Collection: The MIX Group Exhibition with Tyree Jones, Pat Lickly and Aliki McCain

Niza Knoll Gallery presents the first of two group exhibitions highlighting members of The MIX, a co-op of eight artists who showcase their work year-round in the back of Niza Knoll Gallery.

August 16-September 29, 2024, at 915 Santa Fe Drive. Artist Reception on Sat. Sept 7, 5-8 pm

and view the show during regular gallery hours Thursdays–Sundays, 1-4  Monthly art walks: First Friday, 5-9 p.m., Third Friday 5-8 p.m. and Sundays on Santa Fe, 12-4 p.m.

New to The MIX this year, Denver-based painter, Tyree Jones-Evans will be showcasing her knowledge of color and human expression in a series of poignant portraits. While her primary discipline is oil painting, her work veers towards a multi-disciplinary practice as she occasionally includes photography, drawing, and collage. She is inspired by light and how it manipulates color, effectively allowing it to foster kindred moods within her work.

Pat Lickly has been a member of The MIX since it’s inception. Her new mixed-media series blends her background in graphic design and ceramics with elements from the natural world. Stone, bone, fossils, metal, glass and paper fiber imbue her conceptual and more abstract art with a grounding sense of reality. As an avid gardener who loves the great outdoors, metaphorical themes emerge these pieces, inspired by flowers, trees, rivers, mountains and sky.

 
A co-op member for 10 years, Aliki McCain will present a body of work that is an homage to the miracle and wonder of trees. As a critical, connected part of our very existence, and as some of the longest-living organisms on Earth, trees have watched humans evolve. They work together as a community, communicating through a subterranean neural network to benefit themselves and create the biome for other species. With a staggering variety of over 73,000 species, they reduce our stress, buffer climate change, soil erosion and improve the quality of our water. They provide shelter and protection to all the organisms that have adapted to their generosity.