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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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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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“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.