Janine Thornton Artist Group
Janine Thornton
Janine Thornton uses ceramics, fiber and photography to create sculptural forms, wall hangings and installations focusing on interconnectivity and relationships. She is currently exploring her relationship with place through ceramics made with soil and grasses found in rural communities along the Colorado prairies, combined with photographs depicting the changing landscapes along the eastern plains. Janine has an MFA in Fibers from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. She and her husband live and work in a small community southeast of Denver.
Eli West
Eli West’s practice is a painterly, garish, and joyful reflection on a queer human experience materially rooted in wool, other fibers as well as cartoonish mixed media to create wall hangings, sculptural pieces, and soft abstractions. Eli is an interdisciplinary artist who holds an MFA in Applied Craft + Design from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Their practice and studio are currently based out of the Santa Fe Arts District in Denver, Colorado.
Tricia Vitrano
Tricia Vitrano is a professional working artist, sculptor and designer. Her experience includes arts education, set design and her work has been on display at universities, galleries and public art spaces in the US and Europe. She works across various disciplines including, sculpture, ceramics, paint and textiles. She is currently teaching Intro to 3D Design at CU Denver. Originally from Ireland she now lives in the mountains with her husband outside Boulder, Colorado.
Julie Jablonski
Julie Jablonski, native Coloradan and MFA candidate at School of the Visual Arts in New York City, is an interdisciplinary artist who creates large-scale paintings, theatrical sculptures, immersive installations, delicate collages and thought-provoking conceptual works. Her life-long martial arts training animates her practice with patient, attentive engagement with the wonder and struggle inherent in being alive. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Jablonski investigates patterns in culture, nature, human relationships, psychology, and the visual world, delighting in the connections she uncovers. Her work is project-based, with each piece representing a distinct chapter within a larger thematic arc.
Her diverse body of work includes juicy impasto color saturations, shadowy figures lost in otherworldly pencil-shaded storms, abstract pigeon-wing patterns cut tenderly into paper, and poetic reimaginings of everyday office supplies. She even suspends brightly pigmented vacuum cleaners from the ceiling like stalactites, creating a sense of spectacle and wonder. These varied stagings are marked by unpredictability, quiet moments of contemplation and cheeky subversion that disarm the viewer into deeper engagement with both challenging themes and moments of enchantment.
Through committed observation, Jablonski seeks to make sense of a contemporary world that is fraught, fragile and worthy.
Leah Swenson
I am a visual artist living and working in Denver, Colorado, United States. I was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota in 1989. The landscape was very flat and the sky was very big. I studied photography at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington and completed my undergraduate education at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in 2013, earning a BFA with emphasis in photography and video art and graduating summa cum laude. I've shown my work in Denver, nationally, and internationally, and I'm currently a member of the Artnauts art collective. I also belong to the Postcard Collective, and mail art has informed my practice for many years.
There are many types of landscapes: emotional, psychological, geographical, and physical. I create collage work from found paper along with my own imagery to construct these landscapes. My work often includes fragments of or harkens maps, which I’ve always been drawn to- the idea of mapping is very poetic to me. Art has the power to communicate across barriers, borders, language, and time. In this way, art is a map. It can record where we have been, orient us to where we are, and point to where we are going.
Manda Remmen
Manda Remmen earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing and Sculpture at Colorado State University. She has lived across the United States and in the United Kingdom and her work is influenced by location, language, cultural climate, materials, and place.
