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Artist: Ted Schaal of Loveland CO

Price: $10,000

2nd Place Best in Show

Artist Statement: The piece called “Rift” was inspired by plate tectonics and volcanic activity. The top half appears to be sliding up and over the bottom like a thrust fault. The texture of the bronze ellipse was inspired by a basalt bomb.

Artist: Michael Ford Dunton of Castle Valley UT

Price: $8,000

3rd Place Best in Show

Artist Statement: Another musing in to the secret lives of rocks. Perhaps a daydream of working through the tendrils of gravity in hopes of a better view.

Artist: Joshua Ware of Denver CO

Price: $10,000

People’s Choice Award

Artist Statement: DETH LIGHGHT V: American Vernacular is a work of biomorphitecture, which is a neologism naming the confluence of constructivist sculpture and living forms. Biomorphitecture engages architecture and structure through geometric, hard-edge design, but attends to living forms by a) focusing on objects of a human-scale; b) relying on handcrafted construction methods that do not engage digital or mass fabrication techniques; and c) encouraging direct interaction between the object and living organisms. In doing so, I want to harness the tensions between entities that we often consider contradictory. It is my hope that these sculptures will produce new and productive experiences, which will enable a better understanding of how we can thrive in our increasingly built-environments while also maintaining our humanity and attachment to ecological systems. This piece functions as a usable bench, thus interrogating the relationship between the object and human form. DETH LIGHGHT’S subtitle takes inspiration from Ralph Ellison’s essay “Going to the Territory,” in which he writes that the American Vernacular “springs from the synthesis of our diverse elements of cultural style [and] pluralistic character of our society.” He envisioned the vernacular as a historically expansive, aesthetically diffuse, and culturally open style not bound by medium, mode, or demographic. It, thus, articulates my idiosyncratic style as a product of disparate influences and opens the possibility for expressions that otherwise appear contradictory.

Artist: Ian Wunderlich of Monument CO

Price: $10,000

Artist Statement: The tower is a grand monument made to take people away from every day scenery and enjoy something large and striking.

Artist: Shohini Ghosh of Highlands Ranch CO

Price: $10,000

Artist Statement: Gentle is a bronze sculpture of a woman taking a break from work. An earthy working woman is captured in a gentle moment of repose and reminiscing, Her toes are curling up with flashbacks of happy instances just passed and she has a blissful smile on her face.

Artist: Jerry Severns of Denver CO

Price: $9,000

Artist Statement: I explore movement and interaction with my sculpture. Beings twist and rise and set their bearings. They are eager for adventure. Everything in our existence has been created by movement of something and interaction with something else. With this piece beings and/or their paths have come together in an exuberant twirl. Perhaps they just got some time off. Or maybe they’re just happy to exist. Interaction alters paths. As you meet these previously unknown beings, I ask that you consider the possibility of sentient capabilities and value in those who may not be just like us.

Artist: Brian Marquez of Grand Junction CO

Price: $2,400

Colorado Mesa University Student Selection

Artist: Fred Lunger of Parker CO

Price: $7,000

Artist Statement: As with many of my sculptures, the design starts with the base. In this case I found an old shovel at an antique store. The age and wear of this shovel led me to imagine it being left out in the garden or field after a hard day’s work. As I sat on my back deck thinking about how I might incorporate it into a sculpture, there were several Magpies and Crows flying around. Knowing that Crows have a tendency to raid a farmer’s garden, I pictured a crow sitting on the shovel deciding on what it wanted to steal, and at the same time defending or guarding the garden from other predators. My original thought was to sculpt and mount the bronze Crow to the shovel but decided the weight of the Crow on the wooden shovel might be too much for the shovel to handle. Instead, I decided to mold the shovel and have it also cast in bronze for the final sculpture.

Artist: Joe Burleigh of Carbondale CO

Price: $12,000

Artist Statement: “One Whirl”, as in “One Whirl is enough for all of us”. I like to think of it as a personal planet.

Artist: Nathan Johansen of Provo UT

Price: $6,100

Artist Statement: When confronted with uncertain circumstances, indecision overcomes the potato bug and he rolls up into a little ball, a defense mechanism, which we all have and use in one form or another. In time he will quietly come out of his ball and carefully find a new way along his path, as should we.

Artist: Annette Coleman of Lakewood CO

Price: $9,000

Artist Statement: She holds up the sky is reference to Mao, who used this saying in reference to women in one of his speeches, commending women for their role in building/running the society. Women amount to half the population and hence half the world. Iridescent glass casts delightful rays of color on surfaces nearby from the glass in this intimate mosaic sculpture. Think Pompeii abstracted, with the vivid colors of today, durable, timeless, and joyful.

Artist: Sue Quinlan of Boulder CO

Price: $5,100

Artist Statement: Symbolizes the connections of humanity and the cycle of life and time. Circles surround us; we have the moon, the sun, planets and stars. The circle with many faces communicates a concept of all-inclusive, cosmic harmony with no divisions and no beginning and no end. It also illuminates the cycle we all share, including our joys and struggles with ubiquitous events like birth, death and human relationships.

Artist: Francis Fox of Boise ID

Price: $9,500

Artist Statement: The horse embodies endurance and loyalty. Horses hold a position of vital importance in the West, not only because of their dutiful service to humans but also because of their “freeing” and “space changing” effect on our human psyche. I hope this sculpture captures that sense of wild nobility while creating energy between its inspiring vertical expression and a perceived sense of space. “Horse” comes from my personal perspective that was deeply influenced by growing up in the rural West, with its dramatic land, weather, and extant lifestyle.

Artist: Dimitry Domani Spiridon of Santa Fe NM

Price: $9,000

Artist Statement: My art communicates a perception of humanity on an emotional level. It is here that my art-sculptures and painting find a voice and become an investigation into our society or history that express a commentary that I feel is relevant to our world today.

Artist: Andrew Libertone of Denver CO

Price: $10,000

Artist Statement: Many means of transportation have outriggers – sailboats, canoes, motorcycles…This sculpture has two outriggers.

Artist: Troy Day of Grand Junction CO

Price: $750

Colorado Mesa University Student Selection

Artist: Alex Bond of Mancos CO

Price: $8,500

Artist Statement: Unraveling is both strange and familiar, cellular and universal. A unique combination of shapes and textures inspired by crop circles and other alien patterns combine to form the most relatable and organic human form that exists, the sphere. Each observer sees something a little different: a planet, a viral cell, coalescence of sperm and egg, or something more. Finally, like many of Alex’s unique sculptures, Unraveling’ is hollow, inviting the backdrop as a component of the sculpture itself.

Artist: Kyle Ocean of Wellington CO – Curator of the 2022-23 Exhibition

Price: $10,000

Artist Statement: This work investigates the relationship between painting and sculpture. The two forms work together in contrast, while the surface detail represents a playful nod to a flowing river. The objective of this piece is to delve into the narrative of man’s manufactured cityscapes to the complexity of nature and how we find ways to bring nature into cities artificially. This piece explores the materials and processes we use in construction materials and breaks them down to represent the dichotomy of cities and nature coexisting and created by man in large city spaces. The scale of this piece is intended to draw in the viewer from afar to further investigate and explore the space. The orientation of this piece can change based on its location in space, however, the intention is to place the metal forms in such a way to create tension and use negative space to invite the viewer to explore the entire space and experience this piece from all sides and perspectives.