Image credit: Amanda Tipton Photography Leon is honored to welcome artist Eric Anderson for his first solo exhibition with thegallery. A popular artist within the Denver community for over ten years, Anderson’sexhibition, “The Reasonable Obscenity of the Spirit, will mark his first major soloexhibition, highlighting a new body of work that he has been developing […]
Free Hand – New Work from Mark Shusterman
December 21st, 2023 through January 13th, 2024 Mark Shusterman has been residing in Denver his entire adult life, although he’s spent much of the last 10 years touring internationally with the band Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats as a founding member and keyboardist. Before the band’s success, Mark was a fixture of the Denver […]
Jackie Barry “HOME”
Artist Statement: Home is a show about collectivism over individualism. It’s about the holisticism of every seemingly small gesture, action, object, and experience that makes up who we are and what we love. Home is about looking to the natural world for guidance. It’s about leaving and coming back. Home is about deepening and broadening […]
In-Dwelling an exhibition of new work by Drew Austin
Opening Reception – Saturday, September 23rd, 7:00pm – 11:00pm The wide range of objects and images that artist Drew Austin creates, repurposes, or reimagines, seem to shimmer, sparkle, reflect, or refract, offering each viewer sensorial experiences that either demonstrate or allude to the ephemeral, the dynamic. Austin’s creative inspiration stems from a deep appreciation of […]
FROM, DAWN. – an exhibition of new work by Kenzie Sitterud
A key critical component of Sitterud’s work is an uncompromising, yet playful interrogation of authentic individual identity, navigating within the established structures and pervasive tropes of traditional American Western culture. Sitterud deconstructs identity, illuminating both the internal and external conflicts that arise when one is expected to operate within an iconic culture that can be […]
Woman, Life, Freedom
Exhibition Images Credit: Amanda Tipton Photography Throughout the month of July, Leon is honored to be collaborating with Middle East Images Foundation, to present to our Denver community, an exhibition of images from the civil rights protests that took place in Iran last fall. Read Ray Rinaldi’s Denver Post article here. To learn more about […]
A Centrum of Cosmic Energies – Christine Nguyen
April 29th – June 10th, 2023 Image Credit: Amanda Tipton Photography A Centrum of Cosmic Energies is a collection of cyanotypes on cotton using myriad media formats such as color pencil, graphite, pastel and salt crystals. These works depict both the auras of cosmic rays and plants alike. The radiating energy surrounding both forms draw upon the connection between tiny galaxies […]
Shadow Banned – Shadows Gather
The photographer known for her compelling portraits of Denver’s counterculture, Shadows Gather, will unveil her second solo show as part of Denver’s greater Month of Photography. Shadow Banned will be on display March 11th thru April 22nd at Leon Art Gallery and celebrates all that our culture keeps in the shadows–with a special artist reception […]
DID YOU DIE THOUGH? – Confidence Omenai
OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, January 28th, 2023 – 6pm – 9pmExhibition on view January 28th through March 4th, 2023 Bring your ear buds to listen to audio recordings of Confidence Omenai’s poems. You can access audio recordings of each of the poems by scrolling down and clicking on the various links below. Confidence Omenai’s “Did […]
Joshua Ware – And You May Find Yourself Becoming Oblique in an Age of Mass Extinction
December 2nd, 2022 – January 15th, 2023 As a prominent creative force within the local Denver community, Joshua Ware’s work inhabitis numerous spaces, from public scuplture, to intimate literary readings, to published articles on exhibitions and profiles on other local artists. His involvement within the community is both generous and impactful. Leon is honored to […]