July 31- August 16, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 31, 6-9 PM

ON EDGE is an annual juried exhibition of contemporary work by artists residing in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region who are pushing the boundaries of material and concept. EDGE Gallery has exhibited groundbreaking contemporary art for more than 30 years and has been instrumental in presenting important experimental work in our region. Special thanks to our juror this year, David Dadone.

Exhibiting Artists:

This exhibition features work from the following Colorado artists:

Fred Becker, Carol Bivins, Gerry Chapleski, Marilee Childs, Gary Ciancio, Shayna Cohn, Evgenii Drimalovskii, Nancy Eastman, Carol Eaton, Jennifer Evans, Jalaina Felker, Charis Fleshner, Suzanne Frazier, Sean Gray, Tatyana Hope, Talia Johns, Ryan Lee, Leslie Lefferdink, Kimberly MacArthur Graham, Ron Marchelletta, Jeff McCalmon, Marni Myers, Anna Paulson, Aishwarya Kishore Puthran, James Rabiolo, Leilani Reyes, Lisa Riannson, Raven Rohrig, Kirsty Saalfrank, Morgan Sirota, Sydney Solis, Randall Steinke, Aaron Sturtz, Kumi Thompson, and Gary Voss.

About the Juror: David Dadone

David Dadone has been Executive Director + Chief Curator of BMoCA since 2010. Under his leadership, BMoCA has experienced tremendous growth in attendance; and significant expansion of exhibitions and programs. He has championed underrepresented artists and experiential exhibitions that spark dialogue, and expanded the reach of the museum to the Front Range region. He has served in the Denver Public Arts Committee and was appointed to the Denver International Airport Public Arts committee during this tenure. He previously served as Deputy Director of Museo de las Americas in Denver. He holds an MBA from University of Colorado Denver and attended the Executive Museum Studies program at Claremont Graduate University/Getty Museum. He holds a BS in accounting from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a BA in Art Theory/Criticism from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Aug. 21 – Sept. 6, 2026
Wynne Reynolds
Travis Vermilye

Sept. 11 – Sept. 27, 2026
Kelly Pierce
Members’ Exhibition

Apply for Membership:

Edge Gallery currently has 3 Full Member openings and 2 Associate Member openings. Our Satellite memberships are full at this time. Email Katie Hoffman our New Member Coordinator to apply, (please click here). For more than 40 years, Edge Gallery has been an important arts institution in the Denver metro area. We are a friendly, engaged, supportive artist-run co-op gallery, focused on cutting edge contemporary art. Commit to your art practice & show your work! Apply for an interview and supercharge your art career. Please click here for more information on our membership levels.

Check out Daria Art Magazine for incisive reviews and extensive calendar listings of Front Range Art Exhibitions. Click here!

Please scroll down to see our previous exhibitions.

July 10- July 26, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 6-9 PM

Special Events:

DARIA Summer 2026 Magazine Launch Party
Saturday, July 11th, 2:00-4:00pm
Beverages and snacks, free magazines, meet the writers and staff!

Gayla Lemke     Las Casitas

“Las Casitas” is a body of work using the familiar form of the house as both a personal and a political symbol. Created during a time of housing insecurity, migration and diaspora, “Las Casitas” explores the changing ideas of community and what home represents to those who have access to it.

The houses each have an individual presence yet together form a varied and interconnected landscape, reflecting the diversity of life in our contemporary world.

The vibrant surface colors on the clay evoke personal histories as well as cultural traditions and our emotional attachments to home. The incorporated objects, rust and text are symbolic of time, change and broader social conditions.

Jason McKinsey      fixed / falling

New works from Jason McKinsey’s journey of personal discovery through abstraction and mixed media.

Upcoming Exhibitions

July 31 – Aug. 16, 2026
ON EDGE Annual Juried Exhibition

Aug. 21 – Sept. 6, 2026
Wynne Reynolds
Travis Vermilye

Apply for Membership:

Edge Gallery currently has 3 Full Member openings and 2 Associate Member openings. Our Satellite memberships are full at this time. Email Katie Hoffman our New Member Coordinator to apply, (please click here). For more than 40 years, Edge Gallery has been an important arts institution in the Denver metro area. We are a friendly, engaged, supportive artist-run co-op gallery, focused on cutting edge contemporary art. Commit to your art practice & show your work! Apply for an interview and supercharge your art career. Please click here for more information on our membership levels.

Check out Daria Art Magazine for incisive reviews and extensive calendar listings of Front Range Art Exhibitions. Click here!

Please scroll down to see our previous exhibitions.

June 19 – July 5, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19, 6-9 PM

CALLING ALL FRONT RANGE ARTISTS — Apply to ON EDGE 2026 Juried Exhibition! Deadline on CaFE June 19, 2026. Exhibition dates: July 31 – Aug. 16. Art)  Click here for more information and link to CaFE.

Candace Shepard     t  i  c  k  t  o  c  k

Paintings of omnipresent woe.

Lydia Farrell     Wise Mind

In recovery circles, the phrase Wise Mind is used often, describing a state in which one tries to balance the emotional and logical states of mind. I feel like my paintings do that in a way, but instead balancing real life (most all my paintings are started based off of photographs taken in and around Denver) and the unreal. The unreal, or even surreal has multiple definitions for me: political messages, the paranormal, things taken from horror movies, things hinting at Denver’s spooky past.

Annual Satellite Members Show

Zoa Ace, Rachael Amos, Sue Crosby Doyle, Kay D. Galvan, Mandy Hansen, Mike Hanson, J Alta Hope, Deborah Jang, Tabetha Landt, Jon Leydon, and Lin Takeuchi

Upcoming Exhibitions

July 10 – 26, 2026
Gayla Lemke
Jason McKinsey

July 31 – Aug. 16, 2026
ON EDGE Annual Juried Exhibition

Apply for Membership:

Edge Gallery currently has 3 Full Member openings and 1 Associate Member opening. Our Satellite memberships are full at this time. Email Katie Hoffman our New Member Coordinator to apply, (please click here). For more than 40 years, Edge Gallery has been an important arts institution in the Denver metro area. We are a friendly, engaged, supportive artist-run co-op gallery, focused on cutting edge contemporary art. Commit to your art practice & show your work! Apply for an interview and supercharge your art career. Please click here for more information on our membership levels.

Check out Daria Art Magazine for incisive reviews and extensive calendar listings of Front Range Art Exhibitions. Click here!

Please scroll down to see our previous exhibitions.

May 29  through June 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 29, 6-9 PM

Our annual exhibition showcases recent work by current members of Edge Gallery, offering a dynamic and eclectic presentation of our diverse artistic community. Each artist brings a distinct voice, freely exploring personal ideas, perspectives, and materials. Join us in celebrating the breadth and depth of contemporary art that defines Edge Gallery today.

CALLING ALL FRONT RANGE ARTISTS — Apply to ON EDGE 2026 Juried Exhibition! Deadline on CaFE June 19, 2026. Exhibition dates: July 31 – Aug. 16. David Dadone, honorary juror, Executive Director and Chief Curator of BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) Click here for more information and link to CaFE.

Upcoming Exhibitions

June 19 – July 5
Candace Shepard
Lydia Farrell
Satellite Members Exhibition

July 10 – 26
Gayla Lemke
Jason McKinsey

Apply for Membership:

Edge Gallery currently has 2 Full Member openings and 2 Associate Member opening. Our Satellite memberships are full at this time. If artists would like to be notified when new positions are open, email Katie Hoffman our New Member Coordinator, (please click here). For more than 40 years, Edge Gallery has been an important arts institution in the Denver metro area. We are a friendly, engaged, supportive artist-run co-op gallery, focused on cutting edge contemporary art. Commit to your art practice & show your work! Apply for an interview and supercharge your art career. Please click here for more information on our membership levels.

Check out Daria Art Magazine for incisive reviews and extensive calendar listings of Front Range Art Exhibitions. Click here!

Please scroll down to see our previous exhibitions.

May 8 – May 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, 6-9 PM
Artist Talk with Jessie and Anthony, Sunday, May 24th, 2-3 PM

Jessie Rodriguez      Flight Risk: Birds in Peril

This is an animation event inside of a gallery examining the many ways that birds have been made to suffer in my stop motion animations. They often are the narrative drivers of plots and have been put into dangerous situations, fallen into depression, experienced grief, and often emerge to find a new path through transformation. It will feature several animations surrounded by the material that they are composed of. Included in this show is a mini animation showcase called the Pigeon’s Living Room which brings to life an animation scene from a music video in a larger format. It features a depressed, drunk pigeon watching TV. I invited eight indie animators to create short animations for his entertainment to display on his TV to try to lift him from despair.

Related Event: Weird Animators Showcase: 6-9 pm, Saturday May 16th, Wolf Luv Studios, 1516 Teller Street/Sponsored by W 40 Arts

In addition to playing work on the tiny screen, the animators involved in the Pigeon’s Living Room as well as a few additional animators will show work at the inaugural Weird Animators Showcase. Aptly named, many of the animators met at Weird Theater, an event hosted monthly at the venue by Wolf Luv Films. The 12 animators presenting work will show short animations followed by a moderated Q & A after the screening. There will be vending tables for original art and creative projects of the animators involved.

Anthony Porcaro    Observer Effect

Anthony Porcaro’s work consists of surreal and paradoxical photographs meant to challenge the viewer’s perception of reality and certainty.  The work contrasts photography’s legacy as a document of truth and the contemporary state of digital manipulation.

In creating his artwork, Anthony Porcaro builds impossible and fantastical scenes using techniques including miniature construction and digital compositing.  These scenes are then photographed using the wet plate collodion process, which introduces chemical artifacts and physical markers of an authentic photograph.

Upcoming Exhibitions

May 29 – June 14
EDGE 2026: Members Exhibition

June 19 – July 5
Candace Shepard
Lydia Farrell
Satellite Members Exhibition

Apply for Membership:

Edge Gallery currently has 2 Full Member openings and 1 Associate Member opening. Our Satellite memberships are full at this time. If artists would like to be notified when new positions are open, email Katie Hoffman our New Member Coordinator, (please click here). For more than 40 years, Edge Gallery has been an important arts institution in the Denver metro area. We are a friendly, engaged, supportive artist-run co-op gallery, focused on cutting edge contemporary art. Commit to your art practice & show your work! Apply for an interview and supercharge your art career. Please click here for more information on our membership levels.

Check out Daria Art Magazine for incisive reviews and extensive calendar listings of Front Range Art Exhibitions. Click here!

Please scroll down to see our previous exhibitions.