Fucking Flowers

May 13 - June 10, 2023

Opening Reception: May 13th, 2023 from 3 - 6 PM, 1412 Wazee Street, Denver Colorado 80202

Fucking Flowers takes the art historical trope of still-life genre painting to new extremes. Featuring a bouquet of artists including Elizabeth Alexander, Marc Dennis, Andrew Jensdotter, Daisy Patton, Viktor Frešo, Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios, Nina Tichava, Matt Tripodi, Kaitlyn Tucek, Suchitra Mattai, Melissa Furness, Kevin Sloan, Shawn Huckins, Jason Hackenwerth, Kristopher Wright, and Francisco Souto, the exhibition spans materials and styles with an array of mixed media art that ranges from the representational to the conceptual. This brazen, fun, spring-with-an-edge show is the antidote to a burly winter.

For thousands of years, flowers have been potent symbols in the visual and literary arts carrying coded meanings.  Whether representing different gradations of love, purity, fecundity, spirituality, or decay, flowers show up at life’s most poignant occasions (births, weddings, deaths).  They infiltrate fashion and décor and can be noxious or curative, fragrant or carnivorous.  Inevitably, flowers begin by seducing us with their beauty.  Fucking Flowers aims to do the same – seducing viewers with astonishing aesthetics into having more nuanced conversations about the nature of beauty, metaphor, exoticism, social justice, and human behavior.