Reception: May 10th 6pm – 10pm

Josh Davy is a living enigma; he confounds and horrifies the very society he is trying to infiltrate.  Half man, half machine, and half proboscis monkey, he has lived among us (poorly disguised) for 36 years.  His road to world domination began with a very brief attempt at higher education at the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Art in beautiful downtown Cleveland.  As his nefarious plot began to take form he realized that an MFA would do little to cover his suspiciously high electric bill, or even pay for 3 packs of Top Ramen a day.  He left college and has undertaken numerous menial tasks for monetary gain in the interim.  From time to time he has delved into the seedy undercurrents of society, lurking about art studios, galleries and prisons trying to recruit followers whenever he can.  Ready now to make his move, any money the good people of Denver spend on his questionably themed and poorly executed works of “art” will be put to good use bringing about the end of life as we know it.  When pressed for a comment Josh said, “The growing popularity of the e-book is proof that society has traveled down a dark road from which there is no return.”

Mr. Davy is currently back in college studying mechanical engineering, which he suspects will be useful for overthrowing stuff and making money.  He lives in Longmont with his son Jacob.

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I first came to Colorado from Indiana for a vacation in 1970. I fell so in love with this place that I put in for a transfer and moved here in 1971. For the past 43 years, I have photographed from Denver, to La Junta, to Cortez, to Craig, to Sterling, and a lot of places in between. For this show, I am documenting some things that have totally disappeared, some that have changed almost beyond recognition, and some that will never change. For natives and long time residents, this will be a trip down memory lane. The newer arrivals will see into some of the past of our great city and state. I have invited some participants from the recent 40 West “Traveling Route 40″ show to add their photos to mine and fill in some of the areas I have not covered well. Thanks to Laura Phelps Rogers, Jules Byerlein, Michael Calanan, Kendall Gelner, Paul Wedlake, Ken Parks, Dane “Colfax” Stephenson, Ken Takahashi, and Steve Kindsfather for sharing your work with NEXT Gallery.

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v2r2 “Gitanjali Offerings”

danma VS v2r2 is the love-child of Denver Artists danma (Daniel A Ma) & v2r2 (Veronica Violet Rainbow Reeves). Their work is an exploration of culture and social morals, which they cast animal-humanoids to contrast a view of humanity.  v2r2 has been in the habit of making art since she can remember. Besides artwork, she is passionate about world cultures, nature and the mysteries of existence. v2r2 is a classically trained oil painter and former padawan of  Jedi master John Hull. She attained her B.F.A. in 2008 from the University of Colorado Denver, graduating with highest honors. v2r2 brings the traditions of formalism to the collaboration along with adventurous spirit.

danma “The Long Journey Back to the Middle”

danma has a background in various arts (watercolor paintings & Chinese kung fu), which started from scribbles & doodles. He later got a little more serious with traditional portrait photography dealing with Asian identity politics. danma then after, leveled-up by attaining an M.F.A in 2006 from the University of Illinois, where he explored video, sculpture, and installation art. danma brings to the collaboration a non-traditional framework of curiosity and a thirst for the ridiculous. danma has shown nationally and internationally for 13 years.  As a team, their work reaps the rewards from the dynamics of negotiation, challenges to one another’s ideas and an unpretentious attitude towards the new, daring and experimental. The combined appreciation of classical, fine art and low-brau, urban/street art charges their aesthetic with an unfiltered, savory, flavor-packet.

Installation: Call Now by danma

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If you are interested in purchasing any of the works in this exhibit, please contact Veronica Reeves: v2r2please [at] gmail [dot] com

Andrea Burgay, Brooklyn,NY,USA, Basin Street Blues, 2011, Collage on wooden panel, 12 x 9″, $450

Andrea Burgay, Brooklyn,NY,USA, Never/Forever #10, 2012, Collage, string, and printed paper on hardboard panel, 16″ x 9″ (including hanging flags), $450

Andrea Burgay, Brooklyn,NY,USA, (You) Shine Down Upon Me, 2012, Collage on clay panel, 24 x 18″, $700

Mongobi’ Bibbiana Tanina Mele Confetti Series #4 2012 Collage  on paper $399

Mongobi’ Bibbiana Tanina Mele Curt Woman Series #4 2012 Collage  on paper $399

Mongobi’ Bibbiana Tanina Mele Don’t Look series #3 2012 Collage  on paper $399

Corrina Espinosa, CO,USA, Dream Ark of Phantasm Preserves, 2013, mixed media collage, $800

danma vs. v2r2, danma vs. v2r2,
CO, USA,
Buddha Delight, 2013, mixed media, $250

Elena Massucco , East Sussex, England, Blue Curtain, paper, $100

Katy Havens, CO,USA, My Shadow, 2013, collage, screenprint, mixed media (sold)

Hope Kroll, CA, USA, Fata Morgana, 2010, hand cut paper collage, 3D, 1,000.00

Hope Kroll, Paso CA, USA, That Should do it, 2012, hand cut paper collage, 3D, 1,200.00

JACQUELINE SOPHIA CORDOVA, CO,USA, THOSE WHO DWELL BENEATH, 2012, COLLAGE AND CUT PAPER, 20″ X 44″, $375

Janice McDonald

Jenna Douglass, CO,USA When I Stepped Away, 2012, mixed media, $450.00

Jenna Douglass, CO, USA, My Mind in a Place That I Like, 2012, mixed media, $380.00

James Fischer,CO,USA, Reclining Nude, 2013, 6″w x 6″h Digital Print, $165.00 framed

Jon Revett, Jon Revett, TX,USA, Networks and Crosscurrents, 2012, mixed media on Masonite and
cardboard, $1100

Jon Revett, Jon Revett, TX,USA, Hermetic, 2012, mixed media on pillowcase, $900

Juan Juarez, NYC,NY,USA, Suspension (Plywood OOH-RAH 1), 24×32 inches, 2011-2012, collage photographed on flat-bed scanner mounted on aluminum panel, 800.00

Matt Bevirt, CO,USA, Eye, 2011, Pigment Print, $300.00

Matthew Rose, The Odd Dream, Collage,$425

Matthew Rose, The Drowning, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, The Boy, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Mother, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Swan Song, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Check In, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Delais, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Madonna, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose

Matthew Rose, Winter, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Slaves, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Femme, Collage, $425

Matthew Rose, Dream, Collage, $425

Patrice Soehnlein, MN, USA, Body : 2012-2013; Digital collage laser printed on Legion Paper’s Curious Metallics; (sold)

Patrice Soehnlein

Patrice Soehnlein

Patrice Soehnlein

Patrice Soehnlein

Patrice Soehnlein is an artist and illustrator born in 1986 in Madison, Wisconsin. She received her BS in graphic design from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and works as a freelance designer in Minneapolis.

The aptitude human beings possess for engineering, constructing and repairing machinery, such as televisions and airplanes, is immense. Yet, the enigmatic challenge present within engineering, constructing and repairing our own bodies is perhaps equally as immense. Body : Part visually examines this irony with collages representing ten human organs. Each organ is constructed from mechanical diagrams in which the function of the machinery in the diagrams is analogous to the function of the organ (the heart consists of engine diagrams; the reproductive organs copy machines). The aberrant silhouettes of the organs represent science’s imperfect attempts at mimicking biological formation, while the muted, corporeal colors of the paper are juxtaposed by a slight mechanical sheen. Body : Part will perhaps encourage viewers to ponder the human race’s tenuous grasp of its own architecture.

www.patricesoehnlein.com

Pat Isaacs, CO,USA, Improv, 2012, Acrylic&Paper Collage, $1200

Pat Isaacs

I live in a high touch world of sensory awareness and tactile expression.  Texture in my abstract collage paintings is built with layers of acrylic paint, fiber and paper. As each layer dries my hand strokes the canvas giving me somatic feedback for the next layer.  Eventually a painting feels complete when the elements are incorporated onto the surface, intriguing in shape and barely veiled by paint. Inspiration flows from cycles in nature, my collection of old books, prints, fiber, metal, and other wrappings of daily life.

Sarah Rockett, CO,USA, Creature Feature, 2013, insulation spray foam, wire, plastic tubes, acrylic paint, $1500

Sarah Rockett

Sarah Rockett received her BFA with high honors from the University of New Mexico, and her MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University.  Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and most recently at Wabash College.  Rockett has taught drawing at Colorado State University, The University of Wyoming, and currently teaches at Metropolitan State University of Denver and Front Range Community College.

In our current American culture, fear has infiltrated our daily lives and created comfortable divisions between ourselves and others. The fear of failure, judgment, and atrocity infects decision-making like a habitual disorder without possibility of rehabilitation.  As with any addiction, our dependence upon fear cannot be overcome without first recognizing its existence and analyzing its function within our society.  My current work investigates how fear operates within the relationships between the individual, the collective, and others.

Seeking Kali Artist Collective

Seeking Kali

Seeking Kali is three artists: William Evertson (US), Ria Vanden Eynde (Belgium) and Susan Shulman (Canada) who in 2010 explored connecting their individual creative processes through social media platforms to create bodies of work involving traditional and non-traditional art forms. These social media platforms quickly became virtual studio spaces that the three artists used to invite other artists to come into and collaborate.

Our photo collage graphic novels are equal parts art criticism, art history and satire.

Like all artists, our Seeking Kali collective shares the frustrations of endless rounds of grant applications, presentations to galleries, promotion and still having the energy to produce art. There has to be more to it than luck, persistence and talent.  We’ve put our heads together and come to some startling conclusions.  In the Kalicorp Art Mysteries we share what we’ve learned about the treacherous place known as … ARTWORLD …
Each issue follows our explorations into Art World and features many fine under-represented artists as themselves or as guest villains.  We include links to their work so be sure to investigate their real identities. As luck would have it the real art world is so full of controversy that each issue also contains timely avenues for ‘ripped from the headlines’ excitement.

Susan Donatucci Hopp, CO,USA, “Look At Me.” 2012. Graphite on Vellum and Collage. 12″ x 15″. $400

Susan Donatucci

I am an Assistant Professor (Online) at The Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Teaching foundations studies has simplified my own art process and brought it back to the basics: drawing and design.

n February of 2010, I spent a month at the Vermont Studio Center fulfilling a 30-day residency award. During this residency my whole idea of art changed: I stopped making art about myself and, instead, made art about the world I live in.

Drawing is the constant material in my work.  I explore drawing with collage and appropriate images to discuss personal relationships to the natural world and to our cultural obsession with youth and plastic surgery:  and how some cosmetic surgery thins the line between beautiful and grotesque. I have spent years in universities studying art with determination where I acquired a BFA in painting and an MA in sculpture. I have also won a Departmental Award for Painting. Currently, I live and work in Denver, CO. with my husband.

I appropriate images from the Internet and from magazines to include in my collage series. These images are ironically far from perfect and explore the fine line between beauty and grotesque and what measure a person goes to, to stop time. I discuss our society’s obsession with perfection and youth.  Using appropriated imagery is symbolic as it refers to advertising: what we are subconsciously absorbing on a day to day basis, what often leaves us feeling fragmented, and what makes us yearn for more.

Each project consists of multiple works, hung in a grid format, often consisting of 100 or more pieces. The reason for this display is to emphasize the magnitude of the issue, to stress time, and to build a relationship between stories. My work sets out to take the seriousness out of it, to lighten the burden of societal pressure to be beautiful, thin, and perfect.  At the same time my work educates my audience to accept that what normal is, is far from perfect. I am currently working on combining appropriated images, collage, and hand drawn elements on Mylar. I like the idea that the image can be suggestive and transparent: This process emphasizes the abnormal that is very appropriate.

Vija Rogozina (Deja Vi foto), CO,USA, YAY BACON!, 2011, photographic print on canvas, $300

Vija Rogozina

A spoonful of neo-dada + a touch of deviancy + a hint of melancholy + a lot of infinity

My foto-creations belong to dream-like suggestive universe of symbols and hidden meanings. As long as I remember myself I was always fascinated by black and white photography, especially by the faded, haunting photo images. I challenge myself to infuse contemporary imagery with this dreamy nostalgic feel and create somewhat bizarre, surreal visual metaphors without employing any digital effects. In short, I like to experiment and venture into the otherworldly visual domain with the minimalistic use of modern technology.

First I come up with an idea that I would like to communicate visually, then I manually arrange collage elements, taking advantage of the natural and artificial lights, transparent layers and any prop materials supporting the visual metaphor. Finally I capture the image digitally, have it printed on canvas or cotton watercolor paper, which results in ‘non-photographic’ photograph. In my art I aspire to touch something inside the viewer, to plant a question mark, trigger a memory or a sense of recognition (Déjà vu).

I’m also a video-maker, a non-fiction writer and a dance performer collaborating with avant-garde musicians, filmmakers, writers, poets, sculptors, designers, yogis, shamans, visionaries, troubadours and dreamers of all walks of life.

Wandy “Primera” Dilan, Puerto Rico
Citizen 2, 2010 $150

Wandy “Primera” Dilan, Puerto Rico
Citizen 1, 2010 $150

Wandy “Primera” Dilan, Puerto Rico
Citizen 3, 2010 $150

Wandy “Primera” Dilan

Born in Boston MA, raised in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Dilan grew up with a great passion for art and music.

Today “Primera” is the lead singer of the rock band “Dilan Project. Studied sculpture at Escuela de Artes Plasticas in San Juan PR.

She’s a multi-media artist mainly working paintings and collages. Her work reflects her love for nature and music.

Zach Collins, MN, USA,
Going, 2012 Collage $540.00

Zach Collins, MN, USA,
Boom, 2012 Collage $540.00

Zach Collins

Zach Collins was born in Grinnell, Iowa in 1977.  He received his BA in Fine Arts from Upper Iowa University and his MA from the University of Iowa.  He is currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Where he is pursuing a MFA degree at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Upon arriving at M.C.A.D. in August 2011 Zach’s main focus switched from digital collage to analog collage. The switch was influenced by revisiting a childhood car accident and sparked a new passion for the process of analog collage.  He started sharing his work online in 2011, and presented with inspiration and encouragement from the online art community.  This has lead to doing collaborations between several artists.  By working this way he is learning new and different ways to visualise thoughts, feelings, and ideas, which adds to and influences his artistic way of thinking.  He has exhibited his work internationally and as his artwork continues to develop hopes work and shows will follow.

My work is an introspective and process-based investigation in uniting contrasting materials to form a completely new and visual whole.  I take pleasure in working with found overlooked fragments, discarded objects and vintage imagery collected from off the street, magazines, and second hand stores.  Embodying ideas of scattered memories, I consider my experiences and often explore themes of support versus restraint, bondage versus freedom, and tension versus nonchalance.

Zach Searcy, TN,USA Percolator, 2012, mixed media on canvas, $350

Zachary Searcy

There is polarity between all extremes. Dark and light. Loose and tight. Digital and hand made. My work explores the space in the middle.

www.zachsearcy.com

If you are interested in purchasing any of the works in this exhibit, please contact Veronica Reeves: v2r2please [at] gmail [dot] com

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March 29th – April 14th, 2013
First Friday: April 5th, 2013 6pm

Triple Event:

1. Truth or Dare: Folklore and Mythologies
   
2. Kidrobot new, limited, special edition toy release
3. Play Date with Kidrobot

Truth or Dare: Folklore and Mythologies

is an invitational show curated by danma VS v2r2.

William Bishop

Tammi Lynn Brazee

CT Nelson

Invited Denver Artists:

• William Bishop
• Tammi Brazee
• CT Nelson
• Valerie Savarie
• Peter S. Yumi

Truth or Dare, an exhibition show-casing work that incorporates mythologies–Artists challenge viewers to identify mythologies that govern or influence their lives and decisions today, consciously or subconsciously.

Kidrobot

will be adding to the challenge, an unveiling a new, limited, special edition toy release. Kidrobot is the creator of limited edition art toys, signature apparel and pop culture accessories. Kidrobot just moved their whole corporate operations from NY to Boulder, Colorado and is bringing a community out-reach to their new home in Colorado. We are excited to work with them to bring art and positive creativity to the community–after all, NEXT Gallery works hard to bring quality events to the Navajo Art District. Together we, really can make a difference.

Play Date with Kidrobot

A Monster to Love

“Toys include all the narrowly defined things that we associate with play–dolls, dominoes, blocks–but a toy is a culturally complex object that more broadly describes a host of things whose central purpose is to accommodate our imagination and creativity. A toy has no concrete strategic goal outside its capacity to accommodate our imagination: the most seductive and popular toys provide rich creative possibilities to ponder and imagine the most consequential dimensions of identity ranging from gender to class. What defines something as a toy is not its location in the store or its identification as a toy by its manufacturer: it is instead the creative possibilities people can envision within an object.” -Paul Mullins, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis

Denver Artists:

• Melanye Levin
• Josh Davy
• Walter Cote
• Betsy Rudolph
• A Monster to Love
• Ellen Yu
• Page Sanderson
• Lily Cook-Durland

Josh Davy

For more information follow: Truth or Dare: Folklore & Mythologies featuring Kidrobot!

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