Kaitlyn Tucek
Kaitlyn Tucek is a multidisciplinary artist based in Denver, CO. Originally from Long Island, NY, she earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2006 and her MFA from CUNY Queens College in 2013. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including in New York, Aspen, Palm Springs, and Denver, with exhibitions at venues such as The Dairy Arts Center, Leon Gallery, Friend of a Friend, and K Contemporary Gallery. In addition to her studio practice, Tucek works in arts education at the Clyfford Still Museum and Arapahoe Community College. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Aspen Times, Westword, Denver Life Magazine, Modern in Denver, and CPR’s Denverite, and she was named one of 5280 Magazine’s top artists to watch and collect.
LOCATION: Main Lobby
Untitled (Rainbow)
Denver, CO
Statement from the Artist
Influenced by art history as well as folk and popular illustration, Tucek’s work is imaginative and expressive, with a strong interest in how time and perception shape experience. Moving between drawing and painting, abstraction and representation, her work creates playful, dreamlike scenes that invite viewers to pause and explore. Much of her practice focuses on the relationship between time and observation, and how what we see can shift depending on perspective. Recent works emphasize intuitive, spontaneous mark making and a sense of the absurd, using familiar symbols like rainbow as visual anchors within layered, evolving compositions.
