Night Lights Denver May 2024

May's Night Lights Denver program "EVERYTHING SURFACE", curated by Peter Burr, features artists LoVid, MSHR, p1xelfool, Sabrina Ratté, and Yoshi Sodeoka.

Curator's Statement:

Since the term “Computer Graphics” was coined in the 1960’s, our world has grown slowly into a virtual image - captured, mapped, modeled, and dispersed across a globe of visual platforms with cameras, computers, lasers, and screens. For EVERYTHING SURFACE, that image is recondensed into an object - a 140 foot tall simulation of one world turning into another, translated by an international group of artists for whom the heart of this object is its skin patterned with RGB light.

LoVid, MSHR, p1xelfool, Sabrina Ratté, and Yoshi Sodeoka traffic in abstraction, asking us to soften our gaze and drift through the flat surface of this image world. Behind the 56,000 ft² of flickering pixels is another layer bursting with electric dreams that puncture the sharp lines of this collective hallucination. In these artists' worlds, it's springtime too.

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Night Lights Denver is a permanent way for the Denver Theatre District to support innovative artists while attracting people downtown to enjoy a free, unique experience.

Our vision for this project is that Night Lights Denver truly becomes ‘the people’s projector,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools, and people walking through the district.

Shows run Tuesday – Sunday nights, starting approximately 30 minutes after sunset and looping until midnight. All programs are FREE and appropriate for all-ages.

"The People's Projector" installation is located at the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Downtown Denver, 1601 Arapahoe Street.

Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, The Kittredge Building, Gart Properties, and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.