The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is delighted to present a
special exhibition of work entitled Heart Land by artist Chandler Romeo at the Buell Theatre. A public viewing and reception will take place on
June 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
After June 9, the artwork can be viewed only as a ticketed patron of an event at the Buell Theatre or by contacting the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs to schedule a visit. The exhibition will run through September.
Artist Statement
What we see when we view the landscape of the eastern plains is never pure, never a pristine wilderness. Traces of human intervention are evident everywhere in the landscape, even in the most remote places on the prairie. These interventions provide an opportunity to create art about the western landscape and our relationship to it. Subtle natural forms (river beds, low rolling hills, dry creeks, fault lines and bluffs) combined with manmade forms (roads, fields of wheat, corn and alfalfa, earthen dams to capture water, holes, trenches and clear cuts) provided inspiration for Heart Land. The 12, 36” x 36” pastel drawings in the exhibition contemplate the altered landscape of the eastern prairies of Colorado.
Chandler Romeo has lived and worked in Denver for the past 25 years. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and the AFKEY Award from the Denver Art Museum's Alliance for Contemporary Art. Romeo has exhibited her work throughout the region in art centers and museums including the Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center in Casper, Wyoming, the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Foothills Art Center in Golden, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood. Her work is in several corporate and public collections, including Kaiser Permanente, Westword, Red Rocks Community College and the Denver Art Museum, as well as many private collections. She is represented locally by the Sandra Phillips Gallery in Denver.
This is the fourth of an ongoing series of special exhibitions at the Buell Theatre curated by DOCA Public Art Administrator, Rudi Cerri.
For more information on the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art Program, please call 720-865-4313 or visit
www.denvergov.org/publicart.
The mission of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is to advance the arts and culture in the City and County of Denver.