About this Event
The Iliff School of Theology invites our community to join us for our brand new art exhibit, Illusions of Home, in collaboration with the Nicole Longnecker Gallery.
Hosted during Denver Arts Week, Illusions of Home featuring the work of Houston-based artist and educator Anthony Suber will be the second exhibit in Denver’s Cathie Kelsey Gallery at the Iliff School of Theology. This exhibit runs through February 2027.
About the Gallery: Iliff recently transformed and opened the Cathie Kelsey Art Gallery, named in honor after our former Dean of Faculty Dr. Cathie Kelsey. The gallery is open during Iliff's normal business hours.
About the exhibition: Illusions of Home, in the words of artist Anthony Suber, "brings together works spanning multiple chapters of my artistic practice, anchored by a central title piece that interrogates the lived realities of the Black middle class. Rooted in personal experience, the exhibition explores the fraught search for true liberation, sovereignty, and belonging within structures that often promise stability yet defer genuine freedom. Through multi-layered assemblage, symbolic iconography, and motifs of birth and transcendence, the collection weaves a narrative around the enduring pursuit of self-determination."
About the Artist: Anthony Suber is a Texas-born multi-disciplinary artist based in South Texas. He holds a BFA from the University of Houston and an MFA from Houston Christian University. Suber’s practice spans exhibitions, public projects, and multi-layered activations presented nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece; Project Row Houses in Houston, TX; Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, TN; the University Museum at Texas Southern University; the Tulsa Race Massacre Symposium in Tulsa, OK; and the Houston Museum of African American Culture. His solo exhibitions include Red Bud Arts Center, LRT Gallery, Cindy Lisica Gallery, and Nicole Longnecker Gallery in Houston, Texas.In addition to his studio work, Suber is a Professor of Art at the University of Houston’s Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts and serves as Creative Director of "The Blackman Project", a nonprofit addressing art and mental health. His work has been featured in Arts and Culture Texas, Glasstire, The Houston Chronicle, and Free Press Houston. Suber was the recipient of the Artadia Art Prize in 2022 and the BIPOC Arts Network and Fund Award in 2025.
Reception:
🗓️ Saturday, November 7
🕔 5PM to 8PM
📍 Iliff School of Theology | FREE Parking in Lot I
🍷 Cordial reception with wine and small bites
⏳ Exhibit hours (EXTENDED): Nov. 9 - 13, 8AM to 8PM. Nov. 14, 10AM to 2PM.
🎨 On display through February 2027
Learn more about our artist: https://www.anthonyjsuber.com/
Learn more about the Nicole Longnecker Gallery: https://www.longneckergallery.com/show/nicole-longnecker-gallery-illusions-of-home---anthony-suber---iliff-school-of-theology
Learn more about Denver Arts Week: https://visitdenver.com/denver-arts-week/
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Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, United States
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