Suspect Press

Category: Art

  • Marta

    Marta

    by Mar Williams, Christina Procter, & Josiah Hesse

    Mar Williams is a Denver artist, hacker, and all around adorable scamp, working internationally in a number of fine art and digital mediums. They maintain an interest in the artistic applications of emerging and open source technology. Also cats, bugs, and queer shit. Mar is a founding member and chairman of Cabal Gallery – a South Broadway non-profit contemporary arts space.

    Christina Procter is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Santa Fe. Co-writer of the feature-length documentary Meow Wolf: Origin Story, which premiered at SXSW 2018, she’s also a consulting editor for TREND magazine. Her portraiture will show at SITE Santa Fe in May.

    Author of psychological horror novel Carnality: Dancing on Red Lake, and a regular contributor to VICE and The Guardian, Hesse aims to blend journalism and the arts within the pages of Suspect Press, making it both a reflection of our time and an innovative force of creativity. He’s recently released the second book in his series, Carnality: Sebastian Phoenix and the Dark Star, available at several Denver booksellers and on the Suspect Press website.

    Contact: josiah@suspectpress.com, josiahhesse.com & @JosiahMHesse

  • Re-Arted IV

    Re-Arted IV

    By Joshua Finley

    Joshua Finley is a self-taught artist from the farmlands of south-central Kansas. He co-opened Cabal Gallery in Denver, where he started his “Cartoon Western” and “Re-arted” thrift store series—the practice of adding macabre elements to cheap reproductions. Finley is also a local mural painter, children book co-author, and music merchandise maker producing hundreds of concert posters and albums every year.

  • Drain

    Drain

    By Kayla Webster

    Kayla is a Denver based illustrator and comic artist. Her work focuses on horror, humor, and the often unexpected ways in which these themes can interact. Growing up on the east coast, Kayla studied studio art and art history at Drew University in New Jersey. Working primarily with marker and pen, her art utilizes clean line and bold color, often in contrast with greyscale elements.

  • The End of Days

    The End of Days

    By Cleon Peterson

    Photo by Jon Furlong

    Cleon Peterson is an LA based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolizing a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. The imagery of his art is deeply rooted in Western cultural history, from the classic Greco-Roman vases depicting warriors and battles, to the marvelous decapitation paintings of Caravaggio and violent masterpieces of Goya. His works have been exhibited at the MCA in Denver and other galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.

  • Sick Sad Kids

    Sick Sad Kids

    By Amy Yang


    Amy Yang is a Colorado native, born and raised in Denver. A full-time design student, she illustrates as a side hobby and hopes to find time to start an indie comic project. When it comes to her illustrations, she mainly uses an ipad as her sketchbook and takes the ideas she likes into full render in Illustrator and Photoshop. Always on the go and dreaming! Finder on Instagram @Amy_Y3 to see more doodles and stuff.

  • Big Hands

    Big Hands

    By Ian Winship


    Ian Winship is a freelance illustrator and author who currently resides in Denver, CO. He grew up in Massachusetts but chased the mountains to Denver. His personal illustrations focus on an abundance of colors and unusual characters. He’d like to be an editorial illustrator when he grows up. When Ian isn’t drawing he’s usually immersed in a science fiction novel, wrestling pebbles, or playing skateboards.

  • City Witches

    City Witches

    By Sofie Birkin


    Sofie Birkin is a British digital illustrator living in Denver with her wife and tragic labrador. By day she’s an in-house doodler and designer for a marketing agency, and by night she draws powerful women and queer heroes in gaudy colors.

  • Dark Brightness, Bright Darkness

    Dark Brightness, Bright Darkness

    By Eriko Tsogo

     

    Eriko Tsogo is a Mongolian American visual artist and filmmaker born on the steppes of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Eriko grew up in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of eight. She is based in Denver and mindscape Mongolia but lives bi-coastally in the US. Eriko has had numerous art shows, curatorial projects and art residencies throughout the United States. Eriko also works as the Creative Director at the Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado, in addition to being a published author and founder of “HiliteDreamer” contemporary apparel line. She is currently in process of completing her first international documentary animation film project between Colorado and Mongolia, due to release in 2019. Eriko’s ever-revolving identity as a first generation Mongolian American nomadic voyeur profoundly shapes her artistic process. Her artworks act as part biographical expose, portraying the universal psychological inner journey of the marginal identity thereby helping transform through the power of empathy, inspiration, and empowerment.

     

  • Our Lady of the Sciences

    Our Lady of the Sciences

    By Ancient.Future // Jacqueline Sophia Cordova

     

     

     

     

    Ancient Future’s creative work is, ultimately, channeled work. She expresses through many mediums including visual art, costume and fashion, poetry, performance, ceremony, music and dance. Aesthetically, her work is compiled of imagery and information she receives through dreams, intuitive landscape, mystical experiences, ancient mythology and symbolism, modern science, future technology, the quantum realm, and artificial intelligence. Understanding existence as multidimensional, she sees and experiences past and future, and all dualistic concepts, as happening simultaneously within a single moment she calls The Eternal Now.

     

  • Empath

    Empath

    By Sarah Gilstrap

     

     

     

     

    Sarah Gilstrap has been an artist for as long as she can remember. Enamored by the otherworldly & the mystical, her works depict the beauty & magic of everyday life.

     

     

  • Reincarnation and Enlightenment

    Reincarnation and Enlightenment

    By J. James McFarland

     

     

    J. James McFarland is a self-employed Boulder illustrator. He’s made his home in lots of places over the years, including Denver, Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Alaska, Poulsbo, and many rural towns. He’s a commercial illustrator, fine artist, and graphic designer with over a decade of experience. Transforming big concepts into straightforward visuals is part of his life daily. He LOVES comics, using storytelling to create an emotional reaction from his readers. He believes in the principle of attraction rather than promotion.

     

     

  • Barbie Montage 6

    Barbie Montage 6

    By Sarah Haney

     

     

    Sarah Haney is a fine art photographer based in Denver. She spent a lot of time playing with Barbie as a child, and found the doll’s perpetual smile disturbing—it ruined the sense of drama as tragedy repeatedly befell her. Remembering her childhood irritation with that fixed smirk inspired Haney’s “Welcome to the Dreamhouse” series. Her work has been displayed in numerous Denver-area galleries and featured in local and national publications. She received her BFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder.