Eileen Roscina

Eileen Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist from Denver, Colorado. She earned a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA, is an MFA candidate at University of Colorado, Boulder and trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world. She has exhibited film internationally, and visual art at Denver Art Museum, MCA Denver, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Museo de Las Americas (Denver), Vicki Myhren Gallery at University of Denver (Denver), Center for Visual Art (Denver), Arvada Center (Arvada), Dairy Art Center (Boulder), University of Colorado (Boulder), Salina Art Center (Kansas) and was the 2019 Resident Artist for the National Western Stock Show, a 2018-2020 resident at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver. She is represented by Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, CO

eileen.roscina@gmail.com

@eileenroscina

Artist Statement

Disconnection from the environment fuels the myth that we are the most important entity on the planet. My creative practice challenges this fallacy by examining what nature can teach us about being human. I use pressed flowers, willow, mycelium, mirror and alternative film methods to raise the potential of realizing a radically different world where people, spirit and nature are irrevocably intertwined.

My art practice often relies on spending hundreds of hours gathering materials in the wilderness that I use to make biotic material sculptures and experimental films. By manipulating celluloid film and hand-collected organic materials in concert with specialized industrial optics, I propose a radical re-evaluation of the natural world, our connection to it, and to one another. 

My artwork draws from observation of ecological forms and processes; animal architecture, the unexpected and often dramatic beauty in the smallest of cellular processes and the magic of decay. I aim to encourage an internal dialog, and inspire a greater awareness on the benefits from connecting with nature.

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Gallery Representation

Walker Fine Art - Denver, CO 2019-present

Residencies

2020 -- Salina Art Center - Salina, KS

2018-2020 -- RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2019 -- National Western Stock Show - Denver, CO

Fellowships

2021 -- NEST Studio for the Arts, CU Boulder - Boulder, CO

2021-2023 -- Cine Fe - Denver, CO

Solo Exhibitions

2022 BMoCA’s Fall Artist Showcase at Anythink - Commerce City, CO and Brighton, CO

2022 In The Yards- University of Wyoming Art Museum - Laramie, WY

2021 like tears washed away by rain - Breck Create, Old Masonic Hall - Breckenridge, CO

2020 Widening Circles - Salina Art Center - Salina, KS

2019/20 Interior Weavings - Silverthorne Performing Arts Center - Silverthorne, CO

2019 National Western Stock Show- Denver, CO

Recent Group Exhibitions

(Upcoming) 2023 RedLine at 15 - MCA Denver - Denver, CO

(Upcoming) 2023 Art and Science - Arvada Center - Arvada, CO

(Upcoming) 2023 Light December- Walker Fine Arts - Denver, CO

2022 Beginnings + Endings Alto Gallery - Denver, CO

2022 Back to School Film Event - Friend of a Friend Gallery - Denver, CO

2022 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival - Boulder, CO

2022 Anti-Hero Film Fest (Guest Artist & Juror)- MCA Denver’s Holiday Theater - Denver, CO

2022 Cultivate - MSU’s Center for Visual Art - Denver, CO

2022 Art of the State - Arvada Center - Arvada, CO

2022 Chromatic Cogitation: Rhythm Reboot - RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2021 On Fire in a Body of Water Film Screening - Telluride Transfer Warehouse - Telluride, CO

2021 El Poder de la Familia/Power of Family - Children's Hospital - Aurora, CO

2021 King Awards Exhibition - Visual Arts Complex CU Boulder - Boulder, CO

2021 LandMark - Lakewood Public Parks (Kendrick Lake) - Lakewood, CO

2021 Wood Works - Arvada Center - Arvada, CO

2021 Upon Closer Reflection - Walker Fine Art - Denver, CO

2020 Voices of Women Reflecting on the 19th Amendment - Aurora Public Libraries - Aurora, CO

2020 Salina Biennial 2020, Salina Art Center - Salina, KS

2020 Featured Artist, Untitled Final Friday January 2020 Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO

2020 Coalesce: Pink Progression McNichols Building - Denver, CO

2020 Annual Resident Artist Exhibition - RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2020 Voices of Women Reflecting on the 19th Amendment - Aurora Public Libraries - Aurora, CO

Awards

2022 Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) MFA/MM Excellence in Research Microgrant

2022 Grillo Award - CU Boulder

2021 Thompson Awards for Western American Writing - 1st Place Winner - Video Category

2021 King Award - 1st Place Winner - CU Boulder

2021 NEST Studio for the Arts Fellowship

2020 Dairy Art Center MicroGrant Recipient

2016 Denver Botanic Gardens Scholarship Recipient

Past Group Exhibitions

2019 Grounded: Recalling Recall - Dairy Arts Center - Boulder, CO

2019 Altar’d Continuum Museo de Las Americas - Denver, CO

2019 Natural Patterns: Habit(u)ation - Alto Gallery - Denver, CO

2019 The Unbearable Impermanence of Things - University of Denver - Denver, CO

2019 Feathers and Flora - University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, CO

2019 Untitled Final Friday Collaborator Light Wait Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO

2019 Enchanted Garden - Walker Fine Art - Denver, CO

2019 Lights On/Out Pop Up - RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2019 Delirium, 3 Visions - RedLine - Denver, CO

2019 Now That I Have Your (un)divided Attention… RedLine - Denver, CO

2018 AXIS at GRACe - Globeville, CO

2018 Archives as Muse at Denver Film Festival - Denver, CO

2018 Lights On/Out Pop Up RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2018 Collection of Community Aurora Municipal Center - Aurora, CO

2018 Re/Call RedLine Contemporary Art Center at Buffalo Peaks Ranch - Fairplay, CO

2018 Untitled Final Friday Collaborator A+B=X Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO

2018 Lost in the Woods Valkyrie Gallery , University of Colorado, Boulder

2018 Solo Program of Films for April Untitled Final Friday Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO

2018 Inside Us Downtown Aurora Visual Arts - Aurora, CO

2017 Cannabis: A Visual Perspective CU’s Museum of Natural History - Boulder, CO

2017 Propagate 965 Metro State’s Center for Visual Arts - Denver, CO

2017 Axis Mundi Platteforum (Offsite) CO - Denver, CO

2017 Land Trust (RMLL Installation) RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO

2017 ArtCorp Mentoring Show RedLine - Denver, CO

2017 Seities Photography Magazine Spring/Summer Calgary - Alberta, Cananda

2017 Colorado Independent Women of Film Festival - Denver, CO

2017 Flipside Art Students League - Denver CO

2016/17 Edible Denver Botanic Gardens - Denver, CO

2016/17/18 One Square Foot RedLine - Denver, CO

2016 Poisons Panaceas and Potions at Fulginiti Pavilion on the Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO

2016 Unframed: Print for Change Redline Denver CO

2015 From Process to Print Art Students League Denver, CO

2015/16 Syntax Physic Opera Denver, CO

2014 Titwrench Festival Sweden Stockholm

2013 Titwrench Festival Denver

2011 Hello Girls: Pink Collar Glam, Pirate Contemporary Art Denver, CO

2010 $100 Film Festival Calgary Canada

2010 Female Eye Film Festival Toronto Canada

2010 Big Muddy Film Festival Illinois

2010 Australian International Experimental Film Festival Melbourne Australia

2010 Athens International Film Festival Ohio

2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival Edinburgh United Kingdom

2010 The Bug Theater: Emerging Filmmakers Project Denver

2010 Pink Collar Glam, Andenken gallery, Denver, CO

2009 Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Boston

2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2009 Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa

2009 Anti Matter Film Festival Victoria, Canada

2009 Denver Starz International Film Festival Denver

2009 Oxford Film Festival Oxford, Alabama