In 2022 I was invited to exhibition one of the pieces from a new series of sculptural works entitled Models for Future Altars at the Arvada Center’s triennial exhibition Art of the State.

This series entitled of works deals with our ever evolving relationship to nature. Looking towards a not so distant future when we'll have to deal with our over production and consumption of plastics and reconcile our relationship with the natural world. Each of the works from this series places a natural object at the center of a scene built entirely of collected and reclaimed pieces of plastic.

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Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected.

Jurors:

Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center

Ellamaria Ray, Artist/Anthropologist, Professor of Africana Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Collin Parson, Director of Galleries and Curator, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

Art of the State 2022

January 20 - March 27, 2022

Installation photos by WM Artist Services.