Experience Gallery is tucked under the stairs at the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
Jaime Belkind-Gerson’s “Birth of a Heart” sits under glass at the CU Experience Gallery. As a space for showing art, the small storefront that houses the Experience Gallery has some drawbacks.
The gallery knows its place, and has set it hours according: It is only open from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from noon to 7 p.m. on weekends. The show’s conceit is that the sounds and words that we hear — even before birth and then as we morph into mature organisms — impact who we are as individuals.
More metaphorical is Jaimé Belkind-Gerson’s pedestal-mounted sculpture “Birth of a Heart,” made mostly of clay and resin. The abstract piece depicts a blood-red heart emerging from a bone-like, or skin-like, shell. The show has one deeply immersive moment in the form of artist Travis Vermilye’s “The Womb Room.” For this multimedia installation, visitors enter a curving environment, walled off from the rest of the gallery by curtains that glow in a warm orange. Once inside the space, they hear muffled sounds and feel vibrations — emanating from a mysterious mix of noises that seems to combine wind, the patterns of biological systems, muffled voices and more.
The effort does succeed in that way, at least through an artful lens. These artists show how science has mapped out our physiological systems, and answered many questions about how cells and DNA connect into larger organisms that add up to the present version of humans that now inhabit the Earth.
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