DENVER, CO.- The curators of
High Beams (Los Angeles) have partnered with Hyperlink (Denver) for HB6: Convoy, the latest in a series of nomadic outdoor exhibitions, slated for the evening of Aug. 20, 2022, at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Lakewood, CO. The exhibition was organized by Carl Baratta (LA), Tobias Fike (Denver), and Donald Fodness (Denver), and features over 60 artists from around the West, Midwest, and California.
For the sixth installment, the Los Angeles crew will be taking the show on the road and traveling to Denver, along with several other collectives from around the Midwest and the South, partaking in their own classic American road trip that is one-part logistical, one-part performance, and one-part block party.
Situated on the campus of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, HB6: Convoy showcases a series of experimental works that include sculpture, video, performance, painting, and new media that respond to the site of the former Jewish tuberculosis sanitarium. Artists will display works in parking lots, in trees, along greenways, and in other public spaces around the historic campus.
Examples of work include a film by Andrew Murray (LA), showing various temporary, in situ installations that he fabricated from materials found on hikes and campsites along his trip to Colorado; a sound art piece by Hyperlink (Denver), repurposing
handheld CB radios to filter an auditory palimpsest of each member of the collective describing their artistic practice; a performance by The Art Dominatrix (LA), which explores various professional goals, including firmly-guided creative unblockings, studio visits, and portfolio reviews; a new media sculpture by Sean Noyce (LA), which evokes the spirits of the artist's paternal Mormon ancestors in Utah; a provocative 1970s-themed car wash by The Bridge Club (Denver), nodding to the original Roe v. Wade decision; a new media projection by The Experiential Co. (LA), which augments classical Greco-Roman statuary with digitized particle swarms; and text installations by Diego Juarez (LA), which consists of various poems, handwritten on translucent linen paper and hung on trees around the campus.
Participating artists: Richard Alpert, Tatyanna Anderson, Dominic Angerame, Leticia R Bajuyo, Bryan Birch, Emily Bivens, Ellenor Boettner, Chelsea Boxwell, Michael Broberg, Jason S Brown, Maddie Butler, Nicole Cassidy, Charles Chadwick, Chris Corrente, Casey De Bie, Rachel de Cuba, Andy Delany, Isabella DeSantiago, Vamp DeVille, Conor Dowdle, Kevin Eichorst, Marshall Elliott, Sophia Ericksen, Tobias Fike, Ian Fisher, Lauren Flynn, Donald Fodness, Elizabeth Folk, Jacob Fronk, Anthony Garcia, Danielle Glickman, Deidre Greenly, Matthew Harris, Claire Jackel, Brian R Jobe, David L Jones, Diego Juarez, Patrick Kikut, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Anita Kucharczyk and Dylan Roscover, Abigail Lynn, Maciej Makalowski, Daisy McGowan, Sharifa Moore, Andrew Murray, Sean Noyce, Clover Nusz, Walt Ohnesorge, Paul Onorato, Christine Owen, Alice Marie Perreault, Dylan Redford, Grace Rockwell, Shelby Shadwell, Shokai Carter Sinclair, Kim Stangl, Annie Strader, Tracy Tomko, Denise Susanne Townsend, Katya Usvitsky, Cristina Velazquez, Summer Ventis, Vivian Vivas, Robin Walker, Halle Warren, Ingrid V. Wells, Julie Wills, Ashley Williams, Kathryn Wingard, Momo (Yuntong) Wu, Ivar Zeile, and Xi Zhang.
Participating collectives: 515, Birdseed Collective, The Bridge Club, Denver Digerati, Hyperlink, Land Report Collective, New Genres Collective, Noysky Projects, Pangloss Gravitron, San Francisco Artists Alumni, Technicolor Skies, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Yeah Maybe