September 17th – 19th, 2021 – Ashcroft, CO Ghost Town The Lilac Hour is an exhibition of two dimensional works (paintings, textiles and works on paper) as well as an unfinished poetic essay. The writing will be read by me on site on Saturday, September 18th around 3pm. With encouragement from my husband, Matt Tripodi, […]
WATERMELON SNOWFALL – Matthew Harris
September 4th through October 16th, 2021 – Opening Reception Saturday, September 4th, 7-11pm. On Saturday, September 4th, at 7pm, Leon will premiere new work from acclaimed local artist, Matthew Harris, for his second solo exhibition, Watermelon Snowfall. The exhibition will include new paintings and sculptures created throughout the past year. A favorite among other artists […]
ICONOCLASHGIFTSFELD – Angie Eng
“ICONOCLASHGIFTSFELD, or the ambiguity of image destruction in a poison field”
Opening Reception Saturday, July 17th, 2021 6pm – 10pm
Exhibition on view through Friday, August 27th, 2021
Iconoclashgiftsfeld, or the ambiguity of image destruction in a poison field was originally conceived of as a street tourist kiosk to analyze the destruction of monuments and the power of the image.
entangled // embodied – Jullian Young
MFA Exhibition – One week only. Opening Reception – June 26th, 6 – 11pm.
entangled // embodied investigates the tangible relationships humans share with their immediate natural surroundings mitigated through the intangible lens of memory. The visuals throughout this series of works contemplate the nature of local versus global connections.
Future Self Storage – Laura Shill
The disembodied plaster, clay, and fiber figures in Laura Shill’s sculptural installation, Future Self Storage, reach, tumble, and spill throughout Leon Gallery, resisting the vessels that try to contain them while grasping at something perpetually beyond reach. As an installation artist, Shill employs repetition of form and accumulation over time to create environments that immerse visitors and engage the sensorial experience of touch.
ORPHEUS – Scott McCormick
“Orpheus” is the culmination of a year and a half of work from artist Scott McCormick. Mining the subject matter, compositional geometry, and visual aesthetic of 19th century French academic painters like Bouguereau, Cabanel, and Tissot, McCormick’s epic work defines an emerging and innovative photographic style.
Unarmed – Raafi Rivero
Leon Gallery is proud to welcome back Raafi Rivero for the first gallery exhibition of his powerful social justice project, Unarmed. Unarmed is an ongoing series of sport jerseys in memoriam of black victims of police violence.
Horror Vacui – new works by Diego Rodriguez-Warner
In order to comply with new health restrictions set forth by the City and County of Denver, beginning Friday, November 20th, we will require private appointments to view Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s exhibition, Horror Vacui. Please follow this link to our appointment scheduler: https://leongallery.org/gallery-visit-horror-vacui/ or call 303-832-1599.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – Lindsay Smith Gustave & Marsha Mack
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is a two person collaborative exhibition two years in the making. Artists Lindsay Smith Gustave and Marsha Mack hybridize their disparate practices to ruminate on questions of nature versus human nature, each uniquely analyzing the formation and function of our domestic surroundings. Natural elements—animal, vegetable, and mineral—are thematic foundations of this exhibition, utilized to portray the interaction with and memories of our domestic environment when they are no longer ‘of nature.’ Works by Gustave and Mack depict these elements as signifiers of extravagance, perceived value, and false comfort in a changing world. Spanning seasonal and massive global change, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral has taken on new meaning in this year of pandemic and quarantine as exercises in isolation and criticism of creature comforts.
Human Currency
Human Currency is a collection of works that confronts institutional racism in the representation of the cowrie seashell. Each piece addresses a contemporary issue that signifies deep rooted historical practices of slavery, racism, fertility, womanhood, birth, and wealth. The cowrie shell is the symbol of life; Jasmine Abena Colgan uses the shell to share her belief that through womanhood, we will develop the change in the world that is needed today. A simplistic form portrays a beautiful depiction as a metaphor, which is vocalized through the African perspective in artistic material.