Pattern Denver

Small Talk opens Thursday, March 2nd at the Buell Theater.

In collaboration with CPAC, Pattern is exhibiting a group of projects titled Small Talk at the Buell Theater as part of Month of Photography. Join us for the opening reception this Thursday, March 2nd, from 5-7 pm.

The pandemic changed the way that we communicate and connect. Unable to meet in person, we had no one with whom to discuss our lives, our obsessions and our discoveries. So instead, we made “small talk” through the creation of bodies of work, a tangible yet physically distanced way to speak each other.

This exhibition explores people and places we found interesting, collaborations with loved ones and detours taken from larger projects paused by the pandemic. If our broader practices are the creation of large, sweeping bodies of work, Small Talk is a photographic collection of our short stories.

Small Talk is a group project featuring Carl Bower, Daniel Brenner, Brendan Davis, Ryan Dearth, Juan Fuentes, Benjamin Rasmussen, James Stukenberg, Rebecca Stumpf, and Julia Vandenoever. Learn more about the individual bodies at the link in bio.

This is taking over to share Misfits & Majesty, my contribution to a Pattern project, Small Talk. If you are an editor or art buyer, drop us a DM and we will send you the Small Talk box.

I first met John Davis, an addictions counselor, soon after returning to Colorado in 2015. He specifically works with teenage boys dealing with trauma, drug abuse, and violence. I was fascinated by his unconventional approach to therapy. His treatment exists while on the side of a cliff, revisiting a traumatic setting or pushing limits of physical and mental exertion.

For the past year, Pattern has been collaborating on a box set of projects called Small Talk. Unable to meet in person during the pandemic, we had no one with whom to discuss our lives, our obsessions and our discoveries. So instead we made “small talk” through the creation of zines and booklets, a tangible yet physically distanced way to say something to each other.