Current Create Awards Recipients

RAYMOND GABRIEL

Raymond Gabriel is primarily a painter and collage artist who explores the human identity, beyond the physical exterior, to show the pieces of who and what we are. He has always been fascinated with people and their stories – lost loves, successes, failures, favorite books, childhoods – and it is these histories that he refers to as fragments.

Raymond Gabriel, (b. 1997) was raised outside of Nederland, CO, deep in the Rocky Mountains. Gabriel graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) in May 2024. During his time at MSU Denver Gabriel has participated in a number of group exhibitions in locations across Colorado like The Center for Visual Art, The Medusa Collective, and The Hideout Gallery, as
well as a solo show at Matchbox Denver in 2022. He has also exhibited work in Italy and South Korea.

raymondgabrielart.com

@paintings_byray

MARGARITA MORENO

Colombian artist based in Denver, graduate of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago from Masters of Fine Arts in Printmedia. Drawing is my first language; however, my works are interdisciplinary, they oscillate from drawing to screenprinting, etching, painting, weaving, art bookmaking, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on thoughts around orientation, territory and postcolonial theory from a Latin American view, especially about western approaches to knowledge and as a consequence to science, throughout history.

I am also interested in the relationship between the human and the nonhuman in nature and all of the cultural and social context around it. My most recent body of work has shifted to think about this idea of knowledge and “truth” and how as a western society we are used to having this imaginary idea of perfection and accuracy that science has encouraged on us. How this idea is unachievable and born out of a necessity of control, how we can approximate this but we can never get there.

@margaritamorenoc

www.margaritamoreno.co/bienvenides

MARLEY ROBINSON