The Artists
Max Maddox
2023 Fellow
Max Maddox is an installation artist, public interventionist, and cultural critic working with found and otherwise procured objects. Pairing his work with drawing and photography, Maddox has exhibited his work in galleries that include the Redline Contemporary Art Center (Denver), where he was resident artist from 2020-2022, The Art Gym (Denver), Hillyer Art Space (Washington D.C), Locallective (Chicago), the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), the Print Center of Philadelphia, The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum (Philadelphia), and Abecedarian Gallery (Denver).
Laura Shill
2023 Fellow
Laura Shill is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO whose work is a collision of sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. Shill addresses ideas of viewer and subject, disclosure and concealment, absence and intimacy. Her works explore the transformative potential of people and objects through early and experimental forms of image making that pair the sinister and beautiful. Her sculptural and installation work borrows theatrical conventions and employs repetition of form to create environments that immerse and oscillate between humor and heartbreak.
Chelsea Kaiah
2023 Fellow
Chelsea Kaiah is a passionate activist for Native rights, awareness, and sustainability. Her practice involves adapting traditional materials and techniques, such as pine needle weaving, porcupine quilling, and hide work, to address resilience, mental health, system reformation, and means of healing. Kaiah is White River Ute and White Mountain Apache / Irish settler, born on the Northern Ute reservation. She earned her BFA at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2022, Kaiah was awarded the Native Arts and Cultures LIFT grant for early career support and wasinvited to participate in Redline’s Artist-in-Residency program for emerging, contemporary Colorado artists. She currently serves as part of the Indigenous Advisory Council for the Denver Art Museum after being their fall 2022 Native Arts Artist in Residence.
Alex Branch
2024 Fellow
Alex Branch, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, ponders the life-death metaphors embedded in everyday objects, the mysterious lives of flora and fauna, and the aural experiences that inspire her art.
Phillip David Stearns
2024 Fellow
Phillip David Stearns is a Denver based artist whose practice deals with themes that include the impacts of contemporary information systems, electronics and communications technology, emerging materials and hybrid processes. Through playful experimentation, deconstruction, and reconfiguration, Phillip engages these themes to reveal the obscured or invisible, and give form to the intangible. He approaches technology as a critical medium, positioning it in a way that is self-reflexive to seek out the sublime in the mundane. Phillip is a Greene Fellowship recipient for 2024. His projects have been featured in WIRED, The Huffington Post, VICE Motherboard, The Creators Project, Hyperallergic, and FRAME. His work has been exhibited internationally by institutions including the Zhongzhou Art Museum, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Park Avenue Armory, ELEKTRA-BIAN, Tate Britain, Transmediale, Anyang Public Art Project, Festival de Arte Digital (FAD), FILE, and Transitio MX.