Meet the Juror Reception, Sunday Oct 2, 2022 3:00-5:00 pm. Open to the public.
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.
Honorary Juror: Hayley Richardson
Hayley Richardson is the Director of The Dikeou Collection in Denver. In this role she oversees an expansive collection of contemporary art, manages two venues, publishes zingrecsDENVER and develops diverse public programming that create dialogues between art and community.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Oct 7 – Oct 23, 2022
Katherine Johnson, Nolan Tredway , Kay Galvan
Heather Hauptmann
Oct 28 – Nov 13, 2022
Faith Williams Wynne Reynolds
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Edge Gallery currently has openings for Full Members. For more than 30 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.
Opening reception Friday August 26, 2022, 6:00-9:00pm
In this special exhibit, a group of EDGE member artists show work reflecting on the atrocities related to gun violence in our nation. A large group installation dedicated to the discourse around gun violence in United States school systems will occupy roughly half of the gallery. The remaining space will house individual works by contributing EDGE members broadly approaching the theme of gun violence.
We invite you to visit the gallery to see the work and to share your own thoughts and prayers about this important issue.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Sept 16 – Oct 2, 2022
On Edge 2022 Annual Juried Exhibition
Juror: Hayley Richardson, Director of the Dikeou Collection.
Oct 7 – Oct 23, 2022
Katherine Johnson, Nolan Tredway , Kay Galvan
Heather Hauptmann
Apply for Membership:
Edge Gallery currently has openings for Full Members. For more than 30 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.
Opening August 5, 2022 through August 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, August 5th starting at 6 pm
Jennifer Alta Hope Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Jennifer Alta Hope celebrates line and color by giving record to the physical process of painting.
Mark Brasuell im Augenblick
Mark Brasuell is presenting im Augenblick, a new body of works dealing with the hidden meanings of writing and symbols. Large-scale paintings will dominate EDGE Gallery, providing an environment of beautiful colors and symbols derived from many sources including American shorthand, Chinese Chops and his own created language.
The pieces have swatches of color intertwined with scratching and layering to imply depth and meaning to being visible and invisible in the same artwork.
Upcoming Exhibitions
August 26 – September 11, 2022
Thoughts & Prayers Edge Members Group Exhibition and Installation
Edge Gallery currently has openings for Full Members. For more than 30 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.
Opening July 15, 2022 through July 31,2 022
Opening Reception: Friday, July 15th starting at 6 pm
Mark Farrell Infernal and Feral
Wasteland
My recent paintings continue to perfect my preferred themes: gothic landscapes with stormy weather and references to supernatural history and heavy metal, sometimes adding in political figures and statements. I’m a native of Littleton, CO, but after going to school in Illinois and Boston, I like to find ways to subvert images of my hometown. Of course, I’ve also expanded in many ways recently, deciding to make a painting of the Stanley Hotel in Estes after staying the night there. Another painting of mine, Tulpa, is about the theory that supernatural activity is created from human fear, and the painting Undertow has maritime themes. I think that many of my favorite painters, such as Cezanne, Soutine, or Auerbach are elastic in their subject matter, which is something I strive for.
Eric Havelock-Bailie Abandoned II / More Small Paintings
From Abandoned II
My work is called Abandoned II / More Small Paintings. All of it dates from 2020 – 2022 and its impetus lies somewhere between the great “memory scribes” I’m fond of and the classic God’s Own Junkyard by Peter Blake. Abandonment can imply that the object or scene in view is imbued with memory and its variants, so this is where my photographs are trying to go. My small paintings are more personal, hence their abstract nature.
Rachel Amos Covid Accumulations
Crow and Bra
This exhibit represents a digression, not an abandonment of interest in color or expressivity, possibly exorcising the demons that allow accumulations of things when I spend too much time alone. So, it’s not art at all, just therapy…. I hope there are things in the drawings related to your own demons and accumulations. It was enjoyable to play with line thickness, building tone with hatching, and other aspects of ink drawing that I haven’t used for a very long time
Philip Rader All About the Process
As an artist, my primary concern is to produce pieces that are unique and full of energy and movement. I feel the best way to achieve this is by painting non-objectively and by using an experimental process.
I equate the process of creating a piece of art to that of creating your individual life! To me, life equates to energy, change, and movement while death represents the opposite. Both art and life involve decisions made along the way until completion when an evaluation can be made.
The outcome of these decisions is not totally predictable. If the decision doesn`t result in the desired outcome, adaptations and changes are necessary. Balance can be achieved through constant changes of addition and subtraction. This process continues until it flows into a unified completion. In my art, I strive to continually make decisions with unknown outcomes.
I hope to elicit an emotional response to my paintings, inviting the viewer to investigate the composition more closely to see how all the elements flow to create the unified whole. I hope that by looking closely at these pieces, you will gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this style of art.
Upcoming Exhibitions
August 5 – August 21, 2022
Mark Brasuell, Jennifer Hope
August 26 – September 11, 2022
Edge Members Group Show
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Edge Gallery currently has openings for Full Members. For more than 30 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.
June 24 – July 10, 2022
Opening reception Friday June 24, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talks on July 2nd, Jason McKinsey at 12:30 PM, Stephen Shugart at 3:00 PM Click here for a virtual tour of the exhibition
Stephen Shugart Other Worlds
In this exhibition, I continue my investigation into how the physical properties of light can transform ordinary objects as if we are viewing them in a new dimension…or in another world. These minimalist works communicate, in form and installation, an examination of the materiality of things and their reflectivity, with a nod to even the “non-materiality” or superpositions of the wave function at quantum level. I work with materials such as cardboard concrete casting tubes and wood in various states of finish under different lighting conditions. I also use inexpensive party laser lights, crystal balls, and photographs to create the visual landscapes in this show. As always, creating light art sculptures and installations is a deeply personal act for me about bringing light into the darkness and dimness, literally and figuratively, and examining the ephemeral nature of reality.
Artist talk at Edge Gallery: Saturday, July 2nd, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
A series of intimate portraits reflecting our social psyche as we come out of the pandemic.
Artist talk at Edge Gallery: Saturday, July 2, 12:30 PM
Upcoming Exhibitions
July 15-July 31, 2022
Phil Rader, Rachel Amos, Mark Ferrell, Eric Havelock-Bailie
August 5 – August 21, 2022
Mark Brasuell, Jennifer Hope
Apply for Membership:
Edge Gallery currently has openings for Full Members. For more than 30 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.
