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K Contemporary Featured in the Denver Post
"Inone quick year, Doug Kacena has turned Denver’s commercial art scene on its head, upending many of the current, common assumptions about where for-profit galleries are headed in the 21st century.
His new K Contemporary gallery downtown is thriving after just 12 months in business, and along the way it is revitalizing the careers of local artists and giving the city a fresh place to see, and shop for, some of the most interesting new art around."
- Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post,
"With the talented list of artists and the rapidly growing esteem of K Contemporary, this quick exhibition might be the best one to end 2018 on. After all, it was a big year in art for Denver and many of these artists will be at the forefront of contemporary art in the near future."
- Cori Anderson, 303 Magazine, December, 2018
Review: K Contemporary, Daisy Patton, "A Rewilded Arcadia"
- Michael Paglia, Westword, October, 2018
Kevin Sloan featured at the California Museum of Art Thousand Oats.
"Kevin’s allegorical realism occupies a fascinating territory where the human and natural worlds collide. The interchanges that occur give rise to relationships that spark immediate recognition while the enigmatic meaning lingers in the observer’s mind. Conversations are opened about how we interact with nature and the implications of our technological advancements on the environment we share with the rest of the animal kingdom."A Collection of Rarities" is on view November 8, 2018 through February 17, 2019 in CMATO’s main gallery."
Suchitra Mattai Included in the 2019 Sharjah Biennial
"The Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) has released the list of nearly ninety emerging and established artist participating in the fourteenth edition of Sharjah Biennial, which will take place from March 7 to June 10, 2019. Titled “Leaving the Echo Chamber,” the biennial will consist of three exhibitions curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, and Claire Tancons that will explore the possibilities and the purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalized, when borders and beliefs are under constant negotiation, and material culture is under threat from human destruction."
Review: Suchitra Mattai Explores Her Heritage in CVA's Sugar Bound
"She uses the clash, conflation and compression of these components of her personal history to set up the content of her conceptual pieces, which touch on everything from European imperialism to the exploitation of colonized people and the travails of the immigrant experience. Mattai also includes collapsing time in the mix, as Cullen notes. The concerns she raises based on nineteenth-century narratives are extremely relevant today, given what’s been happening at our southern border, where brown-skinned asylum seekers are denied entry to this country and, worse, separated from their children." - Michael Paglia, Westword, Sept. 2018
Daisy Patton featured in Hyperallergic
Patton's approach never stops running routes between the past and present, or from minimalism to the decorative. The paintings are rooted in the photograph, so there is a visual kinship. But while the photo captures a story already completed, the painting invites a dialogue, not only with the choices within the frame but the uncomfortable acknowledgement of one’s own fading presence in the memory of others.
Winkler Review: Color Brightens New Shows at K Contemporary
"Pretty much all of the paintings here are large, and some are enormous: The multi-panel, billboard-sized “Colorado River Flow” is over twelve feet across. The various shapes splayed across the three panels do not represent a literal landscape, and this is especially true across the bottom, where the elements seem to have been freely associated. Winkler conjures the illusion of the landscape through the tight margins of the various parts, especially across the tops of the compositions, which read like mountain ranges set against the skies. Her repeated use of horizontal elements stacked on top of one another successfully suggests the idea of a scenic view without specifically referring to it. Taking all these attributes into account, I realized that Winkler was right: Her paintings are abstractions and, technically speaking, not actually representations of external reality." - Michael Paglia, Westword, July 2018
Westword Review: Carlene Frances - Seijaku
Looking at these serene paintings, it’s hard to believe they are meant as a kind of resistance, but then again, that’s what seijaku refers to: a peaceful escape from the chaos....Each painting has its own limited palette of just a few predominant tones, yet Frances’s use of layer upon layer of oil glazes gives them an internal luminance. The results are complex and often majestic. The larger works are particularly striking.
K Contemporary Named “Best New Art Gallery”
Denver’s Westword Magazine names K Contemprary as the “Best New Gallery” in Denver for the 2018 Best of Denver Awards. “K Contemporary has been hosting some of the hottest shows in town. Artist Doug Kacena is the force behind the new space, and with K Contemporary, he’s shown himself to be an able curator who’s already assembled a formidable stable of high-profile Colorado artists, including Monique Crine, Michael Dowling, Kevin Sloan, Suchitra Mattai, Karen Roehl, Scott Young and Mario Zoots.”
Kevin Sloan “The Wanderers Garden” in American Art Collector
Kevin Sloan‘s recent exhibition “The Wanderer’s Garden” was featured in the March 2018 edition of American Art Collector. “Kevin Sloan’s paintings have been witty, entertaining and flawlessly executed”
Carlene Frances “Non-Referentially Speaking” in ArtBeat Magazine
Suchitra Mattai Selected for MCA Denver “Octopus Initiative”
25 original works from Suchitra Mattai were recently purchased by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Have you ever looked at a work of contemporary art in a museum and wanted to bring it home? Well, now’s your chance. MCA Denver’s Octopus Initiative is offering any resident of the Denver metro area the chance to borrow and live with a work of art for ten months.
Sarah Winkler Featured in Scientific American
Scott Young New Addition to the MCA Denver
Scott Young‘s monumental piece “Wish You Were Here”, (2016. Neon, steel, alupanel, and electronic) was installed in April on top of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Young’s piece beautifully caps the David Adjaye-designed building.
Doug Kacena Featured in Art Ltd
Doug Kacena‘s recent ground-breaking exhibition “Crossover” is featured in the March/April 2017 edition of Art Ltd, reviewed by Michael Paglia.
“Denver-based abstract painter Doug Kacena noticed that there was a disconnection in the art scene, not just here in Colorado, but nationally. This clearly defined gap has artists working in contemporary styles—like him—on one side of it, and those whose efforts lie in the traditional realist realm on the other. So Kacena conceived of the exhibition “Crossover,” with the idea of bridging the distance between the two through radical interventions. Kacena selected some of the most significant representational painters active in the region and asked each to give him one of their pieces so that he could paint over it. Simultaneously he gave each of them one of his, so that they could paint over it.”
Daisy Patton On the Cover of Create Magazine
Review: Scott Young Looks at Love at K Contemporary
For the grand opening, K Contemporary has taken the lead position, filling the lobby and the main-floor rooms with a spectacular solo, Scott Young: Gas Light Love Bomb, which comprises conceptual art done with electronics, photos and lighted glass tubes that are filled with luminescent gases, including neon. The show cogently tells the story of a romance, or romance in general, by setting up discrete sections modeled on an oratorio.
Art ± Geology - Sarah Winkler featured in Alpine Modern
Contemporary artist Sarah Winkler’s experimental painting technique mimics the addition and subtraction of geological processes in nature. Iceland’s geological drama and Alpine-Nordic design ethos inspired her current winter series of fantastical alpine landscapes.
