D’art Gallery Denver is proud to host a two-person exhibition in our East Gallery featuring artists Gabrielle Shannon and Kelly Austin Rolo.
Tides and Topography: mapping the rhythms of water and earth will be on view from November 20 through December 14, 2025. An opening reception for the artists will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025, 6-9PM
Tides & Topography: mapping the rhythms of water & earth.
Exploring terrain, movement, and perception, Austin Rolo maps shifting relationships between landscape, structure, and memory through a quiet architectural language, evoking both the order of built environments and the subtle poetics of place. In dialogue, Shannon’s organic compositions express the pulse, flow, and fluidity of water—tracing the states and stages of dynamic energy that surround and fill us, an analogy for emotion, and echoing the tides and cycles of the moon. Together, their works inhabit the space between ground and atmosphere, where stillness meets motion, earth meets air, and water responds to lunar rhythms
About Gabrielle Shannon:
Gabrielle Shannon started her early art training at The Art Students’ League in New York, continued at The New School in New York and Grove Arts in California, and has continued studies privately with numerous teachers. Her work is shown in galleries internationally, online, collected privately, and in the corporate and hospitality space. Gabrielle does commission work for private and institutional clients. Gabrielle Shannon has lived her life in the arts, working first as a sculptor, mixed media artist, and abstract painter. Originally from New York, she has done everything from exhibiting internationally, sitting on the boards of non-profits, including Eyebeam Atelier in New York, and curating for the Manhattan Children’s Museum. In 1994, she created the first online art and culture magazine Urban Desires. She ran Urban Desires for over 8 years, and it won numerous awards.
Gabrielle was a founding member of D’art Gallery and holds a special place in her heart for the space and members.
About Kelly Austin-Rolo:
Kelly Austin-Rolo is a contemporary painter and printmaker based in Denver, Colorado. She works with encaustic, oil, cold wax, and mixed media. She holds a BFA from Syracuse University and has exhibited her work at notable institutions such as the Albuquerque Museum and The Fort Collins Museum of Art. She has received grants, including a Residency Grant, from the International Encaustic Artists. Austin Rolo’s work is in collections across North America.
A Certified Advanced Artist Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints, Austin-Rolo teaches encaustic painting, printmaking and mixed media techniques at her studio in the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver, Prism Arts Workshop, EASEL and The Art Students League of Denver. She is a member of NKollectiv Gallery.
Banner Image by Kelly Austin-Rolo