We are so excited to present Animalia, a group exhibition featuring Alexandrea Pangburn, Andrew Barker, Cody Kuehl, & Johanna Mueller’s unique perspectives on wildlife of the American West.
Join us for the opening during NoBo Art District’s First Friday July 7th, 5-9pm or during the more intimate Second Saturday on July 8th from 1-4pm., and a closing reception on July 29th, 1-5pm. Also open by appointment!
ALEXANDREA PANGBURN
is a large scale muralist and animal realism artist currently based in Golden, Colorado. Inspired by nature - her realistic style focuses on expressing the details of plants, birds, and animals to bring light to the recognizable physical traits. Her hope is to bring awareness to the local flora and fauna so that we may understand and better educate ourselves on how we can conserve these species.
Alex is also the Executive Director of Babe Walls - her passion project that supports women and non-binary artists in the world of street art.
ANDREW BARKER
is a mixed-media artist who creates intricate, illustrative works that are themed around the flora, fauna, and landscapes of the Rocky Mountains and the American West. His primary medium is watercolor, which he often combines with ink, gouache, and colored pencil on either traditional fine art paper or wood.
The subject matter that Andrew explores is driven by his appreciation for the natural world, and his concern with the challenges of climate change, population growth, biodiversity loss, and defaunation. He celebrates the natural world through depictions of conflict, death, rebirth, and the struggles and joys of existence that are shared among all living beings.
CODY KUEHL
is a Northern Colorado born, self-taught artist who has built his business from the ground up in Denver. After building his skills in college with mini pop-surreal paintings, he decided to get serious about making his art into a business and built it into the incredible gallery of New Western art he has today. Now, The Art of Cody Kuehl features New Western paintings with a unique stylistic interpretation merging detailed graphical subjects with abstract underlays.
JOHANNA MUELLER
is a printmaker and artist in Greeley, Colorado. Enhanced by printmaking’s history of narrative, her work explores the shared histories of humans, as told by animals. These compositions are full of animals within animals, a reference to animal cognition and spirits within animal bodies. Personal narrative is woven with mythical symbols and stories which make these pieces both familiar and challenging.