Press Release
- Exhibition: MICHAEL DOWLING
- Showing: September 26th 2024 - October 31st 2024
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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.’
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.
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!
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!
artmore is a juried exhibition of the work of three artma 2020 artists
artmore is held in odd years opposite to artma as a celebration of the artists who support
The Morgan Adams Foundation through their work. The artists were selected by Michael Burnett, owner and curator of SPACE Gallery and SPACE Annex.
SPACE ANNEX | 95 S. 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.