Galleries of Contemporary Arts

O’Meallie’s work, usually painted wood, is noted for its visual and tactile allure and multilayered content. O’Meallie taught studio art at UCCS for nine years and for 10 years was a toy inventor based out of New York. (More)

Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. (More)

Cymon Padilla fuses disparate elements of contemporary visual culture in his paintings and drawings. Using traditional oil painting techniques, he combines, collapses, and remixes “the imitated world” onto the flat surface of the picture plane. (More)

Matte’s artistic practice includes large-scale murals, paintings, illustrations, videos, performance art. A major thread running through his work and life is community engagement and participation. (More)

The 2008 Denver Post “Emerging Artist of the Year,” Xi Zhang has presented internationally and throughout the United States since 2006. (More)

Jeff was recently featured in issue No. 111 of New American Paintings and was the UC Santa Barbara nominee for the 2015 Dedalus Foundation Masters of Fine Art Fellowship. (More)

Primarily a self-taught painter, it has been Elizabeth’s lifelong desire to learn and better her craft. Her
desire to understand people and herself has fueled much of her recent work. (More)

Jessica Langley has exhibited her work internationally, and has been an artist-in-residence in numerous programs including Skaftfell Center of Visual Art in Iceland, Askeaton Contemporary Art in Ireland, the SPACES World Artist Program in Cleveland, and the Digital Painting Atelier at OCAD-U in Toronto. (More)