Opening Reception: Derrick Velasquez' solo exhibition 'Cascade and Cadence'

"My work places sculpture and installation in conversation with architecture and design. My focus on the modern aesthetics and ornamentation of contemporary residential buildings created in urban developments critiques the social, political and economic forces affecting our everyday psychological experience within a city by looking at the physical spaces we occupy. Through observation and research, I manipulate common construction materials, architectural crown molding, and leaded stained glass to at once parody historical bourgeois aesthetics and challenge high brow modern architecture, art and design. These works come in the form of large-scale installations and sculptures as well as photography, collage and other media. Physical space and direct relationship to these installations and objects are instrumental in making the conceptual connection between our own bodies and the buildings and structures we interact with on a daily basis."

Derrick Velasquez is an artist and exhibition organizer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado.…