chosen to abstract and flatten the backgrounds as memory lives in the undefined. I find the subject of memory fascinating. The brain is a complex organ that functions at times independently of time and space.”

Inspired by old family photographs, she’s been creating paintings, paired with small installations. Using oil paint for her process fits the content of the work. The smooth, fluid nature of the medium provides a soothing experience where feelings, thoughts, desires and memories can be sublimated.

Masters of Art in Art Therapy | Masters in Fine Art in visual Art | Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design—Denver |

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Living between the realms of foreign and familiar, my work explores physical manifestations of borrowed memory and our relationship (and often desensitization towards) to contemporary perpetuations of violence. By creating visual and tactile tension between what attracts and repulses the viewer, I use religious iconography, digital-age ritualism, and the deterioration of the body to explore how we choose to neglect or memorialize these moments.

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“Outside and inside are both intimate -- they are always ready to be reversed … If there exists a border-line surface between such an inside and outside, this surface is painful on both sides”
-Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Space”

Our lives consist of internal and external landscapes. My work examines the ways in which these landscapes intersect and are altered by such intersections. Paper becomes Bachelard’s “border-line surface,” the membrane that both divides and connects what is inside us and what is outside.

Landscape consists not only of the physical realities of our surroundings, but of our relationship to those realities. As J. Douglas Porteous states in “Landscapes of the Mind,” landscape is “a visual construct [that] does not exist without an observer.” In observing, we project ourselves onto the landscape. Individual landscapes, however, also dictate our observations of them. The landscape is inside us as much as we are inside it. It is this interplay of outer and inner space that I attempt to represent in my work.

The resulting prints are representations and embodiments of this communication between inside and outside. Often, ink transfers from the block to the paper, as in a traditional woodcut, but the residue of previous impressions also transfers from the paper back to the block and then onto subsequent prints. Through this exchange, the prints document a conversation, the way we are changed by contact with new environments and ideas. When the prints become books and installations, this conversation expands to form its own environment.

In these pieces, I represent relationships and the spaces that contain and create them abstractly to allow the viewer to use the space of the landscape as a site for meditation on the relationships and spaces in their own lives.

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Kathryn Wingard is an artist residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who is currently a Master of Science candidate in the Art Therapy department at Mount Mary University. Though she now works in several different media, Kathryn has a fine arts background in sculptural ceramics. In 2008 she graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in fine arts 3-D, with a concentration in ceramics. After graduating, she left Boston and went on to continue studying fine arts with the graduate department of ceramics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While in Colorado, Kathryn was a resident artist at the Paukune Wanner Art Hause in Severance, Colorado, and the Showpen Residency in Denver, Colorado. Kathryn has shown in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Illinois, as well as internationally.    

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Xi Zhang, was born in 1984 in China and lives and works in U.S and China. Zhang’s work had notable shows including Song Zhuang Multimedia Art Exhibition at Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing (2006) URRA in Argentina (Buenos Aires 2012) Ornaments at White House (2012) and Biennale of America in U.S. (2013). His work was featured on media as CNN (2011), Art ltd Magazine(2012), PBS (2013), NPR (2013), and Juxtapoz Magazine (2014). Zhang also was awarded emerging artist of year (2008), The Pathmaker (2011), Top twelve artists under age 35 (2012), The Catherine Doctorow Prize in Contemporary painting (Nominated 2015), and The John Moores Painting Prize (China, Finalist 2016).

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My recent series Metallic Leaf Garden explores the way individuals’ minds reshape their physical environment. Contemporary psychological theory allows that our consciousness, emotions, and subconscious can be akin to the “paint” that consistently colors our reality. My investigation incorporates a variety of individual psychological realms, depicting them in fictionalized surroundings that confuse the relationship between perception and reality. I utilize a mixture of expressionist/abstract aesthetics in a subtle, theatrical way to construct the characters’ environments, reflecting on their internal thoughts, struggles, personality, and/or problems.