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Image credit: Photograph by Paul Brokering. Image courtesy of NINE dot ARTS, art consultants for the Colorado Convention Center

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Mindy Bray

The Heavy is the Root of the Light - Murals

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The Heavy is the Root of the Light is a site-specific painting that draws parallels between the traffic flow of pedestrians through the lobby outside Bellco theater and the flow of the local river. Abstracted organic shapes create a sense of directional movement that draws viewers between the lobby and the second floor, mimicking the pattern of the stairwell. Painted directly on the wall, the piece is both permanent and ephemeral, embracing the architecture of the space and the viewer's changing perspective of the work. The title of the work is a line from the Tao te Ching, and references both the movement of pedestrians in harmony with natural rhythms, and the many dualities present in the work, such as natural and constructed spaces, interior and exterior environments, and historical and contemporary uses of the site.

Item The Heavy is the Root of the Light
Created by Mindy Bray
As seen in Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
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Mindy Bray
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Wescover creator since 2019
I find parallels between the experience of a built space and the surrounding natural environment, revealing connections between the site and the landscape

Mindy Bray is a painter and installation artist based in Denver, CO. Her work investigates the intersection of natural and built environments through the use of pattern, reduction, and physical space. Mindy earned her MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa in 2005, and has taught drawing and foundations at the University of Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver. Mindy was a resident at Anderson Ranch Art
Center in Snowmass, Colorado in 2009. Her work has been exhibited nationally and locally at galleries including Goodwin Fine Art and Rule Gallery. She has been featured in Luxe Interiors and Design Magazine, Art Ltd. Magazine, New American Paintings, The Denver Post, and Modern in Denver magazine. Mindy’s public commissions include works at the Westin DIA and the Colorado Convention Center.