Denise Demby is a contemporary abstract painter and sculptor who lives and works in Arvada, Colorado. A native of Colorado, her arid color palette and simplified industrial forms pay homage to the climate and architecture where she lives. Her distinctive personal style emanates joy and peace floundering among a sense of precariousness and expresses the simplified reduction of basic forms of beauty in opposition to a confusing technological society.

Minimalist steel and glass sculptures, color field paintings, mixed media led sculpture, and reduced glass forms are all brought to life with quiet statement and harmonious colors in minimalist compositions. As the artist explains, “I am searching for an alternative to the confusion of our modern culture. I find great repose in formal simplicity and the collective unconscious form language of the archetype referenced originally by Carl Jung and unleashed by the New York Abstract School. I welcome you to embrace the connection alive in our primitive selves and join me on this visual journey.”

As a recipient of a scholarship from Colorado Scholars, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking and Ceramics from Metropolitan State University in Denver Colorado. She has continued her education through various other avenues at the Art Students League and private instruction.

Demby’s artwork has been shown in various Regional and National juried and invitational exhibitions including Littleton Museum and Cultural Center, Curtis Art Center in Greenwood Village Colorado, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft Collins Colorado, Museum of Fine Art Colorado Springs Colorado, Salina Arts Center, Salina Kansas, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo California and University of Brockport, Brockport NY.

She is a member of Architecture of Form, Pirate Contemporary, Santa Fe Arts District and owner of 931 Gallery in Denver. In addition to making artwork she continues to contribute to the arts by managing a Member’s Cooperative and curating art exhibits that rewards artistic excellence acting as a Juror for “The Green” show at Core New Art Space in Lakewood, curating thematic exhibitions such as “ Voices” of Colorado women in abstraction, “Expanding Modernism” The Mutiny of the Mediocre and “ Word” of about and inspired by Poetry.

EDUCATION

B.F.A Fine Arts Metropolitan State College of Denver, emphasis printmaking and ceramics

A.A. Fine Arts Red Rocks Community College

GALLERY EXPERIENCE

Owner Curator 931 Gallery 2019- present-

 Voices ( 2021), Expanding Modernism, The Mutiny of Mediocrity ( 2022), Gallery Rentals and various exhibitions ( www.931gallery.com)

 Associate Member Pirate Contemporary Art 2022

Member Architecture of Form- 2022

Owner Curator the Art Station in Wheat Ridge, CO 2016-2019, 931 Gallery 2019-present

Member: Core New Art Space 2000-2002,

EXHIBITION LIST

2023 My Mind the City- Solo show at 931 Gallery

My Mind the City- Solo show at Pirate Contemporary Art

Architecture of Form 3 - member exhibit Core New Art Space

2022       Art on The Green: Greenwood village

                Parallel Being, Solo Exhibition, 931 gallery (July- August)

                Architecture of Form, Member Exhibition, Core New Art Space, Lakewood CO

                Printmaking Show with Mo Print, 931 Gallery, Denver

2021       Voices and Various exhibitions, 931 Gallery

2020       Residue of Action, Solo Exhibition , 931Gallery, Denver

2019      Beat Clack Snap, Member exhibition , Foolproof Gallery, Denver

               Changes, National Juried exhibition, juror Michael McClung of Michael Warren         Contemporary art Gallery, D’art gallery Denver

               Arvada Studio Tour, Juried artist studio tour, Fall 2019

               The Art Station , Spring Show, Creative Arts Design Center

                 Denise Demby Solo show, Landt Creative Space , April and October

                Drawing The Line. Juried exhibition , 40 WEST ART GALLERY, Lakewood, CO

                   Small Works Big Talent: National Juried exhibition, Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach CA

2018            Ritual: Regional Juried exhibition, Littleton Museum and Cultural center

                   The Next Big Thing: National Juried Exhibition, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo CA,

                     35th Annual Juried Colorado Art Show: Curtis Art Center, Juror Patricia Aaron,  Greenwood  Village Colorado,

                      Blue Monday-Juried Art Exhibition at Framed Image, Denver CO

                      Lime in the Coconut-Juried Art Exhibition at Framed Image, Denver CO

                      Bring on The Spring-Juried art Exhibition, Framed Image, Denver, CO

                     “The Station”, Creative Arts Design Center Wheat Ridge CO

2005            DUO Denise Thrapp (now Demby) and Jim Caldwell ,3rd and Galapago Denver

2004             World Series New Works by Denise Thrapp Core New Art Space, Denver

                    The Wall, photographs, Core New Art Space

                     Invitational Exhibition, Core New Art Space, Denver CO

2003             Invitational Exhibition, Core New Art Space, Denver CO

                      Rocky Mountain Biennial Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft Collins CO                                Juror:  Roz Spencer                                  

2002             The Road Show-Invitational Art Exhibition, Heart Gallery, Denver, CO          

2002             Self Portrait Core New Art Space, Denver, CO Craig Marshall Smith

2002              Colorado 2002 Jurored Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art Colo Spgs, CO

                       Juror: Scott H Snyder FAC curator of Fine Art

2002              Eros Love and The Erotic in Art Core New Art Space, Denver, CO                                                 Juror: Robin Rule, Rule    Gallery

2001             Death of a Poet, series exhibition Core New Art Space, Denver CO

2001              Denise Thrapp, series exhibition Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

2000              National Invitational Print Exhibition, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, University of Brockport, Brockport NY

2000               Members Exhibition, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

1999               Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, Metropolitan State College Center for the Visual Arts, Denver CO . Jurors Art Department Faculty

1998              20th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Salina Arts Center, Salina KS                                               Juror: Lizette Lefalle-Collins Independent Scholar and Curator, Oakland CA

1998               Towers and Land, BFA Thesis Exhibition Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver CO

1998               Regional Prints, juried regional print exhibit, Genre Gallery, Denver, CO                                  Jurors: E.C. Cunningham, Director of Printmaking, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver CO and Joshua Hassel PBS television producer

1998                Print Exhibition, Fourth Story Restaurant, Denver CO

1998                Student Art Show, juried exhibition, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO

1997                For Women Only, juried exhibition, Eclectic Art Gallery, Arvada CO

1997               Student Art Show. Juried exhibition, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver CO

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2022              Daria Art Magazine, Architecture of form, Jillian Blackwell

2022              Westword Magazine, Susan Froyd

1999              Salina Arts Center 20th annual exhibition catalogue

1999               Denver Post May 21, 1999 Thesis The Theme by Glenn Griffin

1999               Rocky Mountain News, Nov 20, 1998 Colorado Artist Spread Their Wings

2001- Denver Post - Mary Chandler

COLLECTIONS

1999               Smokestack, C. Tedeschi and Art Locke

2001               Mary Frances, Death of a Poet series, Charles D. Himmelblau, CA

2021               Yellow Oversight and three other paintings, Michelle and Lenne Bibbo

2022               Commission Glass Parallelogram- Diane Tischler

2022                I Just Want To Be, Jason Marquez

2022                Monotype Series: Several Collectors

2022               Black Door: Fused glass – Helene Stroebl

2022              Comissioned Stained glass: Jodi Denton

2022               Comissioned Parallel Being Sculpture,

2022               Parallel Being with fused glass, Hanz Schulz

2022               Mysterious Underworld triptych, Diane