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Sun to Earth – Photography by Brenda Biondo
March 14 – April 15, 2023
Michael Warren Contemporary 
Opening Reception: March 16 (5 – 8pm)
Friday Art Walk: April 7

In her exhibit at Michael Warren Contemporary, entitled “Sun to Earth,” Brenda Biondo employs a variety of approaches to investigate how atmospheric light colors our world and influences our interaction with nature. In “A Legacy of Shadows,” one of the series in the exhibit, the images engage the phenomena of sunlight to provide a framework for our meditative experience of being in nature. “A Legacy of Shadows” is concerned with the fracturing of nature and the poignancy of acknowledging beauty in a time of destruction, and is informed by Biondo’s previous career as a writer specializing in environmental issues. The naturally blue shadows in these images show how the act of looking can sometimes reveal unexpected aspects of light and the natural world.

Other pieces in the exhibit are part of a new body of work influenced by the recently built James Turrell Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, CO, and reflect Biondo’s interest in exploring the ephemeral and contemplative qualities of the sky. Also included in the exhibit are photographic grids and digital constructions that attest to Biondo’s interest in modernist formality and aesthetics as well as her practice of using photographs in unconventional ways.

Among the Stars – New Works by Angela Faris Belt
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary 

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Through her new series “Among the Stars,” Angela Faris Belt explores the infinite by adding the scans of the ashes from loss with open source NASA and other satellite images.

Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself — sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration — and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Her work utilizes the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; media is chosen to underscore or mirror the concepts regarding nature in each body of work.

Angela’s work has been widely exhibited in prestigious juried and invitational exhibitions including Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco; BJ Spoke Gallery, NY; Arvada Center for the Arts, CO; The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO; Foreman Gallery, NY; and University of Notre Dame’s Photography Gallery. Her work is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

Angela lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range, alongside neighbors of elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears, and mountain lions. In addition to her artwork, she is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College. In her off-time she builds stone walls and participates in bark-beetle mitigation efforts.

Of Light and Wind: Trade Winds
New Work by Gwen Laine
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Join us for the exhibit of new work by Gwen Laine. The inspiration for the form these works took was a persistent vision of a rock being dropped in water and the subsequent movement upward and outward. “Knowing that even the slightest action carries on indefinitely led me to create works that suggest both the minute and the immense in constant movement,” Laine writes.

Gwen Laine’s art is about the way we make sense of the world, or perhaps it’s better to say the ways we make sense of the world. Her photographs and installations are composed of ordinary objects and forms recontextualized or made abstract that prompt and defy our impulse to find the simplest perceptual solution. Working with both the record and the manipulation of light, Laine accentuates physical properties as recognized or understood by the senses. Yet the indefinition as well as the instability of the light allows for the free play of effects. At one extreme, the familiar is readily at hand; at the other, the image or environment dissolves into a lavish display of visual stimuli. –Stephanie Grilli, Ph.D., Art Historian

Sun to Earth – Photography by Brenda Biondo
March 14 – April 15, 2023
Michael Warren Contemporary 
Opening Reception: March 16 (5 – 8pm)
Friday Art Walk: April 7

In her exhibit at Michael Warren Contemporary, entitled “Sun to Earth,” Brenda Biondo employs a variety of approaches to investigate how atmospheric light colors our world and influences our interaction with nature. In “A Legacy of Shadows,” one of the series in the exhibit, the images engage the phenomena of sunlight to provide a framework for our meditative experience of being in nature. “A Legacy of Shadows” is concerned with the fracturing of nature and the poignancy of acknowledging beauty in a time of destruction, and is informed by Biondo’s previous career as a writer specializing in environmental issues. The naturally blue shadows in these images show how the act of looking can sometimes reveal unexpected aspects of light and the natural world.

Other pieces in the exhibit are part of a new body of work influenced by the recently built James Turrell Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, CO, and reflect Biondo’s interest in exploring the ephemeral and contemplative qualities of the sky. Also included in the exhibit are photographic grids and digital constructions that attest to Biondo’s interest in modernist formality and aesthetics as well as her practice of using photographs in unconventional ways.

Among the Stars – New Works by Angela Faris Belt
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary 

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Through her new series “Among the Stars,” Angela Faris Belt explores the infinite by adding the scans of the ashes from loss with open source NASA and other satellite images.

Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself — sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration — and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Her work utilizes the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; media is chosen to underscore or mirror the concepts regarding nature in each body of work.

Angela’s work has been widely exhibited in prestigious juried and invitational exhibitions including Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco; BJ Spoke Gallery, NY; Arvada Center for the Arts, CO; The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO; Foreman Gallery, NY; and University of Notre Dame’s Photography Gallery. Her work is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

Angela lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range, alongside neighbors of elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears, and mountain lions. In addition to her artwork, she is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College. In her off-time she builds stone walls and participates in bark-beetle mitigation efforts.

Of Light and Wind: Trade Winds
New Work by Gwen Laine
March 14 – April 15
Michael Warren Contemporary

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16 (5 – 8 pm)
First Friday Art Walk: April 7 (6 – 9 pm)

Join us for the exhibit of new work by Gwen Laine. The inspiration for the form these works took was a persistent vision of a rock being dropped in water and the subsequent movement upward and outward. “Knowing that even the slightest action carries on indefinitely led me to create works that suggest both the minute and the immense in constant movement,” Laine writes.

Gwen Laine’s art is about the way we make sense of the world, or perhaps it’s better to say the ways we make sense of the world. Her photographs and installations are composed of ordinary objects and forms recontextualized or made abstract that prompt and defy our impulse to find the simplest perceptual solution. Working with both the record and the manipulation of light, Laine accentuates physical properties as recognized or understood by the senses. Yet the indefinition as well as the instability of the light allows for the free play of effects. At one extreme, the familiar is readily at hand; at the other, the image or environment dissolves into a lavish display of visual stimuli. –Stephanie Grilli, Ph.D., Art Historian