Owner & Founder

Denise Demby

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.

Simplified steel and glass sculptures, color field paintings, mixed media led sculpture, and minimalist 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 simple forms and the archetypal form language residing in the unconscious. Through this imagery I seek to fundamental peace and connection and I welcome you to 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 art work she continues to curate art exhibits that rewards artistic excellence acting as a Juror for “The Green” show at Core New Art Space in Lakewood, and curating other invitational 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
Printmaking & Ceramics

A.A. Fine Arts
Red Rocks Community College

GALLERY EXPERIENCE

Owner & Curator: 931 Gallery 2019 - Present
Exhibits: Voices (2021); Expanding Modernism; The Mutiny of Mediocrity (2022); Gallery Rentals & Various Exhibitions. Learn more at 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

  • Lost and Found, Found object show at Pirate Contemporary Art

  • “Liberte” Solo Show at 931 Gallery

  • Art on the Green, Greenwood Village, CO

  • My Mind The City. Solo show at 931 Gallery

  • Holding Up the Horizon. Solo show at Pirate Contemporary Art

  • Architecture of Form 3, Core New Art Space

2022      

  • Art on The Green. Greenwood Village, CO

  • 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, CO

2021      

  • Voices and various other exhibitions. 931 Gallery, Denver, CO

2020      

  • Residue of Action. Solo Exhibition, 931Gallery, Denver, CO

2019      

  • Beat Clack Snap. Member exhibition , Foolproof Gallery, Denver, CO

  • Changes. National Juried exhibition
    Juror Michael McClung of Michael Warren Contemporary Art Gallery, D’art Gallery Denver, CO

  • 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 & 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, Littleton, CO

  • 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, CO

  • 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 & Galapago, Denver, CO

2004            

  • World Series. New Works by Denise Thrapp Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

  • 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, Fort Collins, CO
    Juror: Roz Spencer                                  

2002            

  • The Road Show. Invitational Art Exhibition, Heart Gallery, Denver, CO                   

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

  • Colorado 2002 Juried Exhibition. Museum of Fine Art Colorado Springs, CO
    Juror: Scott H Snyder, FAC Curator of Fine Art           

  • 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

  • Denise Thrapp. Series exhibition Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

2000

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

  • 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 & Curator, Oakland, CA

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

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

  • Print Exhibition. Fourth Story Restaurant, Denver, CO

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

1997               

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

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

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2022

  • Daria Art Magazine, Architecture of form, Jillian Blackwell

  • Westword Magazine, Susan Froyd

2001

  • Denver Post - Mary Chandler

1999

  • Salina Arts Center 20th annual exhibition catalogue

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

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

COLLECTIONS

2022

  • Commission Glass Parallelogram- Diane Tischler

  • I Just Want To Be, Jason Marquez

  • Monotype Series: Several Collectors

  • Black Door: Fused glass – Helene Stroebl

  • Comissioned Stained glass: Jodi Denton

  • Comissioned Parallel Being Sculpture,

  • Parallel Being with fused glass, Hanz Schulz

  • Mysterious Underworld triptych, Diane

2021

Yellow Oversight and three other paintings, Michelle and Lenne Bibbo

2001

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

1999

Smokestack, C. Tedeschi and Art Locke