DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum relaunched the exhibition series Eyes On with the work of Susan Wick. Eyes On introduces audiences to a broad range of practices, ideas and approaches to exhibition-making explored by living artists working at pivotal moments in their careers. Projects in the series are organized as single-gallery exhibitions or site-specific installations.

Denver-based artist Susan Wick (born 1938 in Madison, Wis.) conjures worlds of fantasy, intrigue and desire. Her daring compositions and experiments with materials such as fabric, foil and printed paper inspire and excite the imagination. Eyes On: Susan Wick is on view now, through July 26, 2026, on level three of the museum’s Hamilton building.

After receiving her Master of Arts degree in 1969, Wick created the performance art collective Baker/Rapoport/Wick with fellow artists Mary Winder Baker and Debra Rapoport. Their performances mixed textiles with advertising and could be seen in various storefronts and at California State University, Los Angeles (1974); Bologna Biennial, Italy (1975); Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (1975); San Francisco Art Institute (1976); and University Art Museum, Berkeley (1976). Wick, 87, has resided in Denver since the 1980s and ran the legendary space City Spirit—a cafe and gathering spot for artists, writers, poets, musicians and the avant-garde scene in 1990s Denver. She has been making and creating art, with the bulk of her creative output done in relative isolation at her studio and home called Zwick Place, in what is now known as the RiNo district.

“This show celebrates the art and creativity of Susan Wick, an artist who has been making work for six decades! In Susan’s work we see an artist whose curiosity knows no bounds. What happens when you allow curiosity to be your guiding principle? This show answers that question and invites our visitors to remember that life is an imagination-filled journey, if you are open to it that way” said Rory Padeken, Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Eyes On features 40 rarely seen paintings on paper with mixed media and collage. Around 1996, Wick created works like those in the exhibition for a monthly art subscription and mailed them to subscribers across the country. By sending her art out into the world, these dreamy and playful paintings exemplify Wick’s desire to foster community and connection. Eyes On also includes a selection of Wick’s artist’s books from the 1970s to the 2000s. Some of which contain daily paintings using discarded pages of books from the Denver Public Library. Others are thematic, like one that illuminates the best sources of chocolate. Often stored in suitcases for ease of transport, these artworks contain a visual lexicon of birds, flowers, domestic interiors and human figures that find their way into the other works on view. Together, they encourage viewers to see the artfulness of everyday life in the objects we behold.