Carol Bivins’s and Jodie Roth Cooper’s concurrent exhibitions at Blo Back Gallery illustrate the ways in which materials impact an exhibition's overtones and can often inform an artist stylistically. Bivins’s colorful paintings are visual comfort food: immediately appealing and easy to digest. Cooper’s monumental steel sculptures are heavy and demanding, calling attention to process, materiality, and the passage of time. 

Contained within a small hallway gallery at Colorado State University’s Gregory Allicar Museum, Meticulous packs in a maximalist array of artworks spanning multiple media and multiple decades from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition demonstrates both the breadth of the collection and a shared commitment among the artists to detail, ornamentation, and visual intensity. From photographs of free-ranging tigers to a brightly beaded bicycle, the works create a sense of visual frenzy in a tight space, rewarding close looking.

Stepping into Juan Carlos Escobedo’s exhibition Curas: Males del Corazón / Remedies: Ailments of the Heart at the Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) is both whimsical and deeply reflective—a journey through the artist’s residency at ASLD that balances conceptual rigor with Escobedo's subjective experience. As a residency exhibition should, the work embraces experimentation, transforming the ASLD’s building—a late nineteenth century former school—into an immersive and collaborative environment for Escobedo’s ideas and historic architecture.