OPENING RECEPTION
March 7th, 2025 from 6-9pm
SPACE Gallery (400 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204)
EXHIBITION RUNS
March 7th through April 12th, 2025
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Friday 11am–5pm, Saturday 10am–3pm
Michael Dowling | mjdowlingstudio.com
Julia Martin | julia-martin-art.com
Brett Matarazzo | tarazzovo.com
artmore is a juried exhibition of the work of three artma 2024 artists. artmore is held in odd years opposite to artma as a celebration of the artists who support The Morgan Adams Foundation through their work. The artists were selected by Michael Burnett, owner and curator of SPACE Gallery and SPACE Annex. 10% of the proceeds of artmore will benefit The Morgan Adams Foundation.
MICHAEL DOWLING
Michael Dowling is an internationally collected artist residing in Colorado. He draws and paints on paper and canvas. Michael approaches his work in a visual sense from a classical side. He is interested in the strength of the visual aspects of art from previous times and how and why that look can have impact in our time. He approaches his work with elements of the classical and the techniques learned while studying in Italy. That historical approach gives Michael’s work a look of the historical blended with subject matter of the hypermodern.
* Untitled Horse Portrait #2, mixed media on panel, sold at artma 2024.
JULIA MARTIN
Julia Martin is a mixed-media artist whose hand-stitched compositions explore the delicate balance between the inner self and the external environment, inviting viewers to dialogue between the two. Her habit of jotting down thoughts, poetry, and questions on scraps of paper, which she carries in her pockets, allows her to organize and interpret her experiences, coding them into tangible fragments that reflect her journey through the past and present. These scraps become part of painted and sewn assemblages that delve into the power of fleeting moments and memory through unruly threadwork, mark-making, and layers of oil and wax. Some pieces reflect tightly bound tender thoughts that demand preservation, while others are free and open, evoking a sense of release. Largely self-taught, her work is deeply influenced by storytelling and the tactile traditions of fiber arts from her upbringing in the American South. Julia also draws on her experiences of intimate joy and grief as a former nurse midwife. These influences inform her distinctive practice of sewing together disparate elements to create harmony in unexpected places.
*Pocket Notes, 35″ L x 27“ W, oil and cold wax, archival oil paper, hand sewn mixed media pocket notes, sold at artma 2024.
BRETT MATARAZZO
Raised and schooled in Colorado, Brett has spent the last 15 years developing a style for fine art and design that is uniquely vintage, environmentally conscious and inspired, but with modern, and functional soul.
Traditionally schooled in Colorado at the University of Denver with a BFA in Design, Brett’s work evolved from a love of photography as abstract shape, clean and functional design, his strong environmental belief in re purposing the old into something new and useful, and the contrast of the natural medium of wood as canvas. A designer by trade, Brett has been evolving his mixed-media style consisting of design, photography, paint, and digital heat transfer on wood for over ten years.
His work ranges from vintage reclaimed original wood furniture, art as fashion, and non-traditional and dimensional wall hanging art. His art is truly defined as Vintage-Original.
*Remains of an Untamed Humanity, 42″ x 18″ x 2″, mixed media, sold at artma 2024.
