• Exhibition: Direction/Instruction
• Showing: August 6th 2021 - September 30th 2021

Space Gallery Annex is proud to host the 7th installment of the International traveling group show Direction / Instruction, curated by STRAAT Museum curator, and Andenken Gallery owner, Hyland Mather.

This exhibition boasts a diverse international lineup of artists, who claim mural making as part of their artistic practice.   As muralists, this group has a distinct focus on challenging uses of geometry, color, composition, text, form and ad hoc materials.

Direction / Instruction features gallery scale artworks from Dutch Artists, Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman (father of Calligraffiti), Graphic Surgery, Chinny Bond and works from the curator Hyland Mather as well.  The exhibition also features works from New York based artists, Scott Albrecht and Tony Sjöman, Spanish artist  Anna Taratiel, SF artist, Chad Hasegawa and Melbourne based Liam Snootle.

For this edition of Direction / Instruction a handful of participating local artists will join the roster, including Juxtapoz cover artist, Evan Hecox.  Other notable local artists include Sandra Fettingis, Max Kaufman, Ramon Bonilla, Rick Griffith of Matter Design and Anthony Garcia Jr (Birdeseed),

Opening reception is Friday August 6th, 2021 from 6-10pm at Space Gallery Annex located at

96 S Cherokee St. Denver, Co. 80223.  The reception is free and open to the public.

Quote from the curator, Hyland Mather

‘This ongoing exhibition is not intended as a reaction to illustrative or representational expressions in the mural world per se, but at the same time it most definitely is just that.  Most of the artists featured are very active in the urban realm and are bent towards smart public works sanctioned and un-sanctioned where the main modes of expression are geometry, form, composition, easily legible text, color and ad hoc materials.  These artists, rather than being labeled ‘street artists’ or ‘graffiti culture’ consider the street simply a contemporary venue.  In a gallery setting, they each deliver progressive, beautiful work.’

• Exhibition: MAI WYN POP-UP “HELLO GOODBYE”
• Showing: July 29th 2021 - August 1st 2021

HELLO, GOODBYE…a farewell pop up exhibition from Mai Wyn Fine Art, the gallery

July 29th-August 1st, 2021

Space ANNEX

95 South Cherokee St. Denver, CO 80223

Opening Reception, Thursday July 29th 4-9 p.m.

Pop Up Gallery Hours: Friday, July 30th-Sunday August 1st, 10-4 p.m.

Mai Wyn Fine Art is proud to present “Hello, Goodbye.” a farewell pop up exhibition celebrating the gallery’s seven-year run and its wonderful community of artists, friends and supporters. Reunited for four days only, July 29th – August 1st, sixteen artists will present new work at Space Annex, a vast event and exhibition space located at 95 South Cherokee in Denver.

“Hello, Goodbye.” aims to honor the artists and community that made Mai Wyn Fine Art such a revered place while introducing many newly created works by the beloved artists. Their work spaces, schedules and methods may have changed over the past year, but their definitive styles and approaches to creating art have not. Look for new work by: Julie Anderson (ceramics), Fawn Atencio (mixed media), April Cannon (ceramics), Chris DeKnikker (wood), Daniel Granitto (painting), Kim Harrell (jewelry), Rian Kerrane (sculpture). Lynda Ladwig (ceramics), Katharine McGuinness (printmaking), Lauri Lynnxe Murphy (mixed media), Charles Parson (drawing & sculpture), Ajean Ryan (drawing), Mai Wyn Schantz (painting), Sharon Strasburg (printmaking), Tommy White (painting) and Pamela Webb (jewelry).

• Exhibition: OEHME GRAPHICS 10TH ANNIVERSARY
• Showing: April 22nd 2021 - June 6th 2021

In late April, SPACE Gallery’s ANNEX, 95 South Cherokee St. will mount a retrospective exhibition in honor of Oehme Graphics 10th year, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 22nd from 6-9pm. At the same time, there will be three concurrent solo shows featuring Sue Oehme, Pat Aaron and Jeff Glode Wise at SPACE Gallery at 400 Santa Fe Dr, with an opening reception on Friday, April 23rd from 6-9pm .

2021 also marks the 20th anniversary for SPACE Gallery!

• Exhibition: ARTMORE – AN ARTMA ARTIST CELEBRATION
• Showing: February 5th 2021 - February 27th 2021

• Exhibition: MOMENTUM ~ ANNEX
• Showing: May 23rd 2019 - September 5th 2019

• Exhibition: Rear View Mirror
• Showing: March 29th 2019 - May 4th 2019
• Opening Reception: Space ANNEX (95 South Cherokee)

To wrap up Denver’s Month of Photography, please join Space Gallery the evening of March 29th (6-9pm) to celebrate artist Paul Brokering’s new solo exhibition.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Rear View Mirror • 13 Typologies

“My commercial photography work and personal travels take me down many highways, streets and sidewalks, usually moving through the world much too quickly. An arrangement of grain elevators, the light of a building or oddity, they are ahead of me, and almost immediately they are behind me.  I have to decide: do I turn around or keep moving forward? This seems to me like an apt metaphor for contemporary life, the future hurtling towards us and then, in the blink of an eye, it’s already behind us, in the past……it’s all in our rear view mirror.

Rear View Mirror •13 Typologies; is my way of classifying 325 images, each organized by a unifying color. The dissimilar oddities, landscapes, signs, buildings, and places create a singular abstract image; a color field. Each grid of 25 images is set inside a 44” x 44” square paired with a single image from the grid printed at 44” x 44”. Each viewer lands on a different image. I find the different interpretations of each typology very interesting.

Like a friend said:  “you are like a prairie dog popping up out of the ground, always scanning, looking and thinking did I just see something to stop for and explore”.

Enjoy.