K Contemporary

Michael Gadlin’s works continue to push painting beyond the wall, collapsing image, material, and gesture into something visceral and deeply human. In Lush Folds and The Balance of Tension, layered faces emerge and disappear through draped unstretched canvas, creating a powerful tension between concealment and revelation.

On view now in IN-TENSION at K Contemporary, Denver.

Michael Gadlin
Lush Folds and The Balance of Tension, 2026, collage, oil stick, acrylic, spray paint, and ink on unstretched canvas
99 x 58 in

Michael Gadlin | In-Tension

✨ Opening Saturday, May 9 ✨

Join us at K Contemporary Denver for the opening of Michael Gadlin: In-Tension, a new exhibition exploring structure, pressure, resistance, and the charged space between control and release.

Through layered surfaces and materially driven compositions, Gadlin creates works that feel both constructed and alive. His practice moves between abstraction, architecture, movement, and emotional force, revealing tension not as a point of rupture, but as a generative space where form, energy, and meaning are held in balance.

In-Tension invites us to consider what is built, what is strained, what is contained, and what ultimately breaks open.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 2026
3–6 PM
K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver, CO

✨ Come celebrate with us.

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