DENVER, CO (PNAN) – Going on view are two exhibitions on Saturday, June 7, 2025 at the K Contemporary art gallery will be in the main gallery, “Devotion and Disorder” a solo show by Kevin Sloan. In the Project Space, debuts “Remnants” by Jel Martinez. Both shows will be view through July 5, 2025.
Sloan’s images depict part Art and artifice, his painstaking vignettes of animals posed in unusual and unlikely places read like old-fashioned studio portraits with contrived natural backgrounds attempting to project the sitters’ mood or status. Many stand on beaches or dangle in marshy estuaries at low tide, caught in the fragile moment before the Earth’s gravitational pull returns water to the beach. The shutter speed is slow as fauna ranging from zebras to dolphins teeter in their liminal, confined spaces.
The exhibition’s 16 paintings are joined by 3 sculptures where found objects are overtaken by the natural world. Vines, barnacles, and shells reclaim a car tire that could have conceivably been disposed in an ocean basin. Moss, fungi, and flowers upholster a wheelchair, “Rehabilitation of the old grov” – these unnatural accumulations of shells, coral, moss, and flowers also cling to the subjects in Sloan’s paintings.
Miami-based artist, Jel Martinez , is creating “Remnants” who practice originates in 1980s street art. Populated with seven other abstract paintings on view, Jennifer Berry explains, “Remnants is an aesthetic revisiting of Jel’s public wall surfaces, allowing his prior knowledge to guide the layers and gestures in his new work. He calls this adapted approach “urban abstraction” where he reconstructs the textured surfaces of walls that have been marked, covered, and abraded over time. Each painting reflects a dialogue between memory and erasure, presence and absence, and the beauty found in what’s left behind.”
For more information on these artists see https://kcontemporaryart.com