Welcome to SYNC GALLERY
931 Santa Fe Drive, 80204. In Denver's Art District on Santa Fe.
Monica Hokeilen
931 Santa Fe Drive, 80204. In Denver's Art District on Santa Fe.
A premiere gallery located in the
Arts District on Santa Fe Drive in Denver Colorado
known nationally for its arts and culture.
Thursdays: 1pm - 4pm
(3rd Friday 1-9pm)
Fridays: 1pm - 4pm
(1st Friday 1-9pm)
Saturdays: Noon - 5pm
Sundays: 1pm - 4pm
(Last Sunday of the month 11-3pm)
or by appointment with individual artists.
SYNC Gallery presents
Beyond Roots
by
Phyllis Rider & Clare Scott
October 16th through November 16th, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY October 17th, 2025, 5 PM to 9 PM
Artist
Artist
In Beyond Roots, Clare Scott explores the quiet strength and complexity of plants and seeds
through pastel painting. Using her own macro photographs as reference, she focused on the
delicate structures and hidden energy within seeds, pods, and abstracted forms. Using pastel
as her primary medium she responds intuitively to texture, color, and light—transforming these
tiny, often overlooked subjects into larger reflections on growth, resilience, and transformation.
Phyllis Rider’s work in Beyond Roots is inspired by a majestic old cottonwood tree that stood
along the High Line Canal behind her house long before she made her home here. The tree
and its gentle hollow in its side lent it a unique personality. Watching this tree for over four
decades has led her to do drawings, paintings and photographs. The recent removal of this
tree was devastating to her as well as her community. This loss inspired her to do the latest
body of work which includes monotype prints from the tree trunk remains, paintings and a
variety of other pieces that explore the tree’s form, its essence, and circular motifs that echo its
enduring presence. Through this work, she reflects on memory, change, and the quiet impact
of nature on our lives.
Phyllis Rider - collaged photo 8” x10” mounted on paper 81” x 22” Title : Beyond Roots VII
Clare Scott - End of the Season 20x16in
SYNC Gallery presents
Acts of Inspiration
by
Elvi Bjorkquist and Johanna Morrell
November 20, to December 14, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY November 21, 2025, 5 PM to 9 PM
Artist
Artist
Abstract art creates “an expressive symbol” that is grasped in an act of “intuition” that has a
“single and unmysterious meaning.” Elvi Bjorkquist's artwork is non-discursive and denotes not
facts but expresses the forms of feeling and forms of meaning that are not able to be
objectified in discursive terms and are not “sayable.” Her artwork invites the viewer into a
constructed fictional space that encourages them to interact with the composition in a way that
is unique to them.
Elvi's works are symbols and a study of feeling. This offers the ability to place multiple
layers of transparent colors giving her a greater range of interesting colors and results in a
greater depth to the piece. She uses suggestive and expressive marks in a more thoughtful
and conscious ways to allude to aspects of the natural environment and a connection to the
earth. Elvi creates layers of colors and marks, using intuition to guide her deeper into a
presentation of her feelings until the visual elements command attention. This show captures
the emotion of the moment of creation and offers, through an open personal gaze, a free
interpretation of the stories behind the works and invites the viewer into the emotional
subconscious of the artists.
Experimentation fuels Johanna Morrell's impulse to create, opening doors to discovery and
delight. The layered energy and movement in Johanna’s Plexiglas paintings perfectly
suggests something chaotic yet interconnected, sometimes even internal thoughts, all rising
together. There is a visual dialogue between a layer painted on the Plexiglas and the layer
painted on the birchwood panel below it, forming traces of movement and thought as you
pass in front of each one.
Elvi Bjorkquist -- "Inspiration in Blue" - 24" x 30" - Acrylic-on-Canvas
