Saving Lions By Killing Them, Eriko & Sammy Collaborative Art Show at ODESSA (Denver, CO)

7/16/2019

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Saving Lions By Killing Them

On View November 3rd – November 29th

Opening Reception November 3rd, 2018 | 6-10pm | Artists in Attendance

Gallery Hours Wednesday – Saturday | 12-6pm

In Saving Lions by Killing Them, Sammy Lee and Eriko Tsogo come together for a powerful examination on home, the freedom in leaving, and the consequences of time.

In this exhibition the artists use sculpture, drawing, and mixed media to balance the primal desire for safety with the spiritual longing for detachment; renegotiating identity and the self through cycles of displacement and preservation. Ghosts, shells and memories, that are here and not here, serve as a reminder that the time to move has passed.

Above: Eriko Tsogo.
“Migration”
76″ x 48″
Acrylic, oil pastel, mechanical pencil on vellum
2011

Sammy Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and a founder of Collective SML |k (small k) in Denver, Colorado. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. By

thirty-two years old of age she had moved twenty-six times spanning four different countries. She studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Eriko Tsogo is a Mongolian American visual artist and filmmaker born on the steppes of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Eriko grew up in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 8. She is an alumni of Denver School of the Arts (2008), having attained her B.F.A (2012) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University. She is based in Denver and mindscape Mongolia but lives bi-coastally in the US.

https://odessanomadic.com/saving-lions

Above: Eriko Tsogo.
“Lessons of Metonia”
18” x 24.5”
Xerox transfer, colored pencil, gel pen, micro pen, stickers on paper
2018

Above: Eriko Tsogo.
“Coming Home”
18” x 24.5”
Xerox transfer, mechanical pencil, gel pen, micro pen on paper
2018

ODESSA (Denver, CO)

A nomadic arts incubator expanding the definition of what art is—and where art can happen.

Odessa works with visual artists on forward-thinking art exhibitions, critical discourse, and community enrichment. Using storytelling to support artists in communicating their value to new audience members all while making the process more transparent, more creative and more experimental.