Name: Taste Test

Location: Understudy 890 C 14th Street Denver, Colorado 80202

Exhibition Dates: January 15 – March 15 

Exhibition Description Taste Test is back for its third year! This rotating winter exhibition at Understudy presents diorama-style window box installations that offer a snapshot of what’s happening in the art scene right now. For 2026, we’re partnering with six Englewood-based galleries representing a dynamic group of emerging artists. Taste Test  features work from over 35 artists offering a survey of the ideas, voices, and experimentation shaping the region right now. The participating galleries are: Blue Tile Gallery, Los Fantasmas Artist Collective, NKollectiv, Rising Gallery, SeeSaw Gallery and SP_CE 13. This exhibition runs January 15 – March 15 and is viewable from outside the gallery. 

Participating Gallery Details (6 total)

Below is information on the participating galleries featured in the show. 

Blue Tile Gallery

Blue Tile Gallery is home to the Chameleon Art Collective, a group of teaching artists. Co-founded by Nik Arnoldi & Timothea Biermann, the collective combines diverse aesthetics & talents to provide positive, communal transformation. Members Timothea Biermann and Emily Hammack collaborated on this box by blending artistic styles and processes. 

The box reflects both the screen printing process and their preferred color palette. They play with light diffraction and ultraviolet light to alter perspectives of the viewer. Timothea’s black cats, Eve & Gregor invite you to explore the colorful interior of Blue Tile Gallery!

Los Fantasmas Artist Collective 

Los Fantasmas Artist Collective emerges from the spaces between histories, identities, and imagined futures. Named after fantasmas, “ghosts” or “the unseen,” the collective celebrates brown and indigenous people of color as well as marginalized individuals often unrecognized for their contributions. As artists of Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous descent, we come together — each with distinct voices, mediums, and practices — to create work that resists erasure and reclaims visibility.

Our window box is about our ancestral lands of the Los Fantasmas artists and the magic of the places where we are from. The featured artists are: Tony Diego, Morgan DeVillier, Micah Ramirez, Veronica Herrera, Frank Lucero

NKollectiv 

NKollectiv (pronounced N Collective) showcases Colorado artists working in a wide variety of media including many types of painting and printmaking, clay, wood and metal sculpting, metal-smithed jewelry, and home decor. The gallery was founded in 2021 by Nicole Korbe, a local artist whose mission is to promote the local artist community and provide a place for all to enjoy their work. The gallery is located within EASEL (Englewood Art Studios, Events, Lessons), a 2nd floor art hub in Downtown Englewood. Please note that access is via stairs only.

Our window box is a taste test that represents the variety of work available from our member artists.

Featured artists include: Kelly Austin-Rolo, encaustic and mixed media, Mary Lynn Baird, clay monotype and mixed media, Hugh Daly, mixed media collage, Craig Demmon, wood, Melody Epperson, mixed media, Tiffani Erdmanczyk, watercolor, Victoria Eubanks, encaustic and mixed media, James Garnett, clay, Steve Girard, clay, Nicole Korbe, oil and mixed media, Krista Lavonas, metal-smithed jewelry, Julia Martin, mixed media, Michele Messenger, encaustic, Jerry Severns, steel, Will Thompson, acrylic

Rising Gallery

Rising Gallery is a niche connection of highly collectable European street art plugged into the local regional art scene. 

The box display features the artwork by UK artist Robin Parkes ahead of his solo show opening March of 2016.

SP_CE 13

SP_CE 13 is a contemporary art gallery located on South Broadway in Englewood. Aiming to provide an accessible experience to all, we hope to create a space that transcends boundaries, features thought-provoking work and embraces the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary artistic expression.

Welcome to the 13th Floor, a fever dream tribute to the artists, collaborators, curators and individuals who have made this visual experiment possible. Featured artists include: Julio Alejandro, Justas Marcink, Ryan McNurney and Deanne Gertner.

SeeSaw Gallery 

SeeSaw is a contemporary art gallery in Englewood, CO. 

This window box highlights the represented artists of the gallery. Sophie Hill is a beadwork artist, showcasing her medallion, On Gratitude to Honeybees, and signature beadwork adornments. 

Brandi Kole is a fiber artist, and her artwork, Redress, is a mixed-media self portrait, combining fabric patchwork with loose loops of thread to create a contrast between structure and fluidity. Savanna LaBauve is a multimedia artist currently focused on her ceramic practice. Embrace x 96 and Embrace x 60 highlight her use of ceramics as installations. Jessica Loving is a mixed media abstract painter. Blue Hour I and II are from her Canopy series, inspired by the Colorado forests. Rock CYFI Martinez is a contemporary aerosol artist who typically works in large-scale formats. His piece, Passing, is from his Cactus People series. Amanda K. Snyder is a painter who captures brief moments in time informed by vintage snapshots. Rise and Ski, is based on a photograph from Vail Resort in the 1970s. These artists encapsulate the diverse programming and thought-provoking exhibitions that SeeSaw brings to the Denver Metro community.