We are pleased to announce the selected artists who will participate in our juried exhibition, 'Mapping Perspectives,' by Samantha Johnston in collaboration with @FotoFest Houston.The group exhibition will feature works from 23 lens-based artists residing in the US.

Their work explores power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies within and across marked boundaries. The photographs included in the show capture how culture, society, economics, politics, and religion give shape and outline to our lived environments.

Artists:

Tya Anthony @tyaanthony
Barron Bixler @barronbixler
Christa Blackwood @artcandyfilm
Leah Dyjak @leahdyjak
Jesse Egner @JesseEgner
Farima Fooladi @farimafooladi
Dana Fritz @danafritzphoto
Gabriela Gamboa @gabagambo
Edward Gia @edward.gia
Vidya Giri @vidgiri
Megan Jacobs @meganjacobsart
Sam Jentsch @sam.jentsch
Bree Lamb / Muscle Memory Collective @muscle_memory_collective
Morgan Levy @morganrlevy
Diane Meyer @dianemeyerstudio
Nancy Newberry @nancynewberry
Caroline Philippone @cphilippone_studio
Vann Powell @vann_t_powell
Jared Ragland @jaredragland
Laurie Smith @laurie.smith.photo
Chang-Ching Su @asas.12348
Kathleen Tunnell Handel @kathleen_tunnellhandel
Johanna Warwick @johannawarwick

Juror: Samantha Johnston @johnston_se

Show: March 8th-30th

Opening Reception: March 8th, 6-9pm
Juror’s Reception: March 15th, 6-9pm

#throughlinecollective #MappingPerspectives #SamanthaJohnston #FotoFest #opencall #fotofestbiennial #criticalgeography

ABOUT US

Throughline is an artist-run space that showcases a diverse range of contemporary art and programming. It is home to a collective group of artists, well known nationally and internationally, who have received numerous prestigious awards and grants and whose work is featured in various major collections. Throughline believes that artist-run spaces are vibrant epicenters of creativity, fueling the artistic landscape with innovation and freedom of expression. These unique venues are established and operated by artists themselves, providing a supportive environment for fellow artists to showcase their work outside the traditional gallery system. Artist-run spaces often prioritize experimentation and collaboration, fostering a sense of community and a spirit of exploration. These spaces act as incubators for emerging talent, allowing artists to take risks and push boundaries. With their grassroots approach and emphasis on inclusivity, artist-run spaces challenge conventional norms, enabling artists to bring their visions to life in unconventional and thought-provoking ways. These dynamic spaces not only nurture artistic growth but also contribute to the diversity and richness of the cultural tapestry.

OUR MISSION

Throughline is a network of artists committed to providing exhibition space free of the constraints of the traditional gallery model. Throughline’s culture empowers artists to develop their creative and professional ambitions, continuously culminating in a wide range of events, from art shows to educational programs, to cooperative partnerships with diverse organizations. Throughline believes that the empowerment of artists is a transformative force that transcends the boundaries of mere creativity. When artists are empowered, they are liberated to express their deepest thoughts, emotions, and perspectives with unwavering authenticity. It grants them the confidence to challenge conventions, defy societal norms, and push the boundaries of artistic expression. Through their work, empowered artists have the power to ignite conversations, provoke introspection, and inspire change. This empowerment enables artists to reclaim their voice and take control of their artistic journey, allowing them to create meaningful and impactful art that resonates with audiences on a profound level. As they harness their inner strength and embrace their unique artistic vision, empowered artists not only elevate themselves but also encourage others to pursue their passion and unleash their own creative potential. The empowerment of artists breathes life into the art world, fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment where creativity flourishes and innovative ideas come to fruition.

What: Group exhibition
Where: Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library - 2401 Welton St. Denver, CO, 80205
When: February 5 - March 2, 2024
Opening Reception: February 20, 5-7pm 

About the exhibition: Join us for a reception honoring the Colorado artists featured in our Black History Month Art Exhibition, on display for the entire month of February! Enjoy light refreshments and music while you view the artwork, meet the artists, and learn about their creative styles.

About the artist: Tya Alisa Anthony explores themes of identity through photography, mined media and charged objects. Anthony’s Identity focused works offer exploration in both the shared and diverse experiences of Contemporary Western Culture.

While approaching socially illuminated topics involving people of color, the core of Anthony's experimental work exists within research, collage and abstraction. As an integral component of her tactile studio practice, Anthony draws from photographs acquired online and removed from her extensive archive of family photographs.

Contact: tya.anthony@gmail.com
Artist website: www.tyaanthony.com 
Instagram: @tyaanthony

What is a portrait and how is it defined? 

Portrait Gallery, a large-scale group exhibition that was sourced from a public call for portrait based works, is created around this very question. 

Inspired directly by portrait galleries in prominent art institutions around the world, this salon-style hang is meant to engulf the viewer in a sea of portraiture. Perhaps a single gaze will catch your eye or maybe an abstracted work will bring you in; regardless of where you find yourself in the gallery, a connection is waiting to be established between viewer and subject. 

Featured Artists:

Tyler Alpern, Tya Anthony, Yazz Atmore, Ana Balzan, Sharon Bond Brown, Frances Joy Bradbury, Madison Brunetti, Kiah Butcher, Vera Coberley, Karen Conduff, Kevin Daly, Diane Deyo, Karen A. Dombrowski-Sobel, Mya Drost-Parra, Jensina Endresen, Lakin Fain, Justin Ferland, Kate Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Frazier, Rebecca Gabriel, Kate Geman, Anne Gifford, Zachary Heil, Sophie Hill, Brenda Jones, Mike Keene, Whitman Lindstrom, Veronica Love, Allyson McDuffie, Dez Merworth, Shantell Montoya, Raymond Moreno, Cipriano Ortega, Tony Ortega, Anna Poisson, Julie Puma, Maxwell Roath, Micah Roberts, Elayna Roy, Amanda Sandlin, Wyatt Scott, Brady Smith, River Smith, Maddie Stansell, Randall Steinke, Tracy Stuckey, Elizabeth Suriani, Kaitlyn Tucek, Lisa Corine von Koch

Curated by Tya Anthony and featuring works by Adderly Grant-Lord, Jazz Holmes, Shaunie Berry, Yaz Atmore, and Tya Anthony.

Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15, a collaboration with RedLine Contemporary Art Center to celebrate RedLine's fifteen years of artist residences, education, and community engagement.

Organic Tarot: Works by Tya Alisa Anthony

Each of Tya Alisa Anthony’s layered works is a story unto itself, a narrative woven together with history, warmth, and the lives of people long past but still present through memory and image.

Jan. 15 – April 3, 2022

York Street Location

1007 York Street

Denver, CO 80206 Map

720-865-3500

Freyer – Newman Center

Enigmatic and gently poignant, Anthony’s artworks draw on the imagery and tradition of tarot—illustrated cards used for divination and fortune telling. Using the storied practice of tarot reading to interpret life’s journeys, Anthony illuminates and reframes the personal stories of Depression-era Black sharecroppers to reimagine them as icons of divine and mystical power. 

Combining archival photos with botanical imagery from the artist’s own childhood memories, Organic Tarot explores the often-hidden stories of people of color depicted in historic photographs, images that captured only a fragmented moment of a rich and complex life.

About the Artist

Tya Alisa Anthony is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who explores themes of social justice, human rights and identity. Combining photography, collage and sculpture, Anthony reimagines histories to create autonomous spaces for bodies of color. Anthony received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and is a Redline Contemporary Art Center Residency Artist alumna. She has exhibited in Baltimore, MD and the Colorado region at venues including Center for Visual Arts and Leon Gallery, and is currently a TANK Studios artist. Based in Colorado, Anthony is the executive director and founder of Mahogany Vu Contemporary Art, a thriving online gallery for BIPOC artists, and serves as a board member for Leon Gallery and Tilt West.
 

On Saturday, November 13th, at 7pm, Leon will premiere Tya Alisa Anthony’s much anticipated exhibition “Muscle Memory.” Since her debut exhibition “Skins” at Leon in early 2017, Anthony has become a central figure within the Denver art community, as an artist, a curator, and an educator. She is a Redline Residency Artist Alumna, has had her worked featured in MCA – Denver’s Octopus Initiative, has been acquired by The Denver Art Museum for their permanent collection, and curated “From This Day Forward” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in spring of 2021. Recently she was awarded a sizable grant from The Sharon Prize, to assist her with the preparation of her upcoming exhibition at Leon.

The artist will be inviting people to make appointments to have tea and a one on one conversation within the gallery installation on Thursday and Saturday afternoons. Reserve your spot below.

Chromatic Cogitations: Rhythm Reboot

November 12, 2021 - January 23, 2022

RedLine's Annual Resident Artist Exhibition

Curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace

Chromatic Cogitations: Rhythm Reboot brings together thirty artistic voices that employ a variety of colors, images, and artistic strategies to reset the rhythm of their individual practices. Viewed collectively, their work responds to shifting political and societal pressures while referencing art historical positions from the 1970s through today that mobilized postcolonial movements, the recognition of outsider art, and formed expressions of radical social emancipation. Their content includes passionate responses to climate change, ecosystem loss, blackness and masculinity, heritage, legacy, hierarchy, and the emergence of gender stories that have hitherto been silenced and rendered invisible. - Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Curator

Participating Resident Artists: Vince Alfonso, Taiko Chandler, Ben Coleman, Victor Escobedo, Sam Grabowska, Rochelle Johnson, Max Maddox, Victor Machado, Cherish Marquez, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Adri Norris, Edgar L. Page, Sarah Darlene Palmeri, Laura Ann Samuelson.

Participating Alumni: Tya Alisa Anthony, Chris Bagley, Sarah Bowling, Colby Deal, Trey Duvall, Lares Feliciano, Anthony Garcia Sr., Juntae TeeJay Hwang, Marsha Mack, Tony Ortega, Eileen Roscina, Kate Speer, Michael Sperandeo in collaboration with Ryan Buxton, Kenzie Sitterud, Regan Rosburg.

“THIS EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON HOW OUR PRESENT TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME A CRISIS OF CONTENTION DIVIDING OUR COUNTRY. THE FAMILIAR HAS BECOME UNFAMILIAR. HATE DOMINATES LIFE AS WE ARE INUNDATED WITH MEDIA REPORTS THAT BRING THIS INTO CONSCIOUSNESS ON A DAILY BASIS. THE ARTNAUTS SEEK TO CREATE IMAGES THAT COUNTER THE PRESENT ZEITGEIST IN HOPES OF HEALING OUR SOCIETY WITH ALTERNATIVE VISIONS.” DR. GEORGE RIVERA

Main gallery - ‘How to Hold a Cry,’ a solo show featuring new work by Katherine Simóne Reynolds.

Upstairs viewing room - ‘While Performing in the Corner of the World’ featuring Tya Anthony, Jasmine Abena Colgan, Noa Fodrie, and Rochelle Johnson, guest curated by Reynolds.

Near in the Distance:
Annual Resident Artist Exhibition

Curated by Nicole J. Caruth

January 24 - March 8, 2020
Join us for the Opening Reception: January 24, 6:00 - 9:00 P.M.

Participating Artists: Tya Alisa Anthony, Chris Bagley, Sarah Bowling, Colby Deal, Trey Duvall, Lares Feliciano, Anthony Garcia Sr., Caleb Hahne, Juntae TeeJay Hwang, Marsha Mack, Tony Ortega, Charles "Chuck" Parson, Eileen Roscina Richardson, Regan Rosburg, Kenzie Sitterud, Kate Speer, Michael Sperandeo, and Carley Warren.
 

Near in the Distance is RedLine’s 2020 Annual Resident Artist Exhibition featuring works that explore important issues of our time, including surveillance, cultural erasure, environmental degradation, gender equity, and productivity. The exhibition considers the social and cultural forces that shape our lives now and influence fears and hopes for the near future.

Near in the Distance is the second exhibition in RedLine's 2020 series entitled Afro(futurism) & Beyond, a lineup of exhibitions and programs inspired by the cultural genre known as Afrofuturism. With rich and expansive source material that ranges from ancient mythology, science fiction, astrophysics, and technology to social justice movements, indigenous ethics, and popular culture, the possibilities for exploring this genre are boundless.

RedLine would like to thank our Artist-in-Residence Program supporters: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, The David & Laura Merage Foundation, and the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District. We would also like to thank our members and patrons for making this exhibition possible.

Image: "Upsidedown Svalbard," Photograph, Regan Rosburg, 2019. 

When Will They See Us

PACE Gallery | Parker CO

Dates: December 24, 2019 – March 11, 2020

Hexus Femifesto

Hexus is an anonymous, artist-led curatorial collective seeking, finding and promoting mysticism through visual, performance and sound art. Formed among soulmates in 2018, our work is rooted in alterity theory and concerned especially with intersectional activism encompassing disability, queer folks, cyberfeminism, alliances with POCs, and anticapitalism. We emphasize collectivity as a strategy to reveal the importance of care and mutual dependency in resistance to socially dominant ideas about the productive bodymind within patriarchal capitalism.

Exhibition: Altar(er) Hex 

Exhibition Dates: October 31, 2019 to January 3, 2020 

Location: The Temple, 2400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80205 

Butterfly Effect

Opening Reception

Friday, October 4, 2019, 6-8 pm

1515 Race St

Butterfly Effect, as part of Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2019 Big Read (a program of the National Endowment for the Arts), explores the ways political resistance ripples through a family, a community, and a nation as inspired by Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies. The exhibition features six current or former Denver-based artists—Tya Anthony, Carol Golemboski, Suchitra Mattai (courtesy of K Contemporary), Tony Ortega (courtesy of William Havu Gallery), Daisy Patton (courtesy of K Contemporary), and George P. Perez—whose work speaks to various aspects of the novel’s themes.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of displayed artworks will benefit Lighthouse’s Fellowships for free or partial tuition to workshops, master classes, and extended programs for talented writers experiencing financial hardship.

DELIRIUM

Exhibition by Tya Alisa Anthony

Exhibition Dates: March 8 – April 5, 2019
Opening Reception: March 8, 2019, 4 – 8 p.m.
Rotunda Gallery

Artist Statement

Delirium is a state of acute temporary confusion making it difficult to think, remember, sleep, pay attention, and express oneself verbally. Delirium may last a few hours, as long as several weeks, or in some cases, several months. According to medical diagnosis, delirium is usually caused by alcohol withdrawal, after major surgery, or as a by product of dementia. In the case of reflecting on our current state of the division of society, resurgence of racism and the Presidential Administration of the United States, delirium due to dismay may last for the next two to six years or longer. Depending on the actual cause of the delirium, treatment may include but is not limited to elimination of usage of specific media outlets who provide the distribution of subversive and counterproductive information. Dealing with the daily dismay of social media timelines that have lead to a wide variety of fractured relationships, friendships, and actual political progress, Delirium allows participants to visually express their anxiety through performance photography and collage. Do not worry, full recovery from delirium is possible with the appropriate treatment. It can take up to a few weeks for you to think, speak, and feel physically like yourself. One might have side effects from social media withdrawal methods used to treat this condition.

Dates:                          February 28 – March 22, 2019

Reception:                   Thursday, March 28, 2019. 5-8 pm

Gallery Talk:               tbd

Using photographic media as a foundation for their work, the seven artists in Settlers convey, figuratively and abstractly, the colonization of the American southwest. Whatever their motive and means—most came voluntarily, others were forced or coerced—the occupation of indigenous land is something that continues with every wave of Colorado “native” and newcomer.

 Collectively, the images in the show represent settlers from the late-19th century to the present decade. Looked at from a Native American perspective, these people might be thought of as alien invaders. Settlers is not a judgment of this, but it is a reminder that for every “new” territory there is an old, stolen one.

 The show's deliberate ambiguity is intended to kindle subjective associations and tangential connections. Settlers takes place during the 2019 Denver Month of Photography and works have been selected to align with the range of art-making conducted at Art Gym, most especially print-making. All the artists are from the Denver metro region; their works span more than 60-years of artmaking, 1950-2015.

Rupert Jenkins, Guest curator.

Artists:

Sarah Gjertson            “Human Imprint” series. Monoprints, handmade book, and sculptures.

Heather Oelklaus        “O.P.P. (Other People’s Photography)” series. Woven gelatin silver prints.

Sarah Fukami              “Manzanar Guayule Project.”  Laser cut screenprints.

Carl Iwasaki                War Relocation Authority images. Digital prints from archival files.

Tya Anthony               “Foremother.” Mixed-media installation.

James Milmoe             “Cemetery” series. Gelatin silver prints.                               

Christopher Perez       Portraits. Gelatin silver prints.