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K Contemporary represents mid-career and established national & international artists, with a focus

05/25/2026

Michael Gadlin’s works continue to push painting beyond the wall, collapsing image, material, and gesture into something visceral and deeply human. In Lush Folds and The Balance of Tension, layered faces emerge and disappear through draped unstretched canvas, creating a powerful tension between concealment and revelation.

On view now in IN-TENSION at K Contemporary, Denver.

Michael Gadlin
Lush Folds and The Balance of Tension, 2026, collage, oil stick, acrylic, spray paint, and ink on unstretched canvas
99 x 58 in

05/22/2026

Wildfire Sunset and Blue Curtain (1), 2025 by Shawn Huckins is now on view at the Santa Fe Airport as part of Surrealism and Abstraction: The Life Of A Cloud, presented by the Santa Fe Gallery Association.

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Blurring the line between beauty and catastrophe, Huckins transforms the visual language of the American landscape into something both seductive and unsettling. Framed by theatrical blue curtains, the wildfire becomes a stage set, inviting viewers to question how imagery, media, and distance shape our relationship to climate events unfolding in real time.
On view through August 21, 2026.

Shawn Huckins Wildfire Sunset and Blue Curtain (1), 2025 Oil and acrylic on canvas 84 x 68 in

05/15/2026

Jason Craighead is in Santa Fe!
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Join us this Saturday, May 16 from 3–6 PM for the opening of Jason Craighead: Stories from the River, our inaugural solo exhibition at K Contemporary’s new Santa Fe gallery on Canyon Road.

Craighead’s works resist fixed interpretation. They are not depictions of landscape, but rather reflections on movement—through space, through memory, and through life itself. The exhibition’s title draws from the artist’s long-held affinity for the metaphor of the river as a guide through life’s unfolding journey. Referencing a line from artist and poet Mark George Lynch - “River shows where but tells not why” - Craighead embraces a map-less approach to both painting and living, allowing intuition, chance, and experience to shape the path forward. As the artist notes, “Without art, I’m not here and neither is what I create.”

We’re thrilled to have Jason here with us for this special opening and to share this exhibition as the first solo presentation in our Santa Fe space.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 16
3–6 PM
K Contemporary Santa Fe
203 Canyon Road

Artist in attendance.

05/13/2026

K Contemporary is pleased to present Jason Craighead: Stories from the River, opening Saturday, May 16, from 3–6 PM at K Contemporary Santa Fe.

This exhibition marks an important milestone: our inaugural solo exhibition at our new Santa Fe location on Canyon Road. We are honored to begin this chapter with Jason Craighead, whose work brings together gestural abstraction, landscape, memory, and lived experience with remarkable emotional force.

Rooted in recent travels to Morocco and Newfoundland, Craighead’s new paintings evoke cliffs, rivers, distant horizons, and shifting terrains. Yet beyond landscape, these works speak to something deeper: the experience of moving through the world as both an individual and part of a shared human condition.

We are especially excited to welcome Jason Craighead in person for the opening reception.

Please join us for this special evening in Santa Fe.

Jason Craighead: Stories from the River
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 3–6 PM
May 16 – June 20, 2026
K Contemporary Santa Fe
203 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM

SantaFeArt

05/07/2026

Michael Gadlin | In-Tension

✨ Opening Saturday, May 9 ✨

Join us at K Contemporary Denver for the opening of Michael Gadlin: In-Tension, a new exhibition exploring structure, pressure, resistance, and the charged space between control and release.

Through layered surfaces and materially driven compositions, Gadlin creates works that feel both constructed and alive. His practice moves between abstraction, architecture, movement, and emotional force, revealing tension not as a point of rupture, but as a generative space where form, energy, and meaning are held in balance.

In-Tension invites us to consider what is built, what is strained, what is contained, and what ultimately breaks open.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 2026
3–6 PM
K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver, CO

✨ Come celebrate with us.

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05/06/2026

Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios | I Wasn’t Born in Havana

✨ Opening Saturday, May 9 ✨

Join us at K Contemporary for the opening of Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios: I Wasn’t Born in Havana, a powerful new exhibition rooted in displacement, intuition, memory, and the unstable terrain of identity.

Born in Cuba and shaped by time spent between Cuba and Mexico, Rios approaches painting not as representation, but as necessity. His works erupt from the unconscious through brushwork, fingers, drips, and gesture, creating compositions that feel alive, sensual, unruly, and deeply human.

I Wasn’t Born in Havana becomes less about geography and more about perception, belonging, detachment, and the way identity is continuously constructed through experience.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 2026
3–6 PM
K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver, CO

✨ Come celebrate with us.

04/29/2026

Kristopher Wright at NXTHVN ✨ ✨✨✨✨

We’re proud to share that Kristopher Wright has been awarded a prestigious residency at NXTHVN in New Haven, co-founded by Titus Kaphar.

NXTHVN is one of the most forward-thinking arts incubators in the country. A year-long, fully supported program offering studio space, housing, mentorship, and career development.

Now halfway through the residency, Kristopher is deep in the work. This moment already marks a meaningful point in his trajectory, and we’re excited to see what continues to develop during his time in New Haven.

Kristopher’s practice brings together painting, screen printing, and collage to build layered narratives around memory, family, and the emotional texture of American life. Moments of joy, loss, and connection unfold in ways that feel both personal and collective.

Onward 🚀

04/21/2026

Is this sunshine? Or is this sunset? ✨

In this series, Marcos Acosta returns to the same question again and again—not to answer it, but to complicate it.

Each painting offers a familiar landscape, grounded in the physical world. Rock, sky, horizon. But then something shifts. A band of color interrupts. A fragment of light that feels too precise, too saturated, too intentional to belong entirely to nature.

What we’re looking at begins to slip.

Is it a moment of light passing through the landscape?
Or something inserted? Constructed? Remembered?

Across these works, perception becomes unstable. The eye searches for certainty, but the paintings resist it. What appears natural starts to feel staged. What feels artificial begins to read as real.

The question lingers.

✨ On view now

MARCOS ACOSTA | FRAGILE THOUGHT
K Contemporary
Denver
In collaboration with Hexton Gallery

Marcos Acosta
Is This a Sunset? (V), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Marcos Acosta
Is This Sunshine? (III), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Marcos Acosta
Is This Sunshine? (I), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Marcos Acosta
Is This a Sunset? (VI), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Marcos Acosta
Is This Sunshine? (IV), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Marcos Acosta
Is This Sunshine? (II), 2026
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

04/19/2026

VILLE KYLÄTASKU | NUIT BLANCHE

A painting in motion.
A moment that refuses to settle.

Kylätasku’s work exists between states. Gesture and image. Control and release. Waking and dream. His florals feel less like objects and more like events unfolding in real time.

Built through layered processes that obscure and reveal at once, each surface becomes a threshold. What appears delicate carries weight. What feels spontaneous is deeply considered.

Drawing from art history while pushing into something more immediate, these paintings hold tension between beauty and impermanence. Presence and disappearance.

The result is immersive. The work shifts as you stand in it.

✨ On view now

VILLE KYLÄTASKU | NUIT BLANCHE
March 14 – April 25, 2026

K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver

04/16/2026

Mid-Exhibition Artist Talk & Empanadas
MARCOS ACOSTA | FRAGILE THOUGHT

Join us tomorrow evening for an intimate conversation with Marcos Acosta inside his first solo exhibition in Denver.

Fresh off a featured spread in The Denver Post and a recent presentation at Expo Chicago, Acosta is making a powerful impression on the American art scene. This exhibition marks a pivotal moment.

Working between observation and intuition, Acosta’s landscapes shift beyond place into something more perceptual. Geological forms dissolve into thought. Light becomes energy. What feels fixed begins to move.

✨ Meet the artist in person
✨ Artist talk begins around 6 PM
✨ Homemade empanadas + wine

Thursday, April 16
5:00 – 7:00 PM
K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver

Surround yourself with paintings that hold both the physical and the ineffable. This is a rare chance to hear directly from the artist as he speaks to the ideas shaping Fragile Thought.

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