About The Artist

 

Alane Holsteen lives and paints in downtown Denver Colorado, where she was born and raised.  By day she works with victims of violent crime.  At night you can find her digging in her small urban garden, or painting in her studio by the capitol.  Sometimes she expresses the beauty of this life; sometimes its pain. She calls encaustic medium her artistic collaborator, because being of nature itself, it aids her in expressing the intricacies of life on this planet.

 

“I don’t like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.”

~Frank Stella, American Artist

 

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2018 Zip37 New Works

2017 Zip37 Epitaphs

2017 Gallery J “Land and Light”

2016 Zip37 Installation with History Books
2016 Gallery J “Chasing Beauty”
2015 Zip37 Gallery “Ineffable Longings”
2015 Gallery J “Life Lines”
2014 Zip37 Gallery “New Works”
2013 Studio Salon “Birds Bees and Bicycles”
2012 NEXT Gallery “Soliloquy”
2011 NEXT Gallery “New Works”
2010 NEXT Gallery “My Locution”
2009 NEXT Gallery “Art and Poetry”
2008 NEXT Gallery “Recent Works”2007 NEXT Gallery “Recent Works”
2006 NEXT Gallery “Art and Poetry”
2005 NEXT Gallery “Florals”

Selected Group Shows

2018 Encaustic: A Collection of Contemporary Works Invitational show at Art Student’s League, won People’s Choice

2017 Buzz melt Create Encaustic show invitational at ArtGym

2016 “Epitaphs” Juried show at Biola University Library
2015 “Wax Stories” Encaustic at Niza Knoll Gallery Juror Collin Parsons
2015 Contemporary Encaustic Juried Show at Royal Contemporary Gallery
2014 Homare Ikeda Student Show at J Gallery
2014 Figurative Show at Edge Gallery
2013 Arvada Center Fine Arts Show and Sale
2013 40 Arts “Healing Arts” Juried Show
2012 Arvada Center for the Arts Fine Arts Show
2012 ZIP 37 Gallery “WAX” Encaustic Invitational Show
2012 ICE CUBE Gallery “Icebreaker 3.0” Juror Gwen Chanzit of Denver Art Museum
2011 CORE Gallery “WOW Show”
2010 NEXT Gallery “Founders Show”
2009 NEXT Gallery “Members Show”
2008 NEXT Gallery “Open Show”
2006 NEXT Gallery “Members Show”
2002 – 2005 Denver Botanic Gardens “Student Show”

Commercial Art Displays

RSA Inc. Encaustic and Oil Installation Display

Professional Associations

Gallery J, Denver Colorado
Zip37 Gallery, Denver Colorado
NEXT Gallery, Denver Colorado
Art Student’s League of Denver, Colorado

Education

2001-2007 Denver Botanical Garden Botanical Illustration Program

2004-2016 Denver Art Student’s League