Artist Bio
Jamie Gray is a mixed-media artist based in Denver, CO. Her artwork is included in national and international private and corporate collections and is often exhibited in local galleries.

2024 joint exhibitions include “The Texture of Time” at ArtGym gallery and “Oscillations” at SeeSaw Gallery, both in Denver. Recent solo exhibitions include "High Desert Homecoming" at Bell Projects Denver 2023, and "Paper Cosmos, Marble Storms" at PEO Foundation Gallery Missouri 2021. Recent juried exhibitions include TrueWest at BRDG Project 2024, The 40th Annual All Colorado Show at Curtis Center for the Arts and Big Draw Colorado at Arvada Center for the Arts 2023.

Previously, Gray has shown in galleries & art festivals across the U.S. & U.K.. London's Royal Academy of Arts and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art both commissioned Gray to produce wearable art collections for their museum shops. Gray holds advanced degrees in design and has taught design theory and fundamentals; this academic foundation underpins many of the formal choices in her current art practice.

Artist Statement
Growing up in Colorado gave me an inherent love of nature. Much of my work evokes the landscape of my upbringing and honors the deep time it takes natural forces (aka Mother Nature) to create the forms I'm inspired by. My work visualizes how I see and remember natural elements — such as pebbles, leaves, mushrooms, cacti, trees, and canyons. Memories distort over time, and my motifs are often an amalgamation of my recollections or an imagined moment captured in stasis. 

One aspect of my mark-making is to illustrate the time I spend with/creating my work. The lines literally and symbolically mark time. Poet Antonio Machado said, "The path is made by walking," and like walking a trail and placing one foot in front of the other, I place one line carefully next to the other, gradually revealing the artwork over time.

Just as my art practice involves the slow observation of nature, I also prioritize the unhurried act of making (by hand). Novelist Saul Bellow said, "Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos." I'm interested in creating work for interior spaces that expresses the mental states I associate with spending time in nature (and experience in my art studio) — such as quiet, stillness, balance, flow, and groundedness.