Name: What We Hold On To: Artist Panel @ BCHQ
Start: 2025-10-18T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-18T14:30:00-06:00
Location: Black Cube Headquarters

A free panel with artists Amber Cobb, Kimberly Faber, Viviane Le Courtois, Irene Delka McCray, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, and Derrick Velasquez.
About this Event

Hear more from several local Denver-area artists featured in Black Cube's current group exhibition, . Representing practices that span multimedia sculpture, painting, and more, these artists include Amber Cobb, Kimberly Faber, Viviane Le Courtois, Irene Delka McCray, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, and Derrick Velasquez.

The panel will be moderated by Cortney Lane Stell, Black Cube's Executive Director + Chief Curator, with Q+A to follow. This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you!

Artworks on view by the artists:

Read up on the artworks ahead of time in our digital program.

Amber Cobb, Negotiating the Rations, 2025, chains, fragments of personal and found objects, and biological matter (pg. 6)
Kimberly Faber, SHOTGUN WEDDING, 2024, oil on canvas (pg. 19)
Viviane Le Courtois, Half a Century: Memory Lines, 2019, bronze and iron (pg. 12)
Irene Delka McCray, A Quiet Amount of Light, 2004, oil on canvas (pg. 15)
Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, We have the watches, but you have the time (No. 02), 2025, two-channel sound reproducing metal device and an LED sign (pg. 23)
Derrick Velasquez, Coat of Arms 4 and Coat of Arms 5, 2024, oil on linen (pg. 22)

About the exhibition:

What We Hold On To is a group exhibition that explores the concept of storage—not just as a logistical process, but as an emotional, psychological, and cultural condition as well. Presented at Black Cube Headquarters (BCHQ) in a former industrial warehouse, this exhibition gathers local, national, and international artists whose works consider storage in an expanded sense: through trauma and memory, loss and tradition, hoarding and healing, preservation and release.

Referencing the building’s storage function as well as the behind-the-scenes infrastructure of collecting museums, artworks in What We Hold On To are presented on pallet racking, a common industrial storage system. This racking is sheathed in translucent, hand-sewn fabric panels intended to both display and conceal. As you meander through this ghostly exhibition hall, we invite you to mull over the following: What do we choose to maintain, preserve, or hide away? What is archived, inherited, or left behind?